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The Cultural Tutor is dedicated to a cosmopolitan view of culture. It writes about every continent, every religion, every tradition of art and poetry' TOMIWA OWOLADE, THE TIMES'For anyone who has enjoyed The Cultural Tutor on X, this book will be more of the same...
The math book for anyone who thinks they hate math, full of easy, entertaining and practical tricks for mentally solving problems in seconds.No matter how much you might try to avoid numbers, we all use math every day to calculate a tip, figure out an interest rate,...
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREA luminous collection of essays from Louise GlĂĽck, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and one of our most original and influential poetsFive decades after her debut poetry collection, Firstborn, Louise GlĂĽck is a towering...
"A winsome volume . . . in which the librarian Annie Spence writes letters to books she has loved, or not." —New York Times Book ReviewIf you love to read, and presumably you do since you've picked up this book, you know that some books affect you so profoundly they...
New York Times Bestseller“A refreshingly unadorned account of the true brutality of climbing K2, where heroes emerge and egos are stripped down, and the only thing achieving immortality is the cold ruthless mountain.” — Norman Ollestad, author of Crazy for the StormIn...
"A pain staking but hilarious journey amidst the strings and arrows of language misfortune . . . The result is the perfect gift book for word nerds." —BrevityMalapropism—A word or phrase that has been mistaken for another, usually because of its sound rather than its...
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An intimate, rollicking highly-visual memoir of a comedic genius that offers a rare glimpse into the creative life and inner workings of legendary director producer Judd Apatow through never-before-seen photos, letters and behind-the-scenes...
"Intriguing stories from the history of the human relationship with birds, including their symbolism in art, literature, religion, and folklore" ( Booklist ). Even the most well-informed wildlife enthusiast will be entertained by the stories and fascinating facts in...
"A complete introduction to the geometric code of nature, written and illustrated by the most perceptive of its modern investigators." —John Michell, from the Preface You need not be a philosopher or a botanist, and certainly not a mathematician, to enjoy the bounty...
Winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Literature: A "massive, provocative, brilliant" study of the nature of humankind and the manifestations of that nature ( Time ). "Critics have compared Crowds and Power to the intellectually revolutionary works of Marx, Freud, and...