Pagan Kennedy is the author of “Black Livingstone,” a biography of 19th century black American missionary William Sheppard.
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Intensive polling over several years in both countries shows that Americans and Canadians are developing differences in their social, political and moral attitudes.
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Paul Levinson is the author of "Digital McLuhan: A Guide to the Information Millennium." He talks to Jim Fleming about his friendship with McLuhan and the man's work.
Not all illustrators agree on what to call graphic novels or when the first one appeared, but most agree that the man who brought them into the mainstream was Will Eisner.
Lynne Truss is the author of a very popular punctuation guide. She explains her book’s title to Steve Paulson and gives several funny examples of punctuation mistakes.
Sports Illustrated writer Jeff MacGregor spent a year on the NASCAR circuit and writes about it in "Sunday Money: Speed! Lust! Madness! Death!"
Psychiatrist Ned Kalin and psychologist Richard Davidson have found that cheerful people tend to have more left-brain activity while people with active right brains tend to be sad and pessimistic.
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