At Issue Book List
(January 2009-Present)
Crash Course - The American Automobile Industry's Road From Glory to Disaster
Paul Ingrassia
Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
Michael Pollan
Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
Wade Davis
Inside Obama's Brain
Sasha Abramsky
Schneier on Security
Bruce Schneier
Say Goodbye To Your PDI (Personality Disordered Individual): Recognize People Who Make You Miserable and Eliminate Them From Your Life For Good
Stanley Kapuchinski
A World Without Ice
Henry Pollack
Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily After
Bella M. DePaulo
The Role of Psychological Resources in the Affective Well-Being of Never-Married Adults
Jamila Bookwala
You Don’t Have To Be Wrong For Me To Be Right: Finding Faith Without Fanaticism
Rabbi Brad Hirschfield
Buy Ketchup in May and Fly at Noon: A Guide to the Best Time to Buy This, Do that, and Go There
Mark Di Vincenzo
101 Facts about Bullying: What Everyone Should Know
Meline Kevorkian
Handbook of The Evolving Research of Transformative Learning
Kathleen P. King
A New New Deal: How Regional Activism Will Reshape The American Labor Movement
Amy B. Dean
Weird Wisconsin
Linda Godfrey
Life With Sudden Death: A Tale of Moral Hazard and Medical Misadventure
Michael Downing
The Jobs Deficit: The Challenge of Puting America Back to Work
Leo Hindery
Aqua Shock: The Water Crisis in America
Susan J . Marks
Post Secret: Confessions on Life, Death, and God
Frank Warren
Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives
Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler
We: The Ideal Customer Relationship
Steve Yastrow
Simply An Inspired Life: Consciously Choosing Unbounded Happiness in Good Times & Bad
Maryanne Radmacher
Understanding the Palestinian –Israeli Conflict: A Primer
Phyllis Bennis
Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!
Ralph Nader
Crisscrossing America: Discovering America from the Road
John Gussenhoven
Homeland Insecurity: The Arab American and Muslim American Experience After 9/11
Louise A. Cainkar
The Anti-Intellectual Presidency: The Decline of Presidential Rhetoric From George Washington to George W. Bush
Elvin Lim
God Never Blinks: 50 Lessons for Life’s Little Detours
Regina Brett
What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20: A Crash Course on Making Your Place in the World
Tina Seelig
Threshold: The Crisis of Western Culture
Thom Hartmann
Traffic: Why We Drive The Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
Tom Vanderbilt
The Science of Fear: Why We Fear the Things We Shouldn't--and Put Ourselves in Greater Danger
Daniel Gardner
Don't Know Much About Literature: What You Need to Know but Never Learned About Great Books and Authors
Kenneth Davis
When Generations Collide: Who They Are. Why They Clash. How to Solve the Generational Puzzle at Work.
David Stillman
Breadline USA: The Hidden Scandal of American Hunger and How to Fix It
Sasha Abramsky
Why It’s Hard To Be Good
Al Gini
So Sexy, So Soon: The New Sexualized Childhood and What Parents Can Do To Protect Their Kids
Jean Kilbourne
Voices From the Moon: Apollo Astronauts Describe Their Lunar Experiences
Andrew Chaikin
The Parents We Mean To Be: How Well Intentioned Adults Undermine Children’s Moral and Emotional Development
Richard Weissbourd
Beyond Sovereignty: Issues for a Global Agenda
Maryann Love
You've Come a Long Way Baby: Women, Politics, and Popular Culture
Lilly Goren
The Anti-Intellectual Presidency: The decline of Presidential Rhetoric from George Washington to George W. Bush
Elvin Lim
Founders: The People Who Brought You a Nation
Ray Raphael
Finding the Movement: Sexuality, Contested Space, and Feminist Activism
Anne Enke
The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart
Bill Bishop
Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin
Norah Vincent
Cul-de-Sac Syndrome: Turning Around the Unsustainable American Dream
John Wasik
The Tyranny of Oil
Antonia Juhasz
Oversuccess: Healing the American Obession with Wealth, Fame, Power, and Perfection
Jim Rubens
Sports and Their Fans
Kevin Quinn
Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior
Geoffrey Miller
Solemate: Master the Art of Aloneness & Transform Your Life
Lauren Mackler
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
Jane Mayer
What To Read When
Pam Allyn
The Ultimate Depression Survival Guide
Martin D. Weiss
100 Best Business Books
Jack Covert and Todd Sattersten
The Happiness Factor: How to be Happy no Matter What!
Kirk Wilkinson
Wired For War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century
P.W. Singer
A Job Hunter’s Guide: The ABC’s of Job Hunting and the 1,2,3’s of Nailing It!
Vicki Causa
The Unwritten Rules of Baseball
Paul Dickson
The Homework Myth: Why Our Kids Get Too Much of a Bad Thing
Alfie Kohn
The Roads That Built America: The Incredible Story of the U.S. Interstate System
Dan McNichol
Longing and Belonging: Parents, Children, and Consumer Culture
Allison Pugh
Elsewhere, U.S.A
Dalton Conley
The New Old Economy: Networks, Institutions and the Organizational Transformation of American Manufacturing
Josh Whitford
The Ethics Recession: Reflections on the Moral Underpinnings of the Current Economic Crisis
Rushworth Kidder
Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush’s War Cabinet
James Mann
Degunking Your Personal Finances
Shannon Plate
In Lincoln's Hand: His Original Manuscripts
Joshua Wolf Shenk
The Power of Less – The Fine Art of Limiting Yourself to the Essential…in Business and in Life
Leo Babauta
The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America
David Hajdu
A Cinema of Loneliness: Penn, Stone, Kubrick, Scorsese, Spielberg, Altman and Film, Form, and Culture
Robert Kolker
The World Is Fat: The Fads, Trends, Policies, and Products That Are Fattening the Human Race
Barry Popkin
Winter Blues: Everything You Need to Know to Beat Seasonal Affective Disorder
Norman Rosenthal
After the Taliban: Life and Security in Rural Afghanistan
Neamat Nojumi
Small Pleasures – Finding Grace in a Chaotic World
Justine Toms
What Would You Do If You Ran the World?
Shelly Rachanow
Fellow Citizens: The Penguin Book of U.S. Presidential Inaugural Addresses
Terry Golway and Robert Remini
Nobody's Baby Now: Reinventing Your Adult Relationship with Your Mother and Father
Susan Newman
Trading With The Enemy: A Yankee Travels Through Castro’s Cuba
Tom Miller
