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
The personal and societal effects of the unheralded epidemic of social isolation in America?In our culture it’s more socially acceptable to be depressed than to be lonely. Yet loneliness is the inevit
Dispatches from Arizona—the front line of a massive human migration—including the voices of migrants, Border Patrol, ranchers, activists, and othersFor nearly a decade, Margaret Reg
An in-depth exploration and expose of the predatory nature of the student-loan industry?An Indie Next Notable Title?Named one of CNN Money’s 2008 financial heroes, Alan Collinge argues that student lo
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
An in-depth look at a beautiful island paradise devastated by a thirty-year war and the tsunami Weaving together reporting, travelogue, and personal narrative, debut author Adele Barker b
Surprising firsthand accounts from the front lines of abortion provision [?] reveal the persistent cultural, political, and economic hurdles to accessMore than thirty-five years after women won
From a doctor on the front lines of medicine, portraits of patients living and dying in the foreign country we call home For fifteen years, Dr. Danielle Ofri has cared for patients at Bellevue,
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
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
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
The Daddy Shift is an accessible, personal, and deeply researched book about a growing phenomenon among American families: fathers who stay at home from work and take a larger role in raising childre
For two decades David Bacon has documented the connections between labor, migration, and the global economy. In Illegal People he explains why our national policy produces even more displacement, mig
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
During their first millennium, Christians filled their sanctuaries with images of Christ as a living presence—as a shepherd, teacher, healer, or an enthroned god. But he is never dead. When he
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
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
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 trailblazing memoir about one family's quest to face its slave-trading past, and an urgent call for reconciliationIn 2001, Thomas DeWolf discovered that he was related to the most successful
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
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,
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
For the first time, David W. Moore - praised as a "scholarly crusader" by the New York Times - reveals that pollsters don't report public opinion, they manufacture it. And they do so at the peril of
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
