With empathy and introspection, Howley describes the dark culture of MMA fighting and her search for inner ecstasy. Why would a young intellectual woman involved in the serious study of philosophy interrupt her life for three years to... Read More

Nus takes the stress out of learning with easy and fun language activities. Learning Spanish, one of the world’s most beautiful and commonly spoken languages, becomes easy and fun with Spanish Fluency: Twin Words and Essential... Read More

Japan is civilization personified. Art, design, food, health, infrastructure, civility—name a societal / cultural benchmark and you can make a compelling case that the rising sunners lead the world. So when the United Nations came... Read More

Sincerity and humor add insight to these dialogues on the immigrant experience. This sixty-four-year-old doctor and father certainly has seen life from a number of widely varying perspectives. Born in South Africa, Gideon Naudé made the... Read More

While playful and witty, this narrator allows us to be rooted in the rich soil of Chinese history and culture. Sharon Winters’s "Cutted Chicken in Shanghai" is a delightful and dryly humorous marriage of memoir and travelogue with... Read More

Alas, where have all the goddesses gone? No doubt, they’re hiding from male monotheism, because scholars have long known that the primary deities of prehistory were feminine—fertile, life-giving Earth Mothers represented in countless... Read More

This fascinating examination of our reaction to change is both impressive and inspiring. Although at first glance it may seem like a New Age self-help book, Dreams of Totality: Where We Are When There’s Nothing at the Center is instead... Read More

Provocative and thought-provoking, L. A. Lemmons’ "America Never Promised Us Happiness (Only the Right to Pursue It)" leaves few unscathed in her criticism of the cultural promise of happiness and how to achieve it. So, you think you... Read More