Bill Bryson’s first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funniest books in years. In Neither Here nor There he brings his unique brand of humour to bear on Europe as he shoulders his backpack, ... Zobraziť viac
Dover Publications Inc.: Major work on ethics, by one of the most influential thinkers of the last 2 centuries, deals with... Zobraziť viac
In January 2013, Aaron Swartz, under arrest and threatened with thirty-five years of imprisonment for downloading material from the JSTOR database, committed suicide. He was twenty-six years old... Zobraziť viac
Have you ever wondered why you have a brain? Let renowned neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett demystify that big grey blob between your ears... Zobraziť viac
Discover everything you ever wanted to know about the world's greatest novels... Zobraziť viac
Drawing on Baldwin's own experiences of prejudice in an America violently divided by race, these searing essays blend the intensely personal with the political to envisage a better world... Zobraziť viac
These two classic essays were the first works of criticism to break down the boundaries between 'high' and 'low' culture,... Zobraziť viac
Fleeting Snow is a novella full of gentle reminiscences about a life shared, as the narrator looks back on a long marriage and muses on issues ranging from human nature and the soul, to given names and the phonetics of ... Zobraziť viac
The bestselling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with this collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, and great lives and works... Zobraziť viac
Advice for graduates and reflections on staying true to yourself from the beloved Gilmore Girls actress and New York Times... Zobraziť viac
A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections. In The End of the End of the Earth, which gathers essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Jonathan Franzen returns with ... Zobraziť viac
Ever since he was a child, Metal Gear Solid and Death Stranding creator Hideo Kojima was a voracious consumer of movies, music, and books. They ignited his passion for stories and storytelling, and the results can be seen in his groundbreaking... Zobraziť viac
Dover Publications Inc.: The 6 essays and one address in this volume outline the great transcendentalist's moral idealism as... Zobraziť viac
In a world where we're more connected than ever, why is it that we're also more lonely? Dip into this anthology of classic writing to reclaim the pleasure of your own company... Zobraziť viac
A Guest at the Feast uncovers the places where politics and poetics meet, where life and fiction overlap... Zobraziť viac
The creation of the Frankfurt School of critical theory in the 1920s saw the birth of some of the most exciting and challenging writings of the twentieth century. It is out of this background that the great critic Theodor Adorno emerged... Zobraziť viac
In the 1930s, Germany was at a turning point, with many looking to the Nazi phenomenon as part of widespread resentment towards cosmopolitan liberal democracy and capitalism... Zobraziť viac
Advice for graduates and reflections on staying true to yourself from the beloved Gilmore Girls actress and New York Times bestselling author of the memoir Talking as Fast as I Can and the novel Someday, Someday, Maybe... Zobraziť viac
If I could take what I’ve learned and make one menial job easier for you, or prevent you from having the kind of sex where you feel you must keep your sneakers on in case you want to run away during the act, ... Zobraziť viac
How did we get to where we are? John Cassidy shows that the roots of our most recent financial failure lie not with... Zobraziť viac
