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On a cold morning in early spring, the body of a young woman is found trapped in the ice of Dundurn Bay.

Explores the world from the safety of four wheels. This title shows how the world of performance cars may be likened to Battersea Dogs' Home.

Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues includes the very best of Bill Moyers's conversations from the celebrated weekly PBS broadcast Bill Moyers Journal, with luminaries ranging from

This groundbreaking book by the acclaimed Dorothy Roberts examines how the myth of biological concept of race-revived by purportedly cutting-edge science, race-specific drugs, genetic testing, and

A meditation on the dynamics of female friendship describes the author's life-defining relationship with Martha Stewart, relating the common experiences that bonded them and the factors that r

America's slave past is being analyzed as never before, yet it remains one of the most contentious issues in U.S. memory.

The sudden meltdown of the news media has sparked one of the liveliest debates in recent memory, with an outpouring of opinion and analysis crackling across journals, the blogosphere, and academic

China Pop is a highly original and lively look at the ways that contemporary China is changing by Jianying Zha, a critic hailed in The Nation as "incisive, witty and eloquent all at once-a sor

"In this pathbreaking collection of articles, Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall has taken us from the early 1830s to contemporary times.

As MacArthur award-winning educator Lisa Delpit reminds us-and as all research shows-there is no achievement gap at birth.

Ever since quitting her job teaching pediatrics at Harvard Medical School in 1980, Helen Caldicott has worked tirelessly for a safe, sustainable, nuclear-free planet, most recently by hosting a wee

In the last thirty years of the Soviet Communist project, Viktor Koretsky's art struggled to solve an enduring riddle: how to ensure or restore Communism's moral health through the produc

Sportscaster Howard Cosell dubbed it "rule number one of the jockocracy": sports and politics just don't mix.

The campaign to abolish slavery in the United States was the most powerful and effective social movement of the nineteenth century and has served as a recurring source of inspiration for every subs

"Poetry is leading us," writes Alice Walker in The World Will Follow Joy.