"A news-making account of the war between David Koresh's Branch Davidians and the FBI, and how their standoff launched today's militias"-- 1993: David Koresh and a band of heavily armed evangelical Christians took on the might of the US government. A two-month siege of their compound in Waco, Texas, ended in a firefight that killed seventy-six, including twenty-five children. Cook gives readers a taste of Koresh's deadly charisma and takes us behind...

Recounts the events of March 13, 1964, when a young woman in Queens was slain in plain sight of witnesses who heard her cries for help but chose not to get involved.

"The untold story of a national trauma -- NASA's Challenger explosion -- and what really happened to America's Teacher in Space, illuminating the tragic cost of humanity setting its sight on the stars"-- January 28, 1986. NASA's space shuttle Challenger exploded after blasting off from Cape Canaveral. Christa McAuliffe, America's "Teacher in Space" was instantly killed, along with the other six members of the mission. At least that's what most of...

Brace yourself for a crash course in destruction instruction. The team of maverick engineers apply existing technology in revolutionary, slightly insane ways, using science to solve real-world problems. The team builds contraptions to remedy a range of potential threats from highway accidents to natural disasters, putting ordinary objects to the test in extraordinary circumstances.