In Ireland, a “keener” is one who sings at a wake, but these aren’t pretty songs to guide the dead to their immortal rest. Rather, they are wrenching laments, crying for a future cut short and family left behind, before the song... Read More

Popular music in America has been so much a man’s world that the author performs a real service here in drawing attention to the steady contributions and growing influence of women performers, songwriters, managers, and record company... Read More

“Orientalism,” the brilliantly colorful art of the 1800s that captured the exotic Orient in striking and fascinating detail, “is ripe for redefinition,” states the author, adding that the initiative requires “a delirious... Read More

Atlantis has been the stuff of legend for decades. Imagine an entire continent an entire civilization that sunk into the sea in a cataclysmic disaster thousands of years ago. Historically unverifiable this mythical land raises... Read More

Trendy Totes: From cute and clever shopping bags to elegant formal purses, readers can create twenty-five quality quilted bags in no time at all, with the information provided in this book. "Quilted Bags in a Weekend" by Ellen Kharade... Read More

Parents who raise their voices beware—there is a better approach outlined in "ScreamFree Parenting" by Hal Runkel. Runkel a licensed marriage and family therapist and relationship coach who is also a parent describes his tested... Read More