A quick, breezy read, packed with up-to-date research studies that look at the surprising intersections of health and economics, Random Acts of Medicine is one of the best and most informative books I have read so far this year. Dr. Jena is the host of one of my favorite podcasts…

A breezy, fun-to-read history of the massively powerful impact that women have had on fitness and exercise in the last century. Friedman traces the invention, creation, evolution, and, yes, commercialization of major wellness revolutions such as the barre method, aerobics, jazzercise, yoga, the Health at Every Size Movement, and even…

A really fascinating history of not only the famous “robber barons” and the history of the railroad industry in the mid-to-late 1800’s and early 1900’s, but also true history of American capitalism, economics, wealth concentration, and the dominant political power of the richest 1%. Hiltzik breaks down the nasty competition…

A really cool and interesting story that I knew next to nothing about before I read this book, Rutkow traces the evolution and construction of the doomed Pan-American Highway, the longest highway in the world that remains unfinished over a century after it was started due to the “Darien Gap”…

A wonderfully written and extremely (in a positive sense) dense book of history and academic-level writing, Dress Codes traces not only the history of fashion and fashion sense and sensibility, but also the restrictions and limitations that have gone hand-in-hand with those fashion senses. Thompson Ford is a Professor of…

Notes for a class I am teaching in the fall of 2023. Evolution of a Coaching Profession “You’re off to great places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way!” — Dr. Seuss coaching is partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that…

I remember very vividly picking up this book from the bookstore and wondering, how on earth am I going to read 442 pages about the history of the mosquito? Moreover, how on earth did Timothy Winegard find enough historical information to write 442 pages on the mosquito anyway? What could…

An incredibly compelling and thoughtful read, Cohen makes the case in Supreme Inequality that the progressive, forward-thinking, civil-rights crusading Supreme Court of the 1960’s Earl Warren years are no more, and that, since the election of Richard Nixon in 1968 and his subsequent establishment of the stridently conservative Warren Burger…

This book is just an absolutely insane, dizzying, stupefying, and absurd tale of financial fraud, it’s almost impossible to believe that ANY of it is actually true. But, of course, it is all true, and Wright and Hope have put together a story that is a brilliantly researched as it…