Laura Antoniou’s novel "The Killer Wore Leather" is a mainstream crime novel set in the less-mainstream world of the S&M scene. The mystery itself concerns the murder of Mack Steele, the reigning Mr. Global Leather, who is fatally... Read More

The challenge of putting together a short-story anthology is giving readers enough variety of styles and voices while still finding stories that fit comfortably with one another. "Daughters of Icarus"is a diverse collection of... Read More

Miller and Kane show how techniques of handling potentially violent individuals can apply to a range of real situations. Whether dealing with a belligerent drunk at a bar or facing down a potential mugger, surviving a fight with minimal... Read More

The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies was founded in the early 1980s by politically conservative law students who considered mainstream legal thought in America too liberal. Though it started as a student organization... Read More

Rithy Panh was a young boy when Khmer Rouge revolutionaries arrived in Phnom Penh on April 17, 1975. Starting that day, he and his family were designated “new people”—the revolution’s code for those who needed... Read More

Long before there was a modern state of Israel, activists working toward its creation were divided between those most concerned with founding a state for the Jewish people and those hoping to create a Jewish state. In other words, they... Read More

The Progressive Utilization Theory, or PROUT, was the brainchild of the late Indian philosopher Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, who created it as an economical and social theory that would provide an alternative to capitalism and communism. In... Read More

Few basketball coaches can fill a resume with both the amount and the variety of experience Lee Rose has compiled in the past four decades. After working as an assistant coach at the college level, Rose led both UNC-Charlotte and Purdue... Read More