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1 month ago | 
kirkusreviews.com | Alice Roberts |David Grann |Howard Zinn
A lively exploration of how human culture depends on partnerships with the plants and animals we have domesticated. A wide-ranging look at the species that have become our partners in creating human society. Roberts, an academic and author, draws on insights from the fields of history, archaeology, and genetics to trace the stories of her chosen animals and plants and their effect on our lives.
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1 month ago | 
kirkusreviews.com | Omar El Akkad |Howard Zinn
Artist and activist Vaid-Menon demonstrates how the normativity of the gender binary represses creativity and inflicts physical and emotional violence. The author, whose parents emigrated from India, writes about how enforcement of the gender binary begins before birth and affects people in all stages of life, with people of color being especially vulnerable due to Western conceptions of gender as binary.
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1 month ago | 
kirkusreviews.com | Alexander Clapp |Howard Zinn |Walter Isaacson
Alternately admiring and critical, unvarnished, and a closely detailed account of a troubled innovator. A warts-and-all portrait of the famed techno-entrepreneur—and the warts are nearly beyond counting. To call Elon Musk (b. 1971) “mercurial” is to undervalue the term; to call him a genius is incorrect. Instead, Musk has a gift for leveraging the genius of others in order to make things work.
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2 months ago | 
kirkusreviews.com | William von Hippel |Howard Zinn |Walter Isaacson
A thought-provoking look at how to bring balance back into our lives. A breakdown of enduring bonds lies at the root of our discontent, according to this wide-ranging examination.
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2 months ago | 
kirkusreviews.com | Russell Shorto |David Grann |Howard Zinn
Dogged original research and superb narrative skills come together in this gripping account of pitiless evil. During that time, enrolled members of the Osage Indian nation were among the wealthiest people per capita in the world. The rich oil fields beneath their reservation brought millions of dollars into the tribe annually, distributed to tribal members holding "headrights" that could not be bought or sold but only inherited.
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2 months ago | 
kirkusreviews.com | Calvin Schermerhorn |Howard Zinn |Walter Isaacson
A carefully researched work of history that chronicles centuries of injustice while calling for an end to inequality. A historical examination of the origins of the ever-deepening divide between Black and white intergenerational wealth.
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2 months ago | 
kirkusreviews.com | Tamika D. Mallory |Howard Zinn |Alok Vaid-Menon
Artist and activist Vaid-Menon demonstrates how the normativity of the gender binary represses creativity and inflicts physical and emotional violence. The author, whose parents emigrated from India, writes about how enforcement of the gender binary begins before birth and affects people in all stages of life, with people of color being especially vulnerable due to Western conceptions of gender as binary.
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2 months ago | 
kirkusreviews.com | Nathan H. Lents |Howard Zinn |Walter Isaacson
Destined to be a go-to source in future sex and gender debates. Boldly venturing where few cultural warriors dare go: to biological fact. This book is about more than modern relationships; it’s about modern debates over who is male or female and why many people say they’re not the gender they were assigned at birth.
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2 months ago | 
kirkusreviews.com | Natasha Hakimi Zapata |Howard Zinn |Alok Vaid-Menon
Full of lessons for American activists on how to bring enhanced social welfare programs into reality, despite the odds. A tour of progressive countries and their solutions to problems of social issues such as education and health care. An American resident in Europe, Hakimi Zapata tours the world to analyze the ways in which developed nations have enacted programs leading to progress in meeting social needs.
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Dec 28, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Kostya Kennedy |David Grann |Howard Zinn
A skillful separation of truth, legend, and what lies between in a canonical American story. A brisk trot through Paul Revere’s famous ride and the many traces of history surrounding it. That April night in 1775 wasn’t Paul Revere’s first ride nor his last.
