Most siblings share many things—their parents their home their heritage their community their history their vision of what life can be. Family should give one a sense of belonging and self-esteem. The few unlucky siblings who are... Read More

Colonel Robert Slane led a charmed life one might say. But it wasn’t the kind where everything’s nice and easy; his great good fortune was to live through a series of horrors in which other people died in vast numbers. Slane joined... Read More

According to the Institute for Publishing Research about 195000 new titles were published in 2004—up from about 114000 in 1995. And while 70 percent of Americans haven’t visited a bookstore in five years the Jenkins Group reports... Read More

When attorney Robert Shapiro asked Henry Lee to help his team clear O.J. Simpson of murder charges during what even then was already being called “the trial of the century,” the veteran forensic scientist was utterly unfamiliar with... Read More