When you hear a dog barking in your neighborhood, think about this-there are another 52.9 million dogs being loved and taken care of by 31 percent of the population. We are dog parents who treat our pets like children. Most of the... Read More

This is a substantially revised edition of the well received, but out-of-print Forbidden Journey: The Life of Alexandra David-Neel (Harper & Row, 1987), then indisputably the best biography of its amazing subject. The revised edition... Read More

From the editors of the popular Saveur magazine, this big book of comfortable ideas and keen sense of nostalgia delights with a 4th of July sense of verve. Comfortable because ultra-chez culinary babble was avoided at all costs;... Read More

In the canon of twentieth century art, the name of Aubrey Beardsley does not loom large, if at all, given his death in 1898. On this, the one-hundredth anniversary of the young Englishman’s too-early demise, there is something of a... Read More

Former Catholic priest Ron Roth introduces his book with the following words by Padre Pio: “One seeks God in books; one finds him in prayer.” Ironically, Roth has written a book about prayer and healing. Well versed in traditions... Read More

Jake Hines has just been promoted to Chief of Detectives in Rutherford, Minnesota, (a disguised Rochester, home of the Mayo Clinic and IBM). It is not a big city with big city crime, but it’s trying hard. The mystery starts out with... Read More

This book contains a wealth of fly recipes and lore for the intermediate to advanced saltwater fly tier and angler. Thirty-seven of the best saltwater fly anglers in North America present their favorite fly patterns, rationale for their... Read More

The recent buzz on technology is about how the American economy is moving away from a “product-based” model to a “service” or “intellectual-property” model. How this happens, how it can be sustained and how a company can... Read More