What does it take to achieve a long and prosperous life? In The Blue Zones, National Geographic writer and explorer Dan Buettner relates his attempt to find out.
A month after learning he was losing his battle to pancreatic cancer, Randy Pausch gave one last lecture to students and colleagues, hoping to leave a legacy.
Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine suffers from overstatement, and at times it seems her probing enthusiasm stretches too far to fit examples to her thesis.
Bella DePaulo’s book about singles uses humor and sarcasm to explain, to singles as well as couples, that singles can be just as happy as their married friends.
In his book Breeding Bin Ladens, Zachary Shore addresses whether Islamist extremism is bred rather than born. Is it produced by influence or by inheritance?
On the heels of R.J.B. Bosworth's latest volume on Benito Mussolini, Il Duce's youngest son Romano offers new, albeit revisionist insights into his father’s life.