Paul TherouxA compendium of travel writing from a master travellerPaul Theroux celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe by collecting the best writing on travel from the books that shaped...

Peter CareyParrot and Olivier in America has been shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize.From the two-time Booker Prize–winning author comes an irrepressibly funny new novel set in early nineteenth-century...

Mystics, Mavericks, and Merrymakers: An Intimate Journey Among Hasidic Girls   Stephanie Wllen Levine   From the ardently religious young woman who longs for the life of a male scholar...

Duncan J WattsIn this Rremarkable book, Duncan Watts, one of the principal architects of network theory, sets out to explain the innovative research that he and other scientists are spearheading...

Einat AdmonyEinat Admony is a 21st-century balaboosta (Yiddish for “perfect housewife”).She’s a mother and wife, but also a chef busy running three bustling New York City restaurants. Her debut cookbook...

PhaidonA personal encounter with 50 of the world's most significant contemporary artists, pressPLAY draws together the full texts of the complete Phaidon interviews with artists since 1995.From highly established artists...

Maimonides--Essential Teachings on Jewish Faith & Ethics: The Book of Knowledge & the Thirteen Principles of Faith--Annotated & ExplainedRabbi Marc D AngelThe teachings of Judaism's greatest medieval philosopher can be...

MR CareyMelanie is a very special girl. Dr. Caldwell calls her "our little genius."Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her,...

Greg McKeownThe New York Times bestselling author of Essentialism takes on the holy grail of human performance: How can we make it easier to get the right things done?Is there...

The Inside Story: A Chassidic perspective on biblical events, encounters and personalities : thirty five essays based on the works of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. SchneersonAdapted by Yanki...

Robert GreeneAmoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills three thousand years of the history of power in to forty-eight well explicated laws. As attention-grabbing in its design as...

Robert M SapolskyAn Updated Guide To Stress, Stress Related Diseases, and CopingThis delightful, empowering book encourages readers to understand stress, to laugh about it, and then to bring it under...