As seen through the author’s eyes, war distorts and reconfigures everything it touches—bodies, minds, values, fraternal and romantic relationships, local and national... Read More

Limits haunt the pages of "The Visioneers" and the minds of its titular scientists. In the 1970s, when the visioneers’ narrative begins, the world was facing the idea of a... Read More

What do earth, fire, air, and water have to do with effective thinking? Everything, according to mathematics professors Edward B. Burger and Michael Starbird. In "The 5 Elements... Read More

Packed with over seventy experiments, "The Ultimate Book of Saturday Science" explores “principles and phenomena … in engineering, physics, and chemistry.” With... Read More

Nature’s Compass: The Mystery of Animal Navigation begins, ironically, with a haunting scene from the human world: a September 1621 shipwreck. Ferdinando deVerar and the crew... Read More

No less than the history of the world—beginning 100,000 years ago and extending through 2010—is presented in The New Atlas of World History: Global Events at a Glance, using... Read More

The seventies has recently been the subject of several good books, including this one, that show that the decade was much more complex than the failed presidencies of Nixon,... Read More

Adam Smith’s disciples, many of whom are free-market economists, believe that greedy individuals behave in ways that maximize the benefit to society. Competitive markets... Read More

Day-to-day existence confronts humanity with a phalanx of perils—wars, plagues, floods, droughts, earthquakes, economic upheavals. The list is as endless as human fears. In... Read More

The Human Rights Watch estimates there are twenty million sex workers in India. Feminists are divided on what to do. On one side, radical feminists take a political position,... Read More

Bedtime stories (for both children and adults) are often survivors from thousands of years ago, from before the time that science, logic, and reason tried their hardest to... Read More

How is the heart won? Laughter certainly loosens the bars; cleverness occupies the mind, leaves the creature unprotected. After that the heart is easily cleaved in two. Troy... Read More