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"A searing indictment." --NPR
"Careful and exhaustive....a strong case." --Kirkus Reviews

This stunning third entry in Set...

2018 Reprint of 1999 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. This...

For thousands of years, political leaders have unified communities by aligning them against common enemies. However, today more...

With a new introduction, the groundbreaking classic Race Matters affirms its position as the bestselling, most influential, and...

“One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.”—John Gray, _New Y...

Peter Bevelin begins his fascinating book with Confucius' great wisdom: "A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct ...

We've needlessly turned parenting into an unpleasant chore. Parents invest more time and money in their kids than ever, but the...

It was never supposed to be this close. And of course she was supposed to win. How Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to Do...

A heartfelt, deeply personal book that shines a bright light on the values and principles that Bill Gates Sr. has learned over ...

NUMBER 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A bold work from the author of The Black Swan that challenges many of our long-held be...

As president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and then as President Barack Obama’s secretary of the Treasury, Timothy F....

The Path to Peace

The Tao Te Ching is a series of meditations on the mysterious nature of the Tao--the Way, the guiding l...

Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this multi-million-copy New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for an...

“The signs and instruments of power are no longer armed legions or raw materials or capital… The wealth we seek does not lie in...

Any Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us how and why. With the same intell...

ONE OF TIME’S TEN MOST IMPORTANT NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

In the searing pages of this classic autobiograph...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A book of hope written by a practical idealist who won’t take ‘no’ for an answer when it comes t...

The classic study of post-Cold War international relations, more relevant than ever in the post-9/11 world, with a new foreword...

New York Times Bestseller • Finalist for the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction • A New York Times Notab...

This short treatise looks at how we construct a social reality from our sense impressions; at how, for example, we construct a ...