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Life After Doom: Wisdom and Courage for a World Falling Apart

By Brian D. McLaren. St. Martin’s Essentials, 2024. 304 pages. $28/hardcover; $14.99/eBook. This book starts out with doom. As was…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

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

Nothing Lowly in the Universe: An Integral Approach to the Ecological Crisis

By Jennie M. Ratcliffe. Crundale Press, 2019. 348 pages. $27/paperback. Jennie Ratcliffe takes on an ambitious project in her quest…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

Energy Choices AND Toward a Life-Centered Economy

By Robert Bruninga, with Judy Lumb, Frank Granshaw, and Charles Blanchard. Quaker Institute for the Future (Focus Book 11), 2018. 117 pages. $15/paperback; free PDF available at quakerinstitute.org.

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

The Making of a Democratic Economy: Building Prosperity for the Many, Not Just the Few

By Marjorie Kelly and Ted Howard. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2019. 192 pages. $26.95/hardcover or eBook.

Reviewed by Pamela Haines.

Backlash: What Happens When We Talk Honestly about Racism in America

By George Yancy. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 180 pages. $19.95/hardcover; $18.99/eBook.

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

Healing Earth: An Ecologist’s Journey of Innovation and Environmental Stewardship

By John Todd. North Atlantic Books, 2019. 200 pages. $24.95/paperback; $17.99/eBook.

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals

By Sy Montgomery, illustrated by Rebecca Green. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018. 208 pages. $20/hardcover; $9.99/eBook. A memoir has the power…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines