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Whether children are experiencing grief and loss for the first time or simply curious, it can be difficult to know how to talk to them about death.

Marion Milner’s 1934 A Life of One’s Own illustrates a modern woman’s “crossing,” both disciplinarily and generically.

The provocative political thinker asks if it will be with a bang or a whimper In How Will Capitalism End?

Learn the manipulator's game, so they can't play it with you. Identifying covert emotional manipulation is tricky. You sense something is wrong, but you can't quite put your finger on the problem.

In Teaching to Transgress, Bell Hooks–writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual–writes about a new kind of education, educations as the practice of freedom.

What is feminism? In this short, accessible primer, bell hooks explores the nature of feminism and its positive promise to eliminate sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.

John Yudkin was the first to sound the alarm about the excess of sugar in the diet of modern Americans.

An inspiration book uses twelve short, visual exercises that provoke thought and help the reader to figure out how to do more "great work"--The type of creative work that moves a business forward.

12 Years a Slave is the harrowing account of a black man, born free in New York State, who was drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery in 1841.

The America that Alexander Hamilton knew was largely agricultural and built on slave labor.

James Allen's literary essay and book As a Man Thinketh was originally published in 1903.

While the conflict over slavery was a factor in the Civil War, the abolition of slavery did not become a stated objective until Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, which went into effect o

While the conflict over slavery was a factor in the Civil War, the abolition of slavery did not become a stated objective until President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, which went int

The Iliad is an epic Greek poem written by philosopher Homer, and is considered one of the oldest pieces of western literature still in existence.

Charles Minor Blackford, an aristocrat from Virginia, enlisted in the Second Virginia Cavalry at the start of the American Civil War.