“An unusually engaging book on the forces that fuel originality across fields.” --Adam GrantLooking at the 14 key traits of genius, from curiosity to creative maladjustment to...
The Emperor Of All Maladies: A Biography Of Cancer
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and now a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of...
Cold Warriors Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War
A brilliant, invigorating account of the great writers on both sides of the Iron Curtain who played the dangerous games of espionage, dissidence and subversion that changed the...
The Leader In Me: How Schools Around The World Are Inspiring Greatness, One Child At A Time
From the multimillion-copy bestselling author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Dr. Stephen R. Covey illustrates how his principles of leadership can be applied to...
Why Buddhism Is True: The Science And Philosophy Of Meditation And Enlightenment
“What happens when someone steeped in evolutionary psychology takes a cool look at Buddhism? If that person is, like Robert Wright, a gifted writer, the answer is this...
An Elegant Defense The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives
A magnificently reported and soulfully crafted exploration of the human immune system—the key to health and wellness, life and death. An epic, first-of-its-kind audiobook,...
WTF? What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
Silicon Valley's leading intellectual and the founder of O'Reilly Media explores the upside and the potential downsides of our future - what he calls the "next economy".Tim...
Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy Ernest Hemingway's Secret Adventures, 1935-1961
A former CIA officer and curator of the CIA Museum unveils the shocking, untold story of Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway's secret life as a spy for both the Americans...
The Power of Half
When fourteen-year-old Hannah Salwen saw a homeless man at the same instant she spotted a man driving a glistening Mercedes, she said, "Dad, if that man had a less nice car, that...
The Boys in the Bunkhouse Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland
With this Dickensian tale from America's heartland, New York Times writer and columnist Dan Barry tells the harrowing yet uplifting story of the exploitation and abuse of a...
