Avoiding cynicism and turning feverishly to the bright side requires an adjustment in attitude, but also a willingness to look at life with a selective eye. This shedding away of all that goes wrong in the everyday to make way for the... Read More

With political tension, dangerous pirates, and ventures into unknown lands, Malcolm Mills’s "Beyond the Shickshock Mountains" is a vivid historical fiction following three men in the Talon family as they fight against injustice and... Read More

Author Michael Parenti offers compelling historical evidence that the world’s religions have “served as instruments for promoting intolerance, autocracy, and atrocity,” and details how, in order to cope with “the brutish... Read More

“Many religions can be valid paths to spirituality Christianity just happens to be the one that I have gotten to know the best have chosen as my personal path and feel most qualified to discuss” Thomas Beardshall informs readers in... Read More

On September 11 2001 the Twin Towers in New York City were destroyed by two planes hijacked by terrorists. This atrocity perpetuated an iconoclasm that completely changed the sixty-year isolationist and untouchable feeling of the... Read More

Harry Houdini declared that false mediums had plans to do him in, that they would go to any ends to stop him. “When I die,” Houdini was often quoted as saying, “the fraudulent mediums will declare the day a national holiday.”... Read More

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then Americans’ standards of what’s desirable are only skin deep. That merging of clichés summarizes this collection of scholarly essays on skin color and its effect on societal norms in the... Read More

When television made its ballyhooed debut for the general public at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York, could anyone have dreamed how much it would grow in such a relatively short time? It quickly developed from a commodity that only... Read More