This spellbinding but flawed novel is the story of Dr. Frank Gibson’s adventure with a secret research group the Committee for Undiscovered Findings. Frank and his fellow scientists Dr. Kevin Dobson and Dr. Charles Furgisson are sent... Read More

Tell some people from Chicago that Mayor Richard M. Daley’s political machine takes ten percent off the top and their reply will probably be something along the lines of “So what? This is the best-run city in the country!” A... Read More

According to Rabbi Robert Levine, God has called mankind to a covenant relationship characterized by partnership in the “often Herculean joint effort to make this bloodstained, unjust globe more peaceful and fair than we ever dared... Read More

It is 1927. Three rudimentary airplanes and their pilots wait at Roosevelt Field on Long Island, vying to become the first to complete a nonstop transatlantic flight to Paris. To the winner comes immortal glory and a purse of $25,000.... Read More

Isaac Murphy, Willie Simms, Jimmy “Wink” Winkfield: few people recognize these names or know they were victorious black jockeys. Winkfield, the subject of this book, was born in 1882 in Kentucky, and started riding horses at sixteen.... Read More

Photojournalist Susan Madden Lankford has, in her own words, “always been interested in incarceration and confinement,” but she found her true subject when a homeless man challenged her to learn from the homeless themselves what life... Read More

School shootings, abuses of power in the workplace, and spousal or child abuse are results of what Dr. Julie Wambach calls “rankism,” or “the abuse of position within a hierarchy.” Wambach identifies “rankists” as individuals... Read More

In recent years, the importance of fathers has come into focus, particularly regarding their relationships with sons. But the bond between father and daughter hasn’t been as fully explored, and there’s been very little discussion of... Read More