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Wolf
The Lives of Jack London
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Jack London was born a working-class, fatherless Californian in 1876. In his youth he was a boundlessly energetic adventurer on the bustling West Coast-by turns playing the role of hobo, sailor, prospector, and oyster pirate. He spent his brief life rapidly accumulating the experiences that would...
Bookmark Now
Writing in Unreaderly Time
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2009
An anthology of original essays from our most intriguing young writers, Bookmark Now boldly addresses the significance of the production of literature in the twenty-first century. Or simply, How do we talk about writing and reading in an age where they both seem almost quaint?”The book features...
The Devil's Delusion
Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2009
Bestselling author David Berlinski's wise and witty assault on the pretensions of the scientific atheists
Militant atheism is on the rise. In recent years Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens have produced a steady stream of best-selling books denigrating religious...
The Man with the Poison Gun
A Cold War Spy Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
In the fall of 1961, KGB assassin Bogdan Stashinsky defected to West Germany. After spilling his secrets to the CIA, Stashinsky was put on trial in what would be the most publicized assassination case of the entire Cold War. The publicity stirred up by the Stashinsky case forced the KGB to change...
The Good Book of Human Nature
An Evolutionary Reading of the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
How reading the Bible as a work of cultural and scientific evolution can reveal new truths about how our species conquered the Earth
The Bible is the bestselling book of all time. It has been venerated--;or excoriated--as God's word, but so far no one has read the Bible for what it is: humanity's...
Engines of Liberty
The Power of Citizen Activists to Make Constitutional Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
From the national legal director of the ACLU, an essential guidebook on standing up for fundamental civil liberties and resisting executive overreach -- named one of Washington Post's Notable Nonfiction Books of the Year
What role do American citizens have in safeguarding our Constitution and...
Ha!
The Science of When We Laugh and Why
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
An entertaining tour of the science of humor and laughter
Humor, like pornography, is famously difficult to define. We know it when we see it, but is there a way to figure out what we really find funny--and why?
In this fascinating investigation into the science of humor and laughter,...
by Lee Smolin
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
"It would be hard to imagine a better guide to this difficult subject."
--Scientific American
In Three Roads to Quantum Gravity, Lee Smolin provides an accessible overview of the attempts to build a final "theory of everything." He explains in simple terms what scientists...
Atticus Finch
The Biography
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Who was the real Atticus Finch? A prize-winning historian reveals the man behind the legend
The publication of Go Set a Watchman in 2015 forever changed how we think about Atticus Finch. Once seen as a paragon of decency, he was reduced to a small-town racist. How are we to understand this...
The Fear Factor
How One Emotion Connects Altruists, Psychopaths, and Everyone In-Between
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
How the brains of psychopaths and heroes show that humans are wired to be good
At fourteen, Amber could boast of killing her guinea pig, threatening to burn down her home, and seducing men in exchange for gifts. She used the tools she had available to get what she wanted, like all children....
by Thomas Sowell
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
A one-volume introduction to over three decades of the wide-ranging writings of one of America's most respected and cited authors
These selections from the many writings of Thomas Sowell over a period of a half century cover social, economic, cultural, legal, educational, and political issues....
Yes, You Can
1,200 Inspiring Ideas for Work, Home, and Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2008
Yes, You Can! gives you good advice, and it gives you more: it tells how you can make that advice part of your daily life. Whether your goal is to speak eloquently, discover hidden talents, or find fulfillment at work, this book can help. It covers more than 125 personal goals with the clear, practical...
Toxic Inequality
How America's Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility, Deepens the Racial Divide, and Threatens Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
From a leading authority on race and public policy, a deeply researched account of how families rise and fall today
Since the Great Recession, most Americans' standard of living has stagnated or declined. Economic inequality is at historic highs. But inequality's impact differs by race; African...
by Robert Nozick
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
The foundational text of libertarian thought, named one of the 100 Most Influential Books since World War II (Times Literary Supplement)
First published in response to John Rawls' A Theory of Justice, Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia has become a defining text of classic libertarian...