A BELIEF IN FREE WILL touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think about law, politics, religion, public policy, intimate relationships,...
Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation
“An insightful meditation on the curious nature of time…A highly illuminating intellectual investigation” (Kirkus Reviews) explaining the sometimes...
Tete-a-tete: The Tumultuous Lives And Loves Of Simone De Beauvoir And Jean-paul Sartre
“Enthralling . . . Here we find an ugly, walleyed existentialist philosopher, the elegantly beautiful author of The Second Sex and the Gallic equivalent of a bevy of...
The Women's History Of The Modern World: How Radicals, Rebels, And Everywomen Revolutionized The Last 200 Years
The internationally bestselling author of Who Cooked the Last Supper? presents a wickedly witty and very current history of the extraordinary female rebels,...
Every Tool's A Hammer: Life Is What You Make It
In this New York Times bestselling “imperative how-to for creativity” (Nick Offerman), Adam Savage—star of Discovery Channel’s Mythbusters—shares his...
Lao Zi’s Dao De Jing
The "Dao De Jing" exists on the border between poetry and philosophy, embracing both mythos and logos. Its poetic form can stand alone, but it is enriched when its timeless ideas...
Erasing Death
Contrary to popular belief, death is not a moment in time, such as when the heart stops beating, respiration ceases, or the brain stops functioning. Death, rather, is a...
Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
Now a National Bestseller! Climate change is real but it’s not the end of the world. It is not even our most serious environmental problem. Michael Shellenberger has been...
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History Of Life
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction Nonpareil science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our understanding of...
The Physics Of Star Wars: The Science Behind A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Explore the physics behind the world of Star Wars, with engaging topics and accessible information that shows how we’re closer than ever before to creating technology from...
