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| In Review :: From Raising Hell to Raising Barns - Summer 2008 |
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| Jonathan Rowe reviews Jim Hightower's new book. Also find an excerpt of the book and listen to Jim Hightower read a chapter. |
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| In Review :: Toxic Exposures - Summer 2008 |
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| Steve Heilig reviews Phil Brown's book on contested illnesses and the environmental movement. |
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| In Review :: Shopping Our Way to Safety - Summer 2008 |
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| Andrew Szasz raises uncomfortable issues in his latest book on how we changed from protecting the environment to protecting ourselves. |
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| In Review :: Beyond Prisons - Spring 2008 |
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| Carol Estes reviews Magnani and Wray's Beyond Prisons: a fascinating, imaginative approach to reinventing criminal justice. |
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| In Review :: Remembering Tomorrow - Spring 2008 |
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| Jen Angel reviews Michael Albert's new memoir, Remembering Tomorrow: From SDS to Life After Capitalism. |
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| In Review :: The Revolution Will Not Be Funded - Spring 2008 |
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| James Trimarco reviews INCITE's The Revolutions Will Not be Funded. Women of Color Against Violence challenge the no-profit model of social action and propose thoughtful alternative strategies. |
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| In Review :: Climate Crisis and New Energy - Winter 2008 |
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| YES! Magazine Book Reviews on Climate Crisis and New Energy :: Michael Marien reviews Fred Pearce's With Speed and Violence, Joseph Romm's Hell and High Water, and Greg Pahl's The Citizen Powered Energy Handbook. |
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| In Review :: Revolutionary Jesus - Winter 2008 |
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| YES! Magazine Book Reviews on Revolutionary Jesus :: Ignacio Castuera |
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| In Review :: Branded! - Winter 2008 |
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| Fran Korten reviews Michael Conroy's 'Branded! - How the 'Certification Revolution' is Transforming Global Corporations.' |
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| In Review :: Phil Borges, Women Empowered - Fall 2007 |
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| Acclaimed portrait photographer Phil Borges offers a stunning sampling of empowered women from Africa, Southeast Asia, and South America. |
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| In Review :: Secrets of Happiness - Fall 2007 |
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| Book review: Stephen Post and Jill Neimark's 'Why Good Things Happen to Good People' shows that people who are kind and caring score higher on all sorts of measures like happiness, health, longevity, self-esteem, and creativity |
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| In Review :: Personal Safety Nets - Fall 2007 |
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| Book review: Personal Safety Nets: Getting Ready for Life's Inevitable Changes & Challenges by John W. Gibson and Judy Pigott. |
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| In Review :: Gaia Girls - Fall 2007 |
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| Review of Gaia Girls by Catherine Bailey. |
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| In Review - Summer 2007 |
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| Reviews of The Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism and Economic Collapse; Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future; and the documentary film Juvies. |
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| In Review - Spring 2007 |
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| Reviews of Planetwalker: How to Change Your World One Step at a Time; Earthlight: Spiritual Wisdom for an Ecological Age; Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause; and Black Gold. |
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| In Review :: Conversations over the Line - Winter 2007 |
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| Reviews of bell hooks and Amalia Mesa-Bains' Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism, Jill Bamburg's Getting to Scale, Peacemaking Circles: From Crime to Community by Kay Pranis, Barry Stuart and Mark Wedge, and the film The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil, directed by Faith Morgan. |
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| Hungry Planet - Spring 2006 |
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| Peter Menzel travels to 24 countries to pose families with a week’s worth of food. |
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| TV Review: Simple Living with Wanda Urbanska - Spring 2006 |
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| Video Review- Invisible Ballots: Temptation for Electronic Vote Fraud - Spring 2006 |
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| Video Review. Electronic voting poses an unprecedented threat to the foundation of our democracy. |
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| Book Review: Thomas Paine and the Promise of America by Harvey J. Kaye - Spring 2006 |
