Heading toward the presidential election in November 2012, it is interesting to reflect upon the broad use of online media, and particularly social media, by both major political parties’ campaigns. During the 2008 presidential... Read More

Everit Tyshinski wants to die. By gun, accident, heart attack, drowning—he doesn’t care how, he just wants it to happen. Life is too hard without the woman he loves. Tyshinski finds himself operating in a painful version of... Read More

Science fiction fans have to love a bad guy who likes the thought of being worshipped. Such is the character of Lozerick, who, like his father and grandfather before him, is one of a piratical band of mining engineers, poachers, slavers,... Read More

Dog lovers will enjoy this lively book about two seeing eye dogs assigned, successively, to a retired Manhattan professor. Any reader curious about how a blind person partners with their canine companion will also appreciate this... Read More

Of those who have read Amy Chau’s The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, many find themselves intrigued, yet also appalled, at what this one parent has done to “further” the potential success of her children. In America’s Answer to... Read More

What kid doesn’t love pretending to be a pirate? Certainly not Captain No Beard (also known as Alexander), the hero of Carole P. Roman’s simple and delightful children’s book, "Captain No Beard". The tale is Roman’s first entry... Read More

Sarah Jean Stewart’s mystery novel, "Mapleton Murders", compellingly addresses issues of faith in the face of murder, rape, abduction, and terrorist attacks. Main character Kate Feeney gives voice to the fear and conflict that push... Read More

Yuriy Alexandrovich Kalinnikov’s A Radical Theory of Evolution remained unpublished at the time of its writing, as did the larger work of which it was part (The Anatomy of Art, a Neurophysiological Basis of Created Stimulation, written... Read More