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Chronicles of a Liquid Society
UMBERTO ECO · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A posthumous collection of essays by the great novelist, essayist, literary critic, and philosopher Umberto Eco.
Umberto Eco began writing a regular column called "La Bustina di Minerva" for the Italian weekly magazine L'Espresso in 1985. Its title referred... |
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Lithium: A Doctor, a Drug, and a Breakthrough
Walter A. Brown · Liveright
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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The remarkable untold story of a miracle drug, the forgotten pioneer who discovered it, and the fight to bring lithium to the masses. The DNA double helix, penicillin, the X-ray, insulin -- these are routinely cited as some of the most important medical discoveries of the twentieth... |
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Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
STACY HORN · Algonquin Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The gripping voices of the inhabitants of Blackwell's Island make this history come alive.
Today it is known as Roosevelt Island. In 1828, when New York City purchased this narrow, two-mile-long island in the East River, it was called Blackwell's Island. There, over the next hundred... |
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Social Courage: Coping and thriving with the reality of social anxiety
ERIC GOODMAN · Exisle Publishing
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
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Many people walk around with a secret: they experience social anxiety! At the same time, they are bombarded by messages from books, articles, and gurus that lead them to believe that social anxiety is a disease that needs to be cured. Consequently, along with social anxiety, they carry... |
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The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control
Steven Hassan · Free Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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One of America's leading experts in cults and mind-control provides an eye-opening analysis of Trump and the indoctrination tactics he uses to build a fanatical devotion in his supporters.
Over the past two years, Trump's behavior has become both more disturbing and yet increasingly... |
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Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us
Simon Critchley · Pantheon
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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From the curator of The New York Times's "The Stone," a provocative and timely exploration into tragedy--how it articulates conflicts and contradiction that we need to address in order to better understand the world we live in.
We might think we are through with... |
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The Second Mountain
David Brooks · Random House
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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An inspiring, thought-provoking exploration of what it means to live a meaningful life, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Road to Character
Every so often, you meet a person who radiates joy. Who seems to know exactly why they were put on this earth, and glows... |
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The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
DANIEL COYLE · Bantam
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Talent Code comes a book that unlocks the secrets of highly successful groups and provides tomorrow's leaders with the tools to build a cohesive, motivated culture. Where does great culture come from? How do you build and sustain it in your... |
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The Only Girl in the World: A Memoir
Maude Julien · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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For readers of Room and The Glass Castle, a memoir to be read in one breathless sitting that will leave you astonished by the courage and creative power of even the most neglected soul.
Maude Julien's parents were fanatics who believed it was their sacred duty to turn... |
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Superminds: The Surprising Power of People and Computers Thinking Together
THOMAS W MALONE · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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From the founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence comes a fascinating look at the remarkable capacity for intelligence exhibited by groups of people and computers working together.
If you're like most people, you probably believe that humans are the most intelligent... |
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Truth: How the Many Sides to Every Story Shape Our Reality
Hector Macdonald · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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For fans of Nudge, Sway, and The Art of Thinking Clearly, a fascinating dive into the many ways in which "competing truths" shape our opinions, behaviors, and beliefs.True or false? It's rarely that simple.There is more than one truth about most things. The Internet disseminates... |
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