Whatever your vegan reason—deplorable slaughterhouse conditions, land degradation caused by monoculture farm practices to raise animal feed, overwhelmingly positive health benefits—eating plants exclusively is a profoundly positive... Read More

To fish the Bering Sea in January is scarcely short of suicide—equal parts insanity, courage, and incurable love of the water. A Deadliest Catch star, Campbell Jr. writes as well as he fishes, and that’s saying something. Read More

With Arctic Dreams in his trophy case, Barry Lopez is free to reign as America’s top storyteller of a natural world only he has the language and intuition to inhabit. Read More

Back in the day, mainstream newspapers and magazines loved to present the civil rights struggle in photos depicting black activists as passive victims of Southern white racism, a fact that infuriates the many historians who know better.... Read More

Yoga has always attracted lots of yogis from lots of religions—some for quasispiritual reasons, others for the physical benefits, certain men drawn by hot rooms with leotard-clad women, and so on. This visual history represents the... Read More

Celebrating the act of prayer through multicolored panels depicting people from a wide array of religions, this vivid book is a primer for diversity and tolerance. Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism, among others, are... Read More

Addison Hodges Hart begins with a statement that some Christians, and many who no longer call themselves Christian, may find astounding. He says that Christians are interiorly free to seek the truth wherever it may be found, without fear... Read More

Myth becomes belief becomes behavior—in this inspiring work, Western yogis are encouraged to rewrite their stories to renew their spirits. Although it’s written for “Western” yogis, Bernie Clark’s enjoyable exploration of the... Read More