By Gary Younge Nation Books, $26.99, 256 pages This book looks at the way identity is found in society. The main question addressed in this book is not whether we have identities but whether we are prepared to recognize them. The …
By Jeffrey G. Madrick Knopf, $30.00, 465 pages In the 1950s and 1960s America created financial, social and economic reforms. During the Depression and the 1940s, one saw the development of the war. Further, in the 1950s, America built highways, allowed …
By Alice Waters Clarkson Potter, $55.00, 304 pages It has been a distinct pleasure for this reviewer to have eaten on numerous occasions in Berkeley’s famed Chez Panisse restaurant. As a word of note, several weeks ago this writer participated in …
By Ronald Kessler Crown, $26.00, 296 pages Robert Kessler, a New York Times best-selling author, draws on hundreds of interviews with FBI agents to disclose the bureau’s inner workings and most closely guarded secrets, including the secrets of celebrities like Marilyn Monroe …
By William J. Holstein Walker & Company, $26.00, 256 pages Part one of this outstanding book provides case studies of Pittsburgh and its attempt to advance robot technology; Orlando, Florida and its simulation boom; and San Diego’s genomics industry, with its impact …
By Joe Lieberman, David Klinghoffer Howard Books, $22.00, 240 pages Joe Lieberman, the United States senator from Connecticut, and David Klinghoffer, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute in Seattle, show how ceasing all activity, including work, for a weekly Sabbath …
By Morley Winograd, Michael D. Hais Rutgers University Press, $26.95, 327 pages This outstanding book looks at the behavior and attitudes of the Millennial Generation (born 1982-2003) who were decisive in the outcome of the 2008 elections. It is pointed out that …
By Ralph Metzner Regent Press, $25.00, 134 pages In this book, Dr. Ralph Metzner, a leading scholar in studies of consciousness and transformation discusses the experience of birth and of prenatal life, the soul’s choosing human incarnation and its connection to …
By Steve Forbes, Elizabeth Ames Crown Business, $15.00, 378 pages ISBN 9780307463104 In this book the authors show that when free people in free markets have the energy to solve problems by meeting the needs and wants of others they …
By Jana Riess Paraclete Press, $16.99, 191 pages ISBN 9781557256607 In a quest to become more saintly, the author looks at 12 different spiritual practices such as fasting, gratitude, Sabbath keeping, the Jesus Prayer and fixed-hour practice. While she begins …
By Michael Hiltzik Free Press, $30.00, 448 pages Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael Hiltzik demonstrates that the New Deal was not solely created in the mind of FDR but was the work of an inner circle of incredible advisers. Briefly, some of the …
