by Laura | Feb 14, 2012
From varieties of toothpaste to investment options, we have all experienced the paralysis that can come with too many choices. In The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz synthesizes a wealth of social science research to show us in clear language exactly why this is so,...
by Laura | Feb 5, 2012
Author Deborah Tannen, a professor of linguistics at Georgetown, has written a number of academic books and articles about the nature of human conversation, particularly as it relates to gender. In You Just Don’t Understand, which spent four years on the New...
by Laura | Feb 2, 2012
In this book, renowned gerontologist Karl Pillemer, Ph.D. does something our society sure needs to do more of—listen and learn from our elders. He writes, “fear of aging is rampant in our society. Surveys over the past two decades show how pervasive negative attitudes...
by Laura | Jan 26, 2012
I love how Nicky Scott’s primer on making your everyday life greener certainly keeps it real. “This book will help you think about the contents of your garbage can in a new light,” he starts off. The weekly routine of putting whatever we don”t...
by Laura | Dec 25, 2011
This book is a revised and updated version of historian Linda Gordon’s 1976 classic Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right. The new work is a comprehensive history of birth control and reproductive rights in the U.S. Gordon’s works from the premise that...
