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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠The most influential book of the past seventy-five years: a groundbreaking exploration of everything we know about what we donât know, now with a new section called âOn Robustness and Fragility.âA black swan is a highly improbable event...
A New York Times Book Review Editorsâ Choice ¡ A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2025 ¡ A People Best Book of November 2025 ¡ An NPR Most Anticipated Book of Fall 2025 A revealing exploration of a quarter century of cultural stagnation, examining the...
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER ⢠From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All Over but the Shoutin', the warmhearted and hilarious story of how his life was transformed by his love for a poorly behaved, half-blind stray dog.Speck is not a good boy. He is a...
The author of The Soul of an Octopus explores the science, wisdom, and lives of 3 legendary 20th-century female primatologists: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and BirutĂŠ Galdikas. Three astounding women scientists have penetrated the jungles of Africa and Borneo to...
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERâProvocative but perceptive . . . You can agree or disagree with Smilâaccept or doubt his âjust the factsâ postureâbut you probably shouldnât ignore him.ââThe Washington PostAn essential analysis of the modern science and technology...
Collected passages, phrases & proverbs, spanning five,zero years of history & culture, traced to their sources in literatureârevised & updated for its 18th edition.First published in 1855 and continuously in print since then, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is the most...
A concise introduction to the history of cartography.In Maps & Civilization: Cartography in Culture and Society, Norman J. W. Thrower charts the intimate links between maps and history from antiquity to the present day. A wealth of illustrations, including the oldest...
"The stories of the wounded storytellers unfold smoothly on the page, as mesmerizing as any they themselves might have told." âThe New York TimesThe Bard meets House, M.D. in this fascinating untold story of the impact of disease on the lives and works of some the...
*A Town and Country Must-Read Book of Summer**A BUZZFEED BEST BOOK OF JUNE**A Washington Post âBook to Read This Summerâ**AN ADVOCATE BEST LGBTQ+ BOOK OF 2022**A USA Today "Book to Celebrate Pride Month"**A New York Times "Editor's Pick"**A Kirkus Reviews Hottest Book...
A New York Times Bestseller about the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and un-infested in the extreme circumstances of war.Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversariesâpanic, exhaustion, heat,...