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Read an excerpt from 'The Falcon Thief'
Over decades, a brazen thief stole hundreds of eggs from rare and endangered falcons' nests around the world, to sell to private collectors.
'The Falcon Thief' exposes the high-flying life of a notorious rare-bird smuggler
Wild falcons are highly prized by private collectors, who pay tens of thousands of dollars for the rare birds.
Useless Self-Help Guide Offers Ludicrous Solutions to Everyday Problems
A new book by Randall Munroe, author of the popular science webcomic xkcd, explains how to fix real-world problems by using science to find ridiculously complicated solutions.
'Does it Fart?' Authors Drop Book Number Two, 'True or Poo?'
New book "True or Poo?" explores a range of riveting animal repulsiveness.
Ancient Roman Library Discovered Beneath German City
Archaeologists are excavating the remains of an ancient Roman library — a bibliophile's dream that once held up to 20,000 scrolls — in Cologne, Germany.
