Daunting, almost. Far broader, studied and wittily annotated than one might ever imagine for the subject. No whimsy here. Nor is there a provincial slant betraying the author as some wine or food industry insider with an eye on... Read More

An anonymous quote opens this book and succinctly summarizes why Powerful Planning Skills will prove useful: “To do great, two things are necessary: a plan and not quite enough time.” This book is for those who suffer from the latter... Read More

By the late 20th Century, we are all chimeras, mythic hybrids of machine and organism, in short, cyborgs. Arcing from a 1983 version of the classic essay “A Cyborg Manifesto,” flow the words of Haraway, a renaissance matron of... Read More

Watching the local Indians dressed in J.C. Penney cowboy clothes as they comfortably sat alongside the white ranchers at saloons and craps tables, Liebling didn’t expect to find controversy brewing on the shores of Pyramid Lake just... Read More

Jon Vickers played the most demanding of operatic hero roles brilliantly. In a career spanning over thirty-five years, he was Aeneas, Otello, Parsifal, Tristan and Peter Grimes injecting into each role an emotional, intellectual and... Read More

Most people know the classic schoolyard rhyme about how to differentiate the sexes—boys possess the odd combination of snips, snails and puppy dog tails, but girls are made of kinder stuff, with sugar and spice and everything nice.... Read More

Small town America has a reputation for peace, quiet and simplicity. Yet beneath the deceptive calm of a small town seethes all kinds of emotions, ranging from passion to envy to bitterness. Grace Metalious? classic potboiler Peyton... Read More

Treading the tepid waters of its own psychology, science—with its proud progeny of method and laws—is met with an unfamiliar reflection in The Gendered Atom, as the waterwings of its unchallenged heritage are stripped away. Routing... Read More