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Ren ̌Descartes spent most of his childhood in solitude, a situation that also came to characterize his adult life.

Dessert connects us heart-to-heart like almost nothing else. It brings us together in good times and bad, celebration and solace.

When the Apollo astronauts walked on the Moon in 1969, many people imagined Mars would be next. However NASA's Viking 1, which landed in 1976, was just a robot.

From "America's principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers" (Boston Book Review) comes the definitive account of Ed Gein, a mild-mannered Wisconsin farmhand who stunne

Mega-bestselling author, teacher and self-help leader Rachel Hollis offers her devoted followers and new readers alike a short guide to seizing difficult moments for the learning experiences they a

Legendary sitcom director James Burrows has spent five decades making America laugh.

One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent-but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture.

A documentation of the day-to-day realities of the war in Vietnam experienced by men on patrol, under siege at Khe Sanh, strapped into helicopters, and faced with continuing nightmares after their

We work feverishly to make ourselves happy. So why are we so miserable?

A pioneering canine behaviorist draws on cutting-edge research to show that a single, simple trait--the capacity to love--is what makes dogs such perfect companions for humans, and to explain how p

HGTV meets Downton Abbey! A ready-for-TV story--with charm and humor in abundance--about a Los Angeles producer who moves to England to save his ancestral castle from ruin.

From a New York Times -bestselling author, a sweeping history of the American West In Dreams of El Dorado, H.W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West.

For centuries, clothing has been a wearable status symbol; fashion, a weapon in struggles for social change; and dress codes, a way to maintain political control.

Identifying what the author believes to be a battle between the priorities of civilian life and the war, the host of the critically acclaimed The Rachel Maddow show explains that today's focus

Learn how to master the drone controls and fly your UAV successfully. In this audio program we will cover the basics from safety precautions to remote control mastery.