"An epic people's history of Europe's fraught East-West divide, by an intrepid author who followed its path from the Arctic to Turkey"-- Initially a victory line where Allies met at the end of World War Two, the Iron Curtain became the front of a new kind of war: it divided Europe from north to south for forty-five years. New generations have grown up since these borders came down, bu what has the Iron Curtain left in its wake? Phillips travels its...

"Benjamin Franklin was not a gambling man. But at the end of his illustrious life, the Founder allowed himself a final wager on the survival of the United States: a gift of two thousand pounds to Boston and Philadelphia, to be lent out to tradesmen over the next two centuries to jump-start their careers. Each loan would be repaid with interest over ten years. If all went according to Franklin's inventive scheme, the accrued final payout in 1991 would...

Resident evil (2002, 101 min.): A paramilitary unit fights a powerful, out-of-control supercomputer and hundreds of scientists who have mutated into flesh-eating creatures after a laboratory accident. Resident evil, apocalypse (2004, 94 min.): Alice is back and forced to face off against an unstoppable, bioengineered killing machine. Resident evil, extinction (2007, 94 min.): Survivors of the Raccoon City catastrophe travel across the Nevada desert...

"Lucy is having a great afterlife. She's got a perfect boyfriend; she's busy with the Limbos (the dance club she co-founded); and she's even learning to control her newest ghostly skill, mindreading. She is totally ready to lead the Limbos to victory in the school spirit competition! But whoever said the afterlife was going to be peaceful didn't have to go to middle school and didn't know Lucy's nemesis, Georgia Sinclaire. This competition is about...