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Why do we read our kids fairy tales about homicidal stepparents? How did helicopter parenting develop if it used to be socially acceptable to abandon your children?

Award-winning journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost during the course of a single day in the United States.

The atom, the big bang, DNA--all are ideas that have revolutionized science; and all were dismissed out of hand when they first appeared.

In these funny and insightful essays, Roxane Gay takes us through the journey of her evolution as a woman of color while also taking listeners on a ride through culture of the last few years.

The true story of the last known survivor of the Atlantic slave trade, illegally smuggled from Africa on the last "black cargo" ship to arrive in the United States.

In the real world, exploitation exists. In the real world, there is a huge and unjust gap between rich and poor.

Fifty-five men met in Philadelphia in 1787 to write a document that would create a country and change a world: the Constitution.

Based on the Windham-Campbell Lectures, delivered annually to commemorate the awarding of the Donald Windham-Sandy M.

When a couple is found dead in their bedroom, some of their slaves fear they will be accused of the crime and flee to the Temple of Ceres, a haven for refugees.

Author Rachel Simmons offers advice on teaching girls self-compassion as an alternative to self-criticism, resisting the constant urge to compare themselves to peers, navigating toxic elements of s

Covering a large number of subjects, this classic collection features thirty-one of White's most memorable essays.

Jon Kabat-Zinn explains how meditation brings us into an intimate relationship with all our senses so we can become more aware human beings.

Benny Lewis runs the largest language-learning blog in the world. Here, he presents a blueprint for learning language fast.

Consisting of over twenty years of letters, essays, reflections, and interviews, this collection provides unique depiction of an author who embodies a consummate passion for writing.

This is a hilarious take on the philosophy, theology, and psychology of mortality, Death, the Big D. Humorists have kept pace with philosophers by creating gags about dying.