Private Military Corporations (PMCs) is the sanitized name for the mercenary armed forces that play strong and dangerous roles in wars throughout the world. Often these hired armies, when combined with the large number of support staff... Read More

Having a good working vocabulary is a skill that more and more people seem to lack in these days of instant messaging and blogging. But knowing the right words and how to use them properly can help a person sound more educated and even... Read More

To see a world in a Grain of Sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour. —William Blake William Blake was an English painter, engraver, and poet whose abilities were so defined... Read More

Workers can generate ideas for improvements that are useful, even innovative. Some organizations receive and utilize employee ideas with considerable success. Many more do not. The authors undertook a years-long international study of... Read More

“I don’t have enough time” has become a common excuse for busy Americans. It’s the reason people skip exercise, rarely share family meals, miss a child’s school play, bypass volunteer activities, eat fast food, and hire pet... Read More

This collection of twenty essays, articles, panel discussion transcripts, and interviews provides a fairly comprehensive examination of how the American record business has operated since it came into being, and of the sticky situation... Read More

In France, one of the first famous bearded ladies was Clémentine Delait: Being hirsute from an early age, she simply shaved until she and her husband visited a traveling circus. On spotting an inferior specimen of a hairy gal, she... Read More

For her first visit to Japan nearly two years ago, this Colorado author chose to follow the route taken by Isabella Lucy Bird, well-known nineteenth century British adventure writer. It seemed only fitting. Kaye, who first became... Read More