Civil Society - Book Reviews

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

Ex Mex

Review By Catherine DiBenedetto

Winter 2008

Review: Blessed Unrest

Review By Catherine DiBenedetto

The human spirit endures in grassroots activism.

Fall 2007

Review: The Trap

Review By Frances Kunreuther

Where have all the public servants gone?

Fall 2007

Review: A Gift of Freedom

Review By Bruce Sievers

How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America.

Spring 2006

Review: Civic Revolutionaries

Review By Dawn Ibis

Cross-sector collaboration is the key to community revitalization.

Review: A Company of Citizens

Review By Heidi Natkin

The answers to a motivated workforce may lie in ancient Greece.