After Eden : The Double Identity of Carbon
by Suzanne Anker
No matter in how orderly a way we may attempt to plan our future, uncertainty will meddle.
The series of photographs and collages collected in this volume began at the dawn of the COVID-19 pandemic.
It commenced as a chronicle of the natural space confined within the bounds of the observer’s home garden. The exploration originated as the unbiased witnessing of seasonal rhythms as they altered a rich microcosm made of plants, flowers, and trees.
— from the Foreword written by Giovanni Frazzetto
In After Eden: The Double Identity of Carbon (2024), Anker explores carbon's paradox: without carbon we cannot exist, but with too much carbon our existence will cease. Included are sixty-seven full-color works from her "After Eden" photocollage series which fuse seasonal changes into a single image. These works confront us with a phase shift of transgressive, mobile, unpredictable cataclysms. Each day we wake, the seasons remake themselves: a new reality for which she has coined the term “Monoseason.” As temperatures rise and fall, soil turns into mudslides, fires erupt, draughts incinerate crops, diseases shift from animals to humans, and strange viruses mutate globally. After Eden is the result of borderless barriers wrapping around a planet without containment.
Softcover w/Cover Flaps: $45
8.5 x 11 in. (21.59 x 27.94 cm)
Perfect Bound
Full color bleed
186 pages
75 artworks
Imprint: OctoberWorks
ISBN: 978-1-959262-05-3
LOC: 2023918700
BISAC: ART016010 [Individual Artists/Artists' Books]
DESIGN: Jeanne Criscola | Criscola Design
“My interest in photography lies in blurring the lines between the documentary and the subjective. By shifting focal lengths, some images capture precision; others turn toward the poetic. This tool is similar to graphite, which can vary effects with its hardness and softness, offering a scale of options for detailing subjects as they appear in illusionistic space.”
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Peace & Health : How a group of small-town activists and college students set out to change healthcare
by Charles Barber
Peace & Health is the story of how the work of one small group of people grew to meet the size of their calling: to ensure that Health Care is a Right, Not a Privilege.
The story behind this improbable effort: the 20-year-old who plants the flag in his small hometown of Middletown, Connecticut; the daughter of a sharecropper, who made her way north during the great migration and becomes the North Star of the drive to transform health in the community; the son of a Jewish émigré and pharmacist who breaks from his peers to support the cause; the musician who played in the big bands of the South in the 1930's, who loses his teeth and is now determined to make sure others do not lose theirs; and the college student and future US Senator who helps buy the building so the free clinic would not be shut down permanently. A young nurse-practitioner joins the organization as it expands beyond one Connecticut town, and today, CHC and its Weitzman Institute operate programs across the US, transforming the delivery of health care for populations who have been ignored.
In 1972, a twenty-year old college dropout had the radical idea to open a free clinic in his New England hometown. Without money or training, but raising the banner that "healthcare is a right and not a privilege," Mark Masselli faced down opposition from the local hospital and City Hall. As he established Community Health Center, Inc., he found partners in a faith leader, a nurse practitioner, and a future U.S. senator; joined forces with Wesleyan University students and neighborhood activists; and was inspired by the Dalai Lama and healthcare reformers around the world. Today, Community Health Center, with its Weitzman Institute and national "Conversations on Healthcare" podcast, is regarded as one of the most innovative health centers in the country and has a presence in all 50 states.
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8.5 x 11 in. (21.59 x 27.94 cm)
178 pages
199 illustrations
Imprint: OctoberWorks
Hardcover ISBN: 978-19-59262-00-8
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-959262-02-2
Ebook ISBN: 978-1-959262-01-5
LOC: 2022916116
BISAC: BUS070170 [Business & Economics]; MED039000 [Medical, Health Care Delivery]
DESIGN: Jeanne Criscola | Criscola Design
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Midwest Book Review | Review
Kirkus | Review
Publisher’s Weekly | Review
Barber centers the story on the contributions, philosophy, and organizational skills of Mark Masselli, who founded CHC at age 22 and eventually saw it flourish, but he also describes the many other people who have contributed to the success of the institution over the years, from Lillian Reba Moses, a leader in the Middletown community and long-time board member to Margaret Flinter, a nurse practitioner who joined CHC in 1980 and transformed its clinical care. Peace & Health is rich in illustrations, providing strong visual appeal to go along with the compelling story.
The story of the CHC is, in many ways, the story of the free clinic movement in America—from its founding as one of a wave of clinics to the Community Development Block Grant program and its eventual status as a Federally Qualified Health Center (and FQHC Look-Alike). Barber does an excellent job sharing the CHC’s history—and its vision of health care as a right. A reader interested in the history of free clinics, or health care in general, will find Peace & Health fascinating and inspiring.
TAKEAWAY: The fascinating story of Connecticut’s Community Health Center, a visionary free clinic.
PRODUCTION GRADES Cover: B+. | Design and typography: A. | Illustrations: A. | Editing: A. | Marketing: A-
“The 178-page book details the engrossing history of the clinic, from its humble beginnings as [Mark] Masselli’s dream to one of the ‘most innovative health centers in the country.’”
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Paz y Salud : Cómo un grupo de activistas de una pequeña ciudad y estudiantes universitarios propusieron cambiar la atención médica
by Charles Barber
Peace & Health is the story of how the work of one small group of people grew to meet the size of their calling: to ensure that Health Care is a Right, Not a Privilege.
The story behind this improbable effort: the 20-year-old who plants the flag in his small hometown of Middletown, Connecticut; the daughter of a sharecropper, who made her way north during the great migration and becomes the North Star of the drive to transform health in the community; the son of a Jewish émigré and pharmacist who breaks from his peers to support the cause; the musician who played in the big bands of the South in the 1930's, who loses his teeth and is now determined to make sure others do not lose theirs; and the college student and future US Senator who helps buy the building so the free clinic would not be shut down permanently. A young nurse-practitioner joins the organization as it expands beyond one Connecticut town, and today, CHC and its Weitzman Institute operate programs across the US, transforming the delivery of health care for populations who have been ignored.
In 1972, a twenty-year old college dropout had the radical idea to open a free clinic in his New England hometown. Without money or training, but raising the banner that "healthcare is a right and not a privilege," Mark Masselli faced down opposition from the local hospital and City Hall. As he established Community Health Center, Inc., he found partners in a faith leader, a nurse practitioner, and a future U.S. senator; joined forces with Wesleyan University students and neighborhood activists; and was inspired by the Dalai Lama and healthcare reformers around the world. Today, Community Health Center, with its Weitzman Institute and national "Conversations on Healthcare" podcast, is regarded as one of the most innovative health centers in the country and has a presence in all 50 states.
“The 178-page book details the engrossing history of the clinic, from its humble beginnings as [Mark] Masselli’s dream to one of the ‘most innovative health centers in the country.’”
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Softcover: $28.99
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8.5 x 11 in. (21.59 x 27.94 cm)
178 pages
199 illustrations
Imprint: OctoberWorks
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-959262-03-9
Ebook ISBN: 978-1-959262-04-6
LOC: 2023912437
BISAC: BUS070170 [Business & Economics]; MED039000 [Medical, Health Care Delivery]
DESIGN: Jeanne Criscola | Criscola Design
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Representing Justice : Invention, Controversy, and Rights in City-States and Democratic Courtrooms
by Judith Resnik and Dennis E. Curtis
By mapping the remarkable run of the icon of Justice, a woman with scales and sword, and by tracing the development of public spaces dedicated to justice—courthouses—the authors explore the evolution of adjudication into its modern form as well as the intimate relationship between the courts and democracy. The authors analyze how Renaissance “rites” of judgment turned into democratic “rights,” requiring governments to respect judicial independence, provide open and public hearings, and accord access and dignity to “every person.” With over 260 images, readers can see both the longevity of aspirations for justice and the transformation of courts, as well as understand that, while venerable, courts are also vulnerable institutions that should not be taken for granted.
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Reissued by OctoberWorks, 2022
First published by Yale University Press, 2011
8.5 x 11 in. (21.59 x 27.94 cm)
720 pages
229 grayscale and 35 color illustrations
Imprint: OctoberWorks
ISBN: 978-1-7321801-8-5
LOC: 2022909426
BISAC: ART037000 [Art & Politics]; ART009000 [Criticism & Theory]; LAW025000 [Law, Courts]
EBOOK: Available from the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale Law School.
“How did a blindfolded lady holding scales became the ubiquitous image of justice? How have designs and decorations of spaces defined and redefined adjudication? Assembling monumental research, Resnik and Curtis powerfully show how images and buildings reflect and shape local and international justice across human history and how privatized dispute resolution, security concerns, and diminishing community participation erode the ideal and reality of courts’ justice.”
“Representing Justice is a fascinating and ambitious study of the iconography of justice and what it reveals about attitudes towards a just society, impartiality and authority, from the Renaissance to the Mexican Muralists. In this engaging and eminently readable book, the authors show how emblems, icons and courthouses vividly embody the fundamentally democratic process of adjudication.”
“[A]n academic treatise on threats to the modern judiciary that doubles as an obsessive’s tour of Western art through the lens of the law.”
