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Graduation Gift Guide: 2018 Edition

May 25, 2018

Graduates across the country are heading off to new adventures and new stages of their education or careers. If you’re looking for the perfect book this season for the graduate in your life, check out our graduation gift guide with recommendations from our catalog. Remember that you can always browse our website for more inspiration titles. Read more →

Posted at 03:38 PM in Activism, Adam Eichen, Alex Shoumatoff, American Society, An African American and Latinx History of the United States, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, Angela Saini, Barron H. Lerner, Biography and Memoir, Christopher Emdin, Danielle Ofri, Daring Democracy, Eileen Pollack, Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality, For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood, Frances Moore Lappé, History, History Teaches Us to Resist, In Defense of Women, Inferior, Junk Raft, Lani Guinier, Marcus Eriksen, Mary Frances Berry, Nancy Gertner, Now More Than Ever, Paul Ortiz, Politics and Current Events, Progressive Education, Race and Ethnicity in America, Robert Fried, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Science and Medicine, The Good Doctor, The Only Woman in the Room, The Passionate Teacher, The Wasting of Borneo | | Comments (0)

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The First Dr. Lerner: A Father's Calling to Medicine

June 17, 2015

By Barron H. Lerner In his interview with Terri Gross on NPR's Fresh Air, Barron H. Lerner, author of The Good Doctor, discusses the paternalistic approach his father, a physician, would take with some of his patients. His father would... Read more →

Posted at 05:31 PM in Barron H. Lerner, Biography and Memoir, Science and Medicine, The Good Doctor | | Comments (0)

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Eating and Reading for Chanukah

December 15, 2014

Caitlin Meyer, senior publicist at Beacon Press, has some book recommendations (and a recipe!) just in time for Chanukah. Read more →

Posted at 11:15 AM in Aaron Bobrow-Strain, Barron H. Lerner, Being Both, Danielle Ofri, Erika Janik, Jeannie Marshall, Louise Steinman, Man's Search for Meaning, Marketplace of the Marvelous, Public Health, Medicine, and Science, Religion, Susan Katz Miller, The Crooked Mirror, The Good Doctor, The Lost Art of Feeding Kids, Viktor Frankl, What Doctors Feel, White Bread | | Comments (0)

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Five Books for Fathers (and People Who Have Fathers)

June 11, 2014

As Father’s Day approaches, we’ve been thinking of books we’d recommend to our own fathers. Here are five titles that share a deep interest in the world, or that tell the story of fatherhood itself, with all its memories and complexities and sometime revelations. If your father is anything like ours, we're sure he would take any of these books, find a quiet place to sit, and then read every word. Read more →

Posted at 07:00 PM in American Society, Barron H. Lerner, Before They're Gone, Biography and Memoir, Environment and Conservation, History, Love & Fury, Marcus Rediker, Michael Lanza, Peter Linebaugh, Public Health, Medicine, and Science, Raceball, Richard Blanco, Rob Ruck, The Good Doctor, The Many-Headed Hydra | | Comments (0)

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