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Fresh water is the ultimate renewable resource. And in large parts of the world it is the ultimate common resource too. The former is reason to be optimistic about future water security. After all, the world has an awful lot of the stuff. But most economists would raise a red flag of pessimism...

The Moral Limits of Markets

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The sub-title that Debra Satz, a professor of ethics at Stanford, gave to this was copied by Michael Sandel, similarly employed at Harvard, in "What Money Can't Buy" a year or so later. Your reviewer loved the latter, and this steered her to the present volume, which is more encompassing...

The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty

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Rather reminiscent of the excellent “Collapse” by Jared Diamond, but this work prefers to sweep away all points of Diamond’s thesis of why societies collapse—environmental damage, overpopulation, hostile (and friendly actually) neighbours—for the single determinant of extractive institutions....

The Moral Limits of Markets

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The opening intro to this book was deceptively pedestrian to this reviewer: providing a laundry-list of things money can buy (helpfully called commodities whenever the emphasis is supposed to be that it should not be able to)--none of which greatly surprised her or gave her instinctive cause...

And Why Should We Care?

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An explanation of the most important equation of our time.

The Memoirs of a Female Flight Surgeon

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"An irreverent romp though the worlds of medicine and the military, part autobiography, part social history, and part laugh-out loud comedy."

How Your Brain Can Have a Mind of Its Own

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A brief introduction to critical thinking and how even those who have critical thinking skills do not always apply them consistently.

Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of our Time

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Shermer begins with a discussion on the virtues of science and skepticism, delves into pseudoscience and superstition, confronts Creationism, contrasts history and pseudohistory, and defends reason.