A carefully annotated, definitive edition of a long-lost William S. Burroughs work, The Revised Boy Scout Manual is a scathingly humorous, often uncannily prescient guide to... Read More

Sandwiched between The Confessions of Saint Augustine (AD 398 and A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah (AD 2007) are thousands of memoirs. Both intimate and... Read More

The rediscovery of forgotten women writers leaps ahead with this biography of a woman whose life defied the idealized domesticity that confined late Victorian ladies. Like the... Read More

In 1909, the English press was abuzz with news about the libel trial of Cadbury Brothers vs. the London Standard newspaper. Cadbury, owned by the Quaker Cadbury family, had a... Read More

The idea of a pastoral golden age is as old as the oldest Western literature. The literature of the American heartland, the Midwest, while lacking the distinguished inheritance... Read More

In his fifth Ohio Amish mystery (following Clouds Without Rain and Cast Blue Shadow), the author probes the mechanics and fallout of rumschpringe, that indefinite period during... Read More

Frank and Joe Hardy have been solving mysteries as teenage detectives since 1926. The Hardy Boys books have sold more than fifty million copies, and new stories are being... Read More

Heraclitus believed that the conditions of man and nature are indisputably connected, that even opposing forces are linked in the grand scheme of things. This collection of... Read More

“Any company that gets a union deserves it, and you deserve the one you get.” That statement, made by labor expert Charles Hughes in 1977, typified the anti-union sentiment... Read More

In walking, you may encounter long-legged emus and even those huge black-winged, white-breasted red-wattled storks mingling with the chickens where corn is tossed in the yard.... Read More

People with autism can excel in an academic setting. Often intensely focused and detail-oriented, students with autism have advanced several fields of research. People with... Read More

“The ordinary novel would trace the history of the diamondÃ’but I say, Ódiamond, what! This is carbon.’ And my diamond might be coal or soot, and my theme is... Read More