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End of Life

A Book Review of Amy Ziettlow and Naomi Cahn, Homeward Bound: Modern Families, Elder Care, and Loss (2017)

If you are looking for a deeper understanding of elder care at the end of life, this book, Amy Ziettlow and Naomi Cahn, Homeward Bound: Modern Families, Elder Care, and Loss

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The New Jim Crow

Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2012) is an angry and illuminating description of the current…

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Animal Minds

A Book Review of Barbara King, Personalities on the Plate: The Lives and Minds of Animals We Eat (2017)

At every meal, we choose who lives and who dies.  This is a fact at every meal, three times per day for most of us. … This eating experience may be…

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Death Dinners

A Book Review of Michael Hebb, Let’s Talk about Death Over Dinner: An Invitation and Guide to Life’s Most Important Conversation (2018)

Talking about the universal human experience of death is a good thing.  In the new book, Michael Hebb, Let’s Talk about Death Over Dinner: An Invitation and Guide to Life’s…

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The International, but Not Universal, Criminal Court

A Review of J. Freedman, A Conviction in Question: The First Trial at the International Criminal Court (2018)

This book offers us the dramatic story of the first trial in the International Criminal Court (ICC) at the Hague.  The defendant Lubanga was a warlord in the Congo, charged with doing bad things.  Lubanga was convicted of some bad things…

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