“In this visually stunning and provocative book, Judith Resnik and Dennis Curtis lead us to think in new ways about justice as a symbol, justice as a reality, and the connections, as well as the distance, between the two.”
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Our Community at Winchester : The City and Its Workers at New Haven’s Gun Factory
by Joan Cavanagh
From the late 19th century through the early 21st, the Winchester Repeating Arms Company was an important employer in New Haven, Connecticut. The legendary guns it produced and their role in American expansionism at home and abroad were celebrated, largely uncritically, in movies, books, and songs. But the stories of those who worked there and of the company’s impact on its host community have received little attention.
The tale includes elements familiar to students of United States economic, social and labor history: workers’ struggles to win collective bargaining rights and to achieve equity in the work place across all job classifications, ages and ethnicities; relentless management efforts to divide them and prevent, then undermine, union representation; a ruthless company’s repeated threats to leave town in order to force union concessions and win economic incentives and tax abatements from city government; and the gentrified aftermath of the loss of working class jobs in an American city.
The story of New Haven’s experience — first documented as an exhibition of 40 panels —unfolds in Our Community at Winchester through interviews with former workers and their families as well as material from union newsletters, archival records, and city publications.
To purchase the book, contact the Labor History Association.
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8 x 10 in. (20.32 x 25.4 cm)
Full color bleed
170 pages
138 photos & ephemera
Imprint: OctoberWorks
ISBN: 978-1-7321801-5-4
BISAC: POL013000 [Political Science/Labor & Industrial Relations]; NHIS054000 [History/Social History]
DESIGN: Jeanne Criscola | Criscola Design
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New Haven Independent | Winchester’s Lost History Comes Alive by Paul Bass
Arts Paper | Library Lunch Talk Channels Winchester's Lost History by Liney Kindler
“Based on eight years of gathering oral history interviews, documents, and images by Winchester retirees and members of the neighboring community, Our Community at Winchester represents a high point in the involvement of workers and community members in uncovering and telling their own history. The interviews bring to life the intimate experiences and feelings of those who made up the Winchester workforce. The book combines scholarly background and deep community connection. It shows that ‘history from below’ has indeed come of age.”
“The plight of the Winchester gun factory and the community of workers whose lives centered around it has been one of New Haven’s great untold stories—until now. In Our Community at Winchester, the Greater New Haven Labor History Association has brought that story to life with all its nuances, contradictions, struggles, and humanity. The book falls within the true tradition of telling history from below; it will guide our understanding of our city’s heritage and its continuing challenges for generations to come.”
“Joan Cavanagh’s book stands apart from the typical industrial/corporate history that glorifies the millionaire owners, glosses over controversy, and ignores the workforce. Winchester’s rank-and-filers live and breathe between these pages. They define what we mean when we sing “Solidarity Forever.””
“This is an important book that retrieves a lost history of workplace struggle in the Elm City. Cavanagh is to be commended for an accessible, deeply researched study. In today’s polarized and increasingly unequal America, we need to hear the voices of the past that demanded a living wage and a sense of dignity.”
The Asian Series
by Phyllis Crowley
The Asian Series is a fine art book of photographs taken mainly in China and the Far East. The images reflect an Asian influence, as does the book design. The partially abstract images are meant to speak for themselves.
Exhibitions of the Asian Series photographs:
Silk Road Gallery, New Haven, CT, “Elsewhere” | 2016
Silk Road Gallery, New Haven, CT, “The Asian Series” | 2015
Garner Center for Photographic Exhibitions, Boston, MA, “The Asian Series” | 2014
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8 x 10 in. (20.32 x 25.4 cm)
Full color bleed
68 pages
Imprint: OctoberWorks
ISBN: 978-17321801-1-6
BISAC: PHO023040 [Photography/Subjects & Themes/Landscapes]; DES001000 [Design/Book]
DESIGN: Jeanne Criscola | Criscola Design
The Perch, a literary, visual arts, and music journal, is pleased to announce publication of its journals. A project of the Yale Program for Recovery & Community Health produced under the editorship of Founder Michael Rowe, PhD, The Perch complements the program’s core focus on mental health in all its dimensions, from personal to community-based to its engagement with broad social concerns. The Perch strives to capture many aspects of mental health — physical, emotional, social, civic, political, cultural, spiritual, and more — and to expand the mental health narrative to include new and unexpected voices, ideas, and creative expressions.
The journal includes poetry, non-fiction, visual art, and music. Contributions were chosen from thousands of pieces submitted. The journal's writers and artists come from across the U.S. and abroad.
