When a mother holds her newborn in her arms, she doesn’t ask herself “How will I survive his teenage years?” That thought does start to cross her mind, though, shortly after her toddler’s first “No!” When those worries begin... Read More

First things first: this book is not really “about” the French Navy; in fact, it’s a full-dress history of the Seven Years War as a whole, from the French perspective. The title is not a complete misnomer, however, inasmuch as the... Read More

The highly technical field of animation is the author/artist’s latest subject in this book, which covers everything that the aspiring animator needs, from finding a character to music and timing. While drawing for comics, manga, and... Read More

Lady Liberty, the piercing goddess and defender of this planet’s most fabled city, stands alone, torch ablaze, illuminating the hopes of humanity while guiding millions who are following their quest towards her protected shores. In one... Read More

Mandarin Matches. The roster of exceptional pairings, from Fred and Ginger to peanut butter and chocolate, shouldn’t make such a fuss over the relationship between wine and food. Clever chefs and sommeliers know that adding a... Read More

The traditional explanation that America was drawn inevitably into the Vietnam quagmire because it was a critical front in the cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union is challenged convincingly in these two important... Read More

“I am having a hideous time here. I feel like Saint Sebastian, stuck full of arrows that people are firing at me,” wrote Abbott Lawrence Lowell, president of Harvard, in 1923 when including black students in freshman dormitories was... Read More

What if a well-known witch with more than twenty years of experience in witchcraft and more than fifty-three covens in her Clan allowed readers to take a peek inside her own personal notebooks, her own path, revealing what magic worked... Read More