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A book about index funds? Passive investing? Snooze time, right? Not with Robin Wigglesworth, the man with the "Harry Potteresque" last name...

Take a cartoonist who holds a PhD in robotics from Stanford University and team him with a professor of physics and astronomy and you’ve got the succe...

Michelle Huneven is the author of “Search,” a novel about a restaurant critic and a longtime member of the Unitarian Universalist church in Southern C...

Talk about your famous families or is it infamous? John Wilkes Booth, after all, goes down as one of the most loathsome villains in history but Fowler...

Don't let the title throw you. Cassandra Quave is an ethnobotanist  but her quest is easy to understand. She wants to develop new ways to fight i...

Named by The Washington Post as one of the best feel-good books of 2021, "The Comfort Book" is the ideal read for your next plane trip, espe...

Among the blurbs on the back of Kelefa Sanneh's "Major Labels," a book about popular music, is this from David Letterman: "Kelefa ...

Erich Schwartzel details the rise of the Chinese film industry and how the Asian nation has been able to dictate to Hollywood."Red Carpet" s...

Want to make sense of our volatile economy? Feel powerless in a world where billionaires and mighty corporations seem to make all the rules?You need t...

In the early ’90s, young Tiffanie Drayton and her siblings left Trinidad and Tobago to join their mother in New Jersey, where she’d been making her wa...

Grant Golliher qualifies as the modern-day cowboy who tries to help others adopt the cowboy spirit."I'm the lucky cowboy that showed up and ...

“Star Trek” isn’t just an old TV show—it’s an industry.  Or as Ryan Britt, the author of “Phasers on Stun!” might say, a universe.Britt’s new book bea...