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

In Strom, Jack Bass and Marilyn W. Thompson deliver a remarkable look at the life of a remarkable -- and complicated -- politician. First elected t...

This expanded eleventh edition of the bestselling guide to style is based on the Economist's own updated house style manual, and is an invaluable c...

For the last 25 years, Sunday nights at 8pm on C-SPAN has been appointment television for many Americans. During that time, host Brian Lamb has inv...

Using a data-driven approach, Super Founders is a “must-read” (Eric Yuan, founder and CEO, Zoom) examination of what differentiates billion-dollar ...

Who can foretell India's future? Mr. Joshi is a fortune teller in a slum in south Delhi who uses a soothsaying green parrot to make predictions. Wh...

This global history as the Chinese would write it gives brilliant and unconventional insights for understanding China's role in the world, especial...

This global history as the Chinese would write it gives brilliant and unconventional insights for understanding China's role in the world, especial...

The internet is the most effective weapon the government has ever built. In this fascinating book, investigative reporter Yasha Levine uncovers the...

The last signatory to the Declaration of Independence was one of the earliest to sign up for the Revolution: Thomas McKean lived a radical, boister...

Swim is a celebration of swimming and the effect it has on our lives. It's an inquiry into why we swim -- the lure, the hold, the timeless magic of...

Identity fraud happens to everyone. So what do you do when it's your turn? Increasingly, identity theft is a fact of life. We might once have hoped...

The remarkable story of a small, makeshift library in the town of Daraya, and the people who found hope and humanity in its books during a four-ye...

In virtually every sport in which they are given opportunity to compete, people of African descent dominate. East Africans own every distance runni...

Since joining the staff of the American Civil Liberties Union in 1963 and becoming its youngest executive director, Aryeh Neier has been at the for...

Language is the most human invention. Spontaneous, unruly, passionate, and erratic it resists every attempt to discipline or regularize it--a histo...

In more than a half century with CBS News, Don Hewitt has been responsible for many of the greatest moments in television history, including the fi...

After a series of disastrous missteps in its conduct of the war, the White House in 2006 appointed General David Petraeus as the Commanding General...

A doctor's powerful meditation on what his patients taught him, and what they can teach us about listening, healing, and public health.  For over t...

In six months, Margaret Thatcher reinvented her political party and redefined modern conservatism in one of the greatest feats of modern political ...

An ISIS terrorist planned to kill more than 500 people. He would have succeeded except for three American friends who refused to give in to fear. O...

An ISIS terrorist planned to kill more than 500 people. He would have succeeded except for three American friends who refused to give in to fear. O...

In the fall of 2003, Iraqi prisoners were beaten, stripped naked, confined in small spaces, tortured, sexually humiliated, and abused by U.S. perso...