Hindsight is said to be 20/20, but in matters of public health policy our communal vision may be blurred even sixty years later. DDT (dichloro-diphenyl-trichlorethane) has been banned in the U.S. since 1972 but debate about the benefits... Read More

What separates the United States in its treatment of its alleged enemies from the tyrannical dictatorships that are its enemies? According to public defender and first-time author Steven Wax: precious little. Wax, who was part of the... Read More

Be it for reasons of lawn care a reliable handyman or simple downsizing everyone’s got their reason for buying a condo. US census statistics from 1990 list 4847921 condo owners a fifth of those in Florida. The first condo built on... Read More

Rubber snakes, toy mice, chocolate-covered worms—the trappings of a successful practical joke, right? Wrong! Third-grader Robert Dorfman’s teacher, Mrs. Bernthal, has had enough. The rubber-snake prank earns the class an extra... Read More

This book deals with the important subject of children who have dysfunction of sensory integration. Co-author Ayres, a sensory integration pioneer, is the “Jean” of the title, which refers to the way she signed her letters to her... Read More

Divine Directions: “What would you do if you knew that the place inside you that held the answers to life’s questions was consistent and reliably accessible?” With a step-by-step guide, some might find that they can achieve... Read More

During the hotly contested 1998 Minnesota gubernatorial election, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton travelled to the state to stump for Democratic Farm Labor candidate Skip Humphrey. She described Reform Party candidate Jesse Ventura’s... Read More

Few seventeen-year-olds have the chance to stand at the cusp of history, but the author belongs to this select group. Knowlton brings a youthful eye-tempered by maturity-to this memoir of traveling through China in the summer of 1948, a... Read More