 | Columnist Thomas L. Friedman explains why, in a globalized world, crises in energy and the climate must be priorities. Friedman argues further that a globalized world makes it possible as never before to address these issues in a meaningful way, and... |
 | Pi, the precocious animal-loving son of an Indian zookeeper, loses his family in a shipwreck en route to North America--and is left alone in a lifeboat with a man-eating Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, with whom he manages (thanks to his zoo... |
 | While on a mission to Antarctica to save the world from global warming, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride and the other members of the Flock--a band of genetically modified children who can fly--are pursued by their creator, the Uber-Director, who wants... |
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 | A man and a gorilla set out on an intellectual adventure and in the process define what it means to be a human being. |
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 | In the hopes of raising public awareness and affecting public policy, former Vice-President Al Gore issues this red flag on one of the key topics with which he has long been identified: the issue of global warming. Gore synthesizes the latest... |
 | In alternating voices, Paul Newman and his friend and co-founder A.E. Hotchner write about Newman's Own, the company they launched in the early 1980s to sell salad dressing in order to make money for charity. What began as a lark became an unexpected... |
 | Conservative Mormon comedian and talk-show host Glenn Beck goes on a no-holds-barred assault on Al Gore (a man he has compared to Hitler), environmentalism, and liberal sentiment in his bestselling AN INCONVENIENT BOOK. His political stances and... |