As the world wages battles over religious conflict and political disparity, resolution seems ever more elusive. Differences in background, culture, and education have caused dangerous rifts between sparring nations, making the... Read More

Creativity requires wonder and space: “A brain crammed with information is morally blind.” Maxine Sheets-Johnstone handles weighty philosophy like a dancer: she writes gracefully of the body, movement, creativity, the smile, and... Read More

Much like Thoreau John Muir Rachel Carson Mary Austin and Marjory Stoneman Douglas before him Scott Russell Sanders knows dearly the intimate ways in which humans are connected to the land. Like his forbears he marvels at the beauties of... Read More

This book examines Western thoughts on mortality through the development of opera, from the art’s birth at a time of religious zeal, through its growth during the age of reason, to the present, when belief in the afterlife has eroded,... Read More