The Fresh Eggs Daily Cookbook by Lisa Steele: Lisa Steele, fifth-generation chicken keeper and founder of the popular blog Fresh Eggs Daily, knows a thing or two about eggs. And she’s ready to show you just how easy and delicious it can be to make eggs a staple of every meal. Lisa shares her go-to recipes for everything from breakfast staples, like eggs Benedict and a classic French trifold “omelette,” to breads, sandwiches, beverages, snacks, soups, salads, pasta, cakes, pies, and condiments.
Greed in the Gilded Age by William Elliot Hazelgrove: ‘Millionaire’ had just entered the American lexicon and Cassie Chadwick was a media sensation. Combining the sexuality and helplessness her gender implied, Chadwick conned at least 2 million dollars, equivalent to about 60 million today, simply by claiming to be the illegitimate daughter and heir of steel titan, Andrew Carnegie. Using newspaper articles, Hazelgrove tells the story of one of the greatest cons in American history.
Secrets of the Sprakkar by Eliza Reed: For the past twelve years, the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report has ranked Iceland number one on its list of countries closing the gap in equality between men and women. What is it about Iceland that makes many women’s experience there so positive? Why has their society made such meaningful progress in this ongoing battle? And how can we learn from what Icelanders have already discovered about how increased fairness benefits everyone?
All are Welcome by Cynthia Owyoung: Studies prove that companies with more diversity in their ranks are more innovative, expand their markets, and perform better financially. However, most companies have yet to develop and implement effective diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) initiatives. In All Are Welcome, Cynthia Owyoung explains what DEIB is and why it matters, and she delivers the information and insights you need to make DEIB a key element of your company culture.
Architects of an American Landscape by Hugh Howard: As the nation recovered from a cataclysmic war, two titans of design profoundly influenced how Americans came to interact with the built and natural world around them through their work in architecture and landscape design. In chronicling their lives and work in the context of the nation’s post-war renewal, Hugh Howard reveals how these two men created all-American idioms in architecture and landscape that influence how we enjoy our public spaces.
Twice Forgotten by David P. Cline: Journalists began to call the Korean War “the Forgotten War” even before it ended. Without a doubt, the most neglected story of this already neglected war is that of African Americans who served just two years after Harry S. Truman ordered the desegregation of the military. Twice Forgotten draws on oral histories of Black Korean War veterans to recover the story of their contributions to the fight, and how veterans’ service fits into the long history of the Black freedom struggle.
Undoing the Knots by Maureen O’Connell: Maureen O’Connell traces how the larger Catholic population became white and why, despite the tenets of their faith, so many white Catholics have lukewarm commitments to racial justice. Undoing the Knots weaves together narrative history, theology, and critical race theory to begin undoing these knots: to move away from doing good and giving back and toward dismantling the white Catholic identity and the economic and social structures it has erected and maintained.
Sweat by Bill Hayes: Exercise is our modern obsession, and we have the fancy workout gear and fads from HIIT to spin classes to hot yoga to prove it. Exercise was an ancient obsession, too, but as a chapter in human history, it’s been largely overlooked. In Sweat, Bill Hayes runs, jogs, swims, spins, walks, bikes, boxes, lifts, sweats, and downward-dogs his way through the origins of different forms of exercise, chronicling how they have evolved over time, dissecting the dynamics of human movement.