While many books on the conservation of art and historic objects address preservation methods for various materials (wood, metal, painted canvas), Barbara Appelbaum’s "Conservation Treatment Methodology" provides a valuable and... Read More

Dr. Selwyn J. Mills’s book The Dreams of Lucifer and Barack Obama is presented as a play but is not so much a dramatic piece as it is a political discourse. Divided into ten chapters, the play contains an important foreword, which aims... Read More

Mix family ties with war and world politics and the stage is set for the story of a loving family torn apart by divided loyalties. In 1888, Pedro Ortega of Spain and Wilhelm Hoffman of Germany forge a friendship that evolves into a... Read More

The divide between free speech and hate speech is as uncomfortable to define as it is to discuss. When broached in casual conversation, passionate reactions often supplant a civil discourse about the context of the speech in question.... Read More

Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there. -Richard Feynman The average person’s understanding of the scientific... Read More

From her bedroom window, Sarah Alexander can see the hillside home of her elderly neighbor, Mrs. Bluster. “In the full moon, she watched old Bluster dancing in the backyard or flying across the moon.” Sarah’s prickly Aunt Jane... Read More

One morning, while watching Good Morning America, Jonathan Andrew Christian Hunter III hears experts from several New York financial institutions state that a world without debt would be Utopia. Jonathan is the chief financial officer... Read More

Plato argued that inherited knowledge determines human behavior, while Aristotle believed that people come into the world with minds as blank slates. In 1874, Francis Galton, whose cousin was Charles Darwin, used the words “nature”... Read More