Walden Two B. F. Skinner
A reprint of the 1976 Macmillan edition. This fictional outline of a modern Utopia has been a centre of controversy ever since its publication in 1948. Set in the United States, it pictures a society in which human problems are solved by a scientifi...
We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations That Matter Celeste Headlee
“WE NEED TO TALK.” In this urgent and insightful book, public radio journalist Celeste Headlee shows us how to bridge what divides us--by having real conversations BASED ON THE TED TALK WITH OVER 10 MILLION VIEWSNPR's Best Books of 2017 Winner of th...
When Body Language Goes Bad: A Dilbert Book Scott Adams
"Dilbert is easily one of the most clever and consistently funny comics in current circulation. Like all great comic strips, it provides a much-needed daily dose of comedy and, most importantly, keeps its finger firmly planted on the pulse of truth w...
Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation Steven Johnson
Where do good ideas come from? And what do we need to know and do to have more of them? In Where Good Ideas Come From, Steven Johnson, one of our most innovative popular thinkers, explores the secrets of inspiration. Steven Johnson has spent twenty ...
Who Owns the Future? Jaron Lanier
The “brilliant” and “daringly original” ( The New York Times ) critique of digital networks from the “David Foster Wallace of tech” ( London Evening Standard )—asserting that to fix our economy, we must fix our information economy.
Jaron Lanier is ...
Whole Earth Discipline Stewart Brand
The green movement used to protect the earth from mankind; now they need to protect mankind from the earth. In Whole Earth Discipline, Stewart Brand argues that in order to do this, they urgently need to abandon much conventional environmental wisdo...
Why Honor Matters 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To the modern mind, the idea of honor is outdated, sexist, and barbaric.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...
Why Stock Markets Crash: Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems Didier Sornette
The scientific study of complex systems has transformed a wide range of disciplines in recent years, enabling researchers in both the natural and social sciences to model and predict phenomena as diverse as earthquakes, global warming, demographic p...
The Wife and Other Stories Anton Chekhov
YEVGRAF IVANOVITCH SHIRYAEV, a small farmer, whose father, a parish priest, now deceased, had received a gift of three hundred acres of land from Madame Kuvshinnikov, a general's widow, was standing in a corner before a copper washing-stand, washing...
