Authors Mark K. Claypool and John M. McLaughlin, PhD, wrote How Autism Is Reshaping Special Education: The Unbundling of IDEA (the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) "to paint an accurate portrait of autism and special education today,” but they do so much more. In anticipation...

HELP! My Child Hates School: An Awakened Parent’s Guide to Action by Mara Linaberger is dedicated to all parents who have to deal with their children hating school. Children are different and it is important for parents to first recognize what type of learner they...

A Purgatory of Misery: How Victorian Liberals Turned a Crisis into a Disaster by Frank Parker and Patrick Lillis has a comprehensive introduction that places the arrival of William the Conqueror in Britain in 1066, continues through the government of Oliver Cromwell to the restoration...

Innocent: A Spirit of Resilience by Kevin McLaughlin and Opwonya Innocent is set against the backdrop of the unrest in northern Uganda three years after Opwonya Innocent was born, which was amid the escalating war. His father was wrongfully convicted of treason and...

The Biography of Mose Jones Jr., Lawrence County Commissioner District 1: A Seed of the Foot Soldiers Bloody Sunday March and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by April Lavette Jones is the biography of a powerful man who spearheaded the civil rights movement in...

My American Dream and How it Ended is a memoir by Robert Goodman detailing his life growing up in a middle class family in  Beverly Hills during the 1940s and 1950s. Goodman details a modest home life and explores how his parents' childhood and Jewish...

Connecting the Dots to the Caliphate: A Primer for the Thinking Person by Shanbreen is an excellent book on the current state of affairs regarding terrorism in the world and its links with Islamic extremist groups. Clearly a lot of research and thought has gone...

If you decide to read The Hammer: Why Dogs Attack Us and How to Prevent It by Bryan Bailey, here’s some advice: 1) Keep a pen and paper beside you at all times to make notes. 2) Suspend all your warm, fuzzy feelings for dogs in general,...

Marissa F. Cohen has chosen an unusual way to share her own story, and that of twenty other victims/survivors of sexual abuse, or as she prefers to see them, “warriors,” in Breaking Through the Silence:The Journey to Surviving Sexual Assault. The author weaves the stories...

Compassionate Capitalism: The Intersection of Economic Growth and Social Justice by Gerard L. Hasenhuettl is a great book. It is an idea that society needs, but seems to always to be ignored because one of the ways capitalism is defined is greed; and greed is...