"A broad and deep look at how electronic media are changing storytelling…Completely fascinating." —Booklist, starred review
Calling upon metaphors, vignettes, jokes, innuendos, and certain other "right-hemispheric" language games, Paul Watzlawick shows how we can (and do) make everyday life miserable.
"This book will last and last, because it contains the wisdom of two wonderfully knowing observers of our human destiny."—Robert Coles
A startling psycholinguistic exploration of the boundaries of love and knowledge.
"An overwhelmingly eloquent book of the purest and most simple writing on Vietnam."—David Halberstam
One of four extraordinary graphic novels celebrating the Big Apple, from the master of American comics art.
An unflinching look at the aspiring city-builders of our smart, mobile, connected future.
One of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year—a vertiginous gothic masterpiece from the best-selling author of The Quincunx.
With his inimitable wit, Tyson recounts how America's favourite planet was ousted from the cosmic hub.
"A magnificent tapestry…a story that reaches beyond China into our world and time: a story of faith, hope, passion, and a fatal grandiosity." —Washington Post Book World
The first anthology to map the full range of haiku in the English tradition.
"Astonishing…[Satyamurti's Mahabharata] brings [the] past alive…as though it were a novel in finely crafted verse." Vinay Dharwadker