Charles Darwin transformed our understanding of the world with the idea of natural selection, challenging the notion that species are fixed and unchanging. These writings from On the Origin of Spec...
Individuality and selfishness are as welcome as a sumo wrestler barging the line at a buffet.I’m Japanese and I like it. Many things in this little book are frighteningly so true....
In this uniquely skewed look at the purpose and function of a book, Smith offers an illustrated guide that asks readers to creatively examine all the different ways "This Is Not a Book" c...
Humorous, clever and concise, these guides take an analytical but affectionate look at different nations, their character and quirks.Written from an insider’s perspective, they of...
Humorous, clever and concise, these guides take an analytical but affectionate look at different nations, their character and quirks.Written from an insider’s perspective, they of...
The authors of the "Freakonomics" books on using data over emotion to answer questions have turned what they've learned into a readable and practical toolkit for thinking smarter, harder ...
Humorous, clever and concise, these guides take an analytical but affectionate look at different nations, their character and quirks.Written from an insider’s perspective, they of...
An account of the extraordinary meeting between four brilliant political activists: Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy, NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden, Pentagon Papers insider Daniel Ellsberg and...
The present book focuses on the morphological analysis of Classical Japanese verbal and adjectival forms. It does not present any new facts (or hardly any), but attempts to describe them in a new w...
This is Freud's groundbreaking study of a wealthy young Russian man, subject to psychotic episodes and neuroses. Through the patient's dream of childhood wolves, Freud was able to determine his rea...
This is Freud's groundbreaking study of a wealthy young Russian man, subject to psychotic episodes and neuroses. Through the patient's dream of childhood wolves, Freud was able to determine his rea...
Right now, Europe is in serious financial chaos. In Greece, infrastructure costs mean it would be cheaper to transport all Greek rail passengers by taxi, and hairdressing is classified as arduous f...
Humorous, clever and concise, these guides take an analytical but affectionate look at different nations, their character and quirks.Written from an insider’s perspective, they of...
Why are people successful? For centuries, humankind has grappled with this question, searching for the secret to accomplishing great things. In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on ...
For some four centuries the Ottoman Empire had been one of the most powerful states in Europe as well as ruler of the Middle East. By 1914 it had been drastically weakened and circled by numerous p...
Humorous, clever and concise, these guides take an analytical but affectionate look at different nations, their character and quirks.Written from an insider’s perspective, they of...
Written at a time when most of Europe supported the French Revolution, Edmund Burke’s prescient and, at the time, controversial denunciation of its mob rule predicted the Terror, began the mo...
Humorous, clever and concise, these guides take an analytical but affectionate look at different nations, their character and quirks.Written from an insider’s perspective, they of...
Now in paperback, this is a history of the cotton industry, and the overwhelming role played by cotton in dictating the shape of our world. It won the Bancroft Prize and the Philip Taft Prize and w...