Stanford Social Innovation Review

Stanford Social Innovation Review is an award-winning magazine covering best strategies for nonprofits, foundations, and socially responsible businesses. Published quarterly by the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Social Innovation Articles: Book Reviews

Date Author Category Title
Spring 2010
Dan S. Cohen
Nonprofit Management • Book Reviews A Handbook for Change [Free!]

SWITCH: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath & Dan Heath

Spring 2010
Doug Bauer
Corporate Social Responsibility • Book Reviews A Mandarin’s Lament [Free!]

SMALL CHANGE: Why Business Won’t Save the World by Michael Edwards

Spring 2010
Bill Shore
Economic Development • Book Reviews Bearing Witness [Free!]

LOOKING FOR THE LIGHT: The Hidden Life and Art of Marion Post Wolcott by Paul Hendrickson

Spring 2010
David B. Grusky
Economic Development • Book Reviews Inequality Makes Us Anxious [Free!]

THE SPIRIT LEVEL: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger by Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett

Winter 2010
Kavita Nandini Ramdas
Human Rights • Book Reviews Women Hold Both Sky and Solutions [Free!]

In Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, a series of vignettes brings to life the struggles and courage of unforgettable women who are, as the book’s subtitle suggests, turning oppression into opportunity.

Winter 2010
Mal Warwick
Arts, Culture, and Religion • Book Reviews “Are You Talking to ME?” [Free!]

THE SILENT LANGUAGE by Edward T. Hall

Winter 2010
Denis Hayes
Environment • Book Reviews An Environmental Provocateur [Free!]

WHOLE EARTH DISCIPLINE: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto by Stewart Brand

Fall 2009
Jacqueline Novogratz
Social Entrepreneurship • Book Reviews Staying Vibrant and Curious [Free!]
Fall 2009
Bill Adams
Environment • Book Reviews Good Guy vs. Good Guy [Free!]
Summer 2009
Jane Wales
Economic Development • Corporate Social Responsibility • Book Reviews Just Say “No” [Free!]

As the global financial crisis unfolds, those least responsible—our world’s poor—will be most affected. Many have called upon President Obama to uphold his campaign commitment to double foreign assistance. But Dambisa Moyo’s book, Dead Aid, challenges us to think again. —By Jane Wales

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