Carol Lopez: 6 books

Before he started acting, Mark Wahlberg was best known as Marky Mark, the pants-dropping rapper who attained fame and notoriety with his group the Funky Bunch. In the tradition of Will Smith and Ice Cube, Wahlberg has made a successful transition from music to film, garnering particular early praise...

A mix of polished pop/rock and neo-soul made Maroon 5 one of the most popular bands of the new millennium, with songs like "This Love," "She Will Be Loved," and "Makes Me Wonder" all topping the charts worldwide.   Previously, bandmates Adam Levine...

  Madonna is an influential and best-selling recording musical artist. Madonna, whose birth name is Madonna Louise Ciccone, has sold over 250 million records worldwide to date. Born in Bay City, Michigan on August 16, 1958, she eventually moved with her family to Rochester Hills, Michigan....

Diego Maradona is an Argentine football coach as well as a manager and former player. He is often said to be the Babe Ruth of Argentinian soccer. This comes as no surprise if one takes into account that Maradona has been the stocky, charming and hard-partying star who has dominated his country's favorite...

Revered the world over for his nonviolent philosophy of passive resistance, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was known to his many followers as Mahatma, or “the great-souled one.”   He began his activism as an Indian immigrant in South Africa in the early 1900s, and in the years...

Social media are the tools and platforms that people use to publish content and interact socially online. User generated content includes conversation, articles, images or pictures, recipes, and anything that an individual might share with others in their daily lives.   Increasingly...