The “circumference” of the title remains ambiguous in its application to this rewarding anthology. Twenty-eight contemporary poets responded to the editor’s request that they investigate the “idea of mastery” in a short essay,... Read More

Alzheimer’s is a debilitating disease that confuses orientation and strangles communication in an estimated twelve million people worldwide. The author, a caregiver of her ninety-year-old father until he died early in 2001, and an... Read More

Did they make it? That’s the question everyone asks when first learning of the Great Escape from the maximum-security federal prison of Alcatraz on June 11, 1962. Four men spent months planning and implementing the elaborate... Read More

Although this compilation is designed for scholars of country music, the ten articles that comprise it contain enough anecdotes and odd facts to make the book appealing to all serious fans of the genre. It is uniformly thought-provoking,... Read More

The night was dark, the village small. The young men jostled each other as they made their way into the Shinto shrine, pressing together so tightly that the entire mass of humanity hovered a few feet above the ground. The Festival of... Read More

Some people define success by what they have acquired or accomplished. For others, living for a greater cause is the true measure. Anne Farquharson Mackintosh was one of the latter. In her book, Colonel Anne Mackintosh, author Jean... Read More

Best-selling authors must lead a wonderful life. Sharing their vision with a worldwide audience, working at their own pace and under their own roof, and getting paid a lot of money besides—who hasn’t dreamed of that life? For those... Read More

The free-market economy has made great strides in recent years, and according to Aune, associate professor in the Department of Speech Communications at The Pennsylvania State University, rhetoric has been responsible for a large part of... Read More