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Rupert Murdoch is the most significant media tycoon the English-speaking world has ever known. No one before him has trafficked in media influence ...

Mahvish Khan is an American lawyer, born to immigrant Afghan parents in Michigan. Outraged that her country was illegally imprisoning people at Gua...

In this poignant memoir, a legendary sports journalist writes about the team that changed his life: the Morton High School Lady Potters basketball ...

My War is a blunt, funny, idiosyncratic account of Andy Rooney's World War II. As a young, naïve correspondent for The Stars and Stripes, Rooney f...

Picking his way through Andean cocaine fields, Central American prisons, Colorado pot shops, and the online drug dens of the Dark Web, Tom Wainwrig...

The gripping true story of an indigenous people running the world’s mightiest narco-state—and America’s struggle to thwart them.   In Asia’s narcot...

In the wake of 9/11, America and its people have experienced a sense of vulnerability unprecedented in the nation's recent history. Buffeted by cha...

In the wake of 9/11, America and its people have experienced a sense of vulnerability unprecedented in the nation's recent history. Buffeted by cha...

The neoconomy: a place without taxes, without a social safety net, where rich and poor live in different financial worlds -- and it's coming to Ame...

A classic account of courage, integrity, and most of all, belonging   In 1977, Natan Sharansky, a leading activist in the democratic dissident mov...

A classic account of courage, integrity, and most of all, belongingIn 1977, Natan Sharansky, a leading activist in the democratic dissident movemen...

This uplifting story of a boys' football team shines light on the under-appreciated virtues that can bloom in impoverished neighborhoods, even as n...

Named one of Mother Jones' BOOKS WE NEEDED IN 2022 An in-depth look at the legacy of Roe v. Wade, and on-the-ground reporting from the front lines ...

The country's leading transport expert describes how the driverless vehicle revolution will transform highways, cities, workplaces and laws not jus...

Our intuition on how the world works could well be wrong. We are surprised when new competitors burst on the scene, or businesses protected by larg...

A member in the Society of the Sacred Heart for nearly thirty years; president of Manhattanville College in New York; recipient of a doctorate in p...

The great myth of horse racing is that the game is the regal and royal Sport of Kings. It isn't. Not by a long shot. Anyone who doubts this need lo...

Distinguished diplomat Ambassador Wendy Sherman brings readers inside the negotiating room to show how to put diplomatic values like courage, power...

Distinguished diplomat Ambassador Wendy Sherman brings readers inside the negotiating room to show how to put diplomatic values like courage, power...

The images and memories that matter most are those that are unshakeable, unforgettable. Kenneth Turan's fifty-four favorite films embrace a century...

A journey into the glittering, surreal heart of twenty-first century Russia, where even dictatorship is a reality show “A gripping and unsettling a...