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The art market has been booming. Museum attendance is surging. More people than ever call themselves artists.

Jan Swafford's biographies have established him as a revered music historian, capable of bringing his subjects vibrantly to life.

The dark-eyed woman in the long black gown was first seen in the 1970s standing near a fireplace. She was sad and translucent, present and absent at once.

In the U.S. Marine Corps, the most dangerous job in combat is that of the sniper.

Wanted: Volunteers for Project Delta. Will guarantee you a medal. A body bag. Or both.With this call to arms, Charlie Beckwith revolutionized American armed combat.

In The Diabetes Solution, Dr.

Captain Kidd has gone down in history as America's most ruthless buccaneer, fabulously rich, burying treasure up and down the eastern seaboard.

Published to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the first American colony, Savage Kingdom presents a bold, even reckless, political adventure driven by a sense of imperial destiny and dogged by

For years, The Coconut Oil Miracle has been a reliable guide for men and women alike.

In this brilliant book, Francis Wheen, the author of the most successful biography of Karl Marx, tells the story of Das Kapital and Marx's twenty-year struggle to complete his unfinished masterpiec

No one knows if there was a man named Homer, but there is little doubt that the epic poems assembled under his name form the cornerstone of Western literature.

As the work at the heart of Christianity, the Bible is the spiritual guide for one out of every three people in the world.

Since her death at the age of nineteen in 1431, Joan of Arc has maintained a remarkable hold on our collective imagination.

This is a hauntingly moving memoir of the relationship between a cadaver named Eve and the first-year medical student who cuts her open.Christine Montross was a nervous first-year medical student,

Everybody knows the picture: a man, meticulously rendered by Leonardo da Vinci, standing with arms and legs outstretched in a circle and a square.