This moving ode to the legacy of the author’s mother sheds new light on the trials of single parenthood and Alzheimer’s. Coming to terms with her mother Carmen’s death is only part of this beautifully crafted memoir, in which... Read More

This timely book presents a path to personal and global peace bolstered by the author’s experience and great thinkers of history. As a West Point graduate who was deployed in Baghdad, Paul K. Chappell certainly knows war. As a... Read More

Brothers William and Henry James are rightfully famous within their respective fields of philosophy/psychology and literature. But their influence on each other is seldom discussed, a failure remedied in J. C. Hallman’s Wm &... Read More

For those who aren’t steeped in philosophical study, the type of questions posed by a major philosopher like Plato can seem difficult to grasp without a knowledgeable guide. Fortunately, former professor Aviezer Tucker, author of Our... Read More

“How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the whole day…” wrote Anne Frank, the quintessential young diarist. "Confessions of Joan the Tall", a... Read More

The principles of rewards and consequences—along with stories of Pavlov’s dog or the rat in the maze—are such core assumptions in our culture, they’re almost cliché. Susan Schneider quickly moves beyond the cliché, however, in... Read More

When Judith Hannan’s eight-year-old daughter, Nadia, was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma, Hannan was catapulted into what can only be called a heightened state of motherhood: “Nadia’s cancer defined my life in as exotic a way as... Read More

Ronald Reagan is most often connected to Hollywood glamour and Washington politics. The fact that Reagan spent his formative years in the American heartland, living in a string of small towns in Illinois, has been almost entirely... Read More