Books that shaped my thinking.

A thought-provoking exploration of the ideas and questions behind Freedom, Innovation, Prosperity: The Secrets of Success in the Digital Era.

America’s favorite astrophysicist has written the most entertaining and universally appealing book of his stellar career: a practical guide for dealing with Alien visitors, an exploration...

"I loved this profound, practical, and generous book."—Oliver Burkeman A transformative guide to rethinking our approach to goals, creativity, and life itself from a neuroscientist and...

From one of the world’s top researchers on work and technology comes an insightful and surprising guide to protecting your skill in a world filling with AI and robots.

Our institutions are failing us. Corporations, governments, and universities all seem less capable of confronting challenges and opportunities than they once were.  The irony is that our...

Do you have a burning passion to make a lot of money in business?

Dear Reader! Welcome to the world of MOD – the Master of Personal Excellence.

Dr. Jen Gunter fights myths and fear-mongering with real science, inclusive facts, and shame-free advice on the topic that impacts more than 72 million Americans every month: menstruation.

If you’re reading this, I’ve gone missing.

From the author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world.

The noted inventor and futurist's successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explores how technology will refashion the human race in the decades to come Since it was first...

Develop the life-changing ability to excel in spontaneous communication situations—from public speaking to interviewing to networking—with these essential strategies from a Stanford...

Explanation - conveying meaning - is an art.

Artificial intelligence is everywhere—it’s in our houses and phones and cars.

What separates the world’s most successful founders, entrepreneurs and business leaders from the rest?

The Science and Art of Longevity

“Peter Turchin brings science to history.

From the #1 best-selling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys , the story of FTX’s spectacular collapse and the enigmatic founder at its center.

From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their creativity, comes a beautifully crafted book many years in the making that offers that...

A grand new vision of cognitive science that explains how our minds build our worldsFor as long as we've studied the mind, we've believed that information flowing from our senses determines...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the #1 internationally bestselling author of Glucose Revolution , a four-week, four-step program for living a healthier, happier life with balanced...

From the critically acclaimed artist, designer, and author of the bestsellers The Principles of Uncertainty and My Favorite Things comes a wondrous collection of words and paintings that is...

Cutting-edge research shows how to determine and decrease your true biological age.

From the Wall Street Journal' s Tripp Mickle, the dramatic, untold story inside Apple after the passing of Steve Jobs by following his top lieutenants--Jony Ive, the Chief Design Officer,...

Whether we love them or hate them, think they’re sexy, think they’re strange, consider them too big, too small, or anywhere in between, humans have a complicated relationship with butts.

“Hi, my name is Matthew, although you may know me by another name.

Improve all areas of your health—your sleep, cravings, mood, energy, skin, weight—and even slow down aging with easy, science-based hacks to manage your blood sugar while still eating the...

* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors .

Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain all of a book's content after eating it.

It is an ordinary Thursday, and things should finally be returning to normal.

National Bestseller Essential lessons in hospitality for every business, from the former co-owner of legendary restaurant Eleven Madison Park.

Drawing on years of experience as a clinical psychologist, online sensation Dr Julie Smith provides the skills you need to navigate common life challenges and take charge of your emotional...

With unapologetically honest reflections and revelations—Morgan Richard Olivier embraces the tears, trials, and triumphs one experiences when seeking development, direction, and detachment.

Your company has an unfair advantage over the competition—and it’s an advantage just waiting for you to leverage it.

Poznaj chwasty, które mijasz w parku, lesie i na łące.

The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief.

"This colorful page-turner puts artificial intelligence into a human perspective.

A “must-read” ( The Washington Post ) funny and practical guide to help you find, build, and keep the relationship of your dreams.

Klara and the Sun , the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, tells the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational...

From the bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow and the co-author of Nudge , a groundbreaking exploration of why most people make bad judgments, and how to control for that noise.​...

An exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war A  New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice In The Bomber Mafia , Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the...

Think Again is a book about the benefit of doubt, and about how we can get better at embracing the unknown and the joy of being wrong.

From The New York Times cybersecurity reporter Nicole Perlroth, the untold story of the cyberweapons market-the most secretive, invisible, government-backed market on earth-and a terrifying...