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| Paine’s biography occupies only two-fifths of Kaye’s text; in the rest the Wisconsin professor hops, skips, and jumps through our history since Paine, citing various posthumous characterizations of him, from Teddy Roosevelt’s “filthy little atheist” to T.V. Smith’s “the harbinger in darkness of our democratic way.” Kaye does establish the important historical fact that Paine has been unfairly and often maliciously excluded from the Founding Fathers, and for consequential reasons. |
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| Book Review: Every Day is a Good Day by Wilma Mankiller - Spring 2006 |
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| Provides insights into the lives and ideas of indigenous women and invites readers to re-examine their own cultural and spiritual backgrounds. |
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| Book Review: Dilemmas of Domination by Walden Bello - Fall 2005 |
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| Walden Bello, scholar activist, has written a manifesto on how globalization works and fails. |
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| Book Review: Cancer-Gate: How to Win the Losing Cancer War by Samuel S. Epstein - Fall 2005 |
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| Epstein's follow-on book to The Politics of Cancer, examines why the general public is so unaware of what is causing our cancer epidemic. |
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| Book Review: Delaying the Real World by Colleen Kinder - Fall 2005 |
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| Colleen Kinder's book is a well-researched manual full of ideas to help 20-somethings creatively avoid a narrow career track and lead to a more personally fulfilling career and life. Volunteer work, overseas travel, and internships are covered. |
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| Book Review: America Beyond Capitalism by Gar Alperovitz - Summer 2005 |
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| Adria Scharf reviews a book that will ignite the creative imagination needed for progressive activists to connect their work to a shared vision for a democratic political-economic system |
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| Book Review: Carfree Cities by J.H. Crawford - Summer 2005 |
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| Guy Dauncey reviews a book that praises the details in life that become noticable when people walk through their communities instead of driving |
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| Film Review: The Take and Argentina: Hope in Hard Times - Spring 2005 |
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| Lisa Gale Garrigues reviews two films about Argentina during the economic crisis of 2002. Both films offer lessons in what ordinary people can do. |
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| Book Review: The Boiling Point by Ross Gelbspan - Spring 2005 |
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| The science of global warming, and the dream of the "World Energy Modernization Plan" are two issues covered in the book |
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| Book Review: No More Throw-away People by Edgar Cahn - Spring 2005 |
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| No More Throwaway Peopleis a provocative analysis of the non-market economy and an inspiration for the social service community. |
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| The Fragrance of Faith: the Enlightened Heart of Islam by Jamal Rahman - Winter 2005 |
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| A book as important as Jamal Rahman's The Fragrance of Faith needs to be recommended with as much grace as possible for it contains precious reminders that the spiritual teachings of Islam are as filled with compassion as they can be. |
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| Hope - Winter 2005 |
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| Darrin Burgess reviews "Hope Dies Last" and "The Impossible Will Take a Little While" |
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| AFTER THE EMPIRE: The Breakdown of the American Order - Fall 2004 |
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| A book about the waning power of the U.S. under the arrogant unilateralism of the Bush administration. |
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| COMPASSIONATE LISTENING and Other Writings - Fall 2004 |
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| A book about re-establishing relationships among those in conflict as a form of reconciliation. |
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| IN PRAISE OF SLOWNESS: How a Worldwide Movement is Challenging the Cult of Speed - Fall 2004 |
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| This book explores our infatuation with speed, and speed's impact on community, relationships,fear, and more. |
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| Book Review: TEACHING THE RESTLESS - Spring 2004 |
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| Teaching the Restless is a sharp critique of schooling, child-rearing practices, and America's increasing rush to medicate away any perceived ‘problem' behaviors. In a disarmingly honest narrative, Chris Mercogliano admits his biases and presents his arguments through persuasive success stories about children who, in most schools, would have been "medicated to learn." |
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| Book Review: Radical Simpliciy: Small Footprints On a Finite Earth - Spring 2004 |
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| Book review of RADICAL SIMPLICITY: Small Footprints on a Finite Earth by Jim Merkel- Reviewed by Doug Pibel |
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| Review: Weapons of Mass Deception: the Uses of Propaganda In Bush's War On Iraq - Winter 2004 |
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| Book review of WEAPONS OF MASS DECEPTION: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq By Sheldon Rampton & John Stauber book review by Stephen Silha |
