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In Shtetl (Yiddish for "small town"), critically-acclaimed author Eva Hoffman brings the lost world of Eastern European Jews back to vivid life, de...

Mende Nazer lost her childhood at age twelve, when she was sold into slavery. It all began one horrific night in 1993, when Arab raiders swept thro...

In the face of today's environmental and economic challenges, doomsayers preach that the only way to stave off disaster is for humans to reverse co...

In the face of today's environmental and economic challenges, doomsayers preach that the only way to stave off disaster is for humans to reverse co...

Every city and every state needs a Richard Ravitch. In sixty years on the job, whether working in business or government, he was the man willing to...

From the pre-eminent scholar of foreign policy, the classic work that defined soft power “As brilliant as it is timely, Professor Nye’s book is mus...

In October of 1888, Albert Goodwill Spalding -- baseball star, sporting-goods magnate, promotional genius, serial fabulist -- departed Chicago on a...

Cleveland-based manufacturer Lincoln Electric has thrived for more than a century. It survived two World Wars, the Great Depression, the decline of...

The early years of Bolshevik rule were marked by dynamic interaction between Russia and the West. These years of civil war in Russia were years whe...

In the 1940s, the brightest minds of the United States and Nazi Germany raced to West Africa with a single mission: to secure the essential ingredi...

The riveting story of the ring of spies known as the Cambridge Five, who infiltrated the highest levels of the British establishment and helped Sta...

The turning point of World War II came at Stalingrad. Hitler's soldiers stormed the city in September 1942 in a bid to complete the conquest of Eur...

The turning point of World War II came at Stalingrad. Hitler's soldiers stormed the city in September 1942 in a bid to complete the conquest of Eur...

The "scrupulously detailed" (Los Angeles Times) story of how the fight to build Dodgers Stadium, and transform Los Angeles into a big league city, ...

The "scrupulously detailed" (Los Angeles Times) story of how the fight to build Dodgers Stadium, and transform Los Angeles into a big league city, ...

Jan van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece is on any art historian's list of the ten most important paintings ever made. Often referred to by the subject of i...

How America’s biggest company began taking better care of its workers--and why such efforts will never be enough. Fifteen years ago, Walmart was th...

A thought-provoking exploration of how people really change their minds, and how persuasion is possible.In Stop Being Reasonable, Eleanor Gordon-S...

The definitive, unbiased account of the twenty-four hours surrounding the historic January 6th attack on the Capitol“A riveting account of one of t...

A sparklingly strange odyssey through the kaleidoscope of America's new spirituality: the cults, practices, high priests and prophets of our suppo...

A sparklingly strange odyssey through the kaleidoscope of America's new spirituality: the cults, practices, high priests and prophets of our suppo...

On a Saturday morning in December 1973, a section of New York's West Side Highway collapsed under the weight of a truck full of asphalt. The road w...

Forbes, Best Business Books of 2022 Behavioral Scientist, Notable Books of 2022The facts, not the fiction, of America’s immigration experience Immi...