Where do our prejudices come from? Why are some people more biased than others? Is it possible for individuals, and society as a whole, to truly defeat prejudice? Scientists have explored these quest
A passionately argued case for a new civil rights movement—centered on schoolsLegendary civil rights leader and education activist Robert Moses invited one hundred prominent African Ameri
With a new afterword ? Acts of Faith is a remarkable account of growing up Muslim in America and coming to believe in religious pluralism, from one of the most prominent faith leaders in the United St
Expert Gail Dines has been writing about and researching the porn industry for over two decades. She attends porn industry conferences, interviews porn producers and performers, and speaks to hundred
A revealing look at stay-at-home fatherhood—for men, their families, and for American society It’s a growing phenomenon among American families: fathers who cut back on paid work to focus
Woodburn High’s Bulldogs, aka Los Perros, started their 2005 soccer season with eight undocumented students, a midfielder groomed to play for a pro Mexican team, a goalkeeper living in his thir
When Terry Galloway was born on Halloween, no one knew that an experimental antibiotic given to her mother had wreaked havoc on her fetal nervous system. After her family moved from Berlin, Germany,
Once upon a time, "Boston Town" was a large and insulated New England township. But between 1850 and 1900, Boston underwent a metamorphosis to become a thriving metropolis, one that achieved national
A critical care and emergency flight nurse, Jennifer Culkin is no stranger to death and its dramas, and her memoir plunges the reader into both. Aboard the Agusta A109A helicopter, we see through her
In April 1975, the U.S. government evacuated nearly three thousand displaced Vietnamese children just before the fall of Saigon. Chaotic from start to finish, Operation Babylift gripped the American
Demography is destiny. It underlies many of the issues that shake the world, from war and economics to immigration. No wonder, then, that overpopulation fears flared regularly over the last century,
On her first day on earth, Katie Trebing underwent a blood transfusion that would become the first of an expected lifetime of them. Diagnosed with a rare form of anemia, she would require a transfusi
In the third century BC, Afghanistan was part of a peaceful, multi-ethnic and multicultural empire ruled by the Indian emperor Ashoka, who led with the values of tolerance, nonviolence, and respect fo
In 2003, more than 3.5 million children under age fifteen required medical treatment for sports injuries, nearly half of which were the result of simple overuse. When did the quest to turn children i
Best-selling historian Howard Zinn is celebrated for looking at history not from the perspective of those in power but rather from the viewpoint of those who speak truth to power. In his plays Marx in
As a mother, Amy Seidl demonstrates how climate change has altered her daughters’ experiences of their woods and garden, and the seasonal community events of her small New England town. As an e
From a renowned African American poet, a new book of poems of celebration and loss for readers of all ages This new volume by the much-loved poet Sonia Sanchez is music to the ears: a collectio
Foreword by Nina Leopold BradleyFrom an internationally recognized restoration ecologist, the twenty-first-century sequel to the best-selling classic A Sand County Almanac A Midwest Conne
A sweeping story of the right to privacy as it sped along colonial postal routes, telegraph wires, and today’s fiber-optic cables on a collision course with presidents and programmers, libraria
Jeanine Cornillot was just two years old when her father, a former Cuban revolutionary turned anti-Castro militant, was sentenced to thirty years in a Florida prison for political bombings. Although
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
For so many these days, the religious tradition we were raised in no longer works for us. Others have no tradition, yet we all search for a spiritual life that feels authentic. The contributors to th
When Terry Galloway was born on Halloween, no one knew that an experimental antibiotic given to her mother had wreaked havoc on her fetal nervous system. After her family moved from Berlin, Germany,
Since 1987, Craig Rennebohm has ministered to people on the streets of Seattle who are homeless and struggling with mental illness. In Souls in the Hands of a Tender God he tells the evocative storie
“Is that a weed?” This question, asked by anyone who has ever gardened or mowed a lawn, does not have an easy answer. After all, a weed, as suburban mother and professional weed scientist
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&
Like Coleman Barks’s translations of Rumi, this collection of poems by Mirabai will appeal to anyone interested in spiritual poetry. Translator and renowned poet Robert Bly has teamed up with J
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
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
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-
How genetic engineering threatens seeds, and the stories of those working to save this precious environmental resourceSeeds are at the heart of the plant systems that provide us with food, ener
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
From an internationally recognized restoration ecologist, the twenty-first-century sequel to the best-selling classic A Sand County AlmanacRenowned conservationist Aldo Leopold once wrote, "A thing i
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
From the War on Poverty to new farmers' markets, a food expert tackles America's dangerous dietary split With a new Foreword Closing the Food Gap exposes America's dangerous dietary
Heather is pale and thin, seventeen and pregnant with twins when Patricia Harman begins to care for her. Over the course of the next five seasons Patsy will see Heather through the loss of both babie
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
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
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
Saving Paradise offers a new lens on the history of Christianity, from its first centuries to the present day, and asks how its early vision of beauty evolved into one of torture. In tracing the chan
