Historian and legal scholar Annette Gordon-Reed presents this epic work that tells the story of the Hemingses, an American slave family, and their close blood ties to Thomas Jefferson.
Every President of the United States takes an oath to preserve, protect and defend the nation they serve. When bold leaders risk all to do what they see as right, their choices can change history....
Forged in the crucible of a Nazi concentration camp, here are the words and wisdom, the faith and spiritual insight, of Corrie ten Boom. First emerging in print in the past decade, these fifty "lost...
The Scientist - Over the course of 300 turbulent years, extraordinary minds such as Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Descartes, and Newton awakened Europe from its unquestioning acceptance of old...
Washington, D.C., is home to the most influential power brokers in the world. But how did we come to call D.C. - a place one contemporary observer called a mere swamp "producing nothing except...
Amazing Tales From the San Diego Zoo! Today's zoos and wild animal parks are much more than meets the eye. At the world-famous San Diego Zoo and San Diego Zoo's Wild Animal Park, many of the most...
Walk along paths at the Acropolis that were once trod by Socrates and other great philosophers. Explore the isle of Santorini with its famed Aegean architecture, and visit the picturesque windmills...
When master thief Lupin III, a.k.a. "The Wolf" inadvertently steals a fortune in counterfeit bills from a casino, he is quick to realize the high-quality printing plates that made them are worth...
