by Laura | Feb 14, 2011
Gail Collins follows up her previous book, America’s Women, a history dating back to the Victorian Era, with a more particular focus on the last 50 years in this book. The author has a tremendous eye for telling anecdotes that mark just how far we’ve come....
by Laura | Feb 14, 2011
In late 2006 Randy Pausch, a gifted and popular computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. A year later he gave a talk at the school as part of a Last Lecture series in which professors were asked to distill what most...
by Laura | Feb 13, 2011
George Lakoff, a cognitive linguist at Berkeley, discusses the concept of “framing” in this book, particularly as it relates to political campaigns. But when you read it, you will see its application goes way beyond politics, and that it also brings a...
by Laura | Feb 13, 2011
This book is the non-profit online magazine Grist’s venture into print a compact, fast-paced manual on “greening your day.” Grist has been a distinctive voice on the environmentalist scene, providing usable and down-to-earth news and notes in an...
by Laura | Feb 13, 2011
With every election we get inundated with catch phrases like “the next generation” and “for the children.” While such sentiment may produce positive results at the polls, author Elinor Burkett contends it has produced a set of public policy...
