David Michaels’s extensive career, including his time as an Assistant Secretary of Labor for OSHA, puts him in the perfect position to write "The Triumph of Doubt", about the wide variety of scientific “product defense” work... Read More

Since turning forty, journalist Ada Calhoun has been obsessed with the women of Generation X and their “struggles with money, relationships, work, and existential despair.” Playing devil’s advocate in Why We Can’t Sleep, Calhoun... Read More

"Light of Day" is a thorough social science study about the pervasiveness of sexualized violence. In her timely social science study "Light of Day", Janet A. McDonald challenges everyone to reconsider what they think they know about... Read More

In 1954, the same year Menominee civil rights activist Ada Deer graduated from her masters program, the US government passed the Menominee Termination Act, erasing the Menominee nation’s recognition under federal law. Deer spent the... Read More

Psychologist Wendy L. Moss’s "Stand Up!" is designed to help teach children how to stand up and support fairness and respect with the hope of decreasing bullying and injustice. "Stand Up!" is an actionable and practical learning tool.... Read More

Matthew L. Schuerman’s measured "Newcomers" examines gentrification and how it impacts cities for good and ill. Terms are defined with care in the text, which argues that new people moving into older urban neighborhoods don’t create... 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 self-destruction. Encompassing loving criticism of the cultural concerns... Read More

Jelena Subotić’s "Yellow Star, Red Star" examines postwar views of the Holocaust in Eastern Bloc countries. In 1941, a nineteen-year-old Jewish nurse entered the Semlin labor camp of her own free will, eager to care for others but... Read More