Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America by Meredith Mason Brown
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Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century England by Bruce Redford
July 9, 2026A famous double portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds shows members of the Dilettanti Society sipping away...
What If a Large Asteroid Was Heading for Earth?
July 9, 2026"But then an asteroid 6 miles across – that’s bigger than Mt. Everest! – slammed into...
What’s Killing the Honeybees?
July 8, 2026"So the bigger conclusion is that we have soaked our landscape in toxic chemicals, many of...
School Rampage Killers: A Psychological Portrait
July 8, 2026The shooter had convinced himself that killing was gutsy and masculine. Based on his misreadings of...
Love Junkie by Rachel Resnick
July 7, 2026It takes an enormous amount of courage for Resnick to put her life story on the...
Résistance by Agnès Humbert
July 7, 2026The early resistors soon discover that the Nazis don’t view their activities with similar lightheartedness. Oblivious...
Dr. Shashi Tharoor: Understanding India
July 7, 2026"India is a status-quo power: it wants nothing that Pakistan has. Pakistan’s rulers, however, are obsessed...
Events Leading to America’s Involvement in Vietnam
July 5, 2026Given the political vacuum in the South, a Communist takeover of all of Vietnam within two...
The Gulf Stream: Tiny Plankton, Giant Bluefin, and the Amazing Story of the Powerful River in the Atlantic by Stan Ulanski
July 5, 2026Aside from providing an easily assimilated scientific and historical overview, The Gulf Stream describes and mammoth...
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