TARAWA: THE STORY OF A BATTLE—Robert Sherrod—Duell, Sloan & Pearce ($2). Between the water and the sea wall on Tarawa atoll, there was 20 feet of sand and brown-green coral; those 20 feet (for a ...

Over the centuries, humans have gone from merely spotting cryptic celestial bodies to studying the details of deep-space objects and alien planets, and investigating mysterious dark matter and ...

Last year, I learned a piece of information so startling that I spent months repeating it to anyone who would listen. It came from my colleague Elizabeth Kolbert’s book “The Sixth Extinction,” and it ...

When Jacksonville high school senior Daniel Kaye read that 87% of middle school students don’t know basic American history or civics, he did more than file away that factoid in his brain. He wrote and ...

Explain the facts of life to your kids without embarrassment using these fun and informative sex-education books. Sometimes when children ask those awkward questions about sex, relationships and ...

Like most writers, I can be a stickler about language, but anyone who hangs out with me for long enough will learn that I favor a certain ungrammatical turn of phrase: “true fact.” Technically ...