“Alcoholic vagrants die sometimes on the streets of New York City. It’s not unusual,” colleagues tell Peter Branstead, a neurologist at St. Mark’s Hospital in Greenwich Village. But when homeless men continue to show up at his... Read More

The cause of America is in a great measure of all mankind. Many circumstances have and will arise which are not local but universal and through which the principles of all lovers of mankind are affected and are interested…Society in... Read More

“If there ever was a case for euthanasia this was one.” This is not the sort of statement a reader might expect to read in a book written by a kindly medical doctor. Yet in A Doctor’s Journey Dr. Bharwani reveals himself to be a... Read More

"Tipping Guide for Gratuitous Folks" goes a long way toward meeting its goal of helping readers develop a “tipping persona.” Whether generous or stingy each tipping decision should be based on reason but is often spur-of-the moment... Read More

If you be brave and try just once / I’ll fly right next to you. The reassurance of a mommy bird is the key to confidence as the time for first flight arrives. In a tree within sight of a mountain she coaches and models the steps for... Read More

Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is it is an intolerable thought that he and all other sentient beings are doomed to complete annihilation after such long-continued slow... Read More

“[i]Although the problem may be rooted in the past perception, the challenge is inspired by providence…. [U]nite and join forces for progress in love.”[/i] "Liberia Communication" recounts one influential electronics engineer’s... Read More

"Japanese Love Song" is a timely book filled with military insider knowledge but a love song it is not. The lives led by people in the military and those connected to them are at times plain wretched. But because we are once again in an... Read More