Civic Engagement - Book Reviews

People Power

Review By Peter Walker

Join the Club: How Peer Pressure Can Transform the World by Tina Rosenberg

Spring 2011

One Nation Under Gods

Review By Rhys H. Williams

American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us by Robert D. Putnam & David E. Campbell

Spring 2011

Come on up to the Rising

Review By Jonathan D. Greenberg

A PARADISE BUILT IN HELL: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit

Summer 2010

Faith Tempered by Reality

Review By Robert Wineburg

GOD’S ECONOMY: Faith-Based Initiatives and the Caring State by Lew Daly

Summer 2010

Lessons from an Organizer

Review By Hahrie Han

CREATIVE COMMUNITY ORGANIZING: A Guide for Rabble-Rousers, Activists, and Quiet Lovers of Justice by Si Kahn

Summer 2010

A Mandarin’s Lament

Review By Doug Bauer 12

SMALL CHANGE: Why Business Won't Save the World by Michael Edwards

Spring 2010

Inequality Makes Us Anxious

Review By David B. Grusky 3

THE SPIRIT LEVEL: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger by Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett

Spring 2010

Social Innovations

Women Hold Both Sky and Solutions

Review By Kavita Nandini Ramdas 3

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Sheryl WuDunn and Nicholas Kristof

Winter 2010

An Environmental Provocateur

Review By Denis Hayes 2

Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto by Stewart Brand

Winter 2010

Review: Giving

Review By Paul Collier

The former president shares how ordinary citizens are helping to solve our big problems.

Spring 2008