Pierce Howard: 17 books

Curtis Dresden, Director of the International Diplomatic Corp, has a spectacular and urgent problem to solve. Lester Cleland, 49thPresident of the United States, has raptured. Soaring naked from the Rose Garden during primetime news, Lester’s exit has left the carefully managed social economies of...

The happiness literature is about how to be happier. This book summarizes all of that advice, but adds an important caveat: Roughly one person in nine is born happy, and the other eight must find alternatives to happiness. The good news is that the alternatives to happiness are as satisfying or more...

2128 is another bad year for humans. While the earth is straining at its seams under the multiple pressures of climate change, a handful of powerful crypto-state corporations wrestle with the U.N. for the steering wheel of the world's consumer economy, which is headed through the guard rails and off...