Jeff Williams’s captivating Amazing Animals of South Africa and the Western United States will be enjoyed by readers of all ages who love learning about wildlife. Beyond stunning photographs of more than forty different types of... Read More

"Shrouded Truth" is an alternative, unexpected, and even shocking view of the life and times of Jesus. Reena Kumarasingham’s Shrouded Truth: Biblical Revelations through Past Life Journeys tells Jesus’s story from a most unusual... Read More

A world without hunger, without war or an international arms race, without militarized nation-states and arbitrary authorities: even now, in the twenty-first century, these goals seem out of reach, but that we can envision them at all is... Read More

Complex, fleeting, and capable of catapulting us decades back in time with a single whiff, our sense of smell is our most elusive and inarticulate sense. Barney Shaw’s "The Smell of Fresh Rain" brings science, a forensics-level sense... Read More

Caught up in the heady magic of 1968 in California’s Haight-Ashbury district, journalist Malcolm Terence found that the world was changing fast—much faster than the attitudes of his employer, the Los Angeles Times. Terence chose to... Read More

Kristen Hoerl’s "The Bad Sixties" examines Hollywood’s take on 1960s America. It reveals that the entertainment industry, which could have been a potent force for progress, dropped the ball by avoiding serious engagement with the... Read More

As recalled in "Ballots and Bullets", July 23, 1968, was a night of terror in Cleveland, Ohio. Six people were killed and at least fifteen wounded as police battled black nationalists in the beginning of days of fierce rioting. The cause... Read More

Post–World War II British youth coming of age during the 1960s and ‘70s had to navigate their journeys to adulthood through a society rocked by massive change. Celia Hughes’s "Young Lives on the Left", based on interviews with... Read More