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Award-winning photographer Ashley Gilbertson has spent much of the past five years in Iraq, taking incredible photographs for The New York Times and other publications. Born in 1978, Gilbertson has captured some of the world's most dangerous places on camera. A book of his work, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: A Photographer's Chronicle of the Iraq War, will be published this fall.

Ten years after her death, a new book takes another look at the Princess of Wales. Author Tina Brown says Diana wanted the royal family to "reach out more" to the public, and in the aftermath of Diana's death, they finally did.

Ranchers have long used poisons to kill predators such as coyotes. But some also use guard dogs that are raised with sheep and instinctively protect them. A Wyoming woman supplies the guardian dogs to ranchers throughout the state.

The journey of life is made up of a series of choices. But how much do the elements of chance and luck have to play when making those life choices? Author Cristina Garcia explores these ideas in her latest novel, A Handbook to Luck.

In her new book, Conquering Gotham, historian Jill Jonnes documents the drama behind the construction of New York City's old Penn Station. She gathers a cast of corporate leaders, corrupt politicians and daring engineers who brought the station to life in 1910.

Pakistan's military ruler, Pervez Musharraf, has made his first significant concession to his critics since the start of the political crisis now threatening his rule. Government officials say an emergency ordinance tightening control over Pakistan's electronic media, issued earlier this week, has been suspended pending a review.

There are more protests against Pakistan's President Gen. Pervez Musharraf over his suspention of the nation's chief justice. Security forces detained hundreds of activists even before the rallies.

NASA's Johnson Space Center invited The Kitchen Sisters to visit its "hidden kitchen." On the eve of NASA's scheduled launch of space shuttle Atlantis, The Kitchen Sisters present a brief history of space food.

Author Tara McKelvey interviewed former prisoners from Abu Ghraib for her book Monstering: Inside America's Policy of Secret Interrogations and Torture in the Terror War McKelvey is senior editor at The American Prospect and a research fellow at the NYU School of Law's Center on Law and Security.

Adam Gopnik says the Nobel Prize winner isn't merely a poet: She's "a necessary writer, as necessary as toast," adept at delivering "a small truth articulated as a sharp ironic point" — and "an emotion given a shape neither all too familiar nor all too abstract."