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The author reveals the fantastic benefits of the AIDS epidemic and traces the source of the disease to the government's war on cancer--specifically, the development of immunosuppressive viruses and the documented testing of monkey cancer viruses in human subjects.

With deep understanding and practical wisdom, Linda Leonard writes about the longing for a true wedding, one that unites two beings in a sacred search for meaning in life. Exploring dreams, personal experiences, myths and fairy tales, and themes from films and literature, the author uncovers the inner obstacles to love and creativity as experienced by both men and women.

The author of The Future of the Body and the author of Mastery team up to present a proven method for reaching the next stage of human development.Can people with the time-and energy-consuming concerns of job and family find a way to transform their lives through a regular, long-term program of body/mind/spirit development? Is it possible, through conscious choice, to participate in the next step of human evolution? Two of the most distinguish...

The fastest wit in the East" ("The New York Times Book Review") is back with his off-beat, wide-ranging style. Now, with an eye to the social and political experience of writers, Leonard adopts a broad definition of exile and explores Primo Levi's exile of survival, Bruce Chatwin's self-imposed exile in travel, as well as the work of Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison, Phillip Roth, Barbara Kingsolver, and Don DeLillo, among others.

Drawing on the expertise of pediatricians, gynecologists, and family therapists, as well as the anecdotes of mothers, this book explores both the psychological and physiological aspects of having a second child. It covers how to prepare for a different pregnancy and birth, the older child, and changes in the marriage.

A young girl camps out in her bedroom and is joined by her mother.

Twin brothers play ball with their dog Slim.

This extensive resource traces significant aspects of Baptist history from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries. It surveys basic beliefs, events, and experiences evident in Baptist communities. Leonard explores the effect of the Baptist identity on not just America, but on the world, and includes the emergence of English, British, Irish, and Caribbean Baptists, to name a few. Also skillfully covered is the influence of the Baptist ...

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This collection of essays by the author of "Smoke and Mirrors" covers everything from America's fear and loathing of the sixties to Nixon's secret love affair with Elvis, from the Reagan gerontocracy's "theology of greed" to the Gulf War "turkey shoot", from riots in Los Angeles to "ethnic cleansing" at the 1992 Republican Convention.

Essays (with) everything that counts: wisdom, passion, and most of all, the generosity of great criticism" (San Francisco Chronicle), on everything from Nixon's secret love affair with Elvis to the Reagan gerontocracy's "theology of greed" to assessments of writers as diverse as Toni Morrison and Gunter Grass.

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In hindsight, lingerie model Kelly Barr realizes it was a very bad idea to accompany her call girl roommate, Chloe, to Tony Paradiso’s palatial Detroit home. A wealthy eighty-four-year-old ex–Motor City lawyer, “Mr. Paradise” enjoys watching old Michigan football games on TV while a sexy companion prances around his bedroom topless in a cheerleader outfit. On this particular night, however, two intruders decide to join the party, leaving Chloe...

Ironworker Wayne Colson has come to the real estate office where his wife, Carmen, works at the worst possible time: while Ojibway Indian hit man Armand Degas and loose cannon Richie Nix are there to shake down Carmen’s boss. Unable to help himself, Wayne steps into harm’s way . . . and sends the two malefactors out the door bleeding. Now the shooter-for-hire and his ex-con partner are after the Colsons and there’s little the state police and ...

Way back when revolution was the thing, bombs were Robin Abbott and Skip Gibbs’s bag—until their explosive “freedom of expression” was curtailed by some considerable prison time. Now the ex-SDSers are back out in the material world and looking to put their pyrotechnic skills to more profitable use. Their target is Woody Ricks, a dope-addled Detroit “rich kid” and aging former fellow radical who Robin thinks ratted them out to the Feds. But Mot...

Working at his brother-in-law’s New Orleans funeral home isn’t reformed jewel thief Jack Delaney’s idea of excitement—until he’s dispatched to a leper’s hospital to pick up a corpse that turns out to be very much alive . . . and under the care of a beautiful, radical ex-nun in designer jeans. The “deceased” is the one-time squeeze of a Nicaraguan colonel who’s ordered her dead for trying to infect him, and Sister Lucy’s looking to spirit the y...

Ordell “Whitebread” Robbie makes a fine living selling illegal high-powered weaponry to the wrong people. Jackie Burke couriers Ordell’s profits from Freeport to Miami. But the feds are on to Jackie—and now the aging but still hot flight attendant will have to do prison time or play ball, which makes her a prime “loose end” that Ordell needs to tie up permanently. Jackie, however, has other options. And with the help of Max Cherry—an honest bu...