Tag Archives: Nonfiction

Have We Come A Long Way Since Rosa Parks Sat Down?

Those with hope for the future of U.S. relations with the Islamic world may find Faith at War depressing.

I know my flaws - one-on-one, face-to-face communication is one, so this paperback was very interesting...

If you're looking for a Christmas present for an elderly female relative, this would be just the ticket.

The figure stalked once round the table, and then disappeared through the closet door, pulling it after him.

Is human nature today the same as it was 50, or 500, or 5,000 or 50,000 years ago?

Imagine you are a seven-year-old who's known years of escalating conflict, suddenly transported to an entirely foreign land.

Faster, faster, faster! That sometimes seems to be the mantra of friends, colleagues and advertisers. Get a faster computer. Get a faster car. And it’s also, appropriately, the title of a book by James Gleick, an author with the rare gift of making the complicated not only interesting and easy …

Bias disclosure: I generally do not like pop psychology/self-help books. Therefore, you probably should not be surprised that The Irritable Male Syndrome did not change my mind about the genre. I happened to see a blurb about The Irritable Male Syndrome in a magazine at about the time my family …

When CinemaScope arrived in the early 1950s, it was Hollywood’s effort to create more realistic film making by putting a wider image into a smaller area without significantly reducing the content or quality of the image. Live Fast, Die Young: The Wild Ride of Making Rebel Without a Cause takes …