This well-researched, effectively written, and highly readable guide to late-life depression deserves a wide audience. Deborah Serani, a doctor and the author of two previous books on depression, now covers twilight periods in... Read More

SCUBA Cuba is fun to say, but the two words are also oxymoronic—a communist-minded acronym might better be: Smoking Cigars Underwater Begets Anarchy. In any case, Cuba’s political and economic struggles have had one remarkable... Read More

Madden’s clear text invites readers at all levels of knowledge into this commentary on how the crusades shaped our modern world. The crusades began nearly a thousand years ago—such distant history often feels as if it could never... Read More

Fascinating trivia about artists in turn-of-the-century Paris adds layers of insight to a time of growth and experimentation. The famed Belle Époque was a period of artistic and cultural flowering in Paris that began in 1900 and ended... Read More

Memoir marries social science in a profoundly helpful way. Deborah Serani combines her own history of childhood depression with her vast experience as a child psychologist to create an insightful and practical guidebook for parents of... Read More

Author risks alienating supporters by urging the environmental health movement to follow the example of civil rights through “collective, peaceful civil disobedience.” The Greek mathematician Archimedes, referring to levers, is... Read More

Informative book examines the social and political changes that are crafting a new breed of theologically conservative Christians. Non-evangelical, Tom Krattenmaker is a religion columnist for USA Today. He is also the author of Onward... Read More

In 2006, global praise and validation of institutionalized microcredit lending for the poor came in the form of the Nobel Peace Prize. And almost immediately thereafter, newspapers teemed with stories of Bangladeshi women who acquired... Read More