by Laura | Feb 23, 2011
If you’re like me when I started reading this book, at first you might find it odd that author Azby Brown looks back several hundred years to a vanished way of life for answers to our current environmental problems. But the Japan of the Edo Period (1603-1868)...
by Laura | Feb 23, 2011
Debate on the state of feminism is not lacking these days among veterans of the fight for women’s rights and the women’s movement, some of whom feel young women take for granted the gains they struggled for, and among conservatives and even...
by Laura | Feb 18, 2011
In Recipe for America food activist Jill Richardson details the ways in which the dominant, industrial mode of agriculture is unsustainable. She examines a wide array of consequences, from water pollution and topsoil erosion to record levels of childhood obesity. She...
by Laura | Feb 18, 2011
Drawing on a wealth of research spanning 10,000 people and 37 cultures, David Buss has written a compelling study of the evolutionary origins of human sexual behavior. Men and women bring very different strategies to the challenge of finding and keeping a mate, all of...
by Laura | Feb 17, 2011
In the face of a persistently high divorce rate, climbing rates of single-parenthood and unmarried cohabitation, and some skepticism about whether marriage might be an outdated institution, Linda Waite and Maggie Gallagher have assembled a thoughtful and...
