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The cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering societies the chance to reveal aspects of their characters...

Neil deGrasse Tyson has become one of the most recognisable and respected figures in science. In this adaptation of his "genuinely accessible" (Summer Reading 2017, The Sunday Times) The...

For one thousand years, a poem about the material nature of the universe languished unread, almost completely forgotten. Then, in 1417, an unemployed papal secretary named Poggio Bracciolini went...

Examining the psyche--and psychoses--of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear, and Coriolanus, Greenblatt illuminates the ways in which William Shakespeare delved into the lust for absolute power...

What Do You Care What Other People Think$75 Further Adventures of a Curious Character is a captivating collection of reminiscences from freewheeling scientific genius Richard P. Feynman. Richard...

She's a fashion model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But when a sudden freeway "accident" leaves her disfigured and incapable of speech, she goes from...

The real story of the crash began in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn't shine and the SEC doesn't dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real estate derivative markets where...

Stephen Greenblatt tells the life history of the account of the first man and the first woman - central to all three of the world's monotheistic religions and the object of innumerable...

A novel of activism and natural-world power presents interlocking fables about nine remarkable strangers who are summoned in different ways żeby trees for an ultimate, brutal stand to save the...

"Morbid and illuminating" (Entertainment Weekly)-a young mortician goes behind the scenes of her curious profession.

In her new translation of Kafkas masterpiece, Susan Bernofsky strives to capture both the humor and the humanity in this macabre tale, underscoring the ways in which Gregor Samsas grotesque...

New York Times Bestseller Wie gelangen wir zu unseren Entscheidungen, und warum liegen wir so oft daneben$244 Daniel Kahneman war sich immer sicher, dass er sich irrte. Amos Tversky war sich immer...

Adjustment Day is an ingenious darkly comic work in which Chuck Palahniuk does what he does best: skewer the absurdities in our society. Geriatric politicians bring the nation to the brink of a...

A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerging human diseases. Quammen takes the reader along on this astonishing quest to learn how, where from and why these...

World-renowned biologist and primatologist Frans de Waal puts our intellectual superiority to the test in this fascinating exploration of the animal mind. ARE WE SMART ENOUGH TO KNOW HOW SMART...

Of this volume, the noted critic Harold Bloom has written, ""A Coast of Trees" represents A. R. Ammons at his strongest and most eloquent in the lyric mode. The book is an achievement...

America currently has the most inequality, and the least equality of opportunity, among the advanced countries. While market forces play a role in this stark picture, politics has shaped those...

A revolution is under way in how we understand the nature of relationships, how we develop in those relationships and how our brains function synergistically in connection with others. This field,...

This reissue of A. R. Ammons s debut, published five decades ago in a rare edition, with its penetrating Whitmanian chants... Holds in it the mystery of his gradual development into a major...

Drawn żeby some sympathetic note in one of his poems, young people often wrote to Rilke with their problems and hopes. From 1903 to 1908 Rilke wrote a series of remarkable responses to a young...

Japanese dog grooming does not follow the rules of traditional, breed- kanon grooming. In fact, it only has one mission-to make dogs look as adorable as possible! With extreme attention to detail...

Make drinking water a pure pleasure with tasty, healthy infusions of fruits and herbs