The Boy In The Back by Fern Lebo: A True Story of Survival in Auschwitz and Mauthausen tells the story of Jan Blumenstein. Jan was born in Nové Zámky, just like his father and his grandfather before him. Growing up, things were not rough for...

Toronto Graffiti by Yvette Farkas shows the human behind the artwork, giving rare insight into the movement that helped define the 1980s. This stunning book documents the oral history of this movement and how these artists shaped the landscape of Toronto with work that moved...

As part of his Ancient Wisdom series, author Neel Burton brings his wit and wisdom to German philosophy in The German Greeks. In addition to their philosophies, the author offers biographical profiles of Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche in chronological order, illustrating their influences...

The events that brought America into World War II now seem like a distant dream that quickly became a nightmare. The attack on Pearl Harbour in December 1941 turned the world upside down. What followed is described by Steven Burgauer in The Road to War:...

To See Far: Conflict and Cooperation on the Space Frontier by James Van Laak is a riveting insider's perspective of one of humanity's most challenging projects - the creation of the International Space Station under intense technical, political, and psychological pressure. As a former leader...

The Secret Code of the Gospels: The Earthly Story by Albert Seidel is a serious and scholarly effort to critically examine the Gospels of the New Testament. The author asks the pertinent questions: Did Jesus truly exist? Are the Gospels a truthful retelling of actual...

Thank You for the Shoes by Raffaela Marie Rizzo follows the life of Michelangelo Rizzo, a young boy growing up in the rough mountains of Calabria at the turn of the twentieth century. The story traces his father’s difficult decision to leave Italy for America...

The DiNardo family’s life in America didn’t start easily. In 1921, just after World War I, Ubaldo DiNardo, a war veteran, and his wife Marietta left Southern Italy to start over in the United States. Laws kept them apart for seven long years. Ubaldo went...

Three young rebellious artists established the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in London in 1848. Their names were Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, and William Holman Hunt. They rejected the rigidity of the Royal Academy's standards, which were rooted in the Italian High Renaissance. Rossetti, Millais, and...

David B. Oppenheimer’s The Diversity Principle: The Story of a Transformative Idea offers an intellectual history of how diversity came to be understood as a foundational value across education, law, science, and public life. Drawing on legal history, philosophy, and social science, Oppenheimer traces the...