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...
by Laura | Dec 25, 2011
Stephanie Coontz, a left-leaning academic and veteran of Berkeley’s Free Speech Movement, would seem an unlikely defender of the institution of marriage. Marriage, A History sees a largely positive direction in the evolution of marriage. “Marriage has...
by Laura | Dec 24, 2011
In a recent Harris Poll, 54% of U.S. adults expressed skepticism about evolution, up from 46% in 1994. Evolution has also become a hot-button issue out there in the “culture wars.” Author David Sloan Wilson does a great job in defusing the evolution vs....
by Laura | Dec 24, 2011
The operative words, practical and simple best describe the spirit of this book. Terms like “global warming” make the environmental crisis seem so huge and sprawling that many well-intentioned folks don’t know where to begin to make a change in their own...