Have you spent weeks, months, or even years trying to achieve your goals but keep failing?

A Common-Sense Guide to Living Rich….Instead of Dying Rich Imagine if by the time you died, you did everything you were told to.

Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes in our society.

A dynamic guide to owning your ambition and striving for success in an ever-changing world, while helping others along the way.

Based on Building a StoryBrand by New York Times bestselling author Donald Miller, this checklist is a strategic and actionable guide to applying the StoryBrand framework to any brand and...

Is flying dangerous? How much do the world's cows weigh?

Some uncertainties are resolvable. The insurance industry’s actuarial tables and the gambler’s roulette wheel both yield to the tools of probability theory.

How do we prevent AI working against us?

Getting rich is not just about luck; Happiness is not just a trait we are born with.

Between life and death there is a library.

Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the world's future generations and to protect all living creatures, present and future.

An astonishing, visceral autobiographical novel about a young man straddling two cultures: the university where he is studying English Literature and the disregarded world of London gang...

You know your product is awesome—but does anybody else?

Just like electricity, Machine Learning will revolutionize our life in many ways – some of which are not even conceivable today.

It’s OK. Really.   For every brave soul who wants to just say no—no to meeting the gang for drinks, no to wishing a coworker happy birthday (unless there’s free cake involved), and no to...

The 59 keys for understanding the beginning of life presents a coherent theory of the origin of life on Earth.

Private equity firms are on the rise and rapidly changing the game.

Silicon Valley meets Indiana Jones – Chasing Black Unicorns is an autobiography written by Marek Zmysłowski, one of Poland’s most respected internet entrepreneurs.

With Life Ceremony , the incomparable Sayaka Murata is back with her first collection of short stories ever to be translated into English.

It’s a seemingly undeniable truth that aging is inevitable.

Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class.

James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time, has produced an astounding new theory about future of life on Earth.

Should we believe in God? In this new book, written for a new generation, the brilliant science writer and author of The God Delusion , explains why we shouldn't.

One of the start-up world’s most in-demand executive coaches—hailed as the “CEO Whisperer” (Gimlet Media)—reveals why radical self-inquiry is critical to professional success and healthy...

A heart-wrenching, eye-opening, and giggle-inducing memoir about what it's like to grow up not sure if you're (a) a boy, (b) a girl, (c) something in between, or (d) all of the above.

In the bestselling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything , Bill Bryson achieved the seemingly impossible by making the science of our world both understandable and...

Tiffy and Leon share a flat Tiffy and Leon share a bed Tiffy and Leon have never met… Tiffy Moore needs a cheap flat, and fast.

#1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller New York Times Bestseller USA Today Bestseller The team behind How Google Works returns with management lessons from legendary coach and business...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER • One of the most acclaimed books of our time: an unforgettable memoir about a young woman who, kept out of school,...

What makes countries rich? What makes countries poor?

The wildly funny, occasionally heartbreaking internationally bestselling memoir about growing up, growing older, and learning to navigate friendships, jobs, loss, and love along the ride...

THE NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NOW A MAJOR NEW NETFLIX SERIES'Reminds us that the mind is the greatest mystery in the universe' Yuval Noah Harari, Guardian, Books of the Year Could...

Our attention has never been as overwhelmed or in-demand as it is today; we've never been so busy while accomplishing so little, and we've grown uncomfortable with boredom and a lack of...

A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTH FROM THE WALL STREET " Nothing Mr.

At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other.

Sea of Strangers  by Lang Leav picks up from her previous international bestselling books including  Love & Misadventure , Lullabies , and The Universe of Us , and sets sail for a grand new...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Black Swan, a bold new work that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and...

"The father of cognitive neuroscience" illuminates the past, present, and future of the mind-brain problem.

This book will introduce you to ten people.

Everyone knows that timing is everything.

Imagine a world where all people meet each other as equals.

Two scientists explore the potential of a revolutionary genetics technology capable of easily and affordably manipulating DNA in human embryos to prevent specific diseases, addressing key...

The #1 New York Times Bestseller: The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist.

Why do we do the things we do? More than a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert Sapolsky's genre-shattering attempt to answer that question as fully as perhaps only he...

