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October 2022 Books

The Future We Need: Organizing for a Better Democracy in the Twenty-First Century

By Erica Smiley and Sarita Gupta. ILR Press, 2022. 276 pages. $125/hardcover; $24.95/paperback; $16.99/eBook. We can paint U.S. workers with…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

March 2022 Books

Just Money: Mission-Driven Banks and the Future of Finance

By Katrin Kaufer and Lillian Steponaitis. MIT Press, 2021. 192 pages. $17.95/paperback; $13.99/eBook. I was attracted to this book for…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

February 2022 Books

The World We Need: Stories and Lessons from America’s Unsung Environmental Movement

Edited by Audrea Lim. The New Press, 2021. 352 pages. $19.99/paperback or eBook. This collection of stories about local citizen…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

January 2021 Books

All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis

Edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson. One World, 2020. 448 pages. $29/hardcover; $18/paperback; $13.99/eBook. This collection of…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

War Taxes and Other Matters of Conscience

Thanks for the March issue, which I’ve finally completed. And thanks to Nadine Hoover, New York Yearly Meeting, and others…

Pamela Haines

November 2021 Books

A Small Farm Future: Making the Case for a Society Built Around Local Economies, Self-Provisioning, Agricultural Diversity, and a Shared Earth

By Chris Smaje. Chelsea Green Publishing, 2020. 320 pages. $22.50/paperback or eBook. It is written in Proverbs: “Where there is…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

June/July 2021 Books

The Reindeer Chronicles and Other Inspiring Stories of Working with Nature to Heal the Earth

By Judith D. Schwartz. Chelsea Green Publishing, 2020. 256 pages. $17.95/paperback or eBook. Could land restoration play a significant role…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

A Correspondence on Economics

Pamela (December 13, 2001) I’m puzzling, as usual, over what to do with all I know about what’s wrong in…

Walter Haines

February 2021 Books

When Should Law Forgive?

By Martha Minow. W.W. Norton & Company, 2019. 256 pages. $27.95/hardcover; $17.95/paperback or eBook. When Should Law Forgive? is like…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

January 2021 Books

The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature

By Sue Stuart-Smith. Scribner, 2020. 352 pages. $28/hardcover; $14.99/eBook. I stepped into this book ready to be supported in my…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines