The massive $2.3 trillion American healthcare system is in need of radical attention—no surprise to legions of consumers who must navigate Medicare, Medicaid, and employer-provided benefit plans. In "Unaffordable", Jonathan Engel,... Read More

Diverse recipes aptly convey both the bounty and the natural Eat Mesquite and More: A Cookbook for Sonoran Desert Foods and Living is an inviting tribute to a region and its naturally delicious cuisine. Recipes fill the bulk of the... Read More

Though it offers no easy answers, "Catastrophe Theology" represents an inspired search for maintaining faith in the face of disaster. "Catastrophe Theology" by Francis Kai is a deep and impressive work of personal theology that aims to... Read More

McNally provides a brutally frank and damningly well-documented account of the war’s sordid background. The 1873 Modoc War pitted the small but fierce Modoc tribe against the United States government, which sought to expel them from... Read More

A poet, journalist, and key leader in Peru’s American Popular Revolutionary Alliance, Magda Portal was nicknamed by her opponents as a “Most Scandalous Woman.” Myrna Ivonne Wallace Fuentes looks at both Portal’s life and her work... Read More

There are cookbooks from which one simply cooks the recipes, and cookbooks like Chef Sherman’s, from which one learns how and why to cook. Chef Sean Sherman’s The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen is the culmination of years of... Read More

"Flora of Middle-Earth" resides at the intersection of the mundane and the fantastical. An ambitious labor of love, Flora of Middle-Earth: Plants of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Legendarium, by Walter S. Judd and Graham A. Judd, marries science... Read More

Ley was a pioneer of both scientific exploration and widespread media entertainment; this biography gives the visionary his due. Willy Ley: Prophet of the Space Age, by Jared S. Buss, is a dynamic biography of a remarkable scientific... Read More