Volume 6 Fall 2021
MUSIC: AZA Allsop, Do Better
MUSIC: Priscila Hernandez and Peter Zbronski, On the Other Side
Reveries : Journaling in Place
by Susan Newbold
The dictionary definition of reverie is a state of being pleasantly lost in one’s thoughts. The book is the result of careful editing of Susan Newbold’s twenty-five artist journals containing images which were an attempt to capture her reveries which she wanted to share.
The images come from international and national locales where the author has lived or traveled, and each have unique qualities. Newbold teaches a course called “The Illuminated Journal” — a workshop which combines painting, printmaking, drawing and writing and ends in a handmade journal which the students each create. The practice of journaling has been an important part of her artmaking which she is eager to share with the readers of this book.
Hardcover w/Dust Jacket: $75
12 x 9 in. (30.48 x 22.86 cm)
Full color bleed
164 pages
115 artworks
Imprint: OctoberWorks
ISBN: 978-1-7321801-6-1
BISAC: ART016010 [Individual Artists/Artists' Books]; ART010000 [Techniques/Drawing]
DESIGN: Jeanne Criscola | Criscola Design
PHOTOGRAPHY: Robert Lisak
“The attempt to capture the extraordinary wonder of a place enlarges the spirit.”
Read the New Haven Independent’s review by Brian Slattery about Susan’s exhibition at City Gallery, New Haven.
Check out Polly Castor’s blog post about the book.
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A Mouth Full : The Re-Cookbook
by Jeanne Criscola and Joan Fitzsimmons
A website containing more information about the installations, performances, and art projects can be found at recipe-memories.org
A Mouth Full: The Re-Cookbook takes the archetypal cookbook beyond images of food and recipes that make your mouth water. It’s a prototype for rethinking what a cookbook evokes and what it can become—a place where the mind can wander through memories of food, recipes, people, and places that make us who we are.
The book concept is a reification of the cookbook and a book of art, photographs, posters, and ephemera centered around two artists and colleagues conversations about family, food, and recipes fused together with memories and the places they came from. As the artists/colleagues examined the evolution of their personal collections—from the clippings, award-winning heirlooms, homespun recipe booklets, to Internet screen grabs—they found relationships to time and space, embedded essences, deep connections, and well—to be perfectly frank—someone to listen to their stories of special occasions, awkward holidays, and family drama, and more. One’s memories include a cardboard box salvaged from some gift filled with a random selection of clipped recipes. For the other, recipes and images of winners in 1950’s bake-off cookbooks have inspired projects where family secrets and financial gain are traded and revealed.
A Mouth Full: The Re-Cookbook is designed and produced by Criscola’s design studio, Criscola Design, and is published in partnership with Deborah Cannarella as the imprint OctoberWorks.
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11 x 8.5 in. (27.94 x 21.59 cm)
Full color bleed
140 pages
225 photos and ephemera
60 recipes
Imprint: OctoberWorks
ISBN: 978-1-7321801-3-0
BISAC: CKB127000 [Cooking/Comfort Food]; ART023000 [Art/Popular Culture]; DES001000 [Design/Book]; FAM002000 [Family & Relationships/Activities]
DESIGN: Jeanne Criscola | Criscola Design
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Daily Nutmeg | A Fine Pairing by Kathy Czpiel
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Rep, Rips, Reps Weave : Projects, Instruction, and Inspiration
by Lucienne Coifman
Bold | Subtle. Dark | Light. Strong | Flexible.
These words all describe rep weave, a versatile warp-faced fabric characterized by its intricate block patterns and highly ribbed texture.
In Rep, Rips, Reps, author Lucienne Coifman takes weavers beyond the traditional forms and familiar patterns. She provides complete drafts and full instruction for more than 20 of her stunning project designs—rugs, placemats, runners, wall hangings, and samplers.
Rep, Rips, Reps is a complete workshop in rep weaving—for both the beginning and advanced weaver. There’s also a photo gallery of games, mazes, and 3-D forms to inspire you to have fun and experiment on your own.
Perfect Bound List Price: $41.95
8 x 10 in. (20.32 x 25.4 cm)
Full color
172 pages
Publisher: Handwoven Originals
Imprint: OctoberWorks
ISBN: 978-0=6153367-4-9
BISAC: CRA061000 [Crafts & Hobbies/Fiber Arts & Textiles]
DESIGN: Jeanne Criscola | Criscola Design
PHOTOGRAPHY: Robert Lisak
“An innovative approach to handwoven rep textiles for the home... Rep, Rips, Reps Weave sets a high standard of design and craftsmanship.”
“The explanations are clear, the hints and know-how helpful, and the projects both handsome and provocative…. a classic worthy of any weaver’s library.”
