Calumet Editions

  • From Primates to Politicians

    From Primates to Politicians

    From Primates to Politicians traces politics to its atavistic roots in human evolution, explaining how survival instincts, status competition, and resource struggle shape modern behavior. Juan Manuel Muñoz examines politics as a marketplace dominated by economic elites and political marketing—an arena of distortion we’ve learned to tolerate. In three parts, he surveys primatology, evolution, and power relations; unpacks the evolution of societies and the foundations of conservatism and liberalism; and presents an “evolutionary theory of politics,” applying it to current events and global forecasts.
    takes you into… the interaction of the natural sciences with the political science
    –Maria Lim, review on Amazon

  • From Vladimir to Vladimir

    From Vladimir to Vladimir

    From Vladimir to Vladimir traces Russia and Ukraine’s tangled bond from Prince Vladimir of Kiev and the Kievan Rus’ (879–1240) to Russia’s February 2022 invasion. Vicchio highlights overlooked links and Ukraine’s repeated subjugations—Mongols, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and Russian annexation in 1792—then follows nations through wars, Soviet era, and post-1991 independence.

  • Gaza

    Gaza

    Hamas entered southern Israel on October 7, killing Israeli soldiers and civilians. Israel retaliated, killing upward of 38,000 Palestinians and wounding some 80,000 others. For decades, the plight of the Palestinian people has been ignored. Hamas’s actions and Israel’s response have put issues of apartheid, genocide and famine front and center. Students and activists from around the world have taken up the Palestinian cause and selflessly made it their own.

    Sultan has taken her experience and transported us into the region to better understand its complexities.

    —Jack Rice, ex-CIA officer

  • Getting to Know Your Child's Brain

    Getting to Know Your Child’s Brain

    Over the last ten to twenty years, a lot of progress has been made in understanding brain development. There is still a lot to be learned, but much of what has been discovered remains in scholarly journals inaccessible to many parents. This book provides basic, up-to-date information about brain development that is concise, easy to read and full of helpful advice to parents who want to raise positive, happy children.

    What is so great is that she explains so you can actually understand how it all works.

    —Julie Stewart
  • Ghosts & UFOs

    Ghosts & UFOs

    Are ghosts and UFOs the same? This revealing book contains full explanations of how ghosts and UFOs identically move, communicate, use energy, are physical and nonphysical, and intertwine themselves with the history of humanity. Adrian Lee has brought the last two great unknown phenomena into the canon of mankind together with new and groundbreaking theories in quantum physics and collective consciousness.

    This book had me hooked from the beginning.

    —Kisa Meehan on Amazon

  • Ghosts of the US-Dakota War 1862

    Ghosts of the US-Dakota War 1862

    Join ghost hunter and historian Adrian Lee, along with his elite team of paranormal investigators, on a compelling tour of the most haunted historic places of the US-Dakota War. His chilling firsthand investigations, accompanied by rich historical details, will send shivers down your spine as he recovers history from the lips of the dead.

    worth multiple reads… a spectacularly detailed and poignant account of this sad series of events

    —Amazon reader

  • Hanging the Mirror

    Hanging the Mirror

    Hanging the Mirror: The Discipline of Reflective Leadership goes beyond standard management advice to examine how leaders’ values and assumptions drive their behavior. Drawing on behavioral research and twenty-five years of consulting, it challenges readers to rethink entrenched patterns through ongoing reflection—because lasting leadership transformation is earned, not quick-fixed.

    Deftly written and researched, perceptive and relevant, an important addition to leadership literature.

    —KIRKUS REVIEWS

  • Hannah and Martin

    Hannah and Martin

    Hannah & Martin is a dramatized play about the fraught philosophical and romantic entanglement between Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger. Set against questions of being, truth, and ethics, it confronts the tension between Arendt’s Jewish identity and Heidegger’s Nazi affiliation. Stephen Vicchio uses their relationship to probe the moral stakes of ideas. Complementing the drama are essays exploring human suffering, love in classical and Christian traditions, and the ethical implications of philosophical thought—inviting readers to consider how personal history shapes morality and existence.

