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In The Un-Discovered Islands, critically acclaimed author Malachy Tallack takes the reader on fascinating adventures to the mysterious and forgotten corners of the map.Be prepared to be captivated by the astounding tales of two dozen islands once believed to be real...
A Nobel Prize-winning author delivers one of the most influential works of the twentieth century, showing a way out of despair and reaffirming the value of existence.Influenced by works such as Don Juan and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on...
“Fascinating. Doidge’s book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain.”—Oliver Sacks, MD, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a HatWhat is neuroplasticity? Is it possible to change your brain? Norman Doidge’s inspiring...
When false information looks real, every leader carries a new kind of risk. Right now, a cloned voice can approve a wire transfer. A fabricated video can move a stock price. A false story can race through your market before anyone stops to check it. None of this is...
"A poetic and profound meditation on the mathematical imagination" reveals how the imaginary number was first imagined, and how to imagine it yourself (The Christian Science Monitor).Imagining Numbers (particularly the square root of minus fifteen) is Barry Mazur's...
When false information looks real, every leader carries a new kind of risk. Right now, a cloned voice can approve a wire transfer. A fabricated video can move a stock price. A false story can race through your market before anyone stops to check it. None of this is...
"A meditation on the 'art of reading' . . . [and] a celebration of 'the reader's whims—trust in pleasure and faith in haphazardness.'" —The New YorkerHere are thirty-nine reflections on the joy and solace of reading by the internationally celebrated author Alberto...
A mathematician and a poet explore fractals as they appear in nature, art, medicine, and technology in this "instant classic" introduction (David Peak, Utah State University)."Fractal Worlds portrays math as math lovers know it: a beautiful garden, a place of...
A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The refreshingly original and “startlingly hopeful” (Lisa Taddeo) debut memoir of an overachieving young lawyer who reluctantly agrees to group psychotherapy and gets psychologically and emotionally naked in a room...
“[An] extraordinary and urgent book.” —Jonathan Haidt“The Mattering Instinct is a masterpiece. I wept, I laughed out loud, I came face-to-face with the wellsprings of my life, but mostly I marveled at Rebecca Goldstein’s genius. This book should ignite a revolution.”...