Every so often a book comes along that so illuminates a particular idea or subject as to make it crystalline. This is one. Markale cuts to the heart of what is known, believed, suspected, misconceived and otherwise attached to the... Read More

A surprising look at something most people take for granted, Talk Is Not Cheap discusses interpersonal communication. There’s nothing cliché about this book on improving one’s personal communication skills—there is so much yet to... Read More

Talking to rattle snakes is a lot like marriage. “The essentials are inner and outer positive communication, common sense, and respect.” In her first book, Celebrating The Coyote, Waters presents a journey through time and space, as... Read More

Remember standing out in a warm spring rain, catching raindrops on your tongue? The opening of Baskwill and Fiore’s gentle ode to the Earth will reawaken that memory. As she did in her ABA Pick of the Lists title, Somewhere, Baskwill... Read More

A child worries about what games she will play that day. A woman worries about tomorrow and the days that follow. These words summarize the two ends of thriteen-year-old Charlotte Baxter’s journey. She has been transferred from her... Read More

A leading critic and art historian, Nochlin has contributed to the fields of feminism and art theory with previous books like Women, Art and Power and Other Essays and The Politics of Vision. In this work, she again raises the level of... Read More

With similar timeless presence (in terms of location, if nothing else) the stark figures which haunt the cave of Lascaux and the secure pastels of countless hotel walls share an unlikely address: both are, by definition, paintings.... Read More

No other region of the United States captures the imagination like the West. From the stunning landscape photography of Ansel Adams that adorns so many suburban living room walls, to the ubiquitous consumer culture icon the Marlboro Man,... Read More