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In the world of film noir, the leading lights are usually listed as Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James Cain and Cornell Woolrich.Hammett proved...

He belongs in the upper echelons of special-ops thriller authors. That’s one of the comments on the back of the book jacket of Mark Greaney’s new book...

Kathleen DuVal’s Native Nations leaves you shaking your head.A history professor at the University of North Carolina, DuVal provides a view of this co...

While growing up in Los Angeles and while attending school in Madison, Wisc., Eleanor Patterson was fascinated by old radio: shows like Yours Truly, J...

Dealing with someone who faces a life-or-death situation just once is enough for most of us. But what of someone involved in transplant surgery who go...

So how does this little insect navigate between distant flower patches and the nest? That’s just one of the questions that bee researcher Lars Chittka...

Having been raised on TV westerns (my favorites were Cheyenne, Maverick, and the Rifleman), I never looked at rustlers as anything more than bad guys ...

Sarah Rose's D-Day Girls not only lets you understand what life was like in occupied France for four long years during World War II but also lets...

An experienced auctioneer is in a good position to shed light on the human condition. After all, they're up there in front of a crowd, dealing wi...

Deciding on “the best player you've never heard of” is a baseball pastime sure to involve arguments just as fruitless as those demanding a partic...

World War II may have ended nearly 80 years ago but it lives on as a subject endlessly reviewed with fresh insight and information supplied on an ongo...

"If you keep up with the headlines, you know computers are taking our jobs. Spying on us. Controlling what we buy and who we vote for. Even discr...