Today’s technology is awe-inspiring. Our gadgets and doodads may be user-friendly, but the majority of us cannot explain or understand the science behind their functioning. We take their operation at face value: when we push a button,... Read More

Zaher Abed an Egyptian-American offers his personal account of life in America. He begins with the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and continues through the autumn of 2004. Abed’s “observations and reflections on the American Society”... Read More

Illnesses occur randomly as do the questions selected to test medical students residents and doctors for board certification or recertification. The author designed "Random Musings in Psychiatry" as a quick-reference aid for psychiatric... Read More

“All poetry is personal experience and thought processed through a unique filter of being” poet Steven Paul Pody writes; yet one of his stated goals for this volume of collected works spanning thirty-nine years of his life is to... Read More

“Now who would like to become a priest or a nun when you grow up?” the priest asked a second grade class at St John’s Elementary School in 1962. All the children raised their hands or “flippers” as the author wryly calls them.... Read More

“Sam wondered if the old man’s mouth and tongue would soak the beer in before he could swallow” the author writes. “Everything about the man seemed dry. Even his eyes seemed waterless slowly closing as the cold beer ran down his... Read More

David J. Phillips who has three degrees from Oxford and forty years of managerial experience adds his knowledge to the debate over America’s current status as an economic super-power. The major problem he writes is that the “USA is... Read More

"Surface Tension" tackles that greatest of mysteries: the male—female relationship. Only a former professor of psychology would have the guts to openly acknowledge such a project. True most poets can’t avoid the subject of love but... Read More