Hector’s Heroic Day
by Patrick Jones
Hector loved heroes—all kinds of heroes. The kind he saw on TV, in movies, and in comic books. Even the kind he saw in real life. One day, Hector decides he will be a hero, too! But what kind of hero is the best kind to be? Soon Hector finds out what being a hero is really all about.
The book was a 2016 IndieReader Discovery Awards winner
For more about the illustrator, Chuck Lockhart, visit lockhartart.com
“Loved reading Hector’s Heroic Day to my 3- and 4-year-old boys. The illustrations sparked a lot of conversation to accompany the story, which has a wonderful ending. The best compliment comes from my boys. When finished, they asked for me to read it again!”
Perfect Bound List Price: $12.95
8.5" x 8.5" (21.59 x 21.59 cm)
Full color bleed
45 Illustrations
42 pages
Imprint: OctoberWorks
ISBN: 978-069257853-7
BISAC: JNF053060 [Juvenile Nonfiction/Social Topics/Friendship]
DESIGN: Jeanne Criscola | Criscola Design
Me & Chris : A Dog’s Story by Alex
by Christopher A. Cozzi
“This book made me want to go home and cuddle my dogs, just for being canine.”
Me & Chris is the story of best friends: a dog named Alex—(a mix of Labrador and maybe a little bit of Beagle and Rhodesian Ridgeback) and his master, Chris (a mix of visual artist, teacher, designer, and master stoneworker).
In this highly visual, memoir-style scrapbook, Alex takes the lead and, from his canine perspective, tells the story of these two constant companions and the lifetime of adventures they shared: renovating houses, building gardens and stone walls, forming and ending relationships, and—in a novel and sometimes controversial way—teaching art to elementary school students in an urban public school.
This fast-paced, visually compelling book is fully illustrated with color photographs and with facsimile journal pages and artwork by the artist-author, documenting the many years that the two faithful friends spent together.
Perfect Bound List Price: $33
8 x 10 in. (20.32 x 25.4 cm)
Full color
168 pages
Imprint: OctoberWorks
ISBN: 978-1-7321801-0-9
BISAC: BIO026000 [Biography & Autobiography/Personal Memoir]; PET004020 [Pets/Dogs/Training]
DESIGN: Jeanne Criscola | Criscola Design
Vulnerable But Not Broken : Psychosocial Challenges and Resilience Pathways Among Unaccompanied Children from Central America
by American Psychological Association Immigration Working Group
This report, Vulnerable But Not Broken, provides an overview on the myriad issues facing unaccompanied children from Central America apprehended at the Southwest border of the United States. The document highlights these children's ability to overcome challenging histories and adapt to the changes in familial and social environment that life in the United States presents, and identifies some of the key supportive resources that can help them to do so. The psychosocial aspects of this humanitarian crisis are reviewed, outlining priority areas for future research and providing recommendations for culturally and developmentally informed practice, programs, and legal advocacy.
Manuel Paris, Jr., Psy.D.
Senior Advisor on Public Policy
National Latina/o Psychological Association
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Yale University School of Medicine
Claudette “Claudia” Antuña, Psy.D., MHSA, LICSW
Professional Development Coordinator
National Latina/o Psychological Association
Sammamish Consulting & Counseling Services
Bilingual Clinical and Forensic Psychological Services
Charles Baily, Ph.D.
Clinical Director
Newmarket House Healthcare
Norwich, England
Giselle A. Hass, Psy.D.
Clinical and Forensic Psychologist
Adjunct Professor Georgetown University
Center for Applied Legal Studies
Cristina Muñiz de la Peña, Ph.D.
Counseling Psychologist
Cofounder & Mental Health Director
Terra Firma Healthcare & Justice for Immigrant Children
The Center for Child Health and Resiliency
Michelle A. Silva, Psy.D.
Director, CT Latino Behavioral Health System
Connecticut Mental Health Center
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Yale University School of Medicine
Tejaswinhi Srinivas, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist
2016 Dalmas A. Taylor Summer Minority Policy Fellow
Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI)
Perfect Bound List Price: $28.00
8 x 10 in. (20.32 x 25.4 cm)
Full color
100 pages
Major Photography by Ruthie Abel
ISBN: 978-1-7234443-8-8
BISAC: PSY050000 [Psychology/Ethnopsychology]; PSY002000 [Psychology/Developmental/Adolescent]; PSY004000 [Psychology/Developmental/Child]
DESIGN: Jeanne Criscola | Criscola Design
PHOTOGRAPHY: Ruthie Abel, Let It Be The Dream It Used To Be, a collaborative photography project with unaccompanied children. © Ruthie Abel 2017.
