The culmination of the spiritual thought of a preeminent liberal theologian In the spring of 2008, Forrest Church wrote what he believed would be his final work, Love & Death. One year and an experim
Whether deconstructing Bratz dolls or the tragedy of Abu Ghraib, this urgent book reveals that porn has become the mainstream and the mainstream has become porn?Sarracino and Scott argue that we no lo
Photographs and prose from the world Molly Malone Cook and poet Mary Oliver shared for forty years?Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, is one of the most celebrated poet
In 2006, S. Craig Watkins participated in the MacArthur Foundation’s well-funded digital media initiative alongside a select team of scholars and tech experts. The goal was simple: to understan
In Confessions of an Eco-Sinner, Fred Pearce surveys his home and then sets out to track down the people behind the production and distribution of everything in his daily life, from his socks to his
Shortly after September 11, J. Malcolm Garcia—a self-described middle-aged, middle-of-the-road midwesterner—arrived in Afghanistan. A former social worker, he had only recently become a r
How far can you get on two tacos, one Dr. Pepper, and a little bit of conversation? What happens when you’re broke and you need to get to a new job, an ailing parent, a powwow, college, or a funeral o
Surprised by God is the memoir of a young woman’s spiritual awakening and eventual path to the rabbinate. It’s a post–dotcom, third-wave, punk-rock Seven Storey Mountain—the s
Homeschooling is a large and growing phenomenon in American society—between 1999 and 2003 it grew at ten times the rate of public school enrollments. Current estimates suggest that about two mi
On February 4, 2008, Forrest Church sent a letter to the members of his congregation, informing them that he had terminal cancer but promising to sum up his thoughts on the topics that had been so pe
Immersion in the mikveh—the ritual bath based on Jewish laws of purity—is the cornerstone of Orthodox family life. Jewish women are commanded by their religion to immerse in the mikveh be
A former Greenpeace spokesperson and activist offers a way to draw on creative spirit and change the world. Blending the worlds of Deepak Chopra and Ralph Nader, The Spirit's Terrain explains how to a
Praised by her mentor John Adams, Mercy Otis Warren was America’s first woman playwright and female historian of the American Revolution. In this unprecedented biography, Nancy Rubin Stuart rev
What happens when a professor of church/state law decides to get out of his stuffy office and hit the road in search of the places and people responsible for some of the country’s most controve
How much does the current landscape of Boston, Massachusetts, resemble the land mass known as the Shawmut Peninsula, where it was conceived and built hundreds of years ago—a place that Captain
Traces the story of Massachusetts's legalization of same-sex marriage, in a photographic chronicle that reflects its court cases and protests through examples of triumphant weddings and volatile subse
From one of the nation’s leading sociologists and experts on race, here is a call for “another kind of public education”—one that opens up more possibilities for democracy, an
Over the last seventy-five years, adults have staged a hostile takeover of kids’ sports. For generations of children the effects have been devastating. The quest to turn children into tomorrow&
Compassionate and wise, Thich Nhat Hanh’s healing words and books have helped millions of people acknowledge and dissolve anger and separation by illuminating the way toward the miracle of mind
This collection of sixty-one new poems, the most ever in a single volume of Oliver’s work, includes an entirely new direction for the poet’s work: a cycle of eleven linked love poems̵
Having turned away from the Catholic Church of her childhood, Suzanne Strempek Shea set out on a pilgrimage to visit a different church every Sunday for a year—a journey that took her through t
Buckling herself into the rear of an Agusta AI09A, Jennifer Culkin prepares for the moment of lift. The deafening thrum of the helicopter announces the unknown perils and potential havoc that await.
In this new volume of forty-seven poems, Mary Oliver delves even deeper than she has in the past into the mysteries of life, love, and death. Exploring the evidence presented to us daily by the natur
The minute Danielle Ofri entered the doors of Bellevue Hospital, the tentative medical student was plunged into the overcrowded world of urban medicine. Singular Intimacies lays bare the harrowing ye
A fresh legal argument on what it means to own land, navigating issues of eminent domain, sprawl, and conservation Recent Supreme Court cases and clashes between conservationists and private-
The first book to tell the incredible story of two men behind the bitter thirty-year fight to protect children from leadThey didn't start out as environmental warriors. Clair Patterson was a geochemi
A journalist's investigation of a Christian Right movement in which women put their fertility in the service of a patriarchal culture warIn the corners of fundamentalist Christendom across the countr
A lucid and provocative analysis of the legacy of the Cold War in the Middle EastDuring the 45 years of the Cold War, policymakers from the United States and the Soviet Union vied for primacy i
The personal and societal effects of the unheralded epidemic of social isolation in AmericaIn today's world, it is more acceptable to be depressed than to be lonely-yet loneliness appears to be
An in-depth exploration and exposé of the predatory nature of the student loan industryAlan Collinge never imagined he would become a student loan justice activist. He planned to land a so
A firsthand account of Colombia's turmoil by a journalist who was held captive by rebel guerrillasIndependent journalist Garry Leech has spent the last eight years working in the most remote and dang
Part of the Queer Ideas series, edited by Michael BronskiA persuasive argument for why married couples, gay or straight, should not receive special rights denied to other familiesNancy Polikoff asser
Wisdom, wit, and inspiration from Asian Americans, African Americans, Latinos, Arab Americans, American Indians, recent immigrants, and many others"Language Is a Place of Struggle" is the first
In The Truro Bear and Other Adventures, Mary Oliver brings together ten new poems, thirty-five of her classic poems, and two essays, all about mammals, insects, and reptiles. The award-winning poet c
A global journey to find the sources of all the stuff in one man’s life—and its social and environmental footprintWhere does everything in our daily lives come from? The clothes on our ba
For two decades veteran photojournalist David Bacon has documented the connections between labor, migration, and the global economy. In Illegal People Bacon explores the human side of globalization,
On a February day in 2008, Forrest Church sent a letter to the members of his congregation, informing them that he had terminal cancer; his life would now be measured in months, not years. In that re
How far can you get on two tacos, one Dr. Pepper, and a little bit of conversation? What happens when you’re broke and you need to get to a new job, an ailing parent, a powwow, college, or a fu
From the popular Bratz dolls to the infamous photos from Abu Ghraib, The Porning of America reveals that porn has become the mainstream - and the mainstream has become porn. Carmine Sarracino and Kevi
At thirteen, Danya Ruttenberg decided that she was an atheist. Watching the sea of adults standing up and sitting down at Rosh Hashanah services, and apparently giving credence to the patently absurd
