Dr. Norman Rosenthal demystifies the practice and benefits of Transcendental Meditation for a general audience who may have heard about the method but do not necessarily know what it is, how it is learned, or what they stand to gain, in Transcendence. Then renowned criminologist Byron R. Johnson proves that religion can be a powerful antidote to crime in More God, Less Crime.

Prepare to be astonished, bewildered, and stupefied by the tantalizing tidbits of music history collected in Rick Beyer‘s The Greatest Music Stories Never Told.

In China, India and elsewhere, there is a preference for boys and  sex-selective abortions have played havoc with that balance. As a result, millions of women are missing from the population and generations of men won’t find mates. Mara Hvistendahl‘s book Unnatural Selection describes how the decision to choose a child’s sex led to this state.

In Sex, Mom & God, novelist and nonfiction author Frank Schaeffer tells “the truth” about his mother’s curious impartation of religion and sex.

This week marks the 40^th anniversary of Richard Nixon’s message to Congress launching the war on drugs but has anything changed? Did it produce a strategy for victory over what President Nixon called “America’s public enemy number one”? Eric Sterling, president of the Criminal Justice Policy Foundation joins us to talk about the successes and failures of the program.

Barack Obama has written extensively about his father, but little is known about his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, the fiercely independent woman who raised him, the person he credits for, as he says, “what is best in me.” Janny Scott’s,  A Singular Woman challenges the assumption of what it means to be a good mother.

Our system of justice rests on a simple proposition: that witnesses will raise their hands and tell the truth. In Tangled Webs, James B. Stewart reveals in vivid detail the consequences of the perjury epidemic that has swept our country, undermining the very foundation of our courts.

American law has become “the world’s thickest instruction manual,” says author and attorney Philip K.Howard who blasts excessively detailed, rigid government regulations that leave no room for judgment or discretion in The Death of Common Sense.

Bestselling author Michael Shermer presents his comprehensive theory on how beliefs are born, formed, nourished, reinforced, challenged, changed, and extinguished in The Believing Brain.