This is a fast-paced search for great wealth starting in an unlikely setting of a Nevada ghost town. Ending in a dramatic chase across Europe. From the pursuit of clues…

An illuminating and timely follow up to Dancing with Broken Bones, all discussions revolve around the actual experiences of the patients previously documented, encouraging a greater understanding about the needs…

Attempts to re-humanize the inevitable biological occurrence called dying. This book says that through the advancement of medicalized technology, has come the demise of the contemporary dying process. The oncological…

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In 1980, more than 400,000 toxic waste sites existed across the United States. The Environmental Protection Agency declared 400 of these highly hazardous and in need of immediate attention. In…

David Kline has been called a twentieth-century Henry David Thoreau by his friends and contemporaries; an apt comparison given the quiet exuberance with which he records the quotidian goings-on on…

From the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner comes this surprising portrait of Wendell Willkie, the businessman-turned-presidential candidate who (almost) saved America’s dysfunctional political system.

The friendship of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr, noted US jurist, and the Irish clerical savant, Canon Patrick Sheehan, operated largely through these letters, written from 1903 until Sheehan’s death in…