A poet, journalist, and key leader in Peru’s American Popular Revolutionary Alliance, Magda Portal was nicknamed by her opponents as a “Most Scandalous Woman.” Myrna Ivonne Wallace Fuentes looks at both Portal’s life and her work... Read More

There are cookbooks from which one simply cooks the recipes, and cookbooks like Chef Sherman’s, from which one learns how and why to cook. Chef Sean Sherman’s The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen is the culmination of years of... Read More

"Flora of Middle-Earth" resides at the intersection of the mundane and the fantastical. An ambitious labor of love, Flora of Middle-Earth: Plants of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Legendarium, by Walter S. Judd and Graham A. Judd, marries science... Read More

Ley was a pioneer of both scientific exploration and widespread media entertainment; this biography gives the visionary his due. Willy Ley: Prophet of the Space Age, by Jared S. Buss, is a dynamic biography of a remarkable scientific... Read More

Told with a clear eye and an articulate pen, Russia’s Dead End is an honest look at a great nation that continues to suffer under a barbaric regime. Winston Churchill once described the Soviet Union as a “riddle wrapped in a mystery... Read More

"The Sign of the End of the Age" offers a well-grounded take on what Jesus may have meant when he offered his prophetic words. Paul Kalbach’s "The Sign of the End of the Age" offers methodical biblical scholarship about a... Read More

"PTL" is a fascinating study of the ignominious collapse of an evangelical empire. John Wigger’s "PTL" covers the famed Christian media empire of Tammy Faye and Jim Bakker. Theirs is a story of tremendous inventiveness, and of an even... Read More

Little’s is, above all, a human story about a man who fought for justice and fair treatment for workers. Both a work of history and biography, Jane Little Botkin’s "Frank Little and the IWW" views the early days of the US labor... Read More