John Gribbin's book The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors has been added to many non-fiction...
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Today, as wildfires rage across California, the historic Mount Wilson Observatory is facing perhaps its biggest challenge in more than 100 years of...
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Upon hearing of the death of Ted Kennedy today, Adam Clymer, the author of Edward M. Kennedy: A Biography called the Senator, the greatest legislator...
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Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts passed away this morning after losing his battle with brain cancer. But, soon we will be able to read the story...
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President Obama is set to read a very wide-ranging stack of books, fiction as well as nonfiction, while he's vacationing on Martha's Vineyard. This...
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This afternoon on Hardball, Chris Matthews broke a story that the Secretary of Homeland Security, Tom Ridge was pressured by his colleagues to raise...
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Some of the most memorable moments in television history were brought to us by Don Hewitt, who died today of pancreatic cancer at age 86. He's being...
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After a year-long battle with cancer, political columnist Robert D. Novak has died at age 78 . In recent years, he was in the spotlight as a central...
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For millions of fans, Stephenie Meyer's Twilight characters live. What brought them to life? How did she entice her readers into this vampire world?...
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August 2009 brings the 40th anniversary of Woodstock and with it lots of retrospectives, and even a paperdoll book, about the music festival. It's a...
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