New Releases

New Releases | April 11, 2023

Book Giveaways

Rethinking Intelligence: A Radical New Understanding of Our Human Potential

A genetics expert and professor challenges our understanding of intelligence, explaining what it truly means to be “smart,” why conventional assessments are misleading, and what everyone can do to optimize their potential.

Editor's Choice

Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility

By Dylan Schleicher

The grief that comes with climate change is real. But despair is as unhelpful as denial, so we have to hold on to hope, and get to work. A new collection of essays will help.

ChangeThis

Making a Difference: Four Lessons for Changemakers

By Paul Born

By strategically uniting community assets—what is strong in a community—around a common agenda, leaders create the conditions for a breakthrough that heals the brokenness in their communities.

New Releases

New Releases | April 4, 2023

We See You & We Read You

April: Earth Month

By Gabbi Cisneros

A booklist to celebrate new and classic reads that inform on and celebrate our planet.

Book Giveaways

Thoughts from the Big Chair: A Leader's Guide to Digital Transformation

Anyone interested in spearheading their own digital transformation effort will benefit from reading this book.

Excerpts

Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation

By Kevin Roose

From "a practical, deeply reported survival guide for the age of AI, written by the New York Times tech columnist who has introduced millions to the promise and pitfalls of artificial intelligence," one of Kevin Roose's 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation is to "Demote Your Devices."

Editor's Choice

The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance

By Dylan Schleicher

Phosphorus is a bringer of both life and death, but the balance has been tilted toward the destruction and environmental degradation of many places across the world over the years. Dan Egan explores the history of human activity in securing and using this vital element, and how we can begin to tilt the balance back toward the productive and life-giving qualities of phosphorus that all life on Earth relies upon.

News & Opinion

Women's History Month: Lion's Tooth

By Jasmine Gonzalez

Porchlight Book Company is proud to be a woman-owned company. Here in Milwaukee, we’re also lucky to be in company with a growing number of fellow woman-owned bookstores. In honor of Women’s History Month, we’re proud to highlight these community change-makers.