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Lev Davidovich Trotsky burst onto the world stage in November 1917 as co-leader of a Marxist Revolution seizing power in Russia.

"A travel writer with a cult following."-The New York Times "There are very few westerners who could successfully cover so much territory in China, but Porter pulls it off.

SMART and SAVVY WAYS TO PAY FOR COLLEGE...WITH NO DEBT (OR as Little as Possible) With college graduates earning over a million dollars more than high school grads will earn during the course of th

Gutenberg's invention of movable type in the fifteenth century introduced an era of mass communication that permanently altered the structure of society.

In her second collection, Karen Leona Anderson transforms apparently prosaic documents-recipes and receipts-into expressions of human identity.

Chinaka Hodge came of age along with hip-hop-and its influence on her suitors became inextricable from their personal interactions.

It's one thing to start a meditation practice, but much harder to sustain it-and harder still, once we have finished morning meditation, to keep a calm mind in our media-saturated, time pressu

For the past forty years Noam Chomsky's writings on politics and language have established him as a preeminent public intellectual and as one of the most original and wide-ranging political an

In this long-awaited book from the rising superstar of sportswriting, whose blog "The Edge of Sports" is read each week by thousands of people across the country, Dave Zirin offers a riot

Most people outside of the art world view art as something that is foreign to their experiences and everyday lives.

When neophyte hunter John Bruce Dodson heads up beautiful, remote Snip Mountain in the mesa country of Colorado with Janice, his wife of three months, he expects to play pupil to her teacher, for s

To Brenda Gunn, a hardworking medical professional, it seems like a fairytale come true. The quiet, handsome man who sweeps her off her feet wants to marry her.

Every day, Lois Gibson is able to put power, control and a sense of justice back into the hands of violent crime victims of heinous rapes, kidnappings and murders.

When beautiful, voluptuous Monica Dunn dies from a shotgun wound, her much-decorated police officer husband, Paul, immediately comes under suspicion.

Buildings and their associated systems are the largest source of greenhouse gases in the world.