While managers in companies large and small may be loathe to admit it, much of their time is likely spent on trying to prevent “wars at work,” as Kaveh Mir calls them. “Almost every workplace issue can be traced back to a clash... Read More

Fans of combat-based video games and action movies will find Peter Soronen’s The Vulture’s Crucible a satisfying read—one that’s focused on engagements between the Nazis and the British armed forces and Dutch resistance fighters.... Read More

The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism For The Twenty-First Century, by social and political activist Grace Lee Boggs, is a masterful weaving of history, philosophy, social justice, and activism. The author’s poignant... Read More

The mysteries of the Orient have captivated Westerners since Marco Polo returned from his travels to write about the wonders he experienced in China in the thirteenth century. The supposed inscrutability of Asians seems to provide... Read More

"In the Fringe" by Eleanor Summers purports to be a novel. But with its mix of fictionalization exposition and reliance on the twelve-step program of Alcoholics Anonymous for its structural backbone the book resonates more as a work of... Read More

Irish author John Rogers’ second novel "Blue Doors" is a pleasantly cozy romance about the business and domestic lives of an English couple. They meet in Liverpool court separate re-unite marry move to Belfast and eventually face the... Read More

Aside from the Harry Potter books, few recent series have sold as well as the Left Behind novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. In The New Brothers Grimm and Their Left Behind Fairy Tales, retired history professor David T. Morgan... Read More

It is estimated that, in 1958, 25 million hula-hoops were sold in the United States. This overpriced plastic hoop is a classic example of a fad—an event, idea, or object that goes through a fast and wild ride to popularity and an... Read More