Alexander von Humboldt / How the Most Famous Scientist of the Romantic Age Found the Soul of Nature / Maren Meinhardt / BlueBridge / Hardcover $24.95 (272pp) / 978-1-62919-019-8 / Buy: Local Bookstore (IndieBound), Amazon / Maren... Read More

As a meat eater, are you 100 percent comfortable with the inner workings of slaughterhouses? Do you think about the last hours of the pigs who supply your bacon at breakfast, or the chickens who make the ultimate sacrifice for your Happy... Read More

Unforgettable Portraits / Rosamund Kidman Cox / Firefly Books / Hardcover $29.95 (128pp) / 978-0-228-10183-3 / Buy: Local Bookstore (IndieBound), Amazon / A wildlife photo brings to hand what rightfully belongs in the secretive... Read More

Isms here and isms there—let’s run through the gamut: racism, sexism, classism, ageism, ableism, heterosexism. Talk about a hornet’s nest of trouble. Proud sponsors of murder, persecution, prejudice, and just plain ol’ rudeness... Read More

A personal peek into the private sphere of an international celebrity, acclaimed photojournalist Linda Solomon chronicles the over three decades of music, love, laughter, and friendship she shared with Aretha Franklin and the Franklin... Read More

The universe is endlessly mysterious—there’s far more out there that we don’t understand than what can be explained. The desire to face the great unknown is what drives inquisitive minds into physics, astronomy, medicine, and other... Read More

Who Are You, Calvin Bledsoe? Brock Clarke / Algonquin Books / Hardcover $26.95 (304pp) / 978-1-61620-821-9 / Buy: Local Bookstore (IndieBound), Amazon / Calvin Bledsoe is middle-aged, glum, and in dire need of a shakeup. Saddled... Read More

1968 was the capstone of a decade of extremes. While often characterized as a time of free love, expanding sexual options, and belief in the possibility of peace and freedom, these books pull us up hard with reminders that 1968 was also... Read More