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Five Best: Books on the Serendipity of Travel. 17m. The Enchanted April. By Elizabeth von Arnim (1922) 1. In Elizabeth von Arnim’s delightful novel, four women who barely know one another decide ...

If you were to dig deep below New York City’s streets, past the subway tunnels, you might expect to find thick layers of schist, gneiss and marble.

Wally Lamb’s Favorite Books: The author’s go-to classic is by Joseph Campbell, and he admires “Brothers and Keepers” and “The New Jim Crow” on incarceration.

Swing Era New York. By W. Royal Stokes (1994) 3. Charles Peterson took thousands of photos of jazz musicians in New York during the 1930s and ’40s.

The Earl of Louisiana, by A. J. Liebling. Liebling’s chronicle of the 1959 gubernatorial campaign of Earl Long, Huey Long’s brother, who became the dominant figure in state politics in the ...

Although most famous mountaineers have been men, some of the best books about climbing are by women (see also Nan Shepherd’s “The Living Mountain”, written in the 1940s but not published ...

The Intelligent Investor. By Benjamin Graham. (Revised edition, updated with new commentary by Jason Zweig.) HarperCollins; 640 pages; $20.99 and £18.99 This is the foundational text for serious ...

We selected our five candidates to test based on desired features, user reviews and availability on Android and iOS mobile platforms. We downloaded each of the five scanner apps to an iPhone.

It was a year of great reading, so choosing the best fiction released in 2022 was a difficult feat. Our academics have read hundreds of books this year and out of those, we have managed to pluck ...

Atlanta, Orlando and Tampa are among the top cities to start a career, according to a recent report that ranked 182 cities in the U.S. using more than two dozen metrics.

Five Best: Business Books. ... Using words, not mathematics, he makes difficult and sometimes recondite economic concepts comprehensible, entertaining—and even funny.