To the outsider, war means decisive troop movements, big battles, and death from field injuries. While Surgeon William M. Smith observed all of these, his diary also bears witness to confused troop movement, death by preventable... Read More

“Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language,“ writes Aldo Leopold in A Sand County Almanac (1948). The... Read More

To borrow one of the author’s own metaphors, this guide removes the literary “straitjacket” from the Shakespeare canon. Through careful, thoughtful, and objective illumination of the work, the man, the time period, and the people... Read More

“Look up and not down; Look forward and not back; Look out and not in; Lend a Hand.” This sentiment, from Edward Everett Hale, almost perfectly suits the author of Footnotes, except that in her case it would be “lend a foot,” for... Read More

In this carefully written, often wry and surreal, episodic first novel, the heroine realizes that she is so rarely herself that she fears she will become “this other person full-time.” Ariadne must recover herself without the aid of... Read More

It’s the number one health problem in America today, affecting over twenty million people and costing nearly forty-three billion dollars a year to treat. Whether labeled the doldrums, the blues, or bad hair days, depression must be... Read More

Amelia Earhart was not only a famous aviator and flight record-breaker, she was also a motivational speaker, devoted child, socialite, and feminist. The woman who most people think of as a tragic figure lost in her quest for aviation... Read More

Is society helping to prepare young adults for adulthood? The parent of two children and speaker for youth and volunteer organizations, Harris-Johnson has made sure that she has contributed to the welfare of African-American young people... Read More