Caplan Campaigns for Books

  • “Mind in the Making: The Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs” By Ellen Galinsky (HarperCollins Publishers)
  • “Invisible Energy: Strategies to Rescue the Economy and Save the Planet” by David B. Goldstein (Bay Tree Publishing)
  • "Clean Energy Common Sense: An American Call to Action on Global Climate Change” By Frances Beinecke w/Bob Deans (Rowman & Littlefield)
  • “Saving CeeCee Honeycutt: A Novel” by Beth Hoffman (Penguin Group USA)
  • "Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldn't Buy Presents for the Holidays" by Joel Waldfogel (Princeton University Press)
  • “The Challenge for Africa” by Wangari Maathai (Pantheon)
  • "Last Chance: Preserving Life on Earth" by Larry Schweiger (Fulcrum Publishing)
  • "Who Owns You?: The Corporate Gold Rush to Patent Your Genes" by David Koepsell (Wiley-Blackwell)
  • "Soap and Water and Common Sense: How to Stay Healthy in a Germ-Filled World" by Dr. Bonnie Henry (Anansi Press)
  • "The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World" by Wade Davis (Anansi Press)
  • "Hip Hop World" by Dalton Higgins (Groundwood Books)
  • "Birdsong by the Seasons," Don Kroodsma
  • Thoreau's Legacy: American Stories about Global Warming” (An anthology from Union of Concerned Scientists and Penguin Classics)
  • “The Ballad of Abu Ghraib, The Story of Abu Ghraib” Philip Gourevitch (The Penguin Press)
  • "The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes" Bryan Burrough (The Penguin Press)
  • “Fire Breathing Liberal” by U.S. Representative Robert Wexler (St. Martin’s Press)
  • “Fellow Citizens; The Penguin Book of U.S. Presidential Inaugural Addresses” (Penguin Books)
  • “Angler; the Cheney Vice Presidency” by Barton Gellman  (The Penguin Press)
  • “Subprime Solution” by Robert Shiller (Princeton University Press)
  • “The Case for Big Government” by Jeff Madric (Princeton University Press)
  • “The World and Darfur” edited by Amanda F Grzyb (McGill Queen’s University Press)
  • “Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World” Paul Hawkins (Penguin Books)
  • “Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics after the Religious Right” by E.J. Dionne (Princeton University Press)
  • “Privacy in Peril: How We are Sacrificing a Fundamental Right in Exchange for Security and Convenience” by James B. Rule (Oxford University Press)
  • “Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time” By Greg Mortenson (Penguin Books)
  • “Head and Heart: American Christianities” Garry Wills (Penguin Press)
  • “Under The Sea Wind” Rachel Carson (Penguin Classics)
  • “Silent Spring” by Rachel Carson (Houghton Mifflin)
  • “Spying Blind: The CIA, the FBI, and the Origins of 9/11” Amy Zegart (Princeton University Press)
  • “Comrade J: The Untold Secrets of Russia's Master Spy in America After the End of the Cold War” By Pete Early (Putnam)
  • “Containment: Rebuilding a Strategy against Global Terror” Ian Shapiro (Princeton University Press)
  • "The End of Poverty" Jeffrey Sachs  (Penguin Press)
  • “The Intellectual Devotional: Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Roam Confidently with the Cultured Class” David Kidder and Noah Oppenheim (Rodale Books)
  • “Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965” Juan Williams (Penguin Books)
  • “Witch Hunts: From Salem to Guantanamo Bay” Robert Rapley (McGill-Queen's University Press)