With a credible civilization dating to prehistoric times, it is no surprise that China is responsible for an astounding number of ideas and inventions. In this third book in the We Thought of It series (projects on Inuit and Native... Read More

In mid-1995, baseball seemed to be finished as the nation’s pastime. A devastating strike ended the 1994 season in mid-August, and no one wanted anything to do with the replacement players that were trotted out for the following Spring... Read More

Filled with strangely dysfunctional people, this unusual novel careens from Baltimore to Colorado and back again as two women struggle over possession of five-year-old Emily. She is an out-of-wedlock child whose mother, Bernice, gave her... Read More

The Sunshine State is best known for its beaches and theme parks, but it is also home to 1.75 million head of cattle. In "Florida Cowboys", photographer Carlton Ward, Jr., gives the Florida rancher’s lifestyle and landscape a long and... Read More

“These are the gifts that last,” Shetterly writes. “Small, easy as breathingÂ…they sink beneath what we think they remember, what we think we know.” Her book is full of such gifts—carefully grafted gems of hard-won knowledge... Read More

In the early 1600s, in the beginning of the Edo period in Japan, nearly all suitable land had been opened to cultivation; soils were beginning to exhaust and forests were showing substantial signs of degradation. The population was 12... Read More

The sudden downfall of Agriprocessors, the kosher meat processing plant owned by Orthodox Jew Aaron Rubashkin, exposed the maltreatment of both animals and human beings. First, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) released... Read More

Bright Triumphs from Dark Hours aims to empower the fatigued spirit with stories of ten relentlessly driven individuals who rose from the lowest points in their lives to bravely forge new paths toward personal and professional success.... Read More