Contact: Larry Jacobs, World Congress of Families, 815-964-5819, 513-515-3685 cell, media@worldcongress.org

MEDIA ADVISORY, Nov. 9 /Standard Newswire/ -- The Howard Center for Family, Religion & Society is pleased to announce the release of two new books, one by its president and the other by a Howard Center Fellow.

Howard Center President Allan C. Carlson's latest book, Third Ways: How Bulgarian Greens, Swedish Housewives and Beer-Swilling Englishmen Created Family-Centered Economies – And Why They Disappeared, was just published by ISI Books (click here for info).

In Third Ways, Carlson shows how different thinkers and communities created 20th century economic systems that were neither capitalist nor communist.

Unlike liberal capitalists, they refused to treat human labor and relationships as commodities like any other. Unlike communists, they strongly defended private property and the dignity of persons and families. Instead, they wanted to protect and renew the "natural communities" of family, village, neighborhood and parish. They treasured rural culture and family farming and defended traditional sex roles and vital home economies.

Stephen Baskerville, a Howard Center Fellow, is the author of Taken Into Custody: The War Against Fathers, Marriage and the Family (click here for more info). Baskerville's book exposes the devastating cost of the American divorce industry, including civil liberties violations, broken families and disrupted lives.

Carlson is also the International Secretary of the World Congress (for more information, go to www.worldcongress.org). He has a Ph.D. in Modern European History from Ohio State University.

Carlson is the author of many books, including, Fractured Generations: Crafting Family Policy for the 21st Century, The American Way: Family and Community In the Shaping of the American Identity, and Family Questions: Reflections on the American Social Crisis. His writings have been featured in The Washington Post, Weekly Standard and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. He has appeared on PBS News Hour, NPR Morning Edition and All Things Considered, Voice of America, ABC, CBS and NBC News, MSNBC, CNN and C-SPAN.

Baskerville is an assistant professor of government at Patrick Henry College, and president of the American Coalition for Fathers of Children. His writings on family and fatherhood have appeared in The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The American Spectator and National Review, among other newspapers and periodicals. He has made numerous appearances in the broadcast media, including The O'Reilly Factor and Hardball with Chris Matthews. Baskerville has a PhD. from the London School of Economics.

To request a review copy or schedule an interview with Allan C. Carlson or Stephen Baskerville, contact Larry Jacobs at 1-800-461-3113.  For more information on The Howard Center on Family, Religion & Society, go to www.profam.org.

The World Congress of Families (WCF) is an international network of pro-family organizations, scholars, leaders and people of goodwill from more than 60  countries that seeks to restore the natural family as the fundamental social unit and the ‘seedbed’ of civil society.  The WCF was founded in 1997 by Allan Carlson and is a project of The Howard Center for Family, Religion & Society in Rockford, Illinois (www.profam.org).  To date, there have been four World Congresses of Families – Prague (1997), Geneva (1999), Mexico City (2004) and Warsaw, Poland (2007).