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Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), credited as the inspiration for radio, robots, and even radar, has been called the patron saint of modern electricity.

After years of wandering from whim to whim, thirty-year-old Charlotte Wheelwright seems to have at last found her niche.

Michael A. Singer explores the question of human identity .

In June 2010, Michael Hastings published an article in Rolling Stone that made headlines around the world: In "The Runaway General," he reported on a week he spent in Europe with General

Paul Tough, author of Whatever It Takes, reverses three decades of thinking about what creates successful children, solving the mysteries of why some succeed and others fail--and of how to move ind

Fobbit 'fa-bit, noun. Definition: A U.S. soldier stationed at a Forward Operating Base who avoids combat by remaining at the base, esp. during Operation Iraqi Freedom (2003-2011).

This is the story of a small group of soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division's fabled 502nd Infantry Regiment-a unit known as the Black Heart Brigade.

Divorce attorney Annabelle Coakley is distraught when her widowed mother calls and announces she's marrying a washed-up movie star with a resume of discarded wives.

Bestselling author, speaker, and world-traveling success coach Jen Sincero cuts through the din of the self-help genre with her own verbal meat cleaver in You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting You

Explains what conservation is and looks at the many decisions we are faced with regarding our environment.

Between brewing magically spiced treats at Honeybee Bakery and volunteering with a local conservation group, Katie Lightfoot barely has time to see her firefighter boyfriend, Declan McCarthy, much

Audrey Parker is up against the boards. She's stuck in a job she hates and pining for a total jerk. Meanwhile, her sister Fallon is moving out and getting married to hockey star Lucas Brooks.

Melanie was kidnapped at the age of three. Six years later she is found wandering the streets of L.A. with blank eyes.

Not all swans are white, and not all events--no matter what the experts think--are predictable.

Being telepathic, Miss Sookie has no luck dating the living.