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Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City by Robin Nagle

On May 11, 2013, in Book Reviews, Business & Investing, Nonfiction, Social Studies, by Editor

In Picking Up, the anthropologist Robin Nagle introduces us to the men and women of New York City’s Department of Sanitation and makes clear why this small army of uniformed workers is the most important labor force on the streets. Throughout, Nagle reveals the many unexpected ways in which sanitation workers stand between our seemingly well-ordered lives and the sea of refuse that would otherwise overwhelm us.

The End of Men: And the Rise of Women, The Succession in the Modern Workforce by Hanna Rosin

On September 11, 2012, in Book Reviews, Business & Investing, Nonfiction, Political, Social Studies, by Editor

In this landmark book, Rosin reveals how this new state of affairs is radically shifting the power dynamics between men and women at every level of society, with profound implications for marriage, sex, children, work, and more. With wide-ranging curiosity and insight unhampered by assumptions or ideology, Rosin shows how the radically different ways men and women today earn, learn, spend, couple up—even kill—has turned the big picture upside down.

India Becoming: A Portrait of Life in Modern India by Akash Kapur

On April 25, 2012, in Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Social Studies, Travel, by Editor

India Becoming is essential reading for anyone interested in our changing world and the newly emerging global order. It is a riveting narrative that puts the personal into a broad, relevant and revelational context.

Ninety Days: A Memoir of a Recovering Crack Addict by Bill Clegg

On April 24, 2012, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Social Studies, by Editor

Written with uncompromised immediacy, NINETY DAYS begins where Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man ends and tells the wrenching story of Clegg’s battle to reclaim his life. As any recovering addict knows, hitting rock bottom is just the beginning.

In My Father’s Country: An Afghan Woman Defies Her Fate by Saima Wahab

On April 24, 2012, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Social Studies, Travel, by Editor

In My Father’s Country follows Saima Wahab’s amazing transformation from child refugee to nervous Pashtun interpreter to intrepid “human terrain” specialist, venturing with her twenty-five-soldier force pro-tection into isolated Pashtun villages to engage hostile village elders in the first, very frank dialogue they had ever had with the Americans.

The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter–And How to Make the Most of Them Now by Meg Jay

On April 24, 2012, in Book Reviews, Health, Mind & Body, Nonfiction, Social Studies, by Editor

Meg Jay shares what psychologists, sociologists, neurologists, reproductive specialists, human resources executives, and economists know about the unique power of our twenties and how they change our lives. The result is a provocative and sometimes poignant read that shows us why our twenties do matter. Our twenties are a time when the things we do–and the things we don’t do–will have an enormous effect across years and even generations to come.

Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash by Edward Humes

On April 18, 2012, in Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Social Studies, Travel, by Editor

Garbology digs through our epic piles of trash to reveal not just what we throw away, but who we are and where our society is headed. Are we destined to remain the country whose number-one export is scrap—America as China’s trash compactor—or will the country that invented the disposable economy pioneer a new and less wasteful path?

Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics by Ross Douthat

On April 15, 2012, in Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Religious Studies, Social Studies, by Editor

As the youngest-ever op-ed columnist for the New York Times, Ross Douthat has emerged as one of the most provocative and influential voices of his generation. In Bad Religion he offers a masterful and hard-hitting account of how American Christianity has gone off the rails—and why it threatens to take American society with it.

Heaven on Earth: A Journey Through Shari’a Law from the Deserts of Ancient Arabia to the Streets of the Modern Muslim World by Sadakat Kadri

On April 10, 2012, in Book Reviews, History, Nonfiction, Religious Studies, Social Studies, by Editor

Heaven on Earth is a brilliantly iconoclastic tour through one of history’s great collective intellectual achievements, as complex as the religion that brought it to life. The shari‘a continues to shape both explosive political circumstances and the daily life of more than a billion Muslims, and Sadakat Kadri has given us a compelling and clarifying portrait of a changeable world of faith, reason, and justice.

When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God by T.M. Luhrmann

On April 10, 2012, in Book Reviews, Health, Mind & Body, Nonfiction, Religious Studies, Social Studies, by Editor

T. M. Luhrmann, an anthropologist trained in psychology and the acclaimed author of Of Two Minds, explores the extraordinary process that leads some believers to a place where God is profoundly real and his voice can be heard amid the clutter of everyday thoughts.

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