There is a common assumption that the more familiar a person is with a given subject the less objective he or she becomes in assessing it Earle Labor rsquo s new biography of Jack London represents a notable departure from this conventional wisdom After over 50 years of studying Jack London and t

Dr. Lloyd Sederer's 'The Family Guide to Mental Health Care.'

Thomas Dyja explores the cultural foundations of the ldquo American century rdquo in this engaging fast-paced and original account of mid-century Chicago The city was the breeding ground of American modernity from 1930 to 1960 according to Dyja Chicago was not only the country rsquo s railroad

In the years following World War II and continuing after the Second Vatican Council, to be an American Catholic novelist often meant to be lapsed.

Icons of Hope John Thiel rsquo s creative effort to explore Christian belief in eternal life is clearly the work of a major theological thinker Focusing on the eschata the classical four last things mdash heaven hell death and judgment mdash Thiel rejects Kant rsquo s position on the limitatio

Bishop Aloysius Jin Luxian has been one of the most important and controversial figures in modern Chinese Catholicism Born into a Catholic family in Shanghai in 1916 he was educated by the French Jesuits in that city and became a Jesuit himself living through a tumultuous time in China rsquo s hi