In this book, Seth Adam Smith expands on the philosophy behind his extraordinarily popular blog post "Marriage Isn't for You"—which received over 30 million hits and has been translated into over 20 languages—and shares...
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
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Author:Mazwai, NtsikiSummary:The collection of poems is an intriguing reflection of the sometimes torturous evolution of inner self which so many South Africans face as they struggle to find who they are in a multicultural society that espouses the values of...
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Author:Wheatley, Margaret J., Frieze, DeborahSummary:At a time when most communities’ resources are stretched past the breaking point, how is it possible to deal with the enormous challenges that families, neighborhoods, cities, regions, and nations face today? This inspiring book takes...
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Author:Hassan, ZaidSummary:Current responses to our most pressing societal challenges—from poverty to ethnic conflict to climate change—are not working. These problems are incredibly dynamic and complex, involving an ever-shifting array of factors, actors, and...
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Author:Harris, Tamara WinfreySummary:What's wrong with black women? Not a damned thing! The Sisters Are Alright exposes anti-black-woman propaganda and shows how real black women are pushing back against distorted cartoon versions of themselves. When African women...
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Author:Elgin, Duane, Chopra, DeepakSummary:Science has traditionally regarded the universe as mostly made up mostly of inert matter and empty space. At one time this point of view was liberating, part of the Enlightenment-born rationalism that helped humanity free itself from...
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Author:Brasch, JillianSummary:"We can all learn to open our hearts to hear what a dying person really needs at the end of his life if we are just able to listen." —Jillian Brasch, O.T.R., The Last Gifts The Last Gifts tells the stories of 17 dying...
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Author:Korten, David C.Summary:David Korten’s classic bestseller When Corporations Rule the World was one of the first books to articulate the destructive and oppressive nature of the global corporate economy. In The Great Turning he argues that corporate...
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Author:Cahalan, SusannahSummary:In the 1970s, a Stanford psychologist named David Rosenhan and seven other people--sane, normal, well-adjusted members of society--went undercover into asylums around America to test the legitimacy of psychiatry's labels. Rosenhan's...
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Author:Sen, Rinku, Mamdouh, FekkakSummary:The Accidental American advocates a bold new approach to immigration: a free international flow of labor to match globalization’s free flow of capital. After all, corporations are encouraged to move anywhere in the world they can...
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Author:McKnight, John, Block, PeterSummary:We need our neighbors and community to stay healthy, produce jobs, raise our children, and care for those on the margin. Institutions and professional services have reached their limit of their ability to help us. The consumer society...
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Author:Gladwell, MalcolmSummary:Malcolm Gladwell argues that something is very wrong with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don't know. And because we don't know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding...
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Author:Edwards, MichaelSummary:A new movement is afoot that promises to save the world by bringing the magic of the market to philanthropy. Nonprofits should be run like businesses, its adherents say, and businesses can find new sources of revenue by marketing goods...
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Author:Essof, ShereenSummary:This book demonstrates the place of women's movements during a defining period of contemporary Zimbabwe. The government of Robert Mugabe may have been as firmly in power in 2000 as it was in 1995, but the intervening years saw...
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Author:Summary:Featuring contributions by more than 50 of Berrett-Koehler's most renowned authors, Positively M.A.D. is a collection of stories about real people making real changes, large and small, in their organizations and communities. The...
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Author:Bing, Eric, Epstein, Marc J.Summary:Every four minutes, over 50 children under the age of five die. In the same four minutes, two mothers lose their lives in childbirth. Every year, malaria kills nearly 1.2 million people, despite the fact that it can be prevented with a...
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Author:Polak, PaulSummary:Based on his 25 years of experience, Polak explodes what he calls the "Three Great Poverty Eradication Myths": that we can donate people out of poverty, that national economic growth will end poverty, and that Big Business,...
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Author:Parsons, RossSummary:Ross Parsons has been working with HIV-positive children in Mutare since 2005. As a child psychotherapist, he was interested in exploring how a therapeutic group, meeting regularly, might offer a way of elaborating and meeting their...
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Author:Simmons, GeneSummary:Gene Simmons, Kiss front man, shares his philosophy on power--how to attain it, how to keep it, and how to harness it as a driving force in business and in life.
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America is a country of characters, many of them larger than life, many of them shrinking from life, and many tenaciously asserting their individuality even as they succumb to the weight of life. As the author observes, "Asserting...
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