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Deaths from epidemic disease are rare in the developed world, yet in our technically and medically advanced society, an ever-present risk of disea...

"The pages of history recall scarcely any parallel episode at once so romantic in character and so extensive in scale." -- Winston S. Churchill In ...

Abby Ellin was shocked to learn that her fiancéas leading a secret life. But as she soon discovered, the world is full of people who aren't what t...

A Wall Street Journal national security reporter takes readers into the lives of frontline U.S. special operations troops fighting to keep the Tal...

A Wall Street Journal national security reporter takes readers into the lives of frontline U.S. special operations troops fighting to keep the Tali...

From Amman to Beirut and Damascus, award-winning NPR reporter Deborah Amos follows Sunnis living in exile--the largest exile population in postwar ...

The world of economics is changing. Years of turmoil in the global economy mean that nothing will ever be quite the same again. This is the startin...

Economics is all around us, crucial to every aspect of our lives. But how many of us know what an absolute advantage or a zero-sum game really is? ...

Edible Economics brings the sort of creative fusion that spices up a great kitchen to the often too-disciplined subject of economics For decades, a...

A revelatory story of the woman who made foundational contributions to science and mathematics and persevered in the face of discrimination. Emmy N...

For thousands of years, the majestic elephant has roamed the African continent, as beloved by man as it has been preyed upon. But centuries of expl...

Named one of Investopedia's 7 Best Economics Books of 2022The trailblazing story of Janet Yellen, the Ruth Bader Ginsburg of economics, and her lif...

Bestselling author and journalist Sathnam Sanghera explores the global legacy of the British Empire, and the ways it continues to influence economi...

In one of the most significant social trends of the new century, and the biggest transformation of the American workforce since the women's movemen...

In this "must-read" guide (Lonnie Ali), four leading doctors and advocates offer a bold action plan to prevent, care for, and treat Parkinson's di...

In this "must-read" guide (Lonnie Ali), four leading doctors and advocates offer a bold action plan to prevent, care for, and treat Parkinson's di...

The birth of the railway in the early 1830's revolutionized the way the world waged war. From armored engines with swiveling guns, to the practice ...

For more than thirty years, humankind has known how to grow enough food to end chronic hunger worldwide. Yet in Africa, more than 9 million people ...

The long-buried truth about the dawn of the Space Age: lies, spies, socialism, and sex magick. Los Angeles, 1930s: Everyone knows that rockets ar...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * From the founder and CEO of Fair Trade USA, a critical account of the past, present and future of conscious capitalism—the ch...

America's great research universities are the envy of the world -- and none more so than Harvard. Never before has the competition for excellence b...

An indictment of America's housing policy that reveals the social engineering underlying our segregation by economic class, the social and politica...

In Exit the Colonel, Ethan Chorin, a longtime Middle East scholar and one of the first American diplomats posted to Libya after the lifting of inte...

A host of books and films in recent years have documented the dangers of our current food system, from chemical runoff to soaring rates of diet-rel...