Though the media goes to town on each new drink or drug craze as though it were unique in human history, large-scale destructive binges are nothing new, and neither is governmental response via largely unworkable and often... Read More

“If I gave you God’s phone number, what would you do with it?” Call Him or Her? Put the number in a safe place? Many people would love to get answers to questions like “Why don’t You stop evil?” or “Did You plan this... Read More

Moments after she discovers her grandmother dead in the house they share, four- teen-year-old Miri Ortiz begs an adult male friend to take her in. She pitches him on marriage. When he declines, she makes another proposal: “ÔThen... Read More

When Eudora Welty died last year, American letters lost one of its greatest treasures. Welty has long attracted the attention of critics and scholars, but Marrs has authored the first full-length study to appear after her death,... Read More

The author has spent his life doing what most people only read about: living life to the fullest as an adventurer, prospector, hunter, private detective, and federal agent. He is not the only one to have done these things, but he is,... Read More

Roy “Little Jazz” Eldridge earned his nickname because of his diminutive size, but he is a giant in the jazz world. His trumpet stylings provide an important link between Louis Armstrong and Modernists like Dizzy Gillespie. Given... Read More

An attempt to “write the history of the science of the moment from the frontiers of research where history is being made” is a daunting enough task on its own, but to do so in a manner that is both accessible and fun for the general... Read More

A letter written to an ex-lover three days after the heart has been broken packs more punch than a letter written fifteen years later. Like such a letter, this book features sentiments brash, angered, wounded, disbelieving, and powerful.... Read More