News flash for businesses: it’s downright profitable to make and keep your workers happy. With Dr. Angela Jackson.

Where have all the Democratic men gone? In How Democrats Can Win Back Men: Why Understanding Male Voters and Their Issues is Vital for Democratic Victory, Mark Sutton says the party needs to work to get them back.

Tales of San Francisco’s Coit Tower murals in all their glory, complete with history and controversy.

Elizabeth Rosner is the author of the thoughtful and engrossing book, Reflections on the Art and Science of Listening. It weaves together research on how we and all kinds of creatures listen and hear.

Bay Area author Nina Schuyler brings us her multi-prize-winning short story collection, In this Ravishing World. San Francisco denizens wrestle with life under a climate emergency, with cameo appearances by all-seeing Nature herself.

Amidst daily drama at San Francisco General Hospital, Dr. Dean David Schillinger learned the hard way that not learning each patient’s personal story can end in tragedy.

Drummer Jim Gordon brought his unique flair to megahits like Layla, God Only Knows, and Good Vibrations. Then mental illness drove him to kill his mother. Joel Selvin tells the tale with compassion, in painstaking detail.

Jessica Carew Kraft was the epitome of the Silicon Valley mom and tech professional: always moving, always doing, and surrounded by screens. She started researching another way to live.

Joy Neumeyer was a post-grad at UC Berkeley, where her loving partner, then became her abuser. Her book recounts her battle to free herself from physical and psychological torture.

Researcher and author Elizabeth Reed Aden makes her case for DNA-centered medicine with her murder mystery, “The Goldilocks Genome”. And she discusses her dad’s life work with health and wine.