The remarkable story of the most influential book in human history... Zobraziť viac
First published in 1999, Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks and the coffee crisis of the 21st century. Mark Pendergrast uses coffee production, trade, ... Zobraziť viac
In Never Home Alone, biologist Rob Dunn takes us to the edge of biology's latest frontier: our own homes. Every house is a wilderness — from the Egyptian meal moths in our kitchen cupboards and the yeast in a sourdough starter, to the camel crickets... Zobraziť viac
In So You Want to Talk About Race, editor-at-large of The Establishment Ijeoma Oluo offers a contemporary, accessible take on the racial landscape in America, addressing head-on such issues as privilege... Zobraziť viac
In The Russian Revolution, historian Sean McMeekin traces the origins and events of the Russian Revolution, which ended Romanov rule, ushered the Bolsheviks into power, and changed the course of world history. Between 1900 and 1920, ... Zobraziť viac
How rethinking our relationships with other species can help us reimagine the future of humankind. In the woodlands of sub-Saharan Africa, sometime deep in our species' past, something strange happened: a bird called out, not to warn others of human... Zobraziť viac
An eminent psychologist argues that gesture, long overlooked, is essential to how we think We all know people who talk with their hands-but do they know what they're saying with them? ... Zobraziť viac
Some companies are beating the odds and are winning more often than losing at service development. What separates the winners from the losers? In Product Development for the Service Sector, ... Zobraziť viac
Trauma and Recovery is the foundational text on understanding trauma survivors... Zobraziť viac
In How to Listen to Jazz, award-winning music scholar Ted Gioia presents a lively, accessible introduction to the art of listening to jazz... Zobraziť viac
In the 18th century, Europe's scientific community was torn between two opposing theories: Descartes' argument that the Earth was spherical, and Newton's contention that it was flattened at the poles. Recognizing that the answer was the key ... Zobraziť viac
Europe is caught in its greatest crisis since the Second World War. The catalogue of ills seems endless: an economic crisis spread through most of Europe's Mediterranean tier that has crippled Greece and driven a wedge between northern and ... Zobraziť viac
A visit to a physician these days is cold: physicians spend most of their time typing at computers, making minimal eye contact. Appointments generally last only a few minutes, with scarce time for the doctor to connect to a patient's story, ... Zobraziť viac
Across the world today, people of all ages are doing fascinating, creative, messy things with gender. These people have a rich history - but one that is often left behind by narratives of trans lives that focus on people with... Zobraziť viac
The whole thing was basically an experiment, Richard Feynman said late in his career, looking back on the origins of his lectures. The experiment turned out to be hugely successful, ... Zobraziť viac
We've decided by consensus that consensus is good. In In Defense of Troublemakers, psychologist Charlan Nemeth argues that this principle is completely wrong: left unchallenged, the majority opinion is often biased, unoriginal, or false... Zobraziť viac
A leading conservative thinker argues that a nationalist order is the only realistic safeguard of liberty in the world today. Nationalism is the issue of our age. From Donald Trump's "America First" ... Zobraziť viac
Playing on the phrase "a theory of everything" in physics, Michael Muthukrishna's ambitious, original and deeply hopeful book, offers a unified theory of human behavior, culture, and society - a theory of everyone... Zobraziť viac
We have long been suspicious of corporations recklessly pursuing profit and amassing wealth and power... Zobraziť viac
In this "provocative" book (New York Times), a contrarian physicist argues that her field's modern obsession with beauty has given us wonderful math but bad science... Zobraziť viac