NEW YORK TIMES  BESTSELLER #1 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER Blue Ocean Shift is the essential follow up to Blue Ocean Strategy, the classic and over 4 million copy global bestseller by...

Economics matters. Its theories are the mother tongue of public policy, the rationale for multi-billion-dollar investments, and the tools we use to tackle global poverty and manage our...

Foreword by Steven Pinker Blending the informed analysis of The Signal and the Noise with the instructive iconoclasm of Think Like a Freak, a fascinating, illuminating, and witty look at...

As told by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Hit Refresh is the story of corporate change and reinvention as well as the story of Nadella’s personal journey, one that is taking place today...

+ 2018 IPA Book Award Winner+ 2018 Readers' Favorite Award WinnerWhat if making one tweak to your day-to-day conversations could immediately improve every relationship in your life?In this...

A heart-stopping adventure that defies time and space--New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu calls it "an incredibly intricate, brilliantly paced, masterfully written journey." Farway...

A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history.

A stinging polemic that traces the destructive monopolization of the Internet by Google, Facebook and Amazon, and that proposes a new future for musicians, journalists, authors and...

Brand New Deliver In 6-18 Working Days

Radical Candor is the sweet spot between managers who are obnoxiously aggressive on the one side and ruinously empathetic on the other.

Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals.

Internationally renowned, award-winning theoretical physicist, New York Times bestselling author of A Universe from Nothing , and passionate advocate for reason, Lawrence Krauss tells the...

Do you know how to play the game you're in?

At 30 years old, Lewis Howes was outwardly thriving but unfulfilled inside.

'Astonishing ... an amazing book ...

A vivid retelling of the Norse myths, from the origins of the gods to the final upheaval of Ragnarok.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility, a novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel—a beautifully transporting novel.

Paris, near the turn of 1933. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse.

Many modern knowledge workers now spend most of their brain power battling distraction and interruption, whether because of the incessant pinging of devices, noisy open-plan offices or the...

In this must-read book for anyone striving to succeed, pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth shows parents, educators, students, and business people both seasoned and new that the secret...

Create your next breakthrough Mad Genius  is a unique book for entrepreneurs--and for employees who want to think like entrepreneurs.

Marketing has changed forever—this is what comes next Marketing 4.0: Moving from Traditional to Digital is the much-needed handbook for next-generation marketing.

Surprising rules for successful monetization Innovation is the most important driver of growth.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the tender relationship between mother and daughter in this extraordinary novel by the Pulitzer Prize–winning...

The proven system for rapid B2B sales growth from the coauthor of Predictable Revenue, the breakout bestseller hailed as a “sales bible” (Inc.) If your organization’s success is driven by...

This beautifully illustrated companion to celebrated scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson’s popular podcast and National Geographic Channel TV show is an eye-opening journey for anyone curious...

Lang Leav presents a completely new collection of poetry with a celestial theme in The Universe of Us .

A bestselling linguist takes us on a lively tour of how the English language is evolving before our eyes -- and why we should embrace this transformation and not fight it Language is always...

From Harper Lee comes a landmark new novel set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird .

Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens , returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book,...

Across continents and into and out of the hands of royalty, revolutionaries, smugglers, thieves, and the world’s greatest tech engineers, was Marie Antoinette’s watch, the “160,” worth an...

Best-selling poet Lang Leav presents a gorgeous hardcover gift book featuring the best of Lullabies and Love & Misadventure plus thirty-five new poems for fans to discover, along with...

A real-life political thriller about an American financier in the Wild East of Russia, the murder of his principled young tax attorney, and his dangerous mission to expose the Kremlin’s...

An innovative guide to living gamefully, based on the program that has already helped nearly half a million people achieve remarkable personal growth In 2009, internationally renowned game...

Fully updated throughout and with a new foreword for this edition.

In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the landmark book Freakonomics comes this curated collection from the most readable economics blog in the universe.

A Strangeness In My Mind is a novel Orhan Pamuk has worked on for six years.

Long before becoming one of the masterpieces of Charlie Chaplin's artistic maturity, and even before existing as a screenplay, Limelight was conceived by its author as a 34,000-word novella.

As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer.

