Astrophysicist and NPR commentator Adam Frank reveals what the latest research on alien civilisations may tell us about our own.
“I defy anybody—Keynesian, Hayekian, or uncommitted—to read [Wapshott’s] work and not learn something new.”—John Cassidy, The New Yorker
A former adviser to the Joint Chiefs of Staff explains how government’s oldest problem is its greatest destabilising force.
A collection of new and selected works from a prize-winning poet known to bear compassionate and ruthless witness to the quotidian.
Discover new favourites by tracing wine back to its roots.
Before Freakonomics and The Tipping Point there was this classic by the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Economics.
“If you want the true, mixed, fourteenth-century book that Boccaccio wrote, choose Rebhorn.”—Joan Acocella, The New Yorker
One of the most original psychoanalysts after Freud, Karen Horney pioneered such now familiar concepts as alienation, self-realization, and the idealized image, and she brought to psychoanalysis a new understanding of the importance of culture and environment.
"A chalice of wisdom for our time."—Ernest L. Rossi, Ph.D., C.J. Jung Institute of Los Angeles
"Passionate, cantankerous, and fascinating. Rather like Korea itself."--Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times Book Review
A collection of poignant essays about the transformative power of knitting by twenty-seven extraordinary writers.