The current state of American politics is just a mess. There’s a clear divide between the party lines, and even within each party, there are divisions. Instead of getting sucked into the endless political culture wars amplified by the media, Bernie follows the money. He shows us it’s the uber wealthy and mega corporations that…
You might disagree about who is the best Star Trek captain. Many say Kirk and a vocal few would say Sisco, but I don’t think many people would disagree that the best actor to play a Star Trek captain is Patrick Stewart. His memoir “Making it So” describes his long road from a poor childhood…
Becoming Supernatural is Joe Dispenza’s combination of neuroscience and quantum physics with consciousness and healing. It’s best to go into a book like this with an open mind, but don’t follow it like a religion. Learning how to meditate, being more present, awareness, and breathing correctly, are skills anyone can learn to improve their lives…
Have you seen the new Ridley Scott Napoleon movie and are wondering how much of it is true, but don’t want to spend the next month reading a thousand-page biography? David Bell’s “Napoleon: A Concise Biography” is the perfect book for you. Writing at a brisk pace and covering everything from the famous general’s early…
If you decide to get this book, you have to get the audio version. Arnold does the narration and gives the book life and emphasis. Don’t expect any life-changing information or secrets here though. Arnold’s an actor, performer, politician, and salesman. But if you take a light-hearted approach to Be Useful, it’ll be short and…
If he is remembered by the general public for anything today, the once-notorious Emperor Elagabalas is known as the subject of the painting “The Roses of Heliogabalus” by Lawrence Alma-Tadema. It portrays a famous scene described in the Historia Augusta. This most decadent of emperors hosted a lavish banquet and topped it off by releasing…
Many people are familiar with grand historical narratives that examine large trends: think the fall of Rome or the development of the industrial revolution. Another approach to historical research is called micro history, which seeks to understand big issues by focusing on small, discrete events. One of the pioneering works in this field is “The…
In the preface to her book “Helena Augusta: Mother of the Empire,” Julia Hillner notes the difficulty inherent in writing a history about someone best known for having done something she did not do: discover the true cross. She stresses that, unlike so many others, she did not want to write a book about the…