James GleickA work of popular science in the tradition of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, this 20th-anniversary edition of James Gleick’s groundbreaking bestseller Chaos introduces a whole new readership to...

Anthony BlakeWe are bound to hold beliefs or images of the world and ourselves that exceed available evidence. They will tend be limiting and blinkered but sometimes also heuristic and...

CS Lewis‘You can only find out the rights and wrongs by Reasoning – never by being rude about your opponent’s psychology.’ For C. S. Lewis, reason and logic are the...

Haim Shapira, PhDWhat is your happiest moment?How can you know it?Do we waste time or does time waste us?Are questions about meaning truly meaningful?What's really important?Drawing on literary and philosophical...

David Foster WallaceA gargantuan, mind-altering tragi-comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America. Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family...

Amy Tan Amy Tan was born into a family that believed in fate. In The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings, she explores this legacy, as well as American...

Sylvie Courtine-Denamy Three women, all philosophers, all of Jewish descent, provide a human face for a decade of crisis in this powerful and moving book. The dark years when the...

Ray KurzweilThe great inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil is one of the best-known and controversial advocates for the role of machines in the future of humanity. In his latest, thrilling...

Sam Harris Sam Harris delivers a startling analysis of the clash of faith & reason in the modern world, arguing that the threat of mass destruction is too great for...

Irvin D YalomFrom the internationally bestselling author of Love's Executioner and When Nietzsche Wept, comes a novel of group therapy with a cast of memorably wounded characters struggling to heal...

Dante Alighieri   This single volume, blank verse translation of The Divine Comedy includes an introduction, maps of Dante's Italy, Hell, Purgatory, Geocentric Universe, and political panorama of the thirteenth...

Alan LightmanA modern classic, Einstein’s Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland. As the defiant...