🧠Because truth is often stranger—and funnier—than fiction.
Memoirs, essays, and deep dives into everything from psychology to platypuses. Smart reads for curious minds.
A powerful collection of the most essential speeches from famed social activist and key civil rights figure Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This companion volume to A Knock At Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. includes the text...
A compendium of outrageous, hilarious or just plain shocking trivia about everything from history and politics to arts, religion, technology and much more. Â For years, the Chicago Tribune's "10 Things You Might Not Know" column has been informing and entertaining...
"Equal parts motivation and inspiration . . . Bite-size, easy-to-read chapters coach new writers through everything from imposter syndrome to writer's block." —The WriterI Should Be Writing is everything you'd hope to find in a writing workshop, condensed into one...
Studying plant intelligence reveals “humans may have been misunderstanding plants, and ourselves, for all of history”—for fans of The Hidden Life of Trees (Paris Review).“A compelling story of discovery . . . It will change the way you see the world.” —Robin Wall...
Roy Peter Clark, one of America's most influential writing teachers, offers writing lessons we can draw from 25 great texts. Where do writers learn their best moves? They use a technique that Roy Peter Clark calls X-ray reading, a form of reading that lets you...
A rich linguistic history of the Spanish language and its progress around the globe, from the authors of The Story of French, who "do an excellent job of transforming it into an accessible and lively narrative" (Los Angeles Times).Just how did a dialect spoken by a...
The inspiration for the TV show At Home with Amy Sedaris, here is a hilarious, helpful, and informative guide on how to entertain. Are you lacking direction in how to whip up a swanky soiree for lumberjacks? A dinner party for white-collar workers? A festive gathering...
"Acclaimed British novelist Hensher . . . provides a droll and eclectic tour of handwriting history" —Booklist."Rediscover the joys of writing. . . . Like a charming dinner guest, [Hensher] brims with fun facts, good humor and amusing reminiscences . . . [He] enlivens...
An entertaining look at the origins of mathematical symbols While all of us regularly use basic math symbols such as those for plus, minus, and equals, few of us know that many of these symbols weren't available before the sixteenth century. What did mathematicians...
A guide to well-being from the renowned social psychologist and New York Times–bestselling author of The Art of Loving and Escape from Freedom. Though laptops, smartphones, and TVs have in many ways made life more convenient, they have also disconnected us from the...