Its authors bill Europe Beyond Your Means: The Paris Edition as the antithesis of the standard travel guide, which typically suggests that a trip should be “brief, cursory, and cheap.” Conrad Lucas II and William D. Norgard advise... Read More

Blistering hot sun. Searing, dusty winds. Mysterious dense bush. Violence lurking around every bend in the path. G. L. Bass’ collection of poetry evokes an intense sensory impression of Africa, and muses on the ever-changing and... Read More

Breaking a mirror. Black cats passing in the road. Walking under a ladder. There are plenty of cultural indicators suggesting bad luck but perhaps none are more foreboding than being born on Friday the 13th. Which is exactly what... Read More

Edgar Cayce, a psychic and the man considered to be the father of the New Age movement, once said, “All you may know of heaven or hell is within your own self.” In a time when there’s an ever-widening rift between political... Read More

The only thing more awkward for a guy than the uncomfortable conversation with dad about how to talk to women is reaching adulthood without dad’s sage advice. So many dangers mine the road to romance. If the movies can teach a young... Read More

It is problematic for people living in today’s western society to have ethnocentric biases using their own culture as the set paradigm to judge non-western cultures. The same thing can be said when someone from the twenty-first century... Read More

"The Danny Diaries" is a cautionary tale for any parent dealing with a case of suspected mental illness in a child. Author Ann Cluver Weinberg, who calls herself Lucy in this memoir, is Danny’s mother. She also uses fictitious names... Read More

For over twenty years, trainer Camilla Gray-Nelson has been responding to calls from frustrated dog owners who could not control their pets. “It was usually women who sought my help because they were overwhelmed by the family dog,”... Read More