Parnaz Foroutan’s "Home Is a Stranger" is a personal and political memoir about being a woman, and an Iranian American, in both the US and Iran. Foroutan left Iran when she was six, during the rise of Ayatollah Khomeni. She grew up in... Read More

"Why Are We Here?" synthesizes interdisciplinary sciences to explain how terrestrial life developed and what might threaten it in the future. Bruce Brodie’s fascinating "Why Are We Here?" sweeps the origin, evolution, and future of... Read More

"One Nurse Universe" is a wise, entertaining nurse’s memoir that reflects on changes in health care over the past fifty years. In Susan Turnage’s graphic and humorous memoir "One Nurse Universe", a lifetime of vignettes arc through... Read More