High school seniors and their parents put a lot of money, time, and effort into choosing a college, and there are plenty of books available that give advice on how to dress up a high school transcript or college application, or how to... Read More

While there are many cookbooks that provide recipes suitable for feeding families, the library of cookbooks for single eaters is fairly small. Stephanie Bostic, a nutritionist at the Harvard School of Public Health, adds a new volume to... Read More

“In the United States alone 80% of those incarcerated have been in the foster care system. They lag behind their same-age peers by a year or more in school and even futher in terms of their emotional and behavioral controls … So how... Read More

As a book reviewer I am usually at once attending to both the words on the page and what should be said about them. With Twelve Breaths a Minute, however, I could not think beyond these essays. I could only read, unblinkingly, imagining... Read More

According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the average American family of four spends an estimated $700 per month on groceries. Many spenders are trying to wade through the recession by cutting back this amount, but they may wonder where... Read More

Thirty percent of heart attacks are fatal and modern medicine provides limited treatment for stroke cardiac disease and diabetes. Therefore prevention is crucial. Dr. Blair Beebe proposes that with a healthy diet and exercise the human... Read More

About 2.5 million weddings occur annually in the U.S., costing roughly $40 billion; wedding budgets often run as much as a new car or even a home down payment. To bring sanity back to wedding costs, Vivaldo, a Hollywood chef, caterer,... Read More

“All things being equal, Ritalin is nothing less than synthetic cocaine,” writes the author. Yet, this drug has been prescribed in record numbers to America’s youth, and is deemed an acceptable medication. More than one hundred... Read More