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In an era when American artists didn't count and women were expected to stay home, Edith Gregor Halpert burst onto the fledgling New York gallery scene, defying all cultural and societal rules. I...

In the summer of 1999, in the tiny west Texas town of Tulia, thirty-nine people, almost all of them black, were arrested and charged with dealing powdered cocaine. The operation, a federally-fund...

It is in the nature of today's movie business that while Hollywood blockbusters invade every megaplex, smaller, quality films often don't get screen time. Fans of these films have to count on catch...

Every Sunday evening, millions of viewers tune in to 60 Minutes to hear Andy Rooney riff on everything from coffee percolators to the state of the union. Millions more read his weekly newspaper c...

A true-life thriller completely exposes the network behind the illegal trade in ancient artifacts--and features a rich cast of rogues and some of the world's most prestigious art institutions The ...

"Illuminating...Combines tales of flamboyant promoters...with wry observations about the nature of man and markets." -New York Times Leon Levy was a legendary investor, a founder of Oppenheimer Fun...

America 's leading experts on civil liberties sound an alarm about the consequences of the war on terrorism for our freedom at home. In each generation, for different reasons, America witnesses a ...

A true-life thriller completely exposes the network behind the illegal trade in ancient artifacts--and features a rich cast of rogues and some of the world's most prestigious art institutions The ...

A "rattling good"* inquiry into the historical impact of Western involvement with Central Asia, spelling out the implications for the United States and its allies today *(New York Times Book Review...

A New York Times, USA Today and BOOKSENSE bestseller, now in paperback in time for the holidays. Andy Rooney's Sunday evening observations on 60 Minutes are an American institution. With millions ...

Bill Kurtis, anchor of the wildly popular true-crime TV series Cold Case Files and American Justice, used to support the death penalty. But after observing the machinations of the justice system fo...

It began with a simple $27 loan. After witnessing the cycle of poverty that kept many poor women enslaved to high-interest loan sharks in Bangladesh, Dr. Muhammad Yunus lent money to 42 women so th...

One of Washington's finest writers on people, politics, and life-collected for the first time Marjorie Williams knew Washington from top to bottom. Beloved for her sharp analysis, elegant prose an...

As globalization and terrorism intensify the pressure to close America's doors, this provocative book argues that to do so would be catastrophic We are essentially a nation of people who once belo...

A prize-winning investigative expose of the poverty and injustice experienced by China's 900 million peasants, told through a series of dramatic personal narratives The Chinese economic miracle is...

Marc Freedman predicts that "a new kind of aging" will soon bring new life to America. In Prime Time, he writes that the baby boomers will turn their golden years into an intense time of social act...

The introduction in this wise book mentions something that author David Kuhl learned from his years of working with the terminally ill: "I didn't know how to talk to them about dying." In What Dyi...

A captivating and outraged account of "The Great Relabeling" of American language and thought, by the well-known "Fresh Air" commentator and author of Going Nucular Geoffrey Nunberg breaks new gro...

It began with a simple $27 loan. After witnessing the cycle of poverty that kept many poor women enslaved to high-interest loan sharks in Bangladesh, Dr. Muhammad Yunus lent money to 42 women so th...

A prize-winning investigative expose of the poverty and injustice experienced by China's 900 million peasants, told through a series of dramatic personal narratives The Chinese economic miracle is...