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Following are some books that I recommend. For more information, click the title of any that interest you.
Reflecting on our turbulent times, Senator Bernie Sanders takes on the billionaire class and speaks blunt truths about our country’s failure to address the destructive nature of a system that is fueled by uncontrolled greed and rigidly committed to prioritizing corporate profits over the needs of ordinary Americans.
Pico Iyer takes us on a journey through competing ideas of paradise to see how we can live more peacefully in an ever more divided and distracted world.
Is our democracy in danger? Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt have spent more than twenty years studying the breakdown of democracies in Europe and Latin America, and they believe the answer is yes.
Part dream, part real, part memoir, Deena Metzger’s La Vieja blurs the boundaries between human consciousness and animal consciousness, of imagination and reality, to create a “Journal of Fire,” a recording of the process of living with the constant threat of the destruction of the natural world.
Historian Karen J. Greenberg describes how policies forged after September 11 were weaponized under Trump and turned on American democracy itself
Valeria Aloe’s Uncolonized Latinas: Transforming our Mindsets and Rising Together lays out a detailed map of the Latino mindset and what is holding the community back from achieving its highest potential.
Russell Bishop’s From Self-Talk to Soul-Talk: Becoming More of Who You Truly Are offers a profound yet practical guide for living your best life, to living a Soul-Centered life and a practical framework from which we can learn and grow.
In this short primer, Gorski and Perry explain what white Christian nationalism is; when it first emerged and how it has changed; where it’s headed and why it threatens democracy.
Anthony R. DiMaggio explores how rising fascism has infiltrated U.S. politics and explores social movements such as Antifa and Black Lives Matter for mobilizing the public.
#1 New York Times bestseller, The 1619 Project is a wide-ranging, landmark summary of the Black experience in America: searing, exploring every aspect of slavery and its continuing legacy, in which being white or Black affects everything from how you fare in courts and hospitals and schools to the odds that your neighborhood will be bulldozed for a freeway.