Non-fiction

In this interrogation of the last century of American history & foreign policy, Power draws upon declassified documents, private papers, unprec...

A magisterial history of the greatest and most terrible event in history, from one of the finest historians of the Second World War. A book which s...

Astounding is the landmark account of the extraordinary partnership between four controversial writers--John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. H...

Basic Writings is the finest single-volume anthology of the work of Martin Heidegger, widely considered one of the most important modern philosophe...

What is the meaning of being? This is the central question of Martin Heidegger's profoundly important work, in which the great philosopher seeks to...

Developing video games--hero's journey or fool's errand? The creative and technical logistics that go into building today's hottest games can be mo...

From the author of the Samuel Johnson prize shortlisted The Return of a King, this is William Dalrymple's captivating memoir of a year spent in Del...

B. K. S. Iyengar has devoted his life to the practice and study of yoga. It was B. K. S. Iyengar's unique teaching style, bringing precision and cl...

Here is Zora Neale Hurston's candid, funny, bold, and poignant autobiography, an imaginative and exhuberant account of her rise from childhood pove...

Shannon Watts was a stay-at-home mom folding laundry when news of the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary flashed across the television screen...

This is the story of how humankind has come to its understanding of the bizarre world of symmetry - a subject of fundamental significance to the wa...

In 1994, a wildfire on Colorado's Storm King Mountain was wrongly identified at the outset as occurring in South Canyon. This unintentional, seemin...

In AD 587, two monks, John Moschos and Sophronius the Sophist, embarked on an extraordinary journey across the Byzantine world, from the shores of ...

Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis-that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a de...

At the age of twenty-two, William Dalrymple left his college in Cambridge to travel to the ruins of Kublai Khan's stately pleasure dome in Xanadu. ...

Nien Cheng, an anglophile and fluent English-speaker who worked for Shell in Shanghai under Mao, was put under house arrest by Red Guards in 1966 a...

B. K. S. Iyengar has devoted his life to the practice and study of yoga. It was B. K. S. Iyengar's unique teaching style, bringing precision and cl...

The bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Werewolves in Their Youth, Wonderboys, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, The Amazing Adventures of ...

On Creativity and the Unconscious brings together Freud's important essays on the many expressions of creativity—including art, literature, love, d...

A decade ago, Maryanne Wolf’s Proust and the Squid revealed what we know about how the brain learns to read and how reading changes the way we thin...

Based on acclaimed author Zora Neale Hurston's personal experiences in Haiti and Jamaica--where she participated as an initiate rather than just an...

William Dalrymple, who wrote so magically about India in City of Djinns, returns to the country in a series of remarkable essays. Featured in its p...

In this anthology of twenty-six essays and other writings, Huxley discusses the nature of God, enlightenment, being, good and evil, religion, etern...

The Essential Schopenhauer delivers the first comprehensive English anthology of the seminal philosopher’s writings. Edited by Wolfgang Schirmacher...

B. K. S. Iyengar has devoted his life to the practice and study of yoga. It was B. K. S. Iyengar's unique teaching style, bringing precision and cl...

An urgent and informed look at the challenges America and world governments will face in a post Covid-19 world. The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed ...

Drawing from the horizons of science, today's leading thinkers reveal the hidden threats nobody is talking about-and expose the false fears everyon...