Challenging leading scientific theories that claim that our senses report back objective reality,...

Checkers, backgammon, chess and Go. Poker, Scrabble and bridge. These seven games, ancient and mo...

Some people bounce back in response to setbacks; others break. We often think that these response...

We are living in strange times: the largest taxi company owns no vehicles and employs no drivers,...

In 1966 two columnists joined Newsweek magazine. Their assignment: debate the world of business a...

The Inevitability of Tragedy is a fascinating intellectual biography that examines Henry Kissinge...

Praise for the Aubrey Maturin Series and Patrick O'Brian'The best historical novels ever written....

In H.M.S. Surprise, British naval officer Jack Aubrey and surgeon Stephen Maturin face near-death...

Checkers, backgammon, chess, and Go. Poker, Scrabble, and bridge. These seven games, ancient and ...

By 1930, no place in the world was less well explored than Greenland. The native Inuit had occupi...

As the sun lowered in the sky one Friday afternoon in April 2006, acclaimed author Donald Antrim ...

In the last two decades, innovation, data analysis and technology have driven a tectonic shift in...

As the sun lowered in the sky one Friday afternoon in April 2006, acclaimed author Donald Antrim ...

Psychologists, economists, advertising and marketing mavens-for decades, they failed to register ...

Praise for the Aubrey Maturin Series and Patrick O'Brian'The best historical novels ever written....

In this eloquent challenge to the reigning wisdom on globalization, Dani Rodrik reminds us of the...

Praise for the Aubrey Maturin Series and Patrick O'Brian'The best historical novels ever written....

The purpose of ornament-to articulate a realm ofthe imagination-is as important as it ismisunders...

Though often invisible, cryptography plays a critical role in our everyday lives. Broadly defined...

It would have pleased Walt Whitman, that poet of urban motion, to envision his words coursing by ...

In the early hours of New Year's Eve 1969, in the small soft coal mining borough of Clarksville, ...

We've been 'saving the planet' for decades now and the crises have only got worse. Many of us-env...

Successful restaurateurs have always known that adding 'roasted' to a dish guarantees immediate a...

A towering and beloved figure in legal scholarship, Martha Minow explores the complicated interse...

Captain Jack Aubrey sets sail for the South China Sea with a new lease on life as a privateer. No...

The conventional wisdom about Felix Frankfurter-Harvard law professor and Supreme Court justice-i...

The past several years have given rise to a burgeoning interest in ecotherapy. This beautiful car...

For over a century, opening the black box ofembryonic development was the holy grail ofbiology. E...

This incisive interpretation of American foreign policy ranks as a classic in American thought. F...

Sun Tzu's book of strategy and psychology has as much to tell us today as when it was written 2,5...

The Meaning of Anxiety is as relevant and illuminating now as when it was first published in 1950...

The evolution of the classical world traced through 50 of the world's greatest sites.

Fully updated 12th edition of this essential handbook to the Eternal City, the guide of choice fo...

Virtual reality is able to effectively blur the line between reality and illusion, pushing the li...

Completely updated, this edition contains superb coverage of painting, architecture and sculpture...

In The End of Faith, Sam Harris delivers a startling analysis of the clash between reason and rel...

Blue Guides, now in their centenary year, have been published continuously since 1918 and are the...

Casablanca is not one movie, Umberto Eco once quipped, it is movies. Released in 1942, it won the...

Thomas Mann and Albert Camus understood something many political scientists still find difficult ...

The legendary photographs of David Douglas Duncan explore the broad range of human nature, from t...

A portrait of Darwin as an inveterate experimenter describes how he used his home, garden, and th...

Emotional flooding-being overwhelmed by feelings-happens in response to stress, anxiety and life'...

When aspiring violinist Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman lands a job with a professional ensemble in N...

The country folk say 'howdy-do' but here in town, it's 'yo'; they'll say it in the country too in...

When people think about Marlon Brando, they think of the movie star, the hunk, the scandals. In B...

Urban legends are those strange, but seemingly credible tales that always happen to a friend of a...

Over a storied career, Daniel C. Dennett has engaged questions about science and the workings of ...

The first full treatment of all the Greek Aegean islands in a single volume by Blue Guides.