“Neal Stephenson has made a name for himself as a writer whose imagination knows no limits.”—Salon#1 New York Times bestselling author Neal Stephenson is, quite...
Late one night, a man calls the local emergency line. He's in a cemetery, and he's just discovered a freshly dug grave marked with a wooden cross bearing his name. The dispatcher...
"An off-beat love story…alternately deeply moving and laugh-aloud funny." -Good Housekeeping"Jon Cohen conjures magic, weaving a gentle romantic fantasy of piercing and...
"I can't believe I ate a seal. And really enjoyed it."Moments after venture capitalist Gloria Baradaran experiences what it's like to be a polar bear - really be a polar bear -...
With the fall of the Berlin Wall, one economic model emerged triumphant. Capitalism-spanning a spectrum from laissez faire to authoritarian-shapes the market economies of all the...
Leland Faust unmasks Wall Street's unsavory tactics in powerful detail by giving readers a high-level view of how the financial services industry misleads them, overcharges them,...
Ferdinand Brun hasn't always been a grumpy old man. Many years ago, he was a grumpy young man. Now he'd much rather spend time with his canine companion, Daisy, than any of his...
Since Andrew Hudgins was a child, he was a compulsive joke teller, so when he sat down to write about jokes, he found that he was writing about himself-what jokes taught him and...
Make every conversation a REAL conversation that benefits all.Overcoming Fake Talk explains why we often fail at our most important communications and offers proven advice for...
We all make mistakes. Nobody's perfect. Not even some of the greatest geniuses in history, as Mario Livio tells us in this marvelous story of scientific error and...