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Controversies in politics arise from many sources, but the conflicts that endure for generations or centuries show a remarkably...

How does the water of the brain yield the wine of conscious experience? What is the link between bodily activity and our inner ...

Published with a new afterword from the author―the classic, bestselling account of how the modern Middle East was created

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From the New York Times bestselling author of Alternate Side, Anna Quindlen’s classic reflection on a meaningful life makes...

A true story of murder and conspiracy that points directly to Vladimir Putin, by The Guardian’s former Moscow bureau chief.

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Moving beyond the usual interpretations of this classic Chinese text — that of using it as an indicator of what to do next or a...

Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction finalist
Winner of the 2014 National Book Award in nonfiction
An Economist Best Book of ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2017The best political book of the year' Andrew MarrA superb work of storytelling and reportin...

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • A searing reassessment of U.S. military policy in the Middle East over the past four d...

• A New Republic Best Book of the Year
• _The Globalist_Top Books of the Year
• Winner of the Maine Literary Award for No...

Anthropic Bias explores how to reason when you suspect that your evidence is biased by "observation selection effects"--that ...

Antifragile is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncerta...

"A terrific book that captures the explosion of creativity and business evolution at the center of the Internet phenomenon. A t...

“I set out deliberately to write a tour-de-force. Before I ever put pen to paper and set down the first word I knew what the la...

Autobiography of a Yogi is at once a beautifully written account of an exceptional life and a profound introduction to the an...

SHOULD U.S. COMICS BE BANNED?

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From Lt. General H.R. McMaster, U.S. Army, ret., the former National Security Advisor and author of the bestselling classic Der...

A surprising take on how you can help tackle the really big problems in society–from one of America’s most successful entrepren...

Arguing that the evidence relied upon by the Warren Commission and the House Assassinations Committee was faked, Lifton describ...

Number 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECA...