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...
by Laura | Feb 13, 2011
Bill McKibben’s book is a soulful, poetic lament for something irreversibly lost in nature—but also a call to action that is in its own way stubbornly hopeful. Even those of us who are genuinely concerned about global warming find ourselves taking solace in just...
by Laura | Feb 13, 2011
No Kids is a book designed to cause a stir, and cause a stir it has. Originally published in France (author Corrine Maier lives in Brussels), it skewers “baby mania” and the sentimentalizing of motherhood. I love the fact that Maier is herself the mother...
by Laura | Feb 12, 2011
Conceiving the Future is a look at how, during a formative period of our nation’s history, cultural currents converged to create a powerful environment of “pronatalism.” It is one of the few books since Ellen Peck’s book, Pronatalism came out...
by Laura | Feb 12, 2011
“There is no unisex brain,” neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine states in her fascinating and controversial book on the hard-wiring of gender differences. The author readily admits that social conditioning plays a role in these differences. And it turns...
