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Fooled by RandomnessFooled by Randomness is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertai...

AntifragileFrom the bestselling author of The Black Swan and one of the foremost philosophers of our time, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a book on how some...

Skin in the GameFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Black Swan, a bold new work that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk an...

At Home“Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.” Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part...

A Walk in the WoodsThe Appalachian Trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and covers some of the most breathtaking terrain in America—majestic mountains, sil...

The BodyIn the bestselling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson achieved the seemingly impossible by making the scien...

In a Sunburned CountryIt is the driest, flattest, hottest, most infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents, and still Australia teem...

FreakonomicsWhich is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still li...

Travel as a Political ActTravel connects people with people. It helps us fit more comfortably and compatibly into a shrinking world. And it inspires creative new ...

A History of the World in 6 GlassesThroughout human history, certain drinks have done much more than just quench thirst. As Tom Standage relates with authority and charm, s...

SaltIn his fifth work of nonfiction, Mark Kurlansky turns his attention to a common household item with a long and intriguing history: salt. ...

Yes!Small changes can make a big difference in your powers of persuasion. What one word can you start using today to increase your persuasiv...

How to Win Friends and Influence PeopleYou can go after the job you want...and get it! You can take the job you have...and improve it! You can take any situation you're in...an...

The Capitalist's BibleThe Capitalist’s Bible, edited by Gretchen Morgenson, an award-winning journalist with the New York Times, is the essential guide to capi...

The AlchemistCombining magic, mysticism, wisdom, and wonder into an inspiring tale of self-discovery, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selli...

The Secret of Fatima (Father Kevin Thrall #1)Father Kevin Thrall is chaplain to a poor, inner-city parochial school in Washington, D.C. where he leads a quiet and rewarding life. But...

From Beirut to JerusalemThis extraordinary bestseller is still the most incisive, thought-provoking book ever written about the Middle East. Thomas L. Friedman, ...

Father Arseny, 1893-1973Gives stirring glimpses of Fr Arseny's life in a Soviet prison camp and tells the stories of whose lives were transfigured through their ...

The Lemon TreeIn 1967, Bashir Al-Khayri, a Palestinian twenty-five-year-old, journeyed to Israel, with the goal of seeing the beloved old stone house, ...

The Bookseller of KabulIn spring 2002, following the fall of the Taliban, Åsne Seierstad spent four months living with a bookseller and his family in Kabul. Fo...

Confronting IranIn 2002, George W. Bush famously referred to Iran as a member of the "axis of evil." The fierce rhetoric highlights the persistent antago...

Living PoorAt the age of 48, Moritz Thomsen sold his pig farm and joined the Peace Corps. As he tells the story, his awareness of the comic elements...

The Lemon TreeIn 1967, Bashir Al-Khayri, a Palestinian twenty-five-year-old, journeyed to Israel, with the goal of seeing the beloved old stone house, ...

A Mind of Its OwnWhether enemy or ally, demon or god, the penis is much more than a body part. Here, in an enlightening and entertaining cultural study, i...

Marriage, a HistoryMarriage has never been more fragile. But the same things that have made it so have also made a good marriage more fulfilling than ever b...

The Power of ParableThe world’s foremost Jesus scholar John Dominic Crossan shows us how the parables present throughout the New Testament not only reveal wh...

The Sweet Life in ParisLike so many others, David Lebovitz dreamed about living in Paris ever since he first visited the city in the 1980s. Finally, after a nea...

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