Technology and entrepreneurship, seemingly always intertwined, are prominently featured in this insider’s look at the founder of the giant e-commerce website, Alibaba.
Category Archives: Memoir & Poetry
Your Guide to the National Parks, and others
Incredibly helpful guides to our national parks.
Learning in Public: Lessons for a Racially Divided America from My Daughter’s School
A journalist explores and confronts the racial divides in the schools in her gentrified neighborhood, and the role of public schools as a marker of equality in our country.
Home Boys
An honest and raw reflection of a therapist’s experience at a group home. where children come from abhorrent and unstable backgrounds.
We Are Bellingcat
The future of investigative journalism is ourselves–citizen-led journalism, the newest tools to analyze data, and where it goes from here.
Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher
An examination of a doctor who pushed the bounds of animal experimentation, and the ethical dilemmas he faced.
The Strangest of Places: Building Castles Made of Sand in Afghanistan
A perceptive memoir about a former colonel’s time serving in Afghanistan, examining America’s toxic politics and poor decisions.
Gardening Your Front Yard
A useful guide for gardening in all kinds of environments–not just front yards but also everywhere around any type of home.
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
The remarkable true story of a boy in Malawi who–desperately hoping to bring electricity to his home–creates a mighty windmill.
Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy
Author Eilene Zimmerman expresses her sorrow, guilt, confusion, and anger as she recounts her time with her ex-husband who eventually dies of a drug addiction.