Society

Part 4
Collapse. How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by Jared Diamond, Ph.D.
Issues of human environmental impacts today tend to be controversial, and opinions about them tend to fall on a spectrum between two opposite camps. One camp, usually referred to as environmentalist or pro-environment, holds that our current environmental

Part 2
Collapse. How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by Jared Diamond, Ph.D.
But the seriousness of these current environmental problems is vigorously debated. Are the risks greatly exaggerated, or conversely are they underestimated? Does it stand to reason that today's human population of almost seven billion, with our potent

Defining Bohemia; a Diagnosis
Bohemian Manifesto: A Field Guide to Living on the Edge
by Laren Stover
Bohemianism is a way of life, a state of mind, an atmosphere. It is not a trend, it's a timeless movement. It is about living beyond convention. Bohemian Manifesto explores and joyfully celebrates the creativity, the originality, and the splendor

The Opening
Brothel: Mustang Ranch and Its Women
by Alexa Albert, M.D.
When Harvard medical student Alexa Albert conducted a public-health study as the Mustang Ranch brothel in Nevada, the only state in the union where prostitution is legal, neither she nor the brothel could have predicted the end result.

Affirmative Actions, Part 3
Post-Soul Nation: The Explosive, Contradictory, Triumphant, and Tragic 1980s as Experienced by African Americans (Previously Known as Blacks and Before That Negroes)
by Nelson George
At our starting point, black culture is in the mainstream to a degree. There are blacks in sitcoms and on local news. Several major cities have black mayors and desegregation is public policy in all fifty states.

Taking the Lead
Stand For Something: The Battle for America's Soul
by John Kasich
John Kasich calls it like he sees it. A former longtime U.S. congressman, a respected author and popular television host, Kasich has been around the neighborhood a few times.

Affirmative Actions, Part 2
Post-Soul Nation: The Explosive, Contradictory, Triumphant, and Tragic 1980s as Experienced by African Americans (Previously Known as Blacks and Before That Negroes)
by Nelson George
One of the safe assumptions of Post-Soul Nation is that the inventions, phenomena, and fads evolving out of the black community eventually shape the lives of nonblack Americans.

An Uncovered Self
by Kenji Yoshino
In this remarkable and elegant work, acclaimed Yale Law School professor Kenji Yoshino fuses legal manifesto and poetic memoir to call for a redefinition of civil rights in our law and culture.

Affirmative Actions, Part 4
Post-Soul Nation: The Explosive, Contradictory, Triumphant, and Tragic 1980s as Experienced by African Americans (Previously Known as Blacks and Before That Negroes)
by Nelson George
Despite having enjoyed some solo hits, Michael struggled through adolescence as he searched for a grown-up identity (both on vinyl and off). The trick that underlies Off the Wall is how deftly veteran producer Quincy Jones matures the singer

The Great Story of Our Era: Average People Better Off
The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse
by Gregg Easterbrook
Gregg Easterbrook draws upon three decades of wide-ranging research and thinking to make the persuasive assertion that almost all aspects of Western life have vastly improved in the past century - and yet today, most men and women feel less happy

Part 1
Primary Colors; A Novel of Politics
by Joe Klein
A brilliant and penetrating look behind the scenes of modern American politics, Primary Colors is a funny, wise, and dramatic story with characters and events that resemble some familiar, real-life figures.

Are you a cultural creative?
The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World
by Paul H. Ray, Ph.D., Sherry Ruth Anderson, Ph.D.
Do you dislike all the emphasis in modern culture on success and 'making it,' on getting and spending, on wealth and luxury goods? Do you care deeply about the destruction of the environment and would pay higher taxes or prices to clean it up and to stop

The Burden of Southern History
Politics Lost: From RFK to W: How Politicians Have Become Less Courageous and More Interested in Keeping Power than in Doing What's Right for America
by Joe Klein
People on the right are furious. People on the left are livid. And the center isn't holding. There is only one thing on which almost everyone agrees: there is something very wrong in Washington. The country is being run by pollsters.

Which Way to the Promised Land?
Yet A Stranger: Why Black Americans Still Don't Feel at Home
by Deborah Mathis
Forty years after the Civil Rights movement, divisions between white and black America still remain. Whites feel that 'progress' has mostly solved the problem, but blacks know all too well that it has addressed only the surface symptoms of racism.

Prologue
The Running Mate
by Joe Klein
Acclaimed journalist and author Joe Klein returns with another brilliant and slyly subversive novel set in the gladiatorial arena he knows so well: politics in modern-day America. U.S. senator Charlie Martin is a hot political property, dashing, honorable

Prologue
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
by Barack Obama
In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum. One phrase in particular anchored itself in listeners' minds

Part 1
Shutting Out the Sun; How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation
by Michael Zielenziger
The world's second-wealthiest country, Japan once seemed poised to overtake America as the leading global economic powerhouse. But the country failed to recover from the staggering economic collapse of the early 1990s.

Through the Looking Glass
The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values
by Tammy Bruce
If you believe children should be seduced into warped sexual behavior by the Gay Elite, if you think confessed murderers should be set free by defense attorneys who know how to wield the race card, if you feel promiscuous gay men should be empowered

Introduction
Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World
by Bill Clinton
Here, from Bill Clinton, is a call to action. Giving is an inspiring look at how each of us can change the world. First, it reveals the extraordinary and innovative efforts now being made by companies and organizations - and by individuals