New Books: August 2021
Business/Commerce
Corrections/Criminal Justice
Abetting Batterers
Abetting Batterers reveals the troubling patterns of inattention and incompetence that compromise the safety of women in the US. It looks at how the criminal […]
Read MoreEducation
Dismantled
This book tells the story of how as early as the 1980s, reform efforts-both state and federal-have essentially transformed Detroit’s school system by introducing new […]
Read MoreEnvironment/Agriculture/Natural Resources
An Illustrated Catalog of American Fruits & Nuts
The United States Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection encompasses 7,497 botanical watercolor paintings of evolving fruit and nut varieties; alongside specimens introduced by USDA […]
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The Grow System
Grow your own food and medicine with a step-by-step guide from the founder of The Grow Network Imagine cultivating enough food to slash your grocery […]
Read MoreGeneral/Miscellaneous
The Hill We Climb
On January 20, 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and youngest poet to deliver a poetry reading at a presidential inauguration. Taking the stage after […]
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The Catalyst
Successful change agents know its not about pushing harder, or providing more information, its about being a catalyst. Catalysts remove roadblocks and reduce the barriers […]
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Fear Is Fuel
Fear is Fuel presents a program underpinned by the latest research from leading neuroscientists, psychologists, and fear experts. Readers learn to harness the power of […]
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Letters to My White Male Friends
In Letters to My White Male Friends, Dax-Devlon Ross speaks directly to the millions of middle-aged white men who are suddenly awakening to race and […]
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Financing Our Common Future in the Time of Covid-19
Daily bad news about climate change, shrinking resources, global health crises, species extinction and growing inequalities cause tremendous anxiety and insecurity, especially since the COVID […]
Read MoreHealth/Wellness/Medicine
The Slippery Slope of Healthcare
A slippery slope describes how events progress from an initially innocent step to a cascade of subsequent misfortunes that are increasingly inevitable, difficult to stop, […]
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Finding Comfort During Hard Times
Finding Comfort is about providing emotional and spiritual care following a mass fatality incident like a mass shooting, terrorist act or catastrophic natural disaster. Through […]
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Keep Moving
When Maggie Smith, the award-winning author of the viral poem “Good Bones,” started writing inspirational daily Twitter posts in the wake of her divorce, they […]
Read MoreHistory
Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue
Tracing the long history of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s work for gender equality and a more perfect Union. In the fall of 2019, Justice Ruth Bader […]
Read MoreLaw/Government
After the Apocalypse
In a bold reconception of Americas place in the world, informed by thinking from across the political spectrum, Andrew J. Bacevichfounder and president of the […]
Read MoreLibraries/Archives
Knowledge Justice
Black, Indigenous, and Peoples of Color—reimagine library and information science through the lens of critical race theory. In Knowledge Justice, Black, Indigenous, and Peoples of […]
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