Everybody recognizes the Jesus Fish on the back of a car; a legged version with “Darwin” on the fish’s belly instead of “Jesus” is also available. Continuing the clash between creationists and evolutionists is an even larger... Read More

“Anger is like urinating in your pants. Everyone can see it but you are the only one who can feel it” Dr. Aldo Pucci writes. This is one of the “scripts” he provides in the anger management section of this self-help book. Pucci... Read More

The Pan-American Highway running between Alaska and Argentinas Tierra del Fuego is fairly uninterrupted but for a sixty-mile mire of fierce jungle in the Darién province of Panama. Replete with the usual suspects of snake croc and three... Read More

A Journalist’s Sojourn:[/b] Take a pinch of Mark Twain, add a dash of Studs Terkel, and you’ll have the recipe for Amos Jay Cummings’ westward-ho dispatches for the New York Sun. Cummings was a man of his times: he was awarded the... Read More

Pham Xuan An’s story is as intriguing as it is revealing about the Vietnam War. The author’s masterful account shows how An, who spent more than half a century providing critical intelligence for North Vietnam, faced certain death if... Read More

“On the long, hairpinned climb…” begins Dodd, taking readers with her a journey through the “animate” world by way of her “mind’s eye.” With personal passion, she explores the tops of mesas, the depths of caves, and the... Read More

By the end of "A Matter of Honor", its young hero Richard Cutler has acquired an amazing curriculum vitae—perhaps too amazing for some readers. He first appears in 1777 as a Massachusetts teenager, scion of a well-to-do family of... Read More

They’re the best educated, most professionally successful, internationally attuned generation of young women in history, and there are more than one billion of them living in 193 countries, speaking more than six thousand languages.... Read More