Some of the thinkers most opposed to theories of design are also the most preoccupied with it. Richard Dawkins wrote The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence for Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design. Stephen Hawking’s recent book was titled simply The Grand Design. The two books share common purposes: to explain and defend theories...
Therapists, workshop co-leaders, and life partners Linda and Charlie Bloom have written a book that is more unusual than it should be. This book is packed with inspiring stories of pairs of people who manage to stay committed, to enjoy each other, and to move forward despite the many challenges life and marriage can...
The author also calls on the UN to establish a Special Rapporteur for Violence Against Men in parallel with the rapporteur that already exists to address violations against women...
Michael Gurian, the author of over twenty books mostly relating to children and/or gender, has devoted a new book to boys and purpose.
Journalist Richard Whitmire has written (and the American Management Association’s publishing wing AMACOM has published) a nuts-and-bolts book about boys’ failure to keep pace educationally with girls. Whitmire is not a gender warrior but is simply interested in fixing the problem, noting that colleges already face a 60-40 (or greater) imbalance in favor of...
Tom Pauken's, Bringing America Home, unveils a writer who's heart and mind unabashedly rings out 'God! Family! Country!'
The iconic image of the “self-righteous” religious believer is a cliché of postmodernism. Dogmatic clerics in the middle east smile with satisfaction while they denounce the infidels. Cable TV preachers wince ecstatic eyes to heaven, praising God all the way. The famously self-righteous Jerry Falwell smirked with conviction that the 9/11 atrocities were “divine retribution”...
Michael Kimmel’s Guyland is a masterpiece -- of manipulation and deceit. Ostensibly a concerned but kindly portrait of young American males, the book is actually a scathing, unforgiving indictment.
First Star Trek predicted the normalization of racial diversity. Then it was cell phones. Now it’s a “theory of everything.†Is there anything Star Trek can’t predict? In an episode called “Shore Leave,†first broadcast in 1966, the crew of the Enterprise visited a planet where any thought  even an idyll one â€â€...
Learning to identify gendered parenting differences and sort out which are problematic and which are emblematic of two parents acting in concert is what this book is about.
The Truth About Men: Revealing the Mysteries of the Men’s Weekends. By Howard J. Fox. Rhinebeck, New York: Epigraph Books, 2009. 153 pp. $16.95. www.epigraphPS.com; www.howardjfox.com Los Angeles-based “cooperative divorce†lawyer Howard J. Fox has produced a book that I believe is unique: a true introduction for the uninitiated to the benefits of and...
Exposing Men: The Science and Politics of Male Reproduction. By Cynthia R. Daniels. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 260 pp. No price on book but publisher website gives price as $40.00. www.oup.com Rutgers University Associate Professor Political Science Cynthia R. Daniels has published Exposing Men; The Science and Politics of Male Reproduction, a...
With Violent Partners: A Breakthrough Plan for Ending the Cycle of Abuse, New York University Social Work and Law Professor Linda G. Mills has published her fourth book and her second book focused on domestic violence (DV) issues allied with men’s rights. As with her previous book on this topic, Insult to Injury: Rethinking...
The Good Men Project: Real Stories from the Front Lines of Modern Manhood. Edited by James Houghton, Larry Bean and Tom Matlack. Boston: The Good Men Foundation, 2009. $14.99. 251 pp. www.goodmenproject.org The Good Men Project, edited by a triumvirate of authors, makes a good first impression. It is an unassuming book, not wearing...
Sarah Palin’s new book, “Going Rogue,†gets its title from an expression McCain staffers made about Palin during last year’s presidential campaign, referring to her unscripted interviews with the media. The book is both about her time on the campaign and an autobiography. It provides a revealing look at the real Palin, off the...
Heroes of the Blue Sky Rebellion. By Jack Kammer. Halethorpe, Maryland: Healthy Village Press, 2009. 99 pp. $9.95. www.blueskyrebellion.com Jack Kammer, author of two excellent previous volumes, Good Will Toward Men: Women Talk Candidly About the Balance of Power Between the Sexes and If Men Have All the Power, How Come Women Make the...
The U.S. economy is in shambles. Government intervention into the economy is increasing by the day. Americans are alarmed and desperate for answers: What caused the crisis? What is the solution? That might sound like a description of today’s world, but in fact it’s sketch of the world of Ayn Rand’s 1957 classic novel Atlas...
Married psychotherapist/author couple Judith Sherven and James Sniechowski have produced another book to help men and women to survive and thrive in their relationships with each other. As far as I know, Living Your Love Every Day is only available through Judith and Jim’s website page given above, and it probably isn’t the book...
With the moral foundation of an Enron executive, he sells snake oil packaged as solutions. He appears to listen to peoples problems, but what he really hears is cha-ching. That’s the sound a man’s head makes when you sucker punch him on national television. All this is delivered with an endearing hint of Texas...
Breaking the Shackles: Bringing Joy Into Our Lives. Edited by Roy U. Schenk and John Everingham. Madison, Wisconsin: MPC-BEP Press, 2005. www.shametojoy.com . 362 pp. $14.95. A decade after the original publication of Men Healing Shame , editors Roy U. Schenk and John Everingham have issued a revised version of their previously impossibly scarce...
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