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"The most complete and engrossing biography yet of this exotic Southern girl...Excellent." —Liz Smith. She was the sex symbol who dazzled all the other sex symbols.

Once dismissed as a rusting industrial has-been—the "Next Detroit"—Philadelphia has enjoyed an astonishing comeback in the 21st century.

This impressive array of essays considers the contingent and shifting meanings of gender and the body in contemporary Southeast Asia.

Former NASCAR president, chairman, and CEO William Clifton France—known to most people as Bill France Jr.—is remembered and revered as the man who followed his visionary father at the helm of NASCA

When Bill Wilson, with his friend Dr. Bob Smith, founded Alcoholics Anonymous in 1935, his hope was that AA would become a safe haven for those who suffered from this disease.

One of medicine's most remarkable therapeutic triumphs was the discovery of insulin in 1921.

"Ideas tumble out of Porter like wonders from some scholarly horn of plenty." -Sherwin B. Nuland, The New Republic.

Blood Sweat Tears is a short story collection from 26 women+ hikers and runners about the experience of being in a female body on trail.

A classic work of nature and humanity, by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927–2014), author of the National Book Award–winning The Snow Leopard and the novel In Paradise.

New York, Capri, Naples, Venise, Cuba, Jérusalem... autant de destinations d'écrivains, de milliardaires, d'assoiffés de vie et d'imprévus.

Fleeing the murderous Pol Pot regime, Cambodian refugees arrive in America as at once the victims and the heroes of America's misadventures in Southeast Asia; and their encounters with America

While Buddhism has no central text such as the Bible or the Koran, there is a powerful body of scripture from across Asia that encompasses the dharma, or the teachings of Buddha.

Canada's political structure runs contrary to North America's economic geography and the north-south economic pull.

German native Armin Meiwes placed this ad in an internet chatroom catering to cannibals. He received 430 responses.

Capirotada, Mexican bread pudding, is a mysterious mixture of prunes, peanuts, white bread, raisins, milk, quesadilla cheese, butter, cinnamon, and cloves, Old World sugar—"all this," wri