Book Review
Why Am I Taller?
Dave Williams and Elizabeth Howell’s "Why Am I Taller?" covers the medical side of an astronaut’s life. Physician astronauts, like Williams, have a unique window into what it’s like to be in space. They both experience and diagnose...
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Angel of the Garbage Dump
"Angel of the Garbage Dump" is the biography of a courageous change-maker, Hanley Denning. Denning first encountered the Guatemala City dump that she came to think of as “home” in 1999. Though her early experiences there were...
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Heal Your Ancestral Roots
"Heal Your Ancestral Roots" is a self-help book that recommends healing one’s family energy fields with the help of flower essences. Anuradha Dayal-Gulati’s self-help book "Heal Your Ancestral Roots" promises a blossoming life...
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The Global History of Black Girlhood
Edited by Corinne T. Field and LaKisha Michelle Simmons, the essays collected in "The Global History of Black Girlhood" are groundbreaking, delivering history lessons with present-day implications. Drawing insights from research into the...
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Stop Overthinking Your Relationship
Alicia Muñoz’s "Stop Overthinking Your Relationship" highlights the problem of relationship rumination—and charts a path toward healthier relationships. The book focuses on how repetitive negative thinking absorbs too much of the...
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Let’s Make a Contract
Jill C. Dardig and William L. Heward’s "Let’s Make a Contract" presents tools for reaching parent-child agreements. Sharing the insights and skills needed to craft contracts between parents and children, so that both can get what...
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Front-Wave Boomers
Sociologist Gillian Ranson’s "Front-Wave Boomers" concerns what’s facing those on the verge of “(very) old age.” Interrogating the concerns of baby boomers—a group brimming with vivacity and ideals, even as they face the...
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Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members
Sherrie Campbell’s "Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members" equips people to maintain their health, even in the wake of damaging family relationships. A source of encouragement to those who have experienced family abuse, the book...