"Mars and its secrets have fascinated and mystified humans since ancient times. Its vivid color and visibility to the naked eye, its geologic kinship with Earth, its potential as our best hope for settlement-Mars embodies everything that inspires us about space and space exploration. In this book, National Air and Space Museum Curator Matthew Shindell captures the majesty of the red planet and the work done by people on Earth to explore it. He connects...

Presents accounts of how mainly anonymous Americans have defied the official racial ideology and points out how guardians of the past have written that side of our history out of the record.

A complete rock music history of 1967 and the summer of love. During late spring 1967, tens of thousands of young people began streaming into San Francisco, kicking off a counterculture explosion that was the Summer of Love. Now, on the 50th anniversary of that revolutionary even, acclaimed journalist and pop culture historian Harvey Kubernik takes us on an insider's look at the happenings in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and beyond - in the months...

"This memoir traces one man's journey through his family history when a DNA test reveals that his dad was not his biological father"--

A guide to the best moments in sports includes classic matchups, like Clay vs. Liston, backgrounds on such legendary coaches as Tom Landry, and information on great athletes represented with iconic imagery, like Flo Jo's colorful nails.

Nicole Krauss presents a series of stories, all of which are connected by a desk. An American novelist has been using a desk inherited from a young Chilean poet who disappeared under shady circumstances. But when the poet's daughter claims possession of the desk, the writer is crushed. In London, a man discovers that his dying wife has been hiding a terrible secret. In 1944 Jerusalem, an antiques deal attempts to restore his father's study after it...

My dear Syrian friend working at Red Cross , thanks for the story of the unhappy princess. Thanks for the story of the silly wife too. I used both to connect apparently distant countries of the world. Similar in the desire to break down more or less real walls that power builds to divide people , when it's in difficulty. A Syrian history , a Lebanese story , a Russian-Italian story , some wall , some statue , many dreams. It doesn't matter when the...