From the writer, director, and editor of Phantasm—the cult classic horror movie of 1979 and its sequels—comes this highly entertaining and motivational autobiographical account of Don Coscarelli’s filmmaking journey, True…
Climate Basics: Nothing to Fear
Want to understand the core of the essential global warming and climate change debate and why the climate alarmists are wrong? Pick this short yet highly informative book Climate Basics:…
University Inc.: The Corporate Corruption of Higher Education
The commercialization of higher education and its damaging effect on academic ethics has been a concerning observation for decades. It hasn’t gone unexplored in books and freelance journalist Jennifer Brown’s…
Floating Twigs
Floating Twigs is enthralling in its narration, compelling in its plot, heartbreaking in its honest exploration of human indifference…
The Seamless Web
What is a poem and how does one respond to it? This question is deep and it takes a Stanley Burnshaw to explore it inside-out, reaching the nooks and corners…
Rising from the Dead
We tend to think of medicine as a profession that saves life. But not many of us know that countless doctors working in the medical field themselves are dead—not physically…
The Saturday Wife
If I hadn’t read Naomi Ragen’s Chains Around the Grass, the title “The Saturday Wife” would have been a turn-off enough to make me pass on this book. Who wants…
The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe
There are books that you read and you get a whole new worldview owing to the nature of information contained and the excellence of narration via which the information is…
Wilde in America
David M. Friedman’s Wilde in America (Norton, 2014) serves a filling account of Oscar Wilde’s historical trip to America and its implications for both Wilde and America. Starting with Wilde’s…
Hiding in Unnatural Happiness
Hiding in Unnatural Happiness by Devamrita Swami is a fairly short book of essays and commentary that explore the foundation of happiness. The author introduces readers to the nature of…
The Archetype of the Number and Its Reflections in Contemporary Cosmology
Alain Negre’s The Archetype of the Number and its Reflections in Contemporary Cosmology explore a field of study that mainstream science has steered clear of and thus mainstream media also…
Parallel Universes: The Search for Other Worlds
Any detailed discussion of space-time in quantum physics and what it means in terms of classical physical world (one observable to us) is bound to get to the mind-boggling/weird side.…