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Readers are immediately drawn into Dr. Nadine Burke Harris’s new book, The Deepest Well, with a compelling account of a 43-year-old man who is suffering a stroke. He’s young and healthy, and doctors are perplexed why someone with no risk...  Read More

Every few years, it seems a story pops up in the newspaper about the oldest man or woman in the world, and readers eagerly parse their words of wisdom for something they can apply to their own lives.Well, longevity expert Dan Buettner,...  Read More

Community building is a complex process with a lot of moving parts. It helps to know what has worked. Many people start by doing extensive research into what has worked in similar towns, but doing the research that identifies these...  Read More

The best clue to the subject matter of social scientist Robert Putnam’s latest best-selling book is in the title, Our Kids. As Putnam surveys the growing schism between the haves and have-nots in America today, he pounds this concept home...  Read More

It’s a tough time to be a boy. In the not-so-distant past, gender roles in society were well defined: Men were expected to be the decision-makers, the breadwinners, and the leaders. Society has undergone a seismic shift since...  Read More

[caption align="left"]Not Quite Adults[/caption]We’ve all heard the “failure to launch” stories—the 20-something down the street who’s still living with mom and dad, the college graduate who can’t seem to decide what to do, the kids who...  Read More

[caption align="left"]Better Together[/caption]When Robert Putnam wrote his book Bowling Alone, the bestseller served to make a nation aware of its declining social capital—the lack of connection between neighbors and within...  Read More

When Robert Putnam wrote his book Bowling Alone, the bestseller served to make a nation aware of its declining social capital—the lack of connection between neighbors and within communities. With Better Together: Restoring the American...  Read More

You will need more than a comfortable place on the couch and your reading glasses to get the most out of Tony Wagner’s new book, Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World. Also required: a...  Read More

 Author Anne Doyle thinks the United States has a problem. This country is home to the largest critical mass of educated, accomplished and politically active women in the world. So what’s the problem? America has plenty of women ...  Read More