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Blog / News & Opinion
Jack Covert | 1944-2021
By Porchlight
The man who founded and led our company for more than three decades has died. He was loved, and will be missed, but he will not be forgotten, as his example and legacy live on in everything we do.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / New Releases
Books to Watch | August 17, 2021
By Dylan Schleicher, Gabbi Cisneros, Emily Porter
Categories: new-releases
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Blog / Book Giveaways
The Power of Nothing to Lose: The Hail Mary Effect in Politics, War, and Business
By Porchlight
For fans of Malcolm Gladwell and Dan Ariely, noted economics professor William L. Silber explores the Hail Mary effect, from its origins in sports to its applications to history, nature, politics, and business.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Staff Picks
Still Mad: American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination
Book Review by Gabbi Cisneros
Second-wave feminism may have been guided by the women's liberation movement of the seventies, but its continuation is sustained and shaped by each of us.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / Staff Picks
The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for an Inspired Life
Book Review by Emily Porter
In her new book, The Awakened Brain, Miller shares the results of the scientific research she has conducted finding that individuals with a spiritual or religious belief or practice have happier and healthier lives, as well as healthier brains.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / Staff Picks
I Left My Homework in the Hamptons: What I Learned Teaching the Children of the One Percent
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
The pressures associated with poverty and discrimination are more widespread, and more urgent, but that doesn’t mean that the pressures placed on more privileged children aren’t a problem or that they don’t have societal consequences—or that they shouldn't be talked about.
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Blog / ChangeThis
Debunking and Dismantling Disempowering Beliefs
By Shirley Davis
Overcoming our disempowering beliefs isn’t easy. It takes a significant amount of work, introspection, and time. Moreover, it isn’t a “one and done.” You don’t just go through this process once and be finished with it. Rather, it’s an ongoing process of steps that we must revisit over and over. We must, therefore, commit ourselves to long-term change.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / Staff Picks
Paradise : One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire
Book Review by Emily Porter
When the fires cease and the ash settles, the towns and those who have survived pick up the pieces and look to a future after surviving an American wildfire. Johnson shows the destruction, trauma, and the stress these fires put on the land, and on the families who live in areas that come within the fire’s path.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / New Releases
Books to Watch | August 10, 2021
By Dylan Schleicher, Gabbi Cisneros, Emily Porter
Categories: new-releases
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Blog / Staff Picks
Eloquence of the Sardine: Extraordinary Encounters Beneath the Sea
Book Review by Gabbi Cisneros
Eloquence of the Sardine is meant to intrigue, to entertain, and to inspire any sort of interest in the ocean and its creatures. It counters the out of sight, out of mind indifference we usually treat them with by opening our eyes to their world.
Categories: staff-picks