  • Headspace Habits

    Headspace Habits

    Many people face hardships that demand new skills to heal and thrive yet lack the time or resources for therapy. Headspace Habits: Advice from Zoomers to Boomers offers practical, research-based steps to calm your “headspace” and build everyday peace. Through self-assessments, real-life stories, and proven strategies, it shows how people turned adversity into healthier habits. Drawing on insights from 400+ individuals ages 22 to 82—Gen Z through Boomers—plus psychologist-recommended tools, it strengthens well-being and relationships with “tried and true” guidance.

    practical strategies for anyone seeking to rediscover joy amidst ongoing challenges

    —Ronn Haart, review on Amazon

  • Hell

    Hell

    This book traces the history of an idea: hell and punishment after death. It surveys ancient and medieval perspectives, then examines how Judaism, Christianity, and Islam understand hell in the modern era. Appendices explore key foreign terms, concepts such as levels of hell, and artistic portrayals of the afterlife across the centuries.

  • How to Be a Christian Psychic

    How to Be a Christian Psychic

    Historian and psychic investigator Adrian Lee digs into religious beliefs that appear on the surface to denounce the work of mediums, healers, and psychics. He explains these passages clearly and in historical context, challenging Christians to understand the deeper meanings and various settings in which these passages were intended to apply, so that the Bible’s true message can emerge.

    every Christian needs to read this book

    —Reader on Amazon UK

  • How to Save the World

    How to Save the World

    If you’re asked to donate ten times a week—to schools, churches, food shelves, shelters, and global nonprofits—you’ve likely wondered how to choose wisely with a limited giving budget. This practical guide offers clear criteria for evaluating a nonprofit’s mission, leadership, effectiveness, and real-world impact. It explains how nonprofits operate, where they succeed or struggle, and what “progress on the mission” truly means. You’ll learn to prioritize requests, separate the wheat from the chaff, and build a donations plan aligned with your values.

    spotlights how to help the millions of desperate people in the world

    —Michael Quinn Patton, Founder and Director, Utilization-Focused Evaluation
  • Humanity Coming of Age

    Humanity Coming of Age

    Humanity Coming of Age offers a systemic, nonpolitical blueprint for peace and global harmony drawn from the world’s great wisdom traditions. The authors argue this timeless plan has emerged gradually as human understanding has matured—and that the moment has arrived to apply its rational principles to transcend division and build a more just world. The book contends humanity’s “coming of age” has already begun.

  • ICE OUT

    ICE OUT

    An anthology of poetry and short prose by Minnesota writers responding to the brutality and atrocities committed by ICE agents during the US government’s so-called ‘surge’ into Minneapolis to allegedly rid the city of criminal illegal immigrants.

  • In the Cobwebs of My Mind

    In the Cobwebs of My Mind

    Inspired by an essay written in early recovery after Megan Bacigalupo survived a spontaneous ruptured brain hemorrhage, In the Cobwebs of My Mind becomes a vivid, theatrical, avant-garde healing journey. Teetering between ghost-dancing hallucinations and the daily rituals of hospital life—staff, family, friends—it offers a poetic, imaginative ride through two worlds, rich with possibility and hard-won hope.

    That this eclectic soul was able to remember the juxtaposed visions and hallucinations is our gift.

    —Tim Miejan, editor of The Edge (1996–2020)
  • Israeli and Palestinian Voices

    Israeli and Palestinian Voices

    After her award-winning memoir A Beirut Heart, Cathy Sultan continues her quest to illuminate the Middle East in Israeli and Palestinian Voices: A Dialogue with Both Sides. Part adventure, part history, and part travelogue, the book features firsthand interviews Sultan conducted in tense, sometimes dangerous settings. Her cinematic escape from Ramallah into East Jerusalem ahead of a military assault is unforgettable. Through poignant—and at times frightening—voices of ordinary people, Sultan seeks pathways toward peace in a region gripped by obduracy and fanaticism.

    fast-paced narrative and compelling interviews

    —Sarah Harder, President, National Peace Foundation