Lolita [September 20, 2018] Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is a dark and daring story of obsessive love and transgression. Humbert Humbert's lust for his pubescent step-daughter, Lolita, shocked readers when it was first published in the 1950s; yet the novel was also celebrated for ...
Other Minds [September 20, 2018] Peter Godfrey-Smith
Although mammals and birds are widely regarded as the smartest creatures on earth, it has lately become clear that a very distant branch of the tree of life has also sprouted higher intelligence: the cephalopods, consisting of the squid, the cuttlefi...
Breakdown of Will [August 29, 2018] George Ainslie
Ainslie argues that our responses to the threat of our own inconsistency determine the basic fabric of human culture. He suggests that individuals are more like populations of bargaining agents than like the hierarchical command structures envisaged...
Watchmen Noir [August 28, 2018] Alan Moore
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This groundbreaking series from ALAN MOORE, the award-winning writer of V FOR VENDETTA and BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE, presents a world where the mere presence of American superheroes changed history, the U.S. won the Vietnam War, Nixon ...
Song of Solomon [August 28, 2018] Toni Morrison
New York Times Bestseller
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Mor...
The Tao Te Ching: An Illustrated Journey [August 28, 2018] Lao Tzu and Stephen Mitchell
Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching (The Book of the Way) is a timeless guide to the art of living. Its central figure, the Master, lives in harmony with the Tao, the irreducible essence of the universe. Surrendering to it as the Master teaches, we feel whole. E...
The History of the Peloponnesian War [August 28, 2018] Thucydides
Written by Thucydides around 400 AD, The History of the Peloponnesian War is a meticulous account by the Athenian general of the extended struggle that raged between Athens and Sparta for the better part of twenty years. Thucydides eschews the romanc...
Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti [August 28, 2018] Jiddu Krishnamurti
Counted among his admirers are Jonas Salk, Aldous Huxley, David Hockney, and Van Morrison, along with countless other philosophers, artist, writers and students of the spiritual path. Now the trustees of Krishnamurti’s work have gathered his very be...
Why Honor Matters [August 28, 2018] Tamler Sommers
A controversial call to put honor at the center of morality
To the modern mind, the idea of honor is outdated, sexist, and barbaric. It evokes Hamilton and Burr and pistols at dawn, not visions of a well-organized society. But for philosopher Tamle...
I Do What I Do [August 28, 2018] Raghuram G. Rajan
When Raghuram G. Rajan took charge as Governor of the Reserve Bank of India in September 2013, the rupee was in free fall, inflation was high, India had a large current account deficit, and India's exchange reserves were falling. As measure after me...
Monoculture: How One Story is Changing Everything [August 28, 2018] Michaels, F.S.
As human beings, we’ve always told stories: stories about who we are, where we come from, and where we’re going. Now imagine that one of those stories is taking over the others, narrowing our diversity and creating a monoculture. Because of the rise ...
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature [August 28, 2018] Matt Ridley
Sex is as fascinating to scientists as it is to the rest of us. A vast pool of knowledge, therefore, has been gleaned from research into the nature of sex, from the contentious problem of why the wasteful reproductive process exists at all, to how i...
Thinking in Systems: A Primer [August 28, 2018] Donella H. Meadows and Diana Wright
In the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, Limits to Growth—the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet— Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analy...
The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Complete [August 28, 2018] Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Excerpt: ...he was very well acquainted; and that after the marriage she had vowed him an implacable hatred, as well as all the Genevese. "Although La Popliniere has a friendship for you, do not," said he, "depend upon his protection: he is still in...
Letters From the Earth: Uncensored Writings [August 28, 2018] Mark Twain
“The most impressive contribution to books by Mark Twain since The Mysterious Stranger of 1916...The attitude is that of Swift, the intellectual contempt is that of Voltaire, and the imagination is that of one of the great masters of American writin...
The Fountainhead [August 27, 2018] Ayn Rand, Peikoff Rand
A special edition hardcover in celebration of Ayn Rand's centennial.When it was first published in 1943, The Fountainhead--containing Ayn Rand's daringly original literary vision with the seeds of her groundbreaking philosophy, Objectivismwon immedi...
Deep Work [August 25, 2018] Cal Newport
An Amazon Best Book of January 2016 in Business & Leadership PickOne of the most valuable skills in our economy is becoming increasingly rare. If you master this skill, you'll achieve extraordinary results.Deep work is the ability to focus without di...
The Financial Diet [August 24, 2018] Chelsea Fagan, Lauren Ver Hage
A budget boot camp and guide to long-term transformation that will help you save, date, decorate and dream your way to your best financial life.THE FINANCIAL DIET is the personal finance book for people who don't care about personal finance; it's you...
The Uses and Abuses of History [August 24, 2018] Margaret MacMillan
Review"'In a world where the spin doctor has replaced the historian, MacMillan reminds readers of the importance of dispassionate, fact-driven narrative, as opposed to reassuring or self-serving accounts that pass for history while burying the unplea...
Tribe of Mentors [August 16, 2018] Timothy Ferriss
We All Need Mentors. Here Are More than 100 of the World's Best. When facing life's questions, who do you turn to for advice? We all need mentors, particularly when the odds seem stacked against us. For this book, best-selling author Tim Ferriss trac...
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid [August 16, 2018] Douglas R. Hofstadter
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize A metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll
Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of "maps" or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the f...
