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Citizenville, How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent Government by Former San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom

On May 18, 2013, in Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Political, by Editor

A vision for better government that truly achieves the ancient goal of commonwealth and a triumphant call for individuals to reinvigorate the country with their own two hands, Citizenville is a timely road map for restoring American prosperity and for reinventing citizenship in today’s networked age.

Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing, A Chronicle by Melissa Mohr

On May 15, 2013, in Book Reviews, History, Nonfiction, Social Studies, by Editor

Holy Sh*t tells the story of two kinds of swearing–obscenities and oaths–from ancient Rome and the Bible to today. With humor and insight, Melissa Mohr takes readers on a journey to discover how “swearing” has come to include both testifying with your hand on the Bible and calling someone a *#$&!* when they cut you off on the highway.

Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet and the Spam Business by Finn Brunton

On May 7, 2013, in Book Reviews, Business & Investing, Nonfiction, Social Studies, Technology, by Editor

Spam shows us how technologies, from email to search engines, are transformed by unintended consequences and adaptations, and how online communities develop and invent governance for themselves.

Who Owns the Future? Arguments by the Prophet of Silicon Valley Jaron Lanier

On May 5, 2013, in Book Reviews, Business & Investing, Nonfiction, Social Studies, Technology, by Editor

For decades, Lanier has drawn on his expertise and experience as a computer scientist, musician, and digital media pioneer to predict the revolutionary ways in which technology is transforming our culture. Insightful, original, and provocative, Who Owns the Future? is necessary reading for everyone who lives a part of their lives online.

The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry by Gary Greenberg

On May 2, 2013, in Book Reviews, Health, Mind & Body, Nonfiction, by Editor

For more than two years, author and psychotherapist Gary Greenberg has embedded himself in the war that broke out over the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders—the DSM—the American Psychiatric Association’s compendium of mental illnesses and what Greenberg calls “the book of woe.”

Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition of the “Jewish Question” by David Nirenberg

On April 28, 2013, in Book Reviews, History, Nonfiction, by Editor

A powerful history that shows anti-Judaism to be a central way of thinking in the Western tradition, this incisive history upends the complacency that confines anti-Judaism to the ideological extremes in the Western tradition. With deep learning and elegance, David Nirenberg shows how foundational anti-Judaism is to the history of the West.

Down the Up Escalator: How the 99 Percent Live in the Great Recession by Barbara Garson

On April 28, 2013, in Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Political, Social Studies, by Editor

The Great Recession has thrown huge economic challenges at almost all Americans save the super-affluent few, and we are only now beginning to reckon up the human toll it is taking. Down the Up Escalator is an urgent dispatch from the front lines of our vast collective struggle to keep our heads above water and maybe even—someday—get ahead.

The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe by Marci Shore

On April 27, 2013, in Book Reviews, History, Nonfiction, Political, by Editor

In the tradition of Timothy Garton Ash’s The File, Yale historian and prize-winning author Marci Shore draws upon intimate understanding to illuminate the afterlife of totalitarianism. The Taste of Ashes spans from Berlin to Moscow, moving from Vienna in Europe’s west through Prague, Bratislava, Warsaw and Bucharest to Vilnius and Kiev in the post-communist east.

Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King

On April 25, 2013, in Book Reviews, History, Nonfiction, by Editor

Arguably the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark suit Brown v. Board of Education before the U.S. Supreme Court when he became embroiled in an explosive and deadly case that threatened to change the course of the civil rights movement and cost him his life.

Jane Austen, Game Theorist – Study of Literature and Social Sciences by Michael Suk-Young Chwe

On April 23, 2013, in Book Reviews, History, Nonfiction, Social Studies, by Editor

Game theory–the study of how people make choices while interacting with others–is one of the most popular technical approaches in social science today. But as Michael Chwe reveals in his insightful new book, Jane Austen explored game theory’s core ideas in her six novels roughly two hundred years ago.

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