Nassim Taleb

"This is science writing as wonder and as inspiration." —The Wall Street Journal

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From one of the mo...

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

How do we make sense of other people and of ourselves? What do we know about the people we encounter in our daily lives and abo...

This lively and engaging textbook explains the things you have to know in order to read empirical papers in the social and heal...

Idealistic young officer Giovanni Drogo is full of determination to serve his country well. But when he arrives at a bleak bord...

"A masterly book" —Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan
"A classic" —Simon Kuper, Financial Times

An economist e...

When a pseudonymous programmer introduced “a new electronic cash system that’s fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party”...

The most influential book of the past seventy-five years: a groundbreaking exploration of everything we know about what we don’...

One of the world's leading experts on language and the mind explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and po...

Author of the international bestsellers The Diabetes Code and The Obesity Code Dr. Jason Fung returns with an eye-opening biogr...

"On what slender threads do life and fortune hang." Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American...

**As today's preeminent doomsday investor Mark Spitznagel describes his Daoist and roundabout investment approach, “one gains b...

A narrative of exploration―full of strange landscapes and even stranger inhabitants―that explains the enduring fascination of F...

Deification in the Greek patristic tradition was the fulfillment of the destiny for which humanity was created - not merely sal...

Already a classic, this landmark study of early Western thought now appears in a new edition with expanded coverage of the Midd...

This book describes the important ideas in a variety of fields such as medicine, biology, finance, and marketing in a common co...

Too often, accomplishment does not equal success. We did the work but didn't get the promotion; we played hard but weren't reco...

An entertaining and eye-opening look at the French Revolution, by Stephen Clarke, author of 1000 Years of Annoying the French a...

A successful Wall Street trader turned neuroscientist reveals how risk taking and stress transform our body chemistry

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Acclaimed science writer James Gleick presents an eye-opening vision of how our relationship to information has transformed the...