prometheus

Highlights a little-known expedition of General George Custer to the Black Hills of South Dakota, showing how it set the stage for later conflict w...

English biologist Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-95) was the foremost advocate of Darwin's theory of evolution, which he was "prepared to go to the stak...

Addiction is not the end of the story, it can be the turning point.For too long, addiction has been seen as a moral failing to punish or a chronic ...

Trigger Words examines how language in the United States has been manipulated and politicized to sow division and dehumanization, rather than to en...

A Next Big Idea Club Top 25 Non-Fiction Book of 2024​!"Maggie Jackson’s incisive and timely book is a provocative exploration of the surprising ben...

In Variations on Life After 50, author Jill Timmons provides a new road map for those entering the middle stages of their lives, melding simultaneo...

In this wide-ranging collection of insightful, controversial, and often-witty essays, the renowned author of Why I Am Not a Muslim has created a re...

Sheryl Sandberg advises women to "lean in" to realize their full potential. To do so successfully, women need effective communication skills and a ...

For many millions of Muslims there is one and only one true Koran that offers the word of Allah to the faithful. Few Muslims realize, however, that...

Joined by his colleague Raymond J. Yeager, renowned therapist Albert Ellis explains the revolutionary technique of rational-emotive therapy (RET) a...

Philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein had an enormous influence on twentieth-century philosophy even though only one of his works, the famous Tractatus L...