Two zoos, one in West Berlin and the other in East Berlin, mere miles apart and separated by the Berlin Wall, wrestle with each other at the apex of their popularity.
Category Archives: Non-fiction
An American Sickness
Unsettling and cruel tactics that actors in the healthcare industry use to profit lucratively off patients, and how to resist.
The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic – and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World
How two men battled Victorian London’s deadliest cholera outbreak, and what we can learn from their public health efforts.
Enhancing Government: Federalism for the 21st Century
A re-imagining of federalism and how to restructure it to empower both federal and state governments.
Citizens of London – The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour
The tremendous impact that US Ambassador Gil Winant, CBS reporter Ed Murrow, and businessman Averell Harriman had on the sprawling events of WWII.
Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few
How big corporations and Wall Street have transformed each of capitalism’s building blocks in their favor.
How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire
The future of climate activism, and how to turn fury into action.
A Queer History of the United States
The remarkable, and oft invisible, influence of the LGBTQ+ community on the United States.
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
How Joseph Lister and his use of antiseptics revolutionized the frightening state of 19th-century medicine.
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail – But Some Don’t
The unusual and often unseen powers of predictive statistics, and how they mold our lives and actions.