The schools in Providence, Rhode Island, like those in most large and midsize cities, suffer alarming drop-out rates. In 1989, Urban Collaborative, an independe

In this outstanding collection of essays, Isaiah Berlin, one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, discusses the importance of dissenters in the histo

The premise: You take two boys who meet at age 12 and then show their relationship 25 years later. One has his promise taken from him by the controlling influen

Against the Current is an oblique look at travelling through France on a boat by two people with no experience or qualifications, with imaginative asides and wh

In the summer of 1900,Thomas Cunningham begins work on a device that will harvest the inexhaustible energy found in magnetic fields. At the same time, the large