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Discover the twists and turns of one of America's great infrastructure projects with this "engrossing history of the creation of the U.S. interstate system" (Los Angeles Times). It's become a part of the landscape that we take for granted, the site of rumbling...
Recipient of the 2023 Richard Kalish Innovative Publication Book AwardYale professor and leading expert on the psychology of successful aging, Dr. Becca Levy, draws on her ground-breaking research to show how age beliefs can be improved so they benefit all aspects of...
The worldâs first âpunk undertakerâ shares his unconventional perspective on grief, death, end-of-life, and the funeral business in this sharp and deeply moving memoir-manifesto.âExtraordinary . . . Youâll be changed. An instant classic.â âRob Hopkins, author of From...
In Mind of the Raven, Bernd Heinrich, award-winning naturalist, finds himself dreaming of ravens and decides he must get to the truth about this animal reputed to be so intelligent.Much like a sleuth, Heinrich involves us in his quest to understand their world,...
The bestselling author & physicist explores the masterpieces of mathematics through thirty-one landmark works, spanning two,500 years and representing seventeen mathematicians.From the geometry of Euclid through the calculus of Newton, the probabilities of Laplace to...
The #1 New York Times bestseller that "unearths the hidden gems in our North American backyard. Don't even think about . . . sightseeing without it" (New York Daily News).Covering the U.S.A. and Canada like never before, and for the first time with full-color...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF TIMEâS 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR Sex and the City meets Bad Blood and Catch Me if You Can in this riveting true crime memoir that tells the astonishing firsthand story of Anna Delveyâthe fake heiress who conned New Yorkâs eliteâand...
A provocative exploration of the Bard of Avon's famous and beloved collection of poetry.Shakespeare's sonnets are the greatest single work of lyric poetry in English, as passionate and daring as any love poems we may ever encounter, and yet, they are often...
Some ideas are forbidden not because they are falseâbut because they threaten the foundations of power. In an age of expanding government, managed narratives, and pressure to conform to an evolving moral orthodoxy, the principles that once defined a free society are...
Essays from the Stoic philosopher instructing how to find happiness in a world full of adversity.Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCEâ65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and advisor to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature....