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Ethical Culture Review of Books

Welcome to the Ethical Culture Review of Books, reviews written by members and friends of the Ethical Culture Society of Bergen County and, we hope soon, by members and friends of Ethical Culture societies nationwide. We invite your comments on any review.

We also invite original reviews, not yet published, of current books for consideration. For details and a copy of the author guidelines, please send an email to [email protected].

Editorial Board: Ethical Culture Society of Bergen County members Marc Bernstein, who is also former archivist for the American Ethical Union; Joseph Chuman, leader of the Society, and Theresa Forsman.

The Fertile Crescent: Gender, Art, and Society

February 22, 2013

Authors: Judith K. Brodsky and Ferris Olin (2012, Rutgers University Institute for Women and Art) Reviewed by Doris Friedensohn         Timing, as we know, is (almost) everything. This is the case […]

Thanks! How the New Science of Gratitude Can Make You Happier

February 10, 2013

  Author: Robert Emmons (2007, Houghton Mifflin) Reviewed by Marc Bernstein             I discovered Robert Emmons’ book, Thanks! How the New Science of Gratitude Can Make You Happier, at a difficult moment […]

In This Timeless Time

January 24, 2013

  Authors: Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian (2012, University of North Carolina Press) Reviewed by Theresa Forsman                 If there are fates worse than death, spending decades in a cage […]

True Wealth

January 24, 2013

Author: Juliet Schor (2011, Penguin Group; titled Plenitude in hardcover, which was published by the Center for a New American Dream in 2010) Reviewed by Theresa Forsman                Change or die. […]

Global Weirdness: Severe Storms, Deadly Heat Waves, Relentless Drought, Rising Seas, and the Weather of the Future

January 22, 2013

  Author: Climate Central (2012, Pantheon Books, a division of Random House)   Reviewed by Theresa Forsman         Ideally, science and journalism are non-partisan. Ideally, discussions about global warming are also […]

Not Working: The Stories Behind the Unemployment Statistics

January 6, 2013

  Author D.W. Gibson (2012, Penguin Books) Reviewed by Theresa Forsman          More than 12 million Americans are unemployed today. That’s 12 million stories of being laid off, fired, riffed […]

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