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The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption

10 best books like The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption (Kathryn Joyce): How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States, Displacement: A Travelogue, The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade, Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, It Burns: The Scandal-Plagued Race to Breed the World’s Hottest Chilli, Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought, Nonsense: The Power of Not Knowing, The Grift, Trump'ın Yalanları

How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
AuthorDaniel Immerwahr
ISBN0374172145
A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire

We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an "empire," exercising power around the world. But what about the actual...
Displacement: A Travelogue
AuthorLucy Knisley
ISBN1606998102
In her graphic memoirs, New York Times-best selling cartoonist Lucy Knisley paints a warts-and-all portrait of contemporary, twentysomething womanhood, like writer Lena Dunham (Girls). In the next installment of her graphic travelogue series, Displacement, Knisley volunteers to watch over...
The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade
AuthorAnn Fessler
ISBN1594200947
A powerful and groundbreaking revelation of the secret history of the 1.5 million women who surrendered children for adoption in the several decades before Roe v. Wade

In this deeply moving work, Ann Fessler brings to light the lives of hundreds of thousands of young single American women...
Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
AuthorLinda Kay Klein
ISBN1501124811
From a woman who has been there and back, the first inside look at the devastating effects evangelical Christianity’s purity culture has had on a generation of young women—in a potent combination of journalism, cultural commentary, and memoir.

In the 1990s, a “purity industry”...
The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind
AuthorMark A. Noll
ISBN0802841805
"The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind." So begins this award-winning intellectual history and critique of the evangelical movement by one of evangelicalism's most respected historians.

Unsparing in his judgment, Mark Noll ask why the largest...
It Burns: The Scandal-Plagued Race to Breed the World’s Hottest Chilli
AuthorMarc Fennell
Written and hosted by Marc Fennell, It Burns is the story of a 10-year scandal-plagued international competition that will take listeners from the Australian Coast to South Carolina (via an Indian Research Facility).

It’s a war filled with larger than life characters. There will be sledging,...
Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought
AuthorPascal Boyer
ISBN0465006965
Many of our questions about religion, says renowned anthropologist Pascal Boyer, are no longer mysteries. We are beginning to know how to answer questions such as "Why do people have religion?" Using findings from anthropology, cognitive science, linguistics, and evolutionary biology, Religion...
Nonsense: The Power of Not Knowing
AuthorJamie Holmes
ISBN0385348371
An illuminating look at the surprising upside of ambiguity—and how, properly harnessed, it can inspire learning, creativity, even empathy
 
Life today feels more overwhelming and chaotic than ever. Whether it’s a confounding work problem or a faltering relationship or an unclear...
The Grift
AuthorMaria Konnikova
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Trump'ın Yalanları
AuthorMaria Konnikova
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