Stargazing, our species’s second most favorite thing to do at night, has long captured the imaginations of dreamers and storytellers. Like staring into the high-tech digital screens of today, the unfathomable night sky was mesmerizing... Read More

Erotica excepted, does any genre surpass travel writing in its ability to deliver reading pleasure, particularly when photos or illustrations accompany masterful prose? How better for a writer and reader to connect if not over their... Read More

With plentiful limestone-filtered springwater and an ideal climate, your old Kentucky home was God’s gift to whiskey makers, and early settlers put grain to copper still and bourbon soon ran from it. But Prohibition cut the number of... Read More

That industrial civilizations have altered the Earth and its atmosphere for the worse is beyond doubt, but geoengineering offers possible solutions, using human engineering to improve the climate. In "The Planet Remade", veteran science... Read More

Troubling statistics about the number of animal species lost every year have become sadly commonplace, and "The Annihilation of Nature" blends words and pictures in a moving account of this sixth mass extinction. The authors explain some... Read More

Though its movements have a rabbinical flavor, the interpretations are intriguing enough to provoke interest among all religious traditions. Dana Densmore’s intricate and spiritually engaging new text, "Reb Zalman Gathers Figs", seeks... Read More

In a 1968 speech to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, Senegalese ecologist Baba Dioum said, “In the end, we will protect only what we love, we will love only what we understand, we will understand only what we are... Read More

"Flat World Navigation" is an indispensable text for aspiring entrepreneurs. To ignore the unceasing democratization of digital technology, information, and capital is to slowly render yourself and your business model obsolete. It’s a... Read More