Shelf Help: ‘Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age’
Our phones are hurting our ability to truly know one another and ourselves.
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Shelf Help: ‘Strangers Drowning: Grappling With Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help’
Gripping portraits of extreme do-gooders.
Shelf Help: ‘The Wrong Hands: Popular Weapons Manuals and Their Historic Challenges to a Democratic Society’
The aura of deviance around mayhem manuals.
Shelf Help: ‘Enabling Acts: The Hidden Story of How the Americans With Disabilities Act Gave the Largest U.S. Minority Its Rights’
We see its effects everywhere, even if we don't acknowledge them.
Shelf Help: ‘Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men’
Is it possible that, for white men, sex with other men can function as the ultimate re-affirmation of straightness and privilege?
Shelf Help: ‘The Twilight of Human Rights Law’
Are our human rights initiatives too abstract and ineffective?
Shelf Help: ‘The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy’
Is oversimplification really the solution?
Shelf Help: ‘Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy’
Melvin Konner makes the case for female dominance.
Where the Impulse to Suck Smoke Remains Strong
Where are college students and the mentally ill most likely to pick up a cigarette habit?