When children experience the negative emotions that often come when they discover their parents are about to divorce, it can seem like the world is at an end. But the authors of this book demonstrate that learning to cope with divorce... Read More

In 1985 President Ronald Reagan was publicly sworn in for his second term, We Are the World was recorded by USA for Africa, Back to the Future was the number one movie at the box office, and Daryl Farmer, at the age of twenty, began a... Read More

For all the racism and discomfiture that African-American ballplayers endured in the years following Jackie Robinson’s debut in 1947, Latino players had it even worse. In addition to discrimination based on the color of their skin,... Read More

For sixteen consecutive years, wine sales in the United States have grown at nearly a five percent rate. Indeed, Americans have been on such a bender as to leapfrog both the Italians and the French into becoming the world’s number one... Read More

The sunflower speckles the landscapes of more than forty US states; it decorates our gardens; it appears across world literature; it has driven industrial competition; it has altered our diets. Joe Pappalardo engages readers in the... Read More

More than 10 million dogs are estimated to have separation anxiety, and up to 90% of dog owners discuss behavioral issues with their vets. According to authors Leeds and Wagner, relief for both canine and human could be just a boombox... Read More

“This was old-fashioned biology, the philosophical kind that gave meaning,” comments Mary Hood in this earnest eco-travelogue about her excursions to the watersheds of eighteen rivers both large and small across the world. Hood is... Read More

Everyone talks about the environment these days, but all the doom-and-gloomsayers seem to demoralize people who would like to do something but feel that the problem is too big to solve. Enter Matheson and her new book, written in a very... Read More