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China is one of the world’s most powerful nations but just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the elite few.  In &quo...

Ken Zurski’s new book, “Unremembered 2,” continues the author’s fascination with once-famous individuals who no longer find themselves in the limeligh...

Paulina Porizkova found fame as a supermodel, gracing the cover of Sports Illustrated in 1984.Born in Czechoslovakia, Porizkova married Ric Ocasek, le...

Bob McChesney, professor emeritus of communication at the University of Illinois, and Wisconsin journalist John Nichols collaborated to write "Pe...

Most of us have heard about Bob Welch, the charismatic CEO of General Electric, the American company that embodied innovation and industrial power thr...

Astrologer Nadine Jane said the 750-page guide  she recently published combines astrology with the tarot and numerology."It was the hardest thing...

He didn't write a professional word until he was 40. Jerry Saltz  turned to driving a truck after a failed career as an artist (his CB handle was...

Minda Harts has addressed the matter of racial equality before. Her previous books include ”The Memo: What Women of Color Need to Know to Secure a Sea...

Another book on the Titanic? Daniel Stone, the author of "Sinkable," admits there's a fixation with that ship that collided with an ice...

When John Ikerd talks about industrial agriculture in the United States, the professor emeritus at the University of Missouri is referring to a farm s...

Those Vietnamese refugees able to escape from their war-torn homeland in the 1970s found a refuge on the Texas Gulf Coast where they engaged in shrimp...

The NRA is characterized by NPR investigative reporter Tim Mak as "the most powerful political advocacy group in the country" but he adds it...