A sequel to the hugely popular, best-selling Love & Misadventure , Lullabies continues to explore the intricacies of love and loss.

A dazzling new collection of short stories—the first major new work of fiction from the beloved, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami since his #1 best-selling Colorless Tsukuru...

In the future, historians may look back on human progress and draw a sharp line designating “before Scrum” and “after Scrum.” Scrum is that ground-breaking.

A lot of people talk about how great it is to start a business, but only Ben Horowitz is brutally honest about how hard it is to run one.

Lang Leav is a poet and internationally exhibiting artist.

As little as 10 years ago, it was believed that memory went from short to long term via one consolidation practice that made that memory intractable.

This collection of poetry explores the realities of multiple identities, language, diasporic life and pain, the self, community, healing, celebration, and love.

The Japanese phenomenon that teaches us the simple yet profound lessons required to liberate our real selves and find lasting happiness.

What’s the Truth About Marketing? Contrary to the popular belief that marketing is advertising, listen to the confessions of an insider to learn how marketing affects every step of the...

Sommer 2011. Adolf Hitler erwacht auf einem leeren Grundstück in Berlin-Mitte.

Belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value.

This book is a subjoined series of interviews and dialogues with Karl Jung.The present age is so distinctly one of change and transition that few individuals think about life and destiny,...

In this eye-opening account, Cal Newport debunks the long-held belief that "follow your passion" is good advice.

You don’t need to be a genius, you just need to be yourself.

Leading consultant psychiatrist Steve Peters knows more than anyone how impulsive behaviour or nagging self-doubt can impact negatively on our professional and personal lives.

**SUNDAY TIMES BESTELLER** This book is about learning to live.

We design to elicit responses from people.

As friends, relatives and foes trickle in to pay their final respects to his mother Eleanor, Patrick Melrose finds himself questioning whether a life without parents will be the liberation...

“Readthis book to learn how to create a company as powerful as Apple.”—Guy Kawasaki,former chief evangelist of Apple In Escape Velocity Geoffrey A.

Have you ever read a book with everything on it?

Beginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, Elena Ferrante's four-volume story spans almost sixty years, as its main characters, the fiery and...

From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution—a #1 international bestseller—that explores the ways in which biology and history have...

In engaging prose and with practical examples and anecdotes, an eye-opening look at human reasoning and essential reading for anyone with important decisions to make.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

An eminent therapist explains what makes couples compatible and how to sustain a happy marriage.

In the highly anticipated Thinking, Fast and Slow , Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think.

I'm telling you why we broke up, Ed.

Is there a science to love? In this groundbreaking book, psychiatrist and neuroscientist Amir Levine and psychologist Rachel S.

Are we driving off a digital cliff and heading for disaster, unable to focus, maintain concentration, or form the human bonds that make life worth living?

If you want to go in one direction, the best route may involve going in another.

Why is it so hard to make lasting changes in our companies, in our communities, and in our own lives?

The epic, behind-the-scenes story of an astounding gap in our scientific knowledge of the cosmos.

Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation?

A co-winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize offers a clear-eyed explanation of the planet’s imperiled ice.

The New York Times bestseller that gives readers a paradigm-shattering new way to think about motivation Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money—the...

As one of America's preeminent comedic voices, George Carlin saw it all throughout his extraordinary fifty-year career and made fun of most of it.

Why do you do what you do? Why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential, and more profitable than others?

Eigentlich hat Allan Karlsson allen Grund zum Feiern: Er wird 100 Jahre alt.

What is the difference between choking and panicking?

"Dana Meadows' exposition in this book exhibits a degree of clarity and simplicity that can only be attained by one who profoundly and honestly understands the subject at hand--in this case...

It's early autumn 1964. Two straight-A students head off to school, and when only one of them returns home Chesney Yelverton is coaxed from retirement and assigned to what proves to be the...

Understand the next level of marketing The new model for marketing-Marketing 3.0-treats customers not as mere consumers but as the complex, multi-dimensional human beings that they are.

Better Never to Have Been argues for a number of related, highly provocative, views: (1) Coming into existence is always a serious harm.

• Why are lovers quicker to forgive their partners for infidelity than for leaving dirty dishes in the sink?

