Arguing for systemic reform in the name of childhood stability and belonging, "Against All Odds" couches a social science argument in the context of a personal tale of resilience. Tristian Smith’s sobering memoir "Against All Odds" is... Read More

Walter Marsh’s true crime caper "The Butterfly Thief" pieces together several mid-century museum thefts that shook Australia’s leading natural history institutions. In January of 1947, curators at Melbourne’s National Museum of... Read More

The psychological toll of spending years pursuing vindication is explored in "Mosaic Pieces", a vivid true crime book–cum–family saga. Journalist Wes Skillings’s sobering true crime book "Mosaic Pieces" is about justice gone awry.... Read More

Situating its psychological insights within timeless philosophical traditions, "The Life Compass" is a grounded self-help text. Samer Abdo’s practical self-help book "The Life Compass" includes philosophical and practical insights for... Read More

Through its brief portraits of remarkable individuals, "Quiet Valor" issues a compelling argument for rethinking whom society chooses to remember. Larry Nouvel’s illuminating biographical compendium "Quiet Valor" celebrates a selection... Read More

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... Read More

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... Read More

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... Read More