Edward F. Misak, president of Torch Press, stands in the Torch library in January 1957, holding some of the fine books published by the Cedar Rapids company on its 50th anniversary.

It was the second time Mills participated in the torch tradition, which was created by the Bates Outing Club in 1958, when then-Maine Gov. Ed Muskie ’36 lit the torch to kick off that year’s ...

In a wide-ranging new book, the scholar Jackson Lears locates a “countercultural” hunger for vigor and spontaneity on the trading floor, the dance floor and beyond.

Wish Book for Animal Assisted Happiness. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group) It benefits the volunteers, too, offering teens a sense of independence, as well as fun.

In The Book of Animal Secrets, visionary physician and biomedical researcher David B. Agus, MD, explores all these ways--and more--that we can harness the wonders of the animal kingdom in our own ...

Ramona Ausubel, the award-winning author of "Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty," returns with "The Last Animal" (Riverhead Books), her buoyant take on "Jurassic Park," about the surprising ...

NONFICTION. Meet the Neighbors: Animal Minds and Life in a More-Than-Human World by Brandon Keim. W. W. Norton, 2024 ($29.99). Anyone who follows stories of animal intelligence will have heard of ...

The animals are set to visit next week. Special Olympics torch Law enforcement members are running and carrying a torch for the Special Olympics, in Washington, Saratoga and Warren counties.

Ramona Ausubel's tale has a very recognizable family nucleus — a mother and her two teenage daughters, bound by blood yet fractured by tragedy. But it soars in its addition of an animal element.

Josh Gabbatiss began scribbling down animals as a child and has now completed his index (Picture: PA) A man who began drawing his own book of animals when he was a child has finally completed it ...

Animal shelters across Northern California are full of dogs and cats in need of adoption.For a Sacramento author, she took the desire to help those animals and channeled it into a new children's ...