by Laura | Feb 3, 2011
Like Elizabeth’s Gilbert’s previous memoir, the bestseller Eat, Pray, Love, Committed also begins in crisis. In EPL, she is leaving her first marriage—and ends on a happy note when she falls in love with Felipe, an older divorcee living in Brazil....
by Laura | Feb 3, 2011
After nearly 30 years as a marriage counselor, Gary Chapman has found that impasses in relationships usually boil down to the fact that the two people in it are not speaking the same language. Have I experienced that! Based on our temperament and background, Chapman...
by Laura | Feb 3, 2011
Though issues relating to marriage have seen much public debate of late, mostly marriage can be seen as a private contract between two people. In her ambitious and comprehensive study of marriage and its connection over the years to the American political and economic...
by Laura | Feb 3, 2011
Written before The God Delusion, The Greatest Show on Earth is Richard Dawkins’ effort to put to rest any lingering doubts as to whether evolution might be “just a theory.” Dawkins assembles a case for evolution that is encyclopedic in scope, but...
by Laura | Feb 3, 2011
The name Charles Darwin has become so embroiled in the current debate between evolution and creationism, it is easy to forget what a vivid travel memoir this earlier work is, and how nimbly its author integrates insights from biology, geology, and anthropology. There...
