Book Review
The Long Heat
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Wim Carton and Andreas Malm’s substantial social science text "The Long Heat" examines climate politics in the era of irrevocable temperature overshoot. The book begins by examining the consequences that occur when the 1.5 degrees...
Book Review
Black History Is for Everyone
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Brian Jones’s stirring essay collection blends memoir, scholarship, and political analysis to argue that Black history is a lens for better seeing the world. In the Midwestern classrooms of his youth, Jones found that Blackness was...
Book Review
Somebody Should Do Something
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Philosophers Michael Brownstein, Alex Madva, and Daniel Kelly’s social science study "Somebody Should Do Something" maps how well-meaning people get stuck between personal virtue and structural inertia when confronting “everything...
Book Review
Dialogues from Beyond
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Growth is not only possible but the purpose for being, according to "Dialogues from Beyond", a lengthy record of personal interactions with a higher spiritual plane. Frances Gaik’s spiritual memoir "Dialogues from Beyond" addresses...
Book Review
The Saundra Gray Affair
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"The Saundra Gray Affair" is a political thriller about the personal costs of leading a public life. Set in Washington, DC, Daniel Yager’s "The Saundra Gray Affair" is a tense thriller about political scandals and their personal costs....
Book Review
The Encyclopedia of Curious Rituals and Superstitions
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Arie Kaplan’s bright, jargon-free volume of global folklore blends anthropology, pop culture, and a pinch of irreverence. Asserting that superstition is a universal language, the book explores themes including birth, death, and romance...
Book Review
The End of Meaning
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"The End of Meaning" is a sweeping, somber philosophy text that describes a bevy of cultural losses and bemoans the fragility of social conditions for meaning. William A. Sikes’s cultural history book "The End of Meaning" is about...
Book Review
Taking the Stairs & Liking It
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Informative and uplifting, the self-help guidebook Taking the Stairs & Liking It models empathetic, values-based self-improvement. Lauren Speeth’s Taking the Stairs & Liking It is a polished motivational guidebook rooted in...