REVIEWS
Book Review: Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age, by Sherry Turkle, and We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations That Matter, by Celeste Headlee
Discussed in this review: Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age. By Sherry Turkle. Penguin. October 2015.…
Book Review | George Will’s Conservatism and Democracy in Crisis
Discussed in this review: The Conservative Sensibility. By George Will. Hachette Books. June 2019. ISBN: 9780316480932. 640 pages. Hardcover, $35.…
Book Review | Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump
Review of Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump by John Fea (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing…
Book Review: Teaching with Compassion: An Educator’s Oath to Teach from the Heart
Teaching with Compassion: An Educator’s Oath to Teach from the Heart, by by Peter Kaufman and Janine Schipper. Lanham, MD:…
Book Review: Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America, by James Fallows and Deborah Fallows
Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America, by James Fallows and Deborah Fallows. New York: Pantheon Books.…
Book Review: Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing, by Miranda Fricker
Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing, by Miranda Fricker. New York: Oxford University Press. August 2007. ISBN: 9780198237907.…
Book Review: A Citizen’s Guide to Impeachment, by Barbara Radnofsky
Editors Note: It is important to note that even those impeachment processes that do not end in a conviction and…
Book Review | Learning to Change the World: The Social Impact of One Laptop per Child
By Claire Wilker Global Campaign Director, Human Society International’s Be Cruelty Free Campaign Most organizations seeking to achieve social change focus…
3.1.3 Book Review | Civic Studies: Approaches to the Emerging Field
By Mark Wilson For faculty and staff in colleges and universities who labor to fulfill higher education’s civic purpose and mission,…
Using Literature to Increase Global Engagement in Higher Education: A Review of Four Novels
By Melissa Hendrickx Abstract Today’s college students, much like our planet, are experiencing change at a rapidly increasing rate. Young…
Global Studies Reader, 2nd Ed.
By Brett Whitaker Abstract In the Global Studies Reader, 2nd Edition, editor Manfred Steger offers an excellent compilation of 20 articles that address…
The Challenge of Global Governance in the 21st Century: A Review of Three TED Talks
By Steven Elliot-Gower, Yohannes Woldemariam Abstract These three TED Talks address global challenges, and how we (the world’s seven billion…
Book Review: Learning Through Serving: A Student Guidebook for Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Across Academic Disciplines and Cultural Communities
By Lori McKinney and Lisa Kim Learning Through Serving: A Student Guidebook for Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Across Academic Disciplines…
Book Review: Factfulness: Ten Reason We’re Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think, by Hans Rosling with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund
By Martin Shapiro Book Review: Factfulness: Ten Reason We’re Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think,…
Book Review: Civic engagement in higher education: Concepts and practices.
By Leah A. Murray Abstract Barbara Jacoby and Associates. (2009). B. Jacoby, ed. Civic engagement in higher education: Concepts and…
Book Review: Transforming Cities and Minds through the Scholarship of Engagement
By Harley Etienne Abstract Hoyt, L. (Ed). (2001) Transforming cities and minds through the scholarship of engagement. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University…
2.2.6 | Beyond Zucotti Park: Freedom of Assembly and the Occupation of Public Space
By Adele Oltman Abstract Book Review, Beyond Zuccotti Park: Freedom of Assembly and the Occupation of Public Space, Ron Shiffman,…
2.2.5 | Collaborative Futures: Critical Reflections on Publicly Active Graduate Education
By Cecilia Orphan and John Saltmarsh Amanda Gilvin, Georgia M. Roberts, and Craig Martin (Eds.) 2012. Collaborative Futures: Critical Reflections…
Book Review | The Painted King: Art, Activism, and Authenticity in Hawai’i
By Darrell A. Hamlin Abstract The conservator’s dilemma is the central drama of Glenn Wharton’s The Painted King: Art, Activism,…
Book Review: Teaching Civic Engagement Across the Disciplines
By Melanie Nichole Burdick Washburn University Teaching Civic Engagement Across the Disciplines. Edited by Elizabeth C. Matto, Alison Rios Millett McCartney,…
Book Review: You’re More Powerful Than You Think: A Citizen’s Guide to Making Change Happen
Derek W. M. Barker Kettering Foundation You’re More Powerful Than You Think: A Citizen’s Guide to Making Change Happen. By…
Book Review: Scientists, Experts, and Civic Engagement: Walking a Fine Line
By D. Alexander Wait Missouri State University Academic scholars often step out of their academic circles and into the civic…
Book Review: Imploring the Next Generation of Scholars
By Lori E. Kniffin Kansas State University Book Information Publicly Engaged Scholars: Next Generation Engagement and the Future of Higher…
Book Review: When We Fight, We Win!
By RJ Youngblood Kansas State University Book Information When We Fight, We Win!: Twenty-First-Century Social Movements and the Activists That…