Former CIA contractor Jonathan Scherck published a book "containing intelligence-related information" without the CIA's permission and in violation of his secrecy agreements, the United States claims in Federal Court.
In 1985, two young British climbers, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, became the first to ascend the west face of Siula Grande, a 21,000-foot peak in the Peruvian Andes.
"For 10 years, from 1962 to 1972, he rose to a stardom never before seen in showbiz: the posturing, narcissistic, androgynous rock star/sex god/dance king.
The LAVA Awards are designed to recognize and reward books written or published by Libertarian, Agorist, Voluntaryist and/or Anarch authors or publishers.
The LAVA Awards occur annually and are open to all books that were published or republished
This article is an excerpt from New York Times bestselling author Charles Goyette's new book Red and Blue and Broke All Over: Restoring America's Free Economy.
It was ethnic cleansing on a scale never seen before. As many as 14 million people, mainly women and children, were forcibly removed from their homes and deported to a country devastated and demoralized by war.
I have come across a pile of books and looking for people interested in them. They're mostly science books with some math and reference books as well as many workbooks. The workbooks are clean and there is a few project handbooks. Most of the text b
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is suggesting that a retired Navy SEAL be punished for writing a book giving an insider's account of the U.S. raid that killed terrorist leader Osama bin Laden.
The publisher of a book purporting to chronicle an insider account of the Navy SEAL operation to raid Osama Bin Laden's Pakistan compound will begin sales on Tuesday, ignoring the Pentagon’s legal threats against the author.
If you ask American students how many people died in the Vietnam War, the usual response is fifty-eight thousand, which is, of course, the American military death toll.
The prevalence of female pronouns — she, her, hers, herself — in American books could be used to track the changing status of women in the 20th century, according to a new study, which found the he/she ratio after the late 1960s mirrored advances in
The Royal Spanish Academy — the official arbiter of the Spanish language — recently announced that it will add the word "Espanglish" to the 2014 edition of its dictionary.
David Barton, an evangelical activist and writer often cited as a “historian” by conservative political figures like former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, stirred up such a firestorm of controversy with his
When I asked Gore Vidal to define love, he told me, "Both Wisdom and Love can be defined by the same word: ‘acceptance." I share my 2005 interview with him with you.
States are more vulnerable than people think. They can collapse in an instant—when consent is withdrawn. This is the thesis of this thrilling book. Murray Rothbard writes a classic introduction to one of the great political essays in the history of i
Electronic books more than doubled in popularity in 2011, with ebooks outselling hardcover books in adult fiction for the first time, according to a survey released on Wednesday.
Anthony Daniels, who writes under the pen name Theodore Dalrymple, is a retired prison doctor and psychiatrist who tells of his experiences with his patients in "Life at the Bottom." It’s an insightful book of essays about the self-destructive behavi
Earlier this year, Mathematician Ian Stewart came out with an excellent and deeply researched book titled "In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World"
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