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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Horse and The Eighty-Dollar Champion presents a “heartwarming [and] engaging folk-hero biography” (Kirkus Reviews) of a woman who fulfilled her lifelong wish to see the Pacific Ocean by...
Despite unprecedented levels of material success, billions today feel unfulfilled, anxious, and disconnected.In Love, Learn, Play, Akhil Gupta—a former driver equity leader turned global seeker—offers radical yet deeply intuitive solution: real well-being arises when...
Longlisted for the 2026 Cundill History Prize“An indispensable book, as intellectually provocative as it is emotionally wrenching.”—Greg Grandin, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning The End of the MythAlthough the first enslaved Africans arrived in Jamestown in 1619,...
Your brain is the most remarkable thing in the known universe.Fun, but still deeply, rigorously researched.' - Professor Neil Shyminsky'A true masterpiece. Rachel Barr has done a phenomenal job breaking down the complexities of the human mind.' - Jeffrey Meltzer,...
NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, and PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER “Full of valuable insights to guide you.”—WILL SMITH“Thoughtful and life-affirming . . . a must-read.”—TONY ROBBINS“This book will put you back in charge of your own life.”—TOM BRADYA new perspective on the...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A former Wall Street quant sounds the alarm on Big Data and the mathematical models that threaten to rip apart our social fabric—with a new afterword “A manual for the twenty-first-century citizen . . . relevant and urgent.”—Financial...
A must-read for anyone hoping to master their financial future.Investment advisor Peter J. Tanous unravels the many myths surrounding risk, stock market gains and declines, and getting rich. Peppered with personal anecdotes and intelligible lessons, The Pure Equity...
"An ambitious history . . . [Hetzel's] book is a very important contribution to the literature on the history of U.S. monetary policy." ―EH.netIn The Federal Reserve: A New History, Robert L. Hetzel draws on more than forty years of experience as an economist in the...
A neurologist’s insightful and compassionate look into the misunderstood world of psychosomatic disorders—told through individual case histories “. . . advocates for new ways to look, understand, and treat unexplainable symptoms . . . Some of the cases will break your...
"An elegant, convincing, and deeply humanist approach to understanding our resistance to change" (David A. Kessler, MD, author of The End of Overeating).Why do we refuse to change habits and behaviors we know are harmful to us?Clinician and thought leader in the...
