This is a motivational speech spelled out in black and white that is as instructional as it is rousing. Even for the professional communicator, there is something to be learned from the insights offered by Hogan. The necessity of this... Read More

“Why is most contemporary poetry so dull? It is a measure of the author’s generosity that when this challenge is issued—midway into a collection of essays and reviews of modern poetry—it seems less like a firebomb lobbed at the... Read More

The Internet has given the individual investor access to information that had been previously monopolized by Wall Street. Arising from this information revolution is a new breed of individual trader that is well-informed and independent.... Read More

Those who think that the life of an opera star is filled with fame, honor and wealth will find Eileen Farrell’s memoir an honest and good-humored revelation. Gifted with a phenomenal voice and a mother who had the good sense to... Read More

Are children actually being abducted from their homes in the middle of the night by aliens? Does the presumably Lost City of Atlantis exist in physical reality on another planet? Is our military engaged in an elaborate cover-up of alien... Read More

Whether thought of as “nature’s sweet nurse” or as a barometer of one’s well-being, sleep proves to be a fascinating subject in this book by Harrison, a psychology lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University in the United... Read More

After Carson McCullers died, her literary executors sought to find a suitable editor and publisher for McCullers’ autobiography. It took them thirty years to find someone sensitive enough to handle the honest, compelling memoir by the... Read More

War leaves nothing untouched. This is made obvious in Jefferson Davis’s Generals, a collection of essays from eight renowned Civil War historians that illustrates, primarily, how war affects personal relationships in the military... Read More