EM Cioran 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...

David Bohm David Bohm was one of the foremost scientific thinkers and philosophers of our time. Although deeply influenced by Einstein, he was also, more unusually for a scientist, inspired...

Raymond Aron In this collection of essays written over a period of almost forty years, Raymond Aron explores the rise of nationalism in Europe through the two world wars and...

Randy Pausch   "We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."--Randy Pausch A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." Professors are...

Eugen Herrigel The path to achieving Zen (a balance between the body and the mind) is brilliantly explained by Professor Eugen Herrigel in this timeless account.This book is the result...

Ayn Rand   "This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world - and did. Was he a destroyer or the...

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks One of the most respected religious thinkers of our time makes an impassioned plea for the return of religion to its true purpose—as a partnership with God...

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Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel MicroworldsMitchel ResnickDoes every group have a leader? Does every pattern have a central cause? Most people tend to think so. Increasingly,...

Peter Coveney and Roger Highfield"SCIENCE JOURNALISM AT ITS BEST. . . An impeccably researched, amazingly up-to-date, crisply written and well-illustrated survey."--NatureAt the cutting edge of the sciences, a dynamic new...

Yuval Noah Harari   Yuval Noah Harari returns in August 2018 with a new book, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. In bringing his focus to the here and now, Harari...

Hermann Hesse   One of the most widely read novels of the twentieth century, Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha explores the struggle of the soul to see beyond the illusions of humankind...