Review:This book puts a face on poverty by dissecting the complex web of cause/effect, following personal stories of American families. "Not just low wages but also low education, not just dead-end jobs but also limited abilities, not just insufficient savings but also unwise spending, not just poor housing but also poor parenting, not just lack of health insurance but also lack of healthy households. (p285)"

Poverty is a constellation of problems, none of which exist in a vacuum. "A job alone... Read more

Review:Having read several of Barbara Ehrenreich's previous works, and intrigued by the subject, I was delighted to be able to review this book. I was not disappointed.

Having been diagnosed with stage 3 cancer at Christmas 6 and a half years ago and being told I would most likely not live to see summer, I once faced the prospect of death head on, and Ms. Ehrenreich's book, especially the first sections, echoed many of the thoughts I had at the time. Why are we spending so much of our precious t... Read more

Review:Exculpating Hillary Clinton was/is a complete abuse of power but needed to be done to get her elected. Failing to do that, Greg Jarrett lays out the plot to derail Presidents Trump's agenda, the steps taken to perpetrate the collusion hoax with hopes in using it to unseat our duly elected president. Read more

Review:Hotep!
I read this book about three years ago, I was sixteen at the time and was just starting to enter a Afrikan - centered process. ONe in which allowed me to understand my people and know my history). I was Christian. I went to some of the best Catholic schools New York had to offer, so I knew European history. Though when it came to Afrikan history, I didn't even know who Frederick Douglass was. So I went along in my process, but I was still in denial that my people had such a great his... Read more

Review:This is a thrilling, sometimes repetitious, but ultimately rewarding book. And while this is the first one I have read by Ken Wilber, it will certainly not be the last.

"A Brief History of Everything" is structured dialogically, a series of interviews in which Wilber plays both himself and his interlocutor. The structure is both accommodating and sophisticated: one the one hand, the dialogues create a conversational tone, and this makes Wilber's ideas more readily accessible to a general ... Read more

Review:The book ends with serious prescriptions on how to resurrect the GOP from its currently moribund Trumpian state. The book reaches that point with an immensely entertaining analysis of the current presidential administration in the USA. If you're interested in politics, this book is must-read. Read more

Review:Definitely a different view on life. Great in theory but I would personally find it unsettling to know my wife has a diary and a roster for a whole series of lovers.
Good reading though; and one I enjoyed. (this is not a review, but just my impression) Read more

Review:This book is an entertaining look at the making of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" that has you feeling like you're on the scene. However, there are a couple of minor problems, which is why I gave it four stars instead of five. First, the photographs included are, in my opinion, poor choices. In particular, the photo of Patricia Neal shows barely half of a side view of her; she's almost not in the photo at all. Second, it would have been very helpful to have an appendix that told what happened to t... Read more

Review:This book is phenomenal. I have read many books on ethical poly and open relationships and I could happily throw them all away now and just read this. My only complaint is that I wish they would write another book for monogamous people because the principles they lay out are transformative for anyone no matter what your relationship style. I recommend this book to all my mono friends now but of course many of them are turned off by the emphasis on poly Read more

Review:Written over 2300 years ago, this cornerstone of political philosophy retains an astonishing degree of relevancy and applicability to the modern world. The prose takes the form of a friendly debate (with occasional humorous excursions into antagonism when Thrasymachus takes offense a few times) between four or five men, ostensibly on elucidating the nature of justice. Well, besides discussing justice, Plato launches into a description of his ideal state along with a somewhat comprehensive anal... Read more