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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Following Chris Wallace’s “riveting” (The New York Times) and “propulsive” (Time) first book Countdown 1945 comes a deeply reported, revelatory, and thrillingly told account of the final months of the hunt for...
“Urges readers to consider how they might be used to enhance human work and to support human flourishing.” —Valerie Thompson, ScienceDaniela Rus, a leading roboticist and computer scientist, explores how we can use a new generation of smart machines to help...
World-renowned folklorist Maria Tatar reveals an astonishing but long-buried history of heroines, taking us from Cassandra and Scheherazade to Nancy Drew and Wonder Woman.The Heroine with 1,001 Faces dismantles the cult of warrior heroes, revealing a secret history of...
A wide-ranging collection of essays on the importance and meaning of literature by "one of the most influential thinkers of our time" (Los Angeles Times). In this collection of essays and addresses delivered over the course of his long and celebrated career, Umberto...
The Amazing Secrets of the Phrases We Use EverydayPhraseology is the ultimate collection of everything you never knew about the wonderful phrases found in the English language. It contains information about phrase history and etymology; unusual, lost, or uncommon...
“The ultimate expression of intergenerational literary wisdom.” —Andrew Solomon, The New YorkerA work that has inspired generations, this new edition of Letters to a Young Poet features a fresh translation of Rilke’s ten classic letters, along with the missing letters...
A fun, dazzling exploration of the strange numbers that illuminate the ultimate nature of reality.For particularly brilliant theoretical physicists like James Clerk Maxwell, Paul Dirac, or Albert Einstein, the search for mathematical truths led to strange new...
A jargon-free, highly visual e-guide to every aspect of politics, from political philosophy to 21st-century activism. Discover everything you need to know about political history and thought, and the inner workings of governments around the world with this unique...
The New Yorker staff writer Louis Menand's The Metaphysical Club is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History.A national bestseller and "hugely ambitious, unmistakably brilliant" (Janet Maslin, New York Times) book about the creation of modern American thought.The...
The riveting true story of a legendary Spanish galleon that sunk off the coast of Colombia with over $1 billion in gold and silver—and one man’s obsessive quest to find it—from the New York Times bestselling author of Madhouse at the End of the Earth“Splendid . . ....
