Much like rock in earlier decades, punk, heavy metal, hip-hop, and other contemporary music genres channel public rage resulting from uncontrollable social and economic disruptions. Eric Weisbard has organized the Experience Music... Read More

Diplomacy requires new talking skills, creativity, and, most important, the ability of leaders to persuade their counterparts to support common goals in a post-Cold War world fraught with terrorism, nuclear proliferation, declining... Read More

Outrage and a growing failure of diplomacy best describe the relationship between the Muslim world and the West, especially following 9/11 and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan over this last decade. The author, an award-winning... Read More

Since 1985, when the author rescued a three-month-old golden retriever pup named Nicki, this raucous, loveable, and intelligent breed has enriched and shared the lives of Holli and her husband, Walter. The author’s love of animals was... Read More

“History is written by the victors, but to ignore the contributions made by losing presidential candidates is to warp our understanding of American history,” says the author in this enlightening and appealing narrative about... Read More

The seventies has recently been the subject of several good books, including this one, that show that the decade was much more complex than the failed presidencies of Nixon, Ford, and Carter and pulsating disco beats. This work covers... Read More

Near the end of this book, the author’s high school homeroom teacher asks how “the young man with the highest IQ in his room managed to graduate in the bottom three percent of his class.” Olsen replied, “It was a long story.”... Read More

Afghan poet Massoud Khalili lamented that the wars that plagued Afghanistan for more than thirty years likely drove the cranes away from their annual migration over his country. Edward Girardet, who put his own life at risk several times... Read More