The secret of the Brit’s love affair with language is that speaking is inherently a sensuous act. Thousands of tiny muscles and nerve endings fire exquisitely to release a single word with its shape and eminence. Classically educated... Read More

Most conservation efforts appeal to ethics or emotion. It’s not often the argument is made to save an animal or a plant because it’s tasty, but that is exactly the consumer/gut driven conservation message of the Renewing America’s... Read More

Treasure Quest. Hidden tombs and tunnels. An illicit love affair. Historical France. This audiobook offers an eclectic combination of suspense, romance, and history. In the late nineteenth century, a French priest begins living like... Read More

No one who followed the grueling 2001 Tour de France on television will ever use the phrase “as easy as riding a bicycle” quite the same way again. No one who reads this excellent book will view American cycling ace Lance... Read More

Few parasites are as ugly as the tapeworm, with its suckers and hooks, proglottids budding off its head and neck, and the ability to grow thirty-two feet long. But nobody could seriously expect anything that lives in the human intestine... Read More

Though "Eromenos" means “beloved,” this is not a simple love story. Instead, it is a story of obsession involving Hadrian, Rome’s fourteenth emperor, and his young lover Antinous, who spent his adolescence—seven years—as... Read More

In The Universe in Miniature in Miniature, novelist Patrick Somerville offers a collection of short stories that transports readers into electrified landscapes of the mind. Eclectic and edgy, these fifteen stories range widely in subject... Read More