By Wanda Deschamps (May 6, 2021) Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind, Judson Brewer, PenguinRandomHouse, March 9, 2021, 304 pp., $30.90 Unwinding Anxiety speaks from both the brain and the heart. Author Dr. Judson Brewer has experiential knowledge and education in the topic of mental health and writes in … [Read more...] about Unwinding Anxiety: From the brain and heart
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The Art of Logic: Arriving Just in Time
By Wanda Deschamps, January 29, 2021 The Art of Logic in an Illogical World, Eugenia Cheng, Basic Books, August 11, 2020, 320 pp., $20.39 In a world where there is no shortage of pointless debates, Eugenia Cheng asks us to focus on how we know what we know. The Art of Logic in an Illogical World, her fourth book, engages the reader in lessons about reason versus … [Read more...] about The Art of Logic: Arriving Just in Time
The Charity Report’s 2020 List of Exceptional Women
(December 16, 2020) Throughout 2020, we’ve been brought face to face with gaping wealth inequality. We’ve also borne witness to the internationally televised murder of a Black man by police, an event that forced white people to look in the mirror and see the face staring back at them (or not). Coupled with a global pandemic that affected the poor and racialized minorities more … [Read more...] about The Charity Report’s 2020 List of Exceptional Women
The Charity Report Literary Circle’s Top 10 books of 2020
(December 9, 2020) It’s our favourite list of the year. Books we think you’d like for yourself to catch up on reading over the holidays, or something special and unique for someone special in your life. It’s a diverse list—books that will take you face-to-face with wolves and bears of the natural kind, coupled with the what we think are definitive and striking books about race, … [Read more...] about The Charity Report Literary Circle’s Top 10 books of 2020
The Power of Disability: A book about life
by Wanda Deschamps (June 9, 2020) The Power of Disability: 10 Lessons for Surviving, Thriving, and Changing the World, Al Etmanksi, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, February 5, 2020, 216 pp., $23.46 Power and disability conflated by a book title. Our society conditions us to believe that disability renders individuals powerless therefore The Power of … [Read more...] about The Power of Disability: A book about life