The Chainbreaker Bike Book: A Rough Guide to Bicycle Maintenance

by Ethan Clark and Shelley Jackson

Half repair manual and half bike zine anthology (the originals of Chainbreaker were lost to Katrina floodwaters), this is the new Red Emma's official favorite bike book.  Nice weather is coming (we hope!), so get your bike ready now! (We've even heard rumblings of a Baltimore Critical Mass this Friday - Leap Day! - so hurry up and get your gears running smoothly.)

We've also got  a great new book on organic food in stock, Joel Salatin's Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front.  One of the most surprising things we've encountered setting up Red Emma's is just how hard it is to provide organic food in a sustainable way - while the Whole Paycheck lets the privileged eat as well as they can afford, the deck is really stacked against most people who have to eat the unhealthy fruits of environmentally destructive corporate agriculture to survive.  It's nice, then,  to finally have a book in stock that lays out the big picture of the "industrial food complex" in accessible terms. 

Also, we've got lots more goodness back in stock from our friends at AK Press, including anarchist anthropologist David Graeber's latest Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire and My Mother Wears Combat Boots: A Parenting Guide for the Rest of Us by Jessica Mills.