It is extremely fitting that social media mavens Ted Coiné and Mark Babbitt first met through Twitter. Their collaborative effort, "A World Gone Social", takes a far more expansive view of social media than many books, primarily because... Read More

In "Targeted", Mike Smith, a digital-media thought leader, offers a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at digital advertising which, he writes, “offers the ability to communicate with unprecedented specificity and finesse.” Smith... Read More

“I love this job,” wrote Maggie Silverstein, the former editor of Tropic, the Miami Herald’s Sunday magazine, almost twenty years after she had set up her shop as a black-and-white portrait photographer. Her love is palpable in... Read More

As Europe emerged from the ashes of World War I, cycling, especially stage racing through the countryside and over snowy mountain peaks, united communities and nations. For a continent ravaged by two catastrophic wars, bicycle races like... Read More

For the time being, let’s not peek again at any of the horrific deeds perpetrated by the US government against the native peoples of North America in the mid–to-late nineteenth century. Let’s also avoid images of slaughtered... Read More

This fast-paced novella amps up the suspense with well-crafted dialogue and a Mexican drug cartel subplot. An American professor’s work in Mexico uncovers fake artifacts and entwines him in a kidnapping plot. While this might sound... Read More

Two boomers who have aged creatively share their advice in this well-written, inspiring book. Cheryl Vassiliadis and Joanna Romer have reinvented themselves in their later years, and they see no reason why other baby boomers shouldn’t... Read More

Phan-Lê’s intimate narrative and exploration of humankind’s vanishing cultures will intrigue and inform a wide readership. In Talking Story: One Woman’s Quest to Preserve Ancient Spiritual and Healing Traditions, a companion to... Read More