Book Reviews
Politics & Current Events
Gathering Strength: Conversations With Afghan Women
Book Reviews, IR Approved, Nonfiction, Politics & Current Events, Women's Studies •
IR Staff •
Jan 08, 2013
Peggy Kelsey’s book “Gathering Strength” lifts the veils from all of Afghanistan’s female population through conversations with a cross-section of Afghan women from her visits to the country in 2003 and 2010. Read On
Justice in America: How it Works – How it Fails
Book Reviews, IR Approved, Nonfiction, Politics & Current Events •
IR Staff •
Jul 03, 2012
It doesn’t take much to realize when someone has “wronged” us. Yet Russell F. Moran’s Justice in America: How it Works – How it Fails examines how our simplest instinct – the ability to identify right from wrong – isn’t always so simple in the eyes of the law. Read On
Death with Dignity
Book Reviews, eBooks, Memoir, Nonfiction, Politics & Current Events •
Amy Edelman •
Jun 13, 2012
Death with Dignity is author Robert Orfali’s passionate and persuasive argument for legalized physician-assisted dying, based on personal opinion and experience and extensive research into the debates and issues revolving around this controversial issue. Read On
They Cooked the Books by Patrick M. Edwards
Book Reviews, Business, eBooks, Humor, Kirkus Reviewed, Nonfiction, Politics & Current Events •
Kirkus Reviews •
Oct 24, 2011
Edwards presents a novel approach to the financial debacle by analyzing the expressions we’ve come to associate with fraud and dishonesty. Read On
Justice in America: How it Works – How it Fails by Russell F. Moran
Book Reviews, Books, eBooks, Kirkus Reviewed, Nonfiction, Politics & Current Events •
Kirkus Reviews •
The goddess of justice is blind and deaf and very often dumb, according to this savvy critique of the American legal system. Read On
The Secret Peace: Exposing the Positive Trend of World Events
Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Politics & Current Events •
IR Staff •
Feb 04, 2011
Despite wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, continuing conflict in the Middle East, and such horrendous events as 911, author Jesse Richards presents the boldly optimistic theory that the world is actually moving away from war and violence toward unity and peace.
