On May 20, 1875, delegates from a group of 17 countries gathered in Paris to sign what may be the most overlooked yet ...

The first recounts the fight of Gawain, King Arthur's nephew and one of the premier Knights of the Round Table in Arthurian ... to how students may cover an exercise book with sticky-back plastic ...

This may be the most salient virtue of Amusing Ourselves to Death: how readily the mental tools the book provides can be applied to media undreamed of when Postman was writing it. TV is very ...

For over 400 years, this fragile remnant of a celebrated medieval story lay undisturbed and unnoticed, repurposed as a book cover by Elizabethans ... read for the first time in centuries.

Much has changed since 2001, when creative director D.W. Pine produced his first cover for TIME. (That cover, for a story about online privacy, rendered a desktop computer as a heavy-duty lock.) ...

It is a compendium for older scientists to reflect on the world and fill in the gaps in their knowledge, and a gorgeous coffee-table book for any aficionado of ... and impish wisdom. It covers much of ...