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For the past two decades, Mohamed ElBaradei has played a key role in the most high-stakes conflicts of our time.

At the Venice Biennale, an aspiring assistant curator from the Midwest meets Bernard Augustin, the wealthy, enigmatic founder of the Nauk, a cutting-edge art museum on Cape Cod.

Allen Klein was like no one the music industry had seen before.

Nate Shaw's father was born into slavery. Nate was born into a bondage that was only a little gentler. At the age of nine, he was picking cotton and plowing behind a mule.

As a divorced 30-year-old travel writer, Laura experienced an affair with a Frenchman. Now 40, Laura wonders if her traveling lifestyle has deprived her of the kind of life she truly wanted.

Every dog deserves a forever home, and after being mistreated and given up several times, Wrigley has finally found his.

Consider Facebook-it's human contact, only easier to engage with and easier to avoid. Developing technology promises closeness.

It takes drive, persistence, and plenty of stamina to practice cardiology at the highest level. The competition for training fellowship spots is intense.

In the pulp magazines and comics of the 1950s, it was predicted that the future would be one of gleaming utopias, with flying cars, jetpacks, and robotic personal assistants.

Twenty-five years ago, when Pat Robertson and other radio and televangelists first spoke of the United States becoming a Christian nation that would build a global Christian empire, it was hard to

The life and work of Sylvia Plath has taken on the proportions of myth. Educated at Smith, she had an epically conflict-filled relationship with her mother, Aurelia.

America's Great Plains once possessed one of the grandest wildlife spectacles of the world, equaled only by such places as the Serengeti, the Masai Mara, or the veld of South Africa.

First published in 1992, Helen Fisher's Anatomy of Love quickly became a classic.

This is the story of the greatest empire the world has ever known.

Published to coincide with the centenary of the first expeditions to reach the South Pole, An Empire of Ice presents a fascinating new take on Antarctic exploration.