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| Book Review: Couldn't Keep It To Myself: Testimonies From Our Imprisoned Sisters - Fall 2003 |
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| COULDN'T KEEP IT TO MYSELF: Testimonies from our Imprisoned Sisters By Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Institution. Book Review by Bill Williams. |
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| Review: The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, And the Will of the People - Fall 2003 |
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| Book Review: THE UNCONQUERABLE WORLD: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People By Jonathan Schell |
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| Book review - Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, And Sex Workers In the New Economy - Summer 2003 |
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| Book Review - A Human Being Died That Night: a South African Story of Forgivenes - Summer 2003 |
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| Book Review- CONFRONTING CONSUMPTION Edited by Thomas Princen, Michael Maniates, and Ken Conca - Summer 2003 |
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| Book Review- CONFRONTING CONSUMPTION Edited by Thomas Princen, Michael Maniates, and Ken Conca |
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| Affluenza - Winter 2002 |
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| Review of Affluenza by John de Graaf, David Wann, Thomas H. Naylor. |
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| Book Review: No Logo - Fall 2001 |
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| Walden Bello reviews Klein's book on the culture of brand capitalism and the rise of the anti-corporate globalization movement. |
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| Book Review - Rosa Parks by Douglas Brinkley - Summer 2001 |
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| Historian Douglas Brinkley, also the author of award-winning biographies of Jimmy Carter and Franklin D. Roosevelt, reveals the difficult decisions that educated Parks politically and empowered her not only to say “no” on December 1, 1955, but to give permission for her “no” to become the basis for a constitutional challenge. Reviewed by Grace Lee Boggs. |
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| Book Review - Utopian Legacy: a history of conquest and oppression in the western world - Summer 2001 |
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| Book review of Utopian Legacy by John Mohawk. Reviewed by Doug Pibel. |
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| Book Review: Rosa Parks - Spring 2001 |
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| Reviews of Rosa Parks by Douglas Brinkley and Utopian Legacies by John Mohawk |
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| Book Review - When Healing Becomes a Crime: by Kenny Ausubel - Spring 2001 |
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| When Healing Becomes a Crime: The amazing story of the Hoxsey cancer clinics and the return of alternative therapies |
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| Review - Bobos in Paradise by David Brooks - Winter 2001 |
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| Review - Bobos in Paradise by David Brooks - YES! magazine |
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| Book Review - Derailing Democracy: the America the media doesn't want you to see - Winter 2001 |
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| Book Review - Derailing Democracy: the America the media doesn't want you to see by Dan McGowan |
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| Book Review - Against All Odds by John Rensenbrink - Winter 2001 |
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| Book Review - Against All Odds by John Rensenbrink |
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| Book Review - Ecology of a Cracker Childhhood by Janise Ray - Fall 2000 |
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| Book Review - Planet Dialectics- by Wolfgang Sachs - Fall 2000 |
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| Book Review- Believing Cassandra: an optimist looks at a pessimist's world by Alan AtKisson - Summer 2000 |
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| Book Review - Many Mountains Moving edited by Naomi Horii and Marilyn Krysl - Summer 2000 |
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| Film Review - Princess Mononoke Directed by Hayao Miyazaki - Summer 2000 |
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| Book Review - Graceful Simplicity by Jerome Segal, Living Lightly by Walter and Dorothy Schwarz - Summer 2000 |
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| Segal shows that now, perhaps for the first time in history, it is possible to create a society where all people can live simply but gracefully, with time for the things that really matter – deep friendships and relationships, a beautiful and clean environment, and freedom from fear and insecurity. All that is needed is the political will. |
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| Book Review: Green Collar Jobs: Working In the New Northwest by Alan Thein Durning - Spring 2000 |
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| Yes Magazine Book Reviews: Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution by Paul Hawke - Spring 2000 |
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| Book Review: No Future Without Forgiveness by Desmond Tutu, and Love in Chaos by Mary McAleese - Spring 2000 |
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| Book Review - Avant Gardening: Ecological Struggle In the City And the World, Edited By Peter L. Wilson and Bill Weinberg - Winter 2000 |
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| Film Review - Cancel the Debt Now!: the Jubilee 2000 Campaign - Winter 2000 |
