While on a research trip in Peru, science journalist Alice Robb became hooked on lucid dreaming—the uncanny phenomenon in which a sleeping person can realize that they're dreaming and even control the dreamed experience.... Zobraziť viac
For fans of Ill Be Gone in the Dark, the thrilling true story of a would-be terrorist attack against a Kansas farming towns immigrant community, and the FBI informant who exposed it.In the spring of 2016, as immigration debates rocked the United States... Zobraziť viac
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PUBLISHERS PROSE AWARD FINALIST|Essential and fresh and vital . . . It is the argument of this important book that until Americans can reimagine rights, there is no path forward, and there is, especially, no way to get race... Zobraziť viac
Named a Notable Work of Nonfiction of 2020 by the Washington PostAs heard on NPR's Fresh Air, We Have Been Harmonized, by award-winning correspondent Kai Strittmatter, offers a groundbreaking look, based on decades of research, at how China created the... Zobraziť viac
A renowned scientist and the best-selling author of Lab Girl, Hope Jahren selects the year's top science and nature writing... Zobraziť viac
America lost 1.4 million citizens in the North Korean attacks of March 2020. This is the final, authorized report of the government commission charged with investigating the calamity... Zobraziť viac
A pioneering psychologist reveals how three powerful emotions are the surest path to attaining your goals. Grit, the ability to persevere against all odds, is widely recognized as the key to success. But how can grit be cultivated and sustained? ... Zobraziť viac
Ursula K. Le Guin on the absurdity of denying your age: "If I'm ninety and believe I'm forty-five, I'm headed for a very bad time trying to get out of the bathtub." On cultural perceptions of fantasy ... Zobraziť viac
The Best American Short Stories 2016 will be selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Díaz. He brings one of the most distinctive and magnetic voices in contemporary fiction: limber, streetwise, caffeinated and wonderfully eclectic ... Zobraziť viac
Why do I travel? Why does anyone of us travel? Bill Bryson poses these questions in his introduction to The Best American Travel Writing 2016, and though he admits, “I wasn’t at all sure I knew the answer,” they are questions worthy of examination... Zobraziť viac
A collection of the year’s best essays, selected by award-winning writer Alexander Chee. Alexander Chee, an essayist of “virtuosity and power” (Washington Post), selects twenty essays out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form... Zobraziť viac
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn NPR Best Book of the Year Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the YearLonglisted for the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for ExcellenceAmerican Whitelashis indispensable. Really. It is. Ibram X. Kendi, author ofHow to Be an... Zobraziť viac
A single photographan exceptionally rare action shot documenting the horrific murder of a Jewish familydrives a riveting forensic investigation by a gifted Holocaust scholar. In 2009, the acclaimed author ofHitlers Furieswas shown a photograph just... Zobraziť viac
From a gifted young writer, the story of his quest to reclaim his family's apartment building in Polandand of the astonishing entanglement with Nazi treasure hunters that followsMenachem Kaiser's brilliantly told story, woven from improbable events and... Zobraziť viac
Steph Cha, a rising star who brings a fresh perspective as series editor, takes the helm of the new TheBest American Mystery and Suspense,with best-selling crime novelist Alafair Burke joining her as the first guest editor.';Crime writers, forgive the... Zobraziť viac
A collection of the years best short stories, selected by National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee and series editor Heidi Pitlor.Without stories, we cannot live well, shares guest editor Min Jin Lee, describing how storytelling affects and nurtures... Zobraziť viac
An Amazon Best Business Book of 2018Selected by Audible as the Best Business Book of 2018Named "Best New Book" by People Magazine and Refinery29Named a Most Anticipated Title of April 2018 by Bustle and LevoA Women@Forbes "Boss Moves Book Club" pickA cand Zobraziť viac
Elizabeth Wurtzel writes with her finger on the faint pulse of an overdiagnosed generation whose ruling icons are Kurt Cobain, Xanax, and pierced tongues. Her famous memoir of her bouts with depression and skirmishes with drugs, ... Zobraziť viac
"Read this. Right now." Brandon Taylor"Molly Dektar can write like hell. [The Absolutes] is simply ravishing." Melissa FebosFor fans of Emma Cline and Garth Greenwell, an arresting, seductive novel about one womans headlong dive into a reckless affair... Zobraziť viac
NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A fresh and democratic take on language by a gifted teacher." Mary Norris"[Jovin] never hectors, never finger-points; she enlightens and illuminates. This is lovely work."Benjamin DreyerAn unconventional guide to the English... Zobraziť viac
