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Finding Your Treasure: Our Family's Mission to Recycle, Reuse, and Give Back Everything--And How You Can Too
Book Review by Gabbi Cisneros
Angel Williams is committed to sharing wealth with others by donating useful items, living a more sustainable life, and inspiring others to join her in this journey.
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The Essential Kerner Commission Report
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Jelani Cobb reintroduces us to a neglected report commissioned by Lyndon B. Johnson in the 1960s about unrest in American cities—and issues of economic inequality, race, and policing that created them—that is both sadly relevant and illuminating to us today.
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Blog / New Releases
Books to Watch | July 20, 2021
By Dylan Schleicher, Gabbi Cisneros, Emily Porter
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Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings
By Porchlight
Earl Swift rediscovers the final three Apollo Moon landings, arguing that these overlooked missions—distinguished by the use of the revolutionary Lunar Roving Vehicle—were the pinnacle of human exploration.
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The Devil You Know: Stories of Human Cruelty and Compassion
Book Review by Gabbi Cisneros
Dr. Gwen Adshead offers an honest and profound look at what it takes to unpack violence in individual situations rather than from statistics, and how the work she puts into it teaches her about her own mind and emotions too.
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New Women in the Old West : From Settlers to Suffragists, an Untold American Story
Book Review by Emily Porter
Winifred Gallagher paints a picture of a hostile migration landscape with women—settlers who were White, Black and Asian—coming into their own, laying down the foundation for equal rights for generations to come—while uprooting the lives of Native Americans and Hispanic peoples.
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Toxic Legacy: An Urgent Warning about Glyphosate In Our Food Supply
By Stephanie Seneff
The goal of my book is to convince anyone who eats, anyone who has children, and anyone who cares about the health of humans and the planet that we need to look much more closely and much more carefully at the impact of glyphosate on and beyond the food supply.
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The Cult of We: Wework, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell ask if WeWork was "an outlier, or was it simply the most vivid example of a cultural rot that had formed within twenty-first-century entrepreneurial and investment culture?"
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Blog / New Releases
Books to Watch | July 13, 2021
By Dylan Schleicher, Gabbi Cisneros, Emily Porter
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Becoming Heroines: Unleashing Our Power for Revolution and Rebirth
Book Review by Gabbi Cisneros
Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin has effectively compiled her experience as CEO of Gaia Project Consulting, LLC, with personal traumas and accomplishments throughout her life, crafting a book that perfectly balances vulnerability and instruction.
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