Why We Cooperate

Michael Tomasello

• Hardcover | Engels | Boston Review Books
• Understanding cooperation as a distinctly human combination of innate and learned behavior. Drop something in front of a two-year-old, and she's likel... Lees meer

A Case for Climate Engineering

David Keith

• Hardcover | Engels | Boston Review Books
• A leading scientist argues that we must consider deploying climate engineering technology to slow the pace of global warming. Climate engineering--whi... Lees meer

The Syria Dilemma

• Hardcover | Engels | Boston Review Books
• Can we stop the bleeding in Syria without its becoming another Iraq? The United States is on the brink of intervention in Syria, but the effect of any... Lees meer

Immigrants and the Right to Stay

Joseph H Carens

• Paperback | Engels | Boston Review Books
• A proposal that immigrants in the United States should be offered a path to legalized status. The Obama administration promises to take on comprehensi... Lees meer

A Constitution for All Times

Pamela S Karlan

• Hardcover | Engels | Boston Review Books
• A prominent lawyer and legal scholar describes her vision of an evolving Constitution, examining current legal issues that range from health care to g... Lees meer

The Men in My Life

Vivian Gornick

• Hardcover | Engels | Boston Review Books
• Gornick on V. S. Naipaul, James Baldwin, George Gissing, Randall Jarrell, H. G. Wells, Loren Eiseley, Allen Ginsberg, Hayden Carruth, Saul Bellow, and... Lees meer

Border Wars

Tom Barry

• Hardcover | Engels | Boston Review Books
• The consequences of political fear-mongering and tough talk on immigration in the American Southwest. The Tea Party and its allies celebrate the rogue... Lees meer

Making Aid Work

Abhijit Vinayak (Ford Foundation Professor of Economics, Massach

• Paperback | Boston Review Books
• An encouraging account of the potential of foreign aid to reduce poverty and a challenge to all aid organizations to think harder about how they spend... Lees meer

Taking Economics Seriously

Dean Baker

• Hardcover | Engels | Boston Review Books
• A leading economist's exploration of what our economic arrangements might look like if we applied basic principles without ideological blinders. There... Lees meer

Africa's Turn?

Edward Miguel

• Hardcover | Engels | Boston Review Books
• Signs of hope in sub-Saharan Africa: modest but steady economic growth and the spread of democracy. By the end of the twentieth century, sub-Saharan A... Lees meer

God and the Welfare State

Lew Daly

• Paperback | Engels | Boston Review Books
• Can religion cure poverty? The first book to explore the ideas about God and government behind the faith-based initiative. When the Bush administratio... Lees meer

Government's Place in the Market

Eliot Spitzer

• Hardcover | Boston Review Books
• In his first book, the former New York governor and current CNN cohost offers a manifesto on the economy and the public interest. Lees meer

Shopping for Good

Dara O'Rourke

• Hardcover | Engels | Boston Review Books
• Where public policy fails, can consumer choices lead the way to more ethical and sustainable production practices? "Buy local," "buy green," "buy orga... Lees meer

Rule of Law, Misrule of Men

Elaine Scarry

• Hardcover | Engels | Boston Review Books
• A passionate call for citizen action to uphold the rule of law when government does not. This book is a passionate call for citizen action to uphold t... Lees meer

The End of the Wild

Stephen M Meyer

• Paperback | Engels | Boston Review Books
• A wake-up call that argues that although it may be too late to save biodiversity, we can take steps to save our ecosystems. With the extinction rate a... Lees meer

Lurching Toward Happiness in America

Claude S Fischer

• Hardcover | Engels | Boston Review Books
• Amid confusing and alarmist media claims about our changing culture, Claude Fischer sets the record straight on social trends in America. The promise ... Lees meer

The End of the Wild

Stephen M. Meyer

• Hardcover | Boston Review Books
• A wake-up call that argues that although it may be too late to save biodiversity, we can take steps to save our ecosystems. Lees meer

Occupy the Future

• Hardcover | Engels | Boston Review Books
• How the Occupy movement has challenged the gap between American principles and American practice--and how we can realize our most cherished ideals. Th... Lees meer

The Road to Democracy in Iran

Akbar Ganji

• Hardcover | Engels | Boston Review Books
• A famous Iranian dissident calls for universal human rights and democracy based on our common humanity. Akbar Ganji, called by some "Iran's most famou... Lees meer

Inventing American History

William Hogeland

• Hardcover | Engels | Boston Review Books
• A historian's call to make the celebration of America's past more honest. American public history--in magazines and books, television documentaries, a... Lees meer

Back to Full Employment

Robert Pollin

• Hardcover | Engels | Boston Review Books
• Why we should put full employment back on the national agenda and how we can summon the political will to achieve it. Full employment used to be an ex... Lees meer

Preparing for Climate Change

Michael D Mastrandrea, Stephen H Schneider

• Hardcover | Engels | Boston Review Books
• Why we should prepare for climate change now by taking anticipatory action in vulnerable regions. Global momentum is building to reduce greenhouse gas... Lees meer

After America's Midlife Crisis

Michael Gecan

• Paperback | Boston Review Books
• A longtime community organizer outlines a way to reverse the fifty-year decline in social mobility and economic progress. Lees meer

Blaming Islam

John R Bowen

• Hardcover | Engels | Boston Review Books
• Why fears about Muslim integration into Western society--propagated opportunistically by some on the right--misread history and misunderstand multicul... Lees meer