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The Brave Athlete solves the thirteen most common mental conundrums athletes face in their everyday training and in races.

Forged in the fires of the Bronx and Kingston, Jamaica, hip-hop became the Esperanto of youth rebellion and a generation-defining movement.

For more than two hundred years, disturbances of the mind-the sorts of things that were once called "madness"-have been studied and treated by the medical profession.

A definitive and exhaustive biography Is there a way to find truth in the stuff of legend? You may think you know Andre the Giant-but who was Andre Roussimoff?

At age forty-seven, a mother of two, Debbie Moderow was not your average musher in the Iditarod, but that's where she found herself when, less than 200 miles from the finish line, her dogs dec

John Gierach is known for his witty, trenchant observations about fly-fishing. In A Fly Rod of Your Own, Gierach once again takes us into his world and scrutinizes the art of fly-fishing.

If John Gierach is living in a fool's paradise, then it's a paradise that his regular readers will recognize and new fans will delight in discovering.

Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world.

Girls to the Front is the epic, definitive history of the Riot Grrrl movement: the radical feminist punk uprising that exploded into the public eye in the 1990s, altering America's gender land

The acclaimed historian demonstrates a link between climate change and social unrest across the globe during the mid-seventeenth century.

"Now after fifty years, it's time for Canada to stand up and cheer. Stand up and cheer everybody!

Ultramarathons don't leave much room for mistakes.

After Paul Stutzman lost his wife to breast cancer, he sensed a tug on his heart-the call to a challenge, the call to pursue a dream.

In 2016, amid an epidemic of police shootings of African Americans, the celebrated NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick began a series of quiet protests on the field, refusing to stand during the US na

If you want to know your Socrates from your Sartre and your Confucius from your Kant, strap in for this whirlwind tour of the highlights of philosophy.