What really goes on behind the wall that surrounds the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis? What are all those midshipmen, future officers in the U.S. Naval and Marine Corps and leaders of our society, t
Fleming (English, US Naval Academy) takes on a topic that most readers probably don't think about much: the disconnect in understanding between the civilian world and the military. And, as he says, th
Why Liberals and Conservatives Clash offers an explanation for the extreme polarization between liberal and conservative that is the hallmark of the American political landscape today. It suggests tha
What's if Plato's Symposium took place in present-day America rather than ancient Athens? The Thanksgiving Symposium imagines this, and makes it happen. Like Plato's dialogue, The Thanksgiving Symposi
The Aesthetic Sense of Life is a fast-moving book about how to see the world and get value from living every day with the "everyday." Do the infinite number of sensations we're surrounded with every d
Running feels good. It also centers the runner in the world, solves the problems implied by the Cartesian split between body and soul, and establishes an active relationship between the self and othe
Literary theory of the twentieth century in the Anglo-American tradition forms a coherent whole, dividing into discrete clusters. This theory is riddled with purely logical problems inherent in its en
Including such delightfully disturbing creations as Stabbing Cupcakes, Creepy Clown and Roach Motel, this darkly humorous cookbook from an innovative Californian cake maker who has appeared on The Foo
