by Norman West | Sep 21, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Education, Parenting & Families, Religion, Social Science
This book covers a tough subject with effects that run the gamut from subliminal to deadly. Ken Wytsma has exposed the muscle and bone behind racism and I believe that reading this thought-provoking book will help us shed our prejudices and begin to heal the rifts in...
by Sarah Hutchins | Sep 5, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Books About Books, Education, Parenting & Families, Poetry
Several books on the market instruct would-be poets how to write poems into their types – haiku, sonnet, ballad, limerick, and more. Other tomes deconstruct what makes classic poems great – the symbolism, metaphors, and so on. Matthew Zapruder, an...
by Whitney Smyth | Aug 15, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Education, Parenting & Families, Sponsored
Life is a miraculous thing, particularly when you consider the millions of things in our DNA that have to code correctly for it to happen at all. Unfortunately, it’s also incredibly easy for something to go wrong leaving some people with terminal illnesses,...
by Megan McIntyre | Jul 12, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Education, Parenting & Families, Humor, Sponsored
I am often hesitant to read books about motherhood as I am right in the early throws of it (other titles on my nightstand elude to emotional lives of toddlers, no drama, how to get your kid to… etc). The funny books can be too much like a blog crammed between...
by Whitney Morton Woodcock | Mar 20, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Education, Parenting & Families, Social Science
I Wish My Teacher Knew started out as a classroom assignment gone viral. Teacher Kyle Schwartz, wanting to know her students better and teach them more effectively, handed out sheets to her third graders that said, “I wish my teacher knew _______” and the responses...
by Seniye Groff | Feb 21, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Education, Parenting & Families, Psychology
Every parent reaches a point where a little extra help is welcomed, especially when his or her kids reach the teen years. Haddad offers parents expert advice in The Ultimate Guide to Raising Teens and Tweens. Haddad contends that children today, as a generation, are...