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| Book Reviews: Pride & Joy: The Lives and Passions of Women without Children by Terri Casey - Fall 1999 |
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| Book Review: A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold - Fall 1999 |
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| Book Review - Be A Global Force of One by John Boal - Summer 1999 |
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| Book Review - Living for Change by Grace Lee Boggs - Summer 1999 |
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| Book Review: Coming Back to Life by Joanna Macy and Molly Young Brown - Summer 1999 |
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| Book Review: On Good Land by Michael Ableman - Spring 1999 |
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| ON GOOD LAND: The Autobiography of an Urban Farm by Michael Ableman |
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| Book Review: In Earth's Company by Carl Frankel - Spring 1999 |
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| Book Review: Song for the Blue Ocean by Carl Safina - Spring 1999 |
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| Book Review: Song for the Blue Ocean by Carl Safina |
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| Book Review: The Ownership Solution by Jeff Gates - Winter 1999 |
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| Book Review - Do They Hear You When You Cry? by Fauziya Kassindja with Layli Miller Bashir - Winter 1999 |
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| Book Review: How Wal-Mart is Destroying America: and What You Can do About It by Bill Quinn - Winter 1999 |
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| Book Reviews: Getting a Life: Real Lives Transformed by Your Money or Your Life, by Jacqueline Blix - Fall 1998 |
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| Book Review: Toward Sustainable Communities: by Mark Roseland - Fall 1998 |
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| Resources for Cities and Their Governments, by Mark Roseland reviewed by Guy Dauncey - YES! Magazine |
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| Book Review: Earth Community, Earth Ethics by Larry Rasmussen - Summer 1998 |
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| Book Review: On the Causes of War by Michael Andregg - Spring 1998 |
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| Book Review - Losing Your Job, Reclaiming Your Soul by Mary Lynn Pulley - Spring 1998 |
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| Book Review: The Cobbers' Companion by Michael Smith - Spring 1998 |
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| review - The Cobber’s Companion: How to Build Your Own Earthen Home by Michael Smith illustrated by Deanne Bednar from The Cob Cottage Company |
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| Book Review: Carrying Water as a Way of Life by Linda Tatelbaum - Spring 1998 |
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| In 1977, late by her own admission for the hippie back-to-the-land movement, Linda Tatelbaum moved to 72 scrub-wood acres in Maine. a collection of essays that says little about how she stayed and much about why. |
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| Book Review: Pythagoras' Trousers by Margaret Wertheim - Spring 1998 |
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| Book Review: Heretic's Heart: a Journey of Spirit And Revolution By Margot Adler - Winter 1998 |
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| Reviewed by David Kupfer |
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| Book Review - Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine M. Benyus - Winter 1998 |
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| Book Review: A World that Works: Building Blocks to a Just and Sustainable Society - Winter 1998 |
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| a compilation of alternative economic thought and practice from India to Indiana |
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| Book Review: Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment by Sandra Steingrab - Winter 1998 |
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| A qualified scientist examines all the lines of evidence linking cancer tochemical contamination of the environment and offers solutions. |
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| Book Review: Cadillac Desert, by Sandra Itkoff and Jonathan Taplin - Fall 1997 |
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| Book Review- On Light Alone by Ellen LaConte - Fall 1997 |
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| Book Reviews: How Many People Can the Earth Support? by Joel E. Cohen - Summer 1997 |
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| YES! Magazine Book Reviews: How Many People Can the Earth Support? by Joel E. Cohen |
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| Book Reviews - STUFF: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things by John C. Ryan and Alan T. Durning - Summer 1997 |
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| YES! Magazine Book Reviews: STUFF: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things by John C. Ryan and Alan T. Durning |
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| Book Review: People, Land and Community: Collected EF Schumacher Society Lectures - Summer 1997 |
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| Book Review: People, Land and Community: Collected EF Schumacher Society Lectures |
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| Book Review: Dialogues With The Living Earth, by James and Roberta Swan - Summer 1997 |
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| Book Review: Dialogues With The Living Earth, by James and Roberta Swan |
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