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Discover the realities for transgender people in the workplace and beyond as they move through any of the three recognized kinds of transition-and how to be an ally.

Imagine solving problems and increasing creativity while you sleep!

Best-selling American Buddhist nun Pema Chödrön presents a friendly and encouraging guide to spiritual practice for all those who want to take up the path of the bodhisattva-one who aspires to li

The use of child soldiers in the Sudan Civil War has shattered the accepted understanding of why children join armies.

A love song to an American icon, this is the first full-length biography of Carly Simon, written by an acclaimed music journalist who has known her for decades.

What does jazz mean 20 years into the 21st century? Has streaming culture rendered music literally meaningless, thanks to the removal of all context beyond the playlist?

Hand-picked, pressure-tested, and full of astronaut gung ho, the young pilots of Eye of the Viper are poised for the toughest assignment of their career: the exhaustive six-month training course at

An engrossing and eloquent study of the history and ethics of animal experimentation. The heart of a pig may soon beat in a human chest. Sheep, cattle, and mice have been cloned.

The Milkweed Ladies, the memoirs of poet Louise McNeill, is written out of deep affection for and intimate knowledge of the lives of rural people and the rhythms of the natural world.

Michael Higgins broadens our understanding of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by bringing science, engineering, and technology together with ancient documentation and archaeological findings

Her power was rivaled only by her beauty. Her face has become one of the most recognizable images in the world. She was an independent woman and thinker centuries before her time.

In the early hours of a cold February morning in 1891, the murdered body of Frances Coles was discovered beneath a railway arch in London’s Swallow Gardens.

The ABC medical drama Grey’s Anatomy has generated a flurry of interest in how medical professionals really make it through one of the most rigorous educational programs around, but how much of the

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'Being in charge of your own life, and making decisions based on what you want to do rather than what you have to do, gives you a rare kind of contentment and shows you that every ordinary day