by Laura | Feb 3, 2011
Ayaan Hirsi Ali has certainly earned her tough stance on Islam. As a young girl in Somali she was subjected to genital mutilation, and to brutal beatings by her mother when she departed from the strict path laid out for girls. She narrowly escaped a forced marriage...
by Laura | Feb 3, 2011
In his previous two books, The Moral Animal and Nonzero, Robert Wright argues that evolution—biological, social, and technological—has on balance, if imperfectly, moved humankind toward greater interconnectedness and moral inclusiveness. He makes much the same...
by Laura | Feb 2, 2011
Former BBC journalist Nicki Defago has written a supportive book that will reassure those who have chosen a childfree life, and provide those who are contemplating it with a way of thinking through the pros and cons. In her conversations with other childfree adults,...
by Laura | Feb 2, 2011
Written when author Gloria Feldt was President of Planned Parenthood, this book is a stirring political call to arms for women to defend their eroding reproductive rights. Feldt incisively chronicles the tactics of anti-choice activists—such as their coining of terms...
by Laura | Feb 2, 2011
Parents who contemplate stopping at one child, or whose circumstances make that decision for them, face their future as a one-child household with a unique set of circumstances. Many worry they are depriving their child of the richness of a “real” family...
