The surprising trajectory of the shared economy is laid bare in Juliet B. Schor’s After the Gig. Out of the 2008 financial collapse and into a world of unfulfilling work on... Read More

Julie Sze’s clear and authoritative "Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger" discusses the history and philosophy of environmental justice, drawing a link between... Read More

Rebecca J. Lester’s illuminating "Famished" goes behind the scenes at an eating disorders clinic to present its operations in direct terms. Its picture of the delicate... Read More

Rabbi Michael Lerner’s "Revolutionary Love" is not so much a book as a manifesto, the public declaration of a political philosophy determined to save people from... Read More

Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft’s "Meat Planet" is a thoughtful examination of the technological, ethical, and cultural issues swirling around the development of artificial flesh.... Read More

Drew Harvell’s "Ocean Outbreak" is an engaging, eye-opening report on the diseases affecting the health of the ocean. The world’s warming waters precipitate marine disease,... Read More

Of all the figurative flavors of Kool-Aid to keep you from facing reality, perhaps the most popular is the belief that falling in love quickly leads to a life lived happily ever... Read More

People live as singles in mounting numbers, even in tradition-oriented countries. In "Happy Singlehood", Elyakim Kislev brings a researcher’s eye to bear on this... Read More

An exhaustive scientific report on the health of the coral reefs, shown to be critically important to the earth’s future, "Coral Whisperers" draws upon years of research.... Read More

Carleton Watkins may not be a name known to contemporary artists and art critics, but his exceptional photographs of the American West, taken during the mid- to late-1800s,... Read More

Tey Meadow’s sympathetic sociological study "Trans Kids" explores the changing social dynamics for families of transgender children and other children who bend or break gender... Read More

Jane Goodall’s research center on the shores of a Tanzanian lake pulsates with the passions, perils, and promises of the 1960s in Dale Peterson’s "The Ghosts of Gombe". The... Read More