🧠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.
Certified Enneagram coach Stephanie Barron Hall shows you how to use the Enneagram as a tool for self-discovery and a practical way to achieve growth.Stephanie Barron Hall is using social media to bring the power of the Enneagram to a new generation of followers,...
From the famed author of the bestselling The Second Shift and The Time Bind, a pathbreaking look at the transformation of private life in our for-profit world The family has long been a haven in a heartless world, the one place immune to market forces and economic...
“I’d rather go to France with Ina Caro than with Henry Adams or Henry James.”—NewsweekIn one of the most inventive travel books in years, Ina Caro invites readers on twenty-five one-day train trips that depart from Paris and transport us back through seven hundred...
From the National Book Critics Circle Award–winning poet and critic: "A lovely book, full of joy and wisdom." — The Baltimore Sun How to Read a Poem is an unprecedented exploration of poetry, feeling, and human nature. In language at once acute and emotional, Edward...
“Witty, compelling, and just plain fun to read . . ." —Evelyn Lamb, Scientific AmericanThe Freakonomics of math—a math-world superstar unveils the hidden beauty and logic of the world and puts its power in our hands The math we learn in school can seem like a dull set...
A Next Big Idea Club Must Read of February 2025"Von Hippel presents a radically new way to understand why human happiness has diminished. What’s more, he offers superlative advice for how to get back on track.” —Sonja Lyubomirsky, New York Times bestselling author of...
From America's Finest News Source comes a compilation of the most important, most influential, and glossiest magazine covers ever produced by the hand of humankind. Seen by tens of billions worldwide, these are the unforgettable Onion Magazine covers that altered the...
The renowned philosopher and political theorist presents a summation of his influential work in this series of Columbia University lectures. Â A pioneer in the fields of modern linguistics and cognitive science, Noam Chomsky is also one of the most avidly read...
A newly updated edition of a classic in the history of medicine with information on Covid-19. Arising from collaboration between a doctor and a historian, Disease and History offers the general reader a wide-ranging and accessible account of the ways in which disease...
Finalist for the James Beard Foundation Book Award and the IACP Cookbook Award"[A]s good a read on the science of cooking as there is." —Mark Bittman, author of How to Cook Everything“Wolke, longtime professor of chemistry and author of the Washington Post column Food...