A preeminent scientist - and the world's most prominent atheist - asserts the irrationality of belief in God, and the grievous harm religion has inflicted on society, from the Crusades to...

In his widely praised book, award-winning psychologist Jonathan Haidt examines the world’s philosophical wisdom through the lens of psychological science, showing how a deeper understanding...

Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens.

How do we find the courage to always be true to ourselves—even if we are unsure of whom we are?

GÂNDEŞTE FIX PE DOS va zdruncina profund modul în care gândiţi, oricare ar fi el - chiar dacă nici măcar nu ştiaţi cum gândiţi.

Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool?

Writing with the scathing wit and bright perceptiveness for which he has become known, celebrated English author Edward St.

Fourteen-year-old Alma Singer is trying to find a cure for her mother's loneliness.

“Startling in scope and bravado.” —Janet Maslin,  The New York Times “Artfully envisions a breathtakingly better world.” — Los Angeles Times “Elaborate, smart and persuasive.” — The Boston...

Librarian note : Alternate cover edition of ISBN-13: 9780060832810, ISBN-10/ASIN: 0060832819 The narrator of  The Zahir   is a bestselling novelist who lives in Paris and enjoys all the...

A thought-provoking exploration of the ideas and questions behind گرداب.

In the spirit of Alvin Tofflers' Future Shock , a social critique of our obsession with choice, and how it contributes to anxiety, dissatisfaction and regret.

This edition features George Orwell’s best-known novels—1984 and Animal Farm—with an introduction by Christopher Hitchens.

Alternative cover edition of ISBN 9780060589288 Eleven Minutes is the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken.

The most renowned figure in the world of marketing offers the new rules to the game for marketing professionals and business leaders alike In Marketing Insights from A to Z, Philip Kotler,...

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Start with No offers a contrarian, counterintuitive system for negotiating any kind of deal in any kind of situation—the purchase of a new house, a multimillion-dollar business deal, or...

A mythic journey across America where old gods, new powers, belief, and identity collide.

Marketing's undisputed doyen offers an unbeatable guide on what not to do As the cost of marketing rises, its effectiveness is in decline.

Presenting twelve breakthrough practices for bringing creativity into all human endeavors, The Art of Possibility is the dynamic product of an extraordinary partnership.

“The Devil and Miss Prym is a simple tale, with the meaning of life and spiritual guidance at its core.” -- The Guardian A community divided by greed, cowardice, and fear.

There's been a murder. Allegedly. William de Worde is the Discworld's first investigative journalist.

As Osho points out in the foreward to this book, historically, the creative person has been all but forced to rebel against the society.

A history of coffee from the sixth century to Starbucks that’s “good to the last sentence” ( Las Cruces Sun News ).

Offering an alternative to the common team-player corporate mentality, a former CEO-turned-management professor demonstrates how individual entrepreneurs within a company are the ones who...

In his latest international bestseller, the celebrated author of The Alchemist addresses the fundamental questions asked by millions: What am I doing here today?

A thought-provoking exploration of the ideas and questions behind مردی که نفسش را کشت.

Przez dwa lata mały człowiek przesiadywał na ławce w parku.

Millie McDeevit screamed a scream, so loud it made her eyebrows steam.

Immerse yourself in an electrifying reading experience like no other -- international bestselling author Paulo Coelho's The Fifth Mountain.

No food, no water, no government, no obligation, no order.

What is memory? Without memory we lose our sense of identity, reasoning, even our ability to perform simple physical tasks.

Alternative cover edition of ISBN 9798853651234 From Paulo Coelho, author of the bestselling The Alchemist , comes a poignant, richly poetic story that reflects the depth of love and life.

Mighty battles! Revolution! Death! War!

I Visst hopp, som utspelar sig på en kylig societetstillställning, försöker en vuxen Patrick leva ett nyktrare liv, samtidigt som han letar efter något som kan rädda honom.

Andra boken om Patrick Melrose I Dåliga nyheter är Patrick Melrose i tjugoårsåldern.

Första boken om Patrick Melrose Glöm det utspelar sig under en dag på familjen Melroses residens i Frankrike.

In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was: "Hey, you!" For Brutha the novice is the Chosen One.

