This sexy book could well have been titled The History of Erotic Advertising. The author, advertising professor at the University of Alabama, explores with zest, acuity, and... Read More

Consultants seem to have taken over the business world. They are hired by businesses to tell them what to do and how to do it, and then get paid by businesses to do it for them.... Read More

For some, love may be full of hearts and stars, but for evolutionary psychologists like the author, it’s mainly a stew of neurons, genes, and hormones. In this work on how... Read More

When attorney Robert Shapiro asked Henry Lee to help his team clear O.J. Simpson of murder charges during what even then was already being called “the trial of the century,”... Read More

Apathy, cynicism, and low voter turnout are the responses of the American public to its money-driven elections, which result in the rule of the rich over the middle and lower... Read More

This book was a labor of love for the author, a science writer best known for co-discovering the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet. He establishes in the preface that poetry and stargazing... Read More

One day in the mid-1970s a group of tabloid writers and editors were drinking at a dingy Chicago bar. They worked for the National News Extra, the tabloid that on Dec. 8, 1974... Read More

Freud’s vision of psychoanalysis as a means of transforming society has failed. Destructive behavior and evil still flourish a century after his theories first attempted to... Read More

In 1919, the results of two expeditions observing an eclipse were presented at a joint meeting of the Royal Society and the Royal Astronomical Society. These results verified... Read More

If psychotherapist Janov had his way, the fetus, not the child, would be father of the man. He believes that love or its lack thereof in the early stages of life engraves a... Read More

Appreciation and worship in the Western world of a Goddess, rather than a Judeo-Christian God, is not a new idea. Boston College’s Mary Daly has written for decades about... Read More

Forget the devil. Blame the brain. That’s what business consultant and popular psychology writer Weiner might say to those who wonder what makes a normal person occasionally... Read More