Want to help your fellow man? These meditations, essays, stories, and letters will inspire altruism. "Humanity and the Nature of Man" is an eclectic collection of writings by a big-hearted man who focuses on the beneficent potential of... Read More

With colorful characters so ludicrous they could only be real, McCord’s satire of profit, politics, and capital punishment should be required reading. If an empty chair remains at the virtual dinner table of Voltaire, Joseph Heller,... Read More

Sweet story with pleasant illustrations offers a beautiful gift of the heart to author’s grandchildren. Remove from Bambi the essential character of the hunter and the comic relief of Thumper, and the beloved children’s classic... Read More

Don’t be brainwashed by beauty industry, says cosmetics CEO, in book that gives advice as time-honored as motherhood. According to the cliché, beauty is only skin deep. If so, then Americans who worship at the Fountain of Youth should... Read More

As obstacles are thrown in the path of women’s progress toward leadership, this book shows how to begin dismantling the glass ceiling. Census Bureau data reveal that women represent more than 50 percent of the US labor pool, received... Read More

“Better to eat vegetables and fear no creditors, than eat duck and hide from them,” counsels the Talmud, a book of Jewish teachings. In More Food From Small Spaces, Margaret Park provides a cornucopia of techniques for growing... Read More

“What is really best in any book is translatable—any real insight or broad human sentiment,” said Ralph Waldo Emerson, nineteenth-century American writer. Readers seeking such insights will find "Modern Azerbaijanian Prose",... Read More

With its manga-style illustration on the cover and its sexual content, Natsuya Uesugi’s latest novel, grydscaen: utopia, seems set to appeal to a certain segment of adult fans of the popular Japanese graphic-novel genre. The volume is... Read More