In 19th-century Vienna, a drama of love, fate, and will is played out amid the intellectual ferment that defined the era.

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780743246989 The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a...

An angel and a demon form an unlikely alliance to prevent an apocalypse neither of them particularly wants.

O livro conta a história de Brida O' Fern, uma irlandesa de 21 anos em busca da magia e dos poderes ocultos.

Beginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters presents a surprising, subversive, fictional history of earth told from...

On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike.

“The Trunchbull” is no match for Matilda!

This is an alternative cover edition for ISBN 9780586071113 It is the year 12,020 G.E.

Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure.

The Pilgrimage recounts the spectacular trials of Paulo Coelho and his mysterious mentor, Petrus, as they journey across Spain in search of a miraculous sword.

Golan Trevize, former Councilman of the First Foundation, has chosen the future, and it is Gaia.

A framework for understanding how levels of consciousness influence human behavior, decisions, and collective systems.

In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love.

Includes first 3 volumes in the series: Elric of Melnibone, The Sailor on the Seas of Fate and The Weird of the White Wolf.

Collected here are twenty-six of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's most brilliant and enchanting short stories, presented in the chronological order of their publication in Spanish from three...

New York City is subsumed in arctic winds, dark nights, and white lights, its life unfolds, for it is an extraordinary hive of the imagination, the greatest house ever built, and nothing...

At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations had come to an end.

Captured by a giant! The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant.

Last night while I lay thinking here Some Whatifs crawled inside my ear And pranced and partied all night long And sang their same old Whatif song: Whatif I flunk that test?

In a publishing career that spanned less than a decade, Jane Austen revolutionized the literary romance, using it as a stage from which to address issues of gender politics and...

From Shel Silverstein , the celebrated author of The Giving Tree and Where the Sidewalk Ends , comes The Missing Piece Meets the Big O , a charming fable that gently probes the nature of...

Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The...

The acclaimed fantasy epic, together in one volume.

From Shel Silverstein , the celebrated author of The Giving Tree and Where the Sidewalk Ends , comes The Missing Piece , a charming fable that gently probes the nature of quest and...

"The Selfish Gene" caused a wave of excitement among biologists and the general public when it was first published in 1976.

'I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death,' John Keats soberly prophesied in 1818 as he started writing the blankverse epic Hyperion.

Come in... for where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein's world begins.

"Nothing less than a full-scale assault on conventional economic wisdom." — Newsweek One the 100 most influential books published since World War II — The Times Literary Supplement Hailed...

In this volume, which reaffirms the uncompromising brilliance of his mind, Cioran strips the human condition down to its most basic components, birth and death, suggesting that disaster...

Vintage paperback

In the twenty-second century Earth obtains limitless, free energy from a source science little understands: an exchange between Earth and a parallel universe, using a process devised by the...

Gathered here are Ludwig von Bertalanffy's writings on general systems theory, selected and edited to show the evolution of systems theory and to present it applications to problem solving.

1969 hardcover with dust jacket as shown.

Probably Garcí­a Márquez finest and most famous work.

If you had a giraffe and he stretched another half … you would have a giraffe and a half.

A Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir’s masterpieces.

Charlie Bucket's wonderful adventure begins when he finds one of Mr.

We think we’re relating to other people–but actually we’re all playing games.

"Once there was a tree...and she loved a little boy." So begins a story of unforgettable perception, beautifully written and illustrated by the gifted and versatile Shel Silverstein.

Berne, Eric, What Do You Say after You Say Hello?

In Island , his last novel, Huxley transports us to a Pacific island where, for 120 years, an ideal society has flourished.

James Henry Trotter lives with two ghastly hags.

This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world and did.

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Alternate cover edition here . The Companions of the Ring have become involved in separate adventures as the quest continues.

Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0618260269 (copyright page ISBN is 0618346252 - different from back cover) One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in...

The Two Towers. Book Two in J.R.R. Tolkien's acclaimed trilogy, a masterpiece of high fantasy.

So far the Foundation was safe. But there was a hidden Second Foundation to protect the first.

Simply written, but powerful and unforgettable, The Man Who Planted Trees is a parable for modern times.

