“Change” has become the now-tired buzzword of 2008, as voters bounce from sound bite to sound bite via TV, radio, and the Net. Americans on all sides are seeking answers to the enormous social, political, and economic woes facing the... Read More

Those following the current controversial Tibetan independence movement and the serene role played by His Holiness the Dalai Lama will find this book enlightening. "Buddhism for Busy People" shows readers how to live with fewer inner... Read More

“[The Constitutional] framers decided that the power of war be shared between the legislature and the executive. President Bush upset this balance with his assertions of unilateral authority,” the author claims in this thorough... Read More

Begin with a dash of plutonium, sprinkle some uranium-235, add a trigger mechanism and a rocket booster, and voilá, a nuclear deterrence program! At least that’s how it used to work. For two years authors Hodge and Weinberger, both... Read More

If we believe the ancient Greeks, the poet is a maker, “poet” being derived from the Greek poiesis: making. In "The Hands of Day", beloved Chilean poet and Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda crafts his love song to the human hands that... Read More

Isadora Duncan once famously proclaimed, “To live is to dance.” In this volume, Eichenbaum’s thoughtful interviews illuminate the lives of forty dancers across a broad spectrum of the field, revealing why they chose dance and how... Read More

Currently the fastest-growing infectious disease in the US and increasing by a minimum of eight percent each year, (under-reporting makes it likely that ten times this number is more realistic), Lyme disease is transmitted to a human or... Read More

Autism is one of the great medical mysteries of our day: Is it caused by genetics, environment, vaccines, or a combination of things? Science as yet can’t say, and thus it is also one of the great human tragedies. Millions of people... Read More