Hanover Square Press, February 2022. Hardcover. *A New York Times Book Review Notable Book"*An NPR Best Book of the Year*For readers of Behind the Beautiful Forevers and Nothing to Envy, this is a breathtaking real-life story of four street children in contemporary Zambia whose lives are drawn together and forever..... More
The MIT Press, April 2016. Paper Back. What happens when people turn their everyday experience into data: an introduction to the essential ideas and key challenges of self-tracking. People keep track. In the eighteenth century, Benjamin Franklin kept charts of time spent and virtues lived up to. Today, people use..... More
HarperOne, December 2022. Paper Back. Combining the ethical clarity of Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals with the disquieting vision of Alan Weissman's bestseller The World Without Us, a thought-provoking, entertaining exploration of a future where animal consumption is a thing of the past. Though increasing numbers of people know that..... More
The MIT Press, January 2023. Paper Back. A concise and engaging exploration of how we understand happiness. What does it mean to feel happiness? As a state of mind, it's elusive. As a concept--despite the plethora of pop psychology books on the subject--it's poorly understood. In this volume in the..... More
FSG Adult, June 2022. Paper Back. One of The New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books of 2022. Named one of the best books of 2022 by The New Yorker, Pitchfork, Vanity Fair and TIME. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. "On the internet, fandom can be..... More
Henry Holt and Co., May 2022. Hardcover. One of the New Yorker's Best Books of 2022 Bill McKibben--award-winning author, activist, educator--is fiercely curious. "I'm curious about what went so suddenly sour with American patriotism, American faith, and American prosperity." Like so many of us, McKibben grew up believing--knowing--that the United..... More
Plume Books, August 1998. Paper Back. Maria Montessori is important background reading for parents considering Montessori education for their children, as well as for those training to become Montessori teachers. The first woman to win a degree as a Doctor of Medicine in Italy in 1896, Maria Montessori. More
Pegasus Books, September 2022. Hardcover. A spirited, insightful exploration of our favorite machine and it's cultural impact on society over the past one hundred and fifty years. More than any other technology, cars have transformed American popular culture. Cars have created vast wealth as well as novel dreams of freedom..... More
The School of Life, October 2022. Paper Back. An intriguing, evocative guide to the power of life's small pleasures. From the distinctive delight of holding a child's hand to the paradoxical fun of a friendly argument to the peaceful joy of watching a sunset, this is a guide to the..... More
Bloomsbury Continuum, September 2019. Hardcover. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER An excellent take on the lunacy affecting much of the world today. Douglas is one of the bright lights that could lead us out of the darkness. - Joe Rogan Douglas Murray fights the good fight for freedom of speech ....... More
Harper Wave, June 2021. Hardcover. The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultish groups from Jonestown and Scientology to SoulCycle and social media gurus use language as the ultimate form of power. What makes "cults" so intriguing and frightening? What makes them..... More
Amistad, October 2022. Hardcover. In this long-overdue celebration of Black women's resilience and unheralded strength, the revered, trailblazing White House correspondent reflects on "The Year That Changed Everything"--2020--and African-American women's unprecedented role in upholding democracy. "I am keenly aware that everyone and everything has a story," April D. Ryan acknowledges..... More
Gallery Books, July 2022. Hardcover. Mystery. Manipulation. Murder. Cults are associated with all of these. But what really goes on inside them? More specifically, what goes on inside the minds of cult leaders and the people who join them? Based on the hit podcast Cults, this is essential reading for..... More
Lookout Books, November 2022. Paper Back. Best Books of 2022, Library Journal Big Indie Book of Fall, Publishers Weekly "Valerie Boyd's Bigger Than Bravery isn't just an anthology; it is a survival guide." --Courtney B. Vance, Tony- and Emmy-winning actor An anthology of Black resilience and reclamation, with contributions by..... More
Crown, February 2022. Hardcover. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - An "elegantly argued and exuberantly narrated" (The New York Times Book Review) look at the building of social movements--from the 1600s to the present--and how current technology is undermining them "A bravura work..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, September 2022. Paper Back. Upper-middle-class white women have long been heralded as "experts" on feminism. They have presided over multinational feminist organizations and written much of what we consider the feminist canon, espousing sexual liberation and satisfaction, LGBTQ inclusion, and racial solidarity, all while branding..... More
Atria Books, January 2023. Hardcover. From the Polk Award-winning investigative duo comes a critical look at the systematic corruption and brutality within the Oakland Police Department, and the more than two-decades-long saga of attempted reforms and explosive scandals. No municipality has been under court oversight to reform its police department..... More
Penguin Group USA Inc, December 2005. Trade Paperback. Television has conditioned us to tolerate visually entertaining material measured out in spoonfuls of time, to the detriment of rational public discourse and reasoned public affairs. In this eloquent, persuasive book, Neil Postman alerts us to the real and present dangers of..... More
PM Press, August 2022. Trade Paperback. Crisis and Care reveals what is possible when activists mobilize for the radical changes our society needs. In a time of great uncertainty, fear, and isolation, Queer activists organized for health equity, prison abolition, racial justice, and more. Nobody who lived through the COVID-19..... More
Nonpareil Books, January 2023. Paper Back. "Midnights is both a comedy of errors and an affectionate portrait of small-town police, those beleaguered souls charged with the task of keeping their neighbors in line....A reminder that those assigned to protect are often vulnerable and quietly heroic."--Time Funny, touching, revealing, here is..... More
Anchor, October 1992. Trade Paperback. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle award for nonfiction, this controversial, thought-provoking, and timely book is "as groundbreaking as Simone de Beauvoir's The "Second Sex" and Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique."" -- "Newsweek." "The backlash against women is real. This is the book we..... More
Bantam, July 2007. Trade Paperback. Emotional Intelligence was an international phenomenon, appearing on the New York Times bestseller list for over a year and selling more than five million copies worldwide. Now, once again, Daniel Goleman has written a groundbreaking synthesis of the latest findings in biology and brain science..... More
Henry Holt and Co., May 2022. Hardcover. One of the New Yorker's Best Books of 2022 Bill McKibben--award-winning author, activist, educator--is fiercely curious. "I'm curious about what went so suddenly sour with American patriotism, American faith, and American prosperity." Like so many of us, McKibben grew up believing--knowing--that the United..... More
AK Press, March 2019. Trade Paperback. How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life? Author and editor adrienne maree brown finds the answer in something she calls..... More
Grove Press, August 2022. Hardcover. The first full account of the Slenderman stabbing, a true crime narrative of mental illness, the American judicial system, the trials of adolescence, and the power of the internetOn May 31, 2014, in the Milwaukee suburb of Waukesha, Wisconsin, two twelve-year-old girls attempted to stab..... More
