Ten cases in which rage led to murder. The emotional development of boys. A black writer remembers growing up with his white mother in Brooklyn. The author's odyssey through the battlefields of the Civil War, with a look at those obsessed by that era. A psychic tells her life story.
Girls discuss their feelings.
Ernest Shackleton's 1914 Antarctic expedition. The checkered public and private life of Charles A. Lindbergh. A memoir of Coalwood, W.Va., where the author learned to build rockets. How a young man's obsession with the wilderness had a tragic end. The author tells of her grim childhood in mainland China, where she suffered emotional abuse from her stepmother.