Nostalgia-fueled interest in retro music and contemporary artists’ expressions of “black resistance, joy, and togetherness” are at the heart of today’s soul music revival, and Emily J. Lordi’s nuanced revisionist history "The... Read More

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 the dreaded nine-to-five schedule stepped a new idea, full of... Read More

Informative and entertaining, Bucket Showers & Baby Goats is an illuminating memoir about time spent volunteering in Ghana. Christine Brown’s memoir Bucket Showers & Baby Goats is about volunteering in a West African farming... Read More

Examining the causes and costs of dwindling jury trials in federal courts, "The Vanishing Trial" is a compelling glimpse behind the curtain of the courtroom. Brimming with courtroom drama and sobering statistics, Robert Katzberg’s "The... Read More

"Life"’s idealism about growing and aging is meaningfully tempered as it considers the realities of racism. Floyd L. Griffin Jr.’s engaging social science book "Life" considers the impact of race in America through the lens of human... Read More

The United States is one of three nations that do not offer parental leave to new parents. "Fixing Parental Leave" forwards a viable plan for changing that. Inducing fury as it exposes American workplaces that give lip service to family... Read More

"Healing Racial Trauma" is an artful and ambitious examination of racism and faith. Identifying and describing the different, constant, and overlapping impacts of racism, the text will be educational to those for whom racism’s impacts... Read More

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