After 9/11 the threat of global terrorism and its impact on business and economy became frighteningly clear, from stock market drops to effects on business operations and security. “Terrorists weaken industry and society,” writes the... Read More

In the introduction, Whitman scholar Robert MacIssac describes this book as “a dialogue of truth.” Less metaphorically, it is a three-part, two-person dramatization. The author is a poet and editor who founded the literary magazine,... Read More

Like the azure waters of the Aegean, this cookbook invites readers to dive in. When they do they’ll find refreshment and restoration. The author revitalizes readers with whole-hearted passion and unceasing hospitality through the Greek... Read More

This exceptional retelling is worth reading for one reason: it doesn’t merely tell the story of the “star-cross’d lovers”; it raises the curtain on the story of their story, too. The book opens as a play would. In lieu of a... Read More

Chantalene Morrell has been asked to help find her friend Thelma Patterson’s husband, a ranch hand who hasn’t been heard from in thirty years, since shortly after their wedding when Thelma was young. A representative from an oil... Read More

Why do people kill in the name of God? What would motivate people to strap bombs to their bodies and detonate them in crowded places? In this book, the author, retired faculty from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and an... Read More

Tour guide of the night Kenji realizes that all is not well with his latest job when a piece of burnt human skin ends up stuck to his front door—and that’s just the beginning of his problems. The twenty-year-old protagonist is a... Read More

“Next to Harry Truman, Stuart Symington was the man from Missouri,” says the author, president emeritus of the University of Missouri, in this scholarly yet accessible biography of one of the Senate’s most respected members. During... Read More