Imagine if, after fifteen years as a lesbian couple, your partner turned to you and said, "I think I'm really a man." What would you do? How would you respond? For Diane and Jacob (nee Suzy) Anderson-Minshall this isn't a hypothetical question. It's what really happened. Eight years later, the coupl[...]

Meet the cats who acted as a pacemaker when a woman's heart suddenly stopped beating in the night; Paprika, a gentle giant with deep orange stripes who saved a little Hungarian girl from Russian soldiers; Lucky, the kitten who survived against the odds and went on to help deaf children as a therapy [...]

From holistic veterinarians offering all-natural pet care and animal psychologists treating canines for ADHD, to (human) divorce lawsuits seeking pet custody, visitation, and support, we are increasingly bringing our companion animals to a new status in the world of people. Recent government statist[...]

On June 3, 1769, the planet Venus briefly passed across the face of the sun in a cosmic alignment that occurs twice per century. Anticipation of the rare celestial event sparked a worldwide competition among aspiring global superpowers, each sending their own scientific expeditions to far-flung dest[...]

Historians have only recently established the scale of the violence carried out by the supporters of General Franco during and after the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939. An estimated 88,000 unidentified victims of Francoist violence remain to be exhumed from mass graves and given a dignified burial, [...]

This second edition of the landmark book provides the most comprehensive guidance available for building transformational change strategy and designing and implementing successful transformation. Includes updated information on a wealth of topics including the critical path tasks and how to use CLR [...]

The ultimate book for every Star Wars(r) fan.

Experience the Star Wars universe as never before in this stunning visual journey that carries you to the farthest reaches--and into the deepest mysteries--of George Lucas's cinematic masterpiece. Ralph McQuarrie, the legendary main concept a[...]

"Rushmore" is the second work from the team of Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson following the success of their debut screenplay and film "Bottle Rocket." It is a refreshingly offbeat comedy about young Max Fish, a precocious pupil at a conservative private school. He is a live wire, a teenager full of m[...]

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During the eight years that Ronald Reagan served as president of the United States, a period of sustained economic prosperity and increased American power on the world stage, many of his advisers claimed authorship of the ideas that comprised 'the Reagan revolution.' The press, in turn, lent creden[...]

In "X-15," the exciting story of the X-15 - the iconic rocket plane of the Cold War space race - is recounted by John Anderson, curator of aerodynamics at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. This experimental space plane was on the cutting edge of hypersonic aerodynamics, and its winged r[...]