Sex sells. Or, perhaps it would be more accurate to say that sex sells things. The saturation of our society with sex and sexuality is more a marketing tool than a wholesale breakdown in “family... Read More

George Erickson is a retired dentist with a love for bush flying and a dislike for faith-based religions. In his latest book, Eyes Wide Open, he displays his talents as a historian, philosopher, social commentator,... Read More

A Fiery Peace in a Cold War is the biography of a man, Bernard A. Schriever, who has profoundly affected the United States and the rest of the world since the early 1950s (he was... Read More

As the tide of secular self-awareness and public discussion of nonbelief rises, Phil Zuckerman's latest book, Society without God, is not only a major contribution to the study of irreligion and religion today, it is... Read More

FOREWORD by Howard Zinn Lillian Moats gives us, in The Letter from Death, a brilliant and strikingly original work of the imagination, drawing both on biblical scholarship and contemporary military doctrine, infused with wit and... Read More

From 1879 to 1883 Chile, Bolivia, and Peru fought the War of the Pacific. By the end of the hostilities (Chile won) 55,000 people had been killed or wounded. The aim of the combatants was... Read More

“Karma, dharma, pudding, and pie...” isn’t exactly how we remember the line read to us in our tender years. But then, nursery rhymes are no longer thought of in the same way either—as innocent little... Read More