Islam Issa’s "Alexandria" is an outstanding biography of a unique city, describing how the Egyptian locale changed from its founding by Alexander the Great into the modern day. “Despite its classical renown and enduring impact,... Read More

Great organizations empower and celebrate their employees, argues the enthusiastic business book "Inspiring Work Anniversaries". Filled with interesting and offbeat ideas, "Inspiring Work Anniversaries" by Rick Joi is a business book... Read More

Dannagal Goldthwaite Young’s insightful book "Wrong" investigates the political and philosophical reasons why people rely on information that they know is false. While living in Philadelphia, Young struggled to make sense of the green,... Read More

Polyamorous relationship coach Evita Sawyers’s "A Polyamory Devotional" shares a year’s worth of daily insights into ethical nonmonogamy. It’s an intimate look at the emotional ups and downs of polyamory and the self-awareness that... Read More

"Into the Bright Sunshine" is an incisive biography of Hubert Humphrey, the rural Midwesterner who grew into a prominent, persuasive politician in the vanguard of civil rights. Humphrey’s Great Depression-era childhood in South Dakota... Read More

Maurice Hornocker’s exciting memoir covers his long quest to understand and protect Idaho’s apex predator—the elusive cougar. Based on his years of groundbreaking field studies and research for his doctoral dissertation, this book... Read More

John G. Culhane’s powerful book "More than Marriage" explores what it means to be a family in both human and legal terms. Applying close readings to important court cases concerning marriage and families, Culhane argues that... Read More

Adrian Tchaikovsky’s The City of Lost Chances is a gritty adventure fantasy of uncommon breadth, fashioning a universe brimming with magic and treachery. Illmar was recently conquered by Pallesand, an authoritarian nation. The shocking... Read More