By Michael Lewis
Norton
352 pages
$13.95
“Lewis has made a habit of writing about sport recently, but sport is really only a subtext for a much more meaningful examination of class and race. I wept at the end, something I have not done at the end of a work of non-fiction for a very long time.”
—Malcolm Gladwell, The Observer Books of the Year 2006
By Robert B. Talisse
Cambridge University Press
216 pages
$90
“Robert Talisse has provided us with a timely, original, and unapologetic defense of constitutional democracy. It is, he says, the only form of government suited to persons who are already committed in their everyday lives to giving reasons for their beliefs. Artfully blending careful philosophical analysis with contemporary illustrations and accessible prose, Democracy and Moral Conflict makes an authentically democratic and powerfully reasoned case for democracy.”
—John C. P. Goldberg, Professor of Law, Harvard University
By Marc J. Hetherington and Jonathan D. Weiler
Cambridge University Press
246 pages
$24.99
“What makes this book genuinely impressive is that it remains grounded at all times in hard empirical evidence while simultaneously advancing provocative arguments about America’s political conflicts (including a certain-to-be-controversial chapter devoted to the role which authoritarianism played in the Clinton/Obama war). … I really recommend this book.”
—Glenn Greenwald, Salon
By the Editors of The Bark
Rodale
192 pages
$16.99
“Sometimes the best moments in human relationships are the ones in which we have the self-restraint to say nothing at all, to demonstrate our love and our joy instead of trying to break down the experience and reshape it into words. This is the genius of dogs, one of the many geniuses of dogs—they have the nonverbal-expression thing down cold. And if we’re reading too much into everything they’re not saying, then so be it. They’ll forgive us. They always do.”
—Ann Patchett, from the foreword to Dog Joy
By Steve Elder
WinePress Publishing
152 pages
$15.99
“Steve Elder writes with such “down to earth” candor that you get caught up in his story. Then you realize it is not so different from yours. His humorous, introspective and honest approach is refreshing and challenging. We need men who will be honest about their humanity. Men who aren’t afraid to laugh at themselves and talk about their mistakes and the lessons learned. Steve is one of those guys, and he speaks the refreshing language of an authentic heart in a way that invites you right in—to his story and yours.”
—Russ Lee, recording artist and lead singer of Newsong
When Paul Matthew Turner left his home in Virginia to attend Nashville’s Belmont University, he didn’t know what he was in for. Compared to his fundamentalist childhood, Belmont was a devil’s playground where plaid-shirted hipsters smoked clove cigarettes and listened to Amy Grant. Like a spiritual version of High Fidelity, Hear No Evil describes the way music helped Turner come to terms with this more-worldly version of the Christian faith. With a sly sense of humor and a mid-nineties soundtrack playing in his head, Turner discovers that Christianity is less a series of proscriptions than it is a way of living in a sometimes far-from-perfect world.
