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
Growing up a smarty-pants, fundamentalist, hillbilly girl in the 1970s By the age of twelve, Susan Campbell had been flirting with Jesus for some time, and in her mind, Jesus had been flirting
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
In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., isolated himself from the demands of the civil rights movement, rented a house in Jamaica with no telephone, and labored over his final manuscript. In this impor
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
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
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
Watch the book trailer for Hollowing Out the Middle?In 2001, with funding from the MacArthur Foundation, sociologists Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas moved to Iowa to understand the rural brain d
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
Patricia Harman, a nurse-midwife, manages a women’s health clinic with her husband, Tom, an ob-gyn, in West Virginia--a practice where patients open their hearts, where they find care and sometimes re
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
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
With a new afterword by the author. Drawing on over a decade’s experience at the Gallup Poll and a distinguished academic career in survey research, David W. Moore—praised as a "sch
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
With the deft evocations of a master storyteller and the exhaustive knowledge of a scholar, LeVine writes of the uneasy relations between Islam and spirit possession in a Nigerian town and between Ch
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
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
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
Already garnering coverage in U.S. News and World Report, the Washington Post, Newsweek, Salon, and Utne Reader, and heard on NPR and PBS, Nan Mooney draws on more than a hundred interviews with dive
What happens when an organization with the express goal of defending individual rights and liberties starts silencing its own board? Lawyer and social critic Wendy Kaminer has intimate knowledge of s
I Told You So is a hilarious, bittersweet, politically acute survival guide. In collected columns and routines Clinton gleefully details personal coping techniques tested over a lifetime. They’
Go on a date with a soldier turned police officer? Me? And discuss Gandhi’s experiments with truth with a gun-toting Republican?The last thing Berkeley-dwelling peace activist Sophia Rada
“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
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
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
