With "The Heart of Sustainability", Andres R. Edwards offers a philosophical approach to how people should think about sustainability issues. The book often tilts toward the new-age realm, with a focus on theoretical ideas rather than... Read More

That industrial civilizations have altered the Earth and its atmosphere for the worse is beyond doubt, but geoengineering offers possible solutions, using human engineering to improve the climate. In "The Planet Remade", veteran science... Read More

Ash finds a flexible and individualized, but impassioned, definition of God and religion. David Ash’s rousing Goodness is Contagious is a succinct and genuinely uplifting autobiography about finding fulfillment through faith and paying... Read More

The narrative serves as a reminder that, for all the good technology can do, it still can’t always be trusted, especially with people’s lives. "In Absence of Fear" by Celeste Chaney takes place in a distant future plagued with... Read More

In a 1968 speech to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, Senegalese ecologist Baba Dioum said, “In the end, we will protect only what we love, we will love only what we understand, we will understand only what we are... Read More

"Dog Medicine" takes on the stigmas surrounding mental illness and medication, while also crediting a very specific canine hero. A stunning new memoir from Julie Barton explores the topics of severe depression and canine companionship as... Read More

Parker renders his action scenes with visceral aplomb in a neo-noir thriller with a twist. Eliot Parker’s crime novel, "Fragile Brilliance", is as addictive as the street drug “krok” that his hardened cop protagonist tracks down... Read More

This accessible encyclopedia of Italy’s military and cultural influence over the centuries is a lively, conversational book full of surprising facts. “Italy has had a troubled, sometimes tragic, history. Rome lived by the sword and... Read More