Foundation and Empire tells the incredible story of a new breed of man who create a new force for galactic government.

Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has proved itself to be one of the most enduring works...

The first novel in Isaac Asimov's classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme.

Creative Education's short story collections are ideal introductions to some of the world's best-known authors.

Isaac Asimov's I, Robot launches readers on an adventure into a not-so-distant future where man and machine , struggle to redefinelife, love, and consciousness—and where the stakes are...

The year 1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmarish vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever.

Simone de Beauvoir, novelist, dramatist, and philosopher, was the most distinguished woman writer in modern France.

Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival.

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A pilot forced to land in the Sahara meets a little prince.

سگ ولگرد مجموعه‌ای از داستان‌های کوتاه صادق هدایت است.

Considered the most important work of modern Iranian literature, The Blind Owl is a haunting tale of loss and spiritual degradation.

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.

صبح زود در ايستگاه قلهك آژان قد كوتاه صورت سرخي به شوفر اتومبيلي كه آنجا ايستاده بود زن بچه بغلي رانشان داد و گفت:- اين زن مي خواسته برود مازندران اينجا آمده ، او را بشهر برسانيد ثواب دارد...

داستان ایرانی ــ ۲۱ «سه قطره خون» از روان-داستان‌های صادق هدایت است که بیشتر در کنار «بوف کور» و «زنده بگور» مورد نقد و بررسی قرار گرفته است.

This satirical novel tells the story of the surgical transformation of a dog into a man, and is an obvious criticism of Soviet society, especially the new rich that arose after the...

In print since 1948, this is a single-volume collection of Oscar Wilde's texts.

الحمدلله به خیر گذشت حالا که فکر می‌کنم می‌بینم واقعاً چه آدم‌های باگذشتی بودند.

Oscar Wilde's madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret engagements, and lovers entanglements still delights readers more than a century after its 1895 publication and premiere...

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Dorian Gray, a handsome young man, receives a beautiful painting of himself from his good friend Basil Hallward.

En el siglo XIX se produce una sublevación en Siberia, liderada por el tártaro Féofar-Khan, secundado por el renegado ruso Iván Ogareff, que se extiende y triunfa sin oposición.

Pragmatic gambler Phileas Fogg has made a gentlemanly wager to the members of his exclusive club: that he can circle the world in just eighty days, right down to the minute.

Victor Hugo's The Man Who Laughs (first published under the French title L'Homme qui Rit in April 1869) is a sad and sordid tale -- not the sort of tale of the moment Hugo was known for.

Vingt mille lieues sous les mers - Niveau 1/A1 - Lecture CLE en français facile - Livre + Audio téléchargeable Public : Grands adolescents 16-18 ans / Adultes Collection : Lectures CLE en...

Verne's 1865 tale of a trip to the moon is (as you'd expect from Verne) great fun, even if bits of it now seem, in retrospect, a little strange.

Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him.

Great Expectations charts the progress of Pip from childhood through often painful experiences to adulthood, as he moves from the Kent marshes to busy, commercial London, encountering a...

A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens’s great historical novel, set against the violent upheaval of the French Revolution.

Edgar Allan Poe was one of the most original writers in the history of American letters, a genius who was tragically misunderstood in his lifetime.

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If.

Suspense, fear and the supernatural provide the center for this tale by the master prose writer, Edgar Allan Poe.

In Gustave Doré, one of the most prolific and successful book illustrators of the late 19h century, Edgar Allan Poe's renowned poem The Raven found perhaps its most perfect artistic...

First published in 1844, The Three Musketeers is the most famous of Alexandre Dumas' historical novels and one of the most popular adventure novels ever written.

Edgar Allan Poe remains the unsurpassed master of works of mystery and madness in this outstanding collection of Poe's prose and poetry are sixteen of his finest tales, including: -The...

A gripping portrayal of London's dark criminal underbelly, published in Penguin Classics with an introduction by Philip Horne.

This extraordinary historical French gothic novel, set in Medieval Paris under the twin towers of its greatest structure and supreme symbol, the cathedral of Notre-Dame, is the haunting...

By far the most widely used translation in North American college classrooms, Donald A.

Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances that he determines to become a knight-errant himself.