The academic is surely one of the least likely suspects to participate in the recent vogue of memoir writing. One would think that the long hours spent in libraries required to earn a Ph.D. and become a professor would not provide enough... Read More

This volume of fifty short prayers is not likely to cause more than a ripple in the ongoing dispute between conservative Christians and advocates of Sophia, who, as described by Rupp, is the feminine aspect of the divine found in the... Read More

“This book is not an attempt to convince anyone of the reality of life after death. It is simply an attempt to present the facts in an orderly manner. At the end, the reader should be in a position to make up his or her mind,” says... Read More

Braided narratives, subtle shifts from mythical to modern times, complex allusions to both film noir and pop culture and social consciousness characterize this collection of poems. Braiding narratives is a stylistic device brought to... Read More

Collected in this volume are the first-person narratives of thirty-six women whose childbirth experiences represent a range of real-life experiences. The mothers who reveal these intimate details answered an ad in a national... Read More

Who hasn’t read a modern self-help or spiritual-awareness book that suggests contentment, security and happiness are just around the corner—if one only knows the secret? Try this or that technique and self-fulfillment is but a page... Read More

With a Master’s degree in nutrition, six books and many magazine and newspaper articles to her credit, Calbom’s is a competent voice for juicing for health. Calbom begins with the story of her personal odyssey to health through... Read More

Those who failed to embrace the religious right in the 1980s may be troubled by this book’s title. Not that long ago, “family values” was shorthand for a certain conservative political and moral perspective: if you didn’t have a... Read More