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A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly textured with bits of her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by...

America's most hilarious sportsman returns with this collection of insights about youth, the great outdoors, and the philosophy of fileting fish. When best-selling author Patrick McManus looks at a subject, you're sure to come away with an outrageously new perspective.

Does time exist? What is infinity? Why do mirrors reverse left and right but not up and down? In this scintillating collection, Holt explores the human mind, the cosmos, and the thinkers who’ve tried to encompass the latter with the former. With his trademark clarity and humor, Holt probes the mysteries of quantum mechanics, the quest for the foundations of mathematics, and the nature of logic and truth. Along the way, he offers intimate biographical sketches of celebrated and neglected thinkers, from the physicist Emmy Noether to the computing pioneer Alan Turing and the discoverer of fractals, Benoit Mandelbrot.

ديوان مسامرات أبي حيان في حضرة الوزير ابن سعدان. فيه من طرائف العلم وأدب المجالس ما يشحذ الذهن ويقوي الفهم، ويمتّع الروح بمسائل الأدب والفلسفة والشعر وأخبار الناس. فيه حديث العقل والقلب، مزدان بجواهر الكلام وروائع النُكت والنوادر، مؤنس في الليل ممتمع بالنهار، صخب وعلم وأنس وإمتاع ومؤانسة

In Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction outing, an examination of the meaning (or meaninglessness) of life through an insightful, unsparing argument that proves the greatest horrors are not the products of our imagination but instead are found in reality. "There is a signature motif discernible in...

Step into Jenny Slate's wild imagination in this "magical" (Mindy Kaling), "delicious" (Amy Sedaris), and "poignant" (John Mulaney) New York Times bestseller about love, heartbreak, and being alive -- "this book is something new and wonderful" (George Saunders). You may "know" Jenny Slate from...

Named a Best Book of Summer 2025 by The Globe and Mail (Toronto), Publishers Weekly, and Book Riot The Observer (London)’s Summer Reads Select In this collection of medical tales “reminiscent of Oliver Sacks...the best of medical writing” (Abraham Verghese, author of The Covenant of Water)...

In the early spring of 1845, Henry David Thoreau built and lived in a cabin near the shore of Walden Pond in rural Massachusetts. For the next two years, he enacted his own Transcendentalist experiment, living a simple life based on self-reliance, individualism, and harmony with nature. The journal he kept at that time evolved into his masterwork, Walden, an eloquent expression of a uniquely American philosophy.

A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from stories in the Quran in this “raw and relatable memoir that challenges societal norms and expectations” (Linah Mohammad, NPR). “A masterful, must-read contribution to conversations on power...

Incredible true stories reveal strange new magic in American history in this wondrous first book from the creator of the award-winning podcast The Memory Palace. “One doesn’t often find the words imagination and history in the same sentence. Nate DiMeo has forever woven them together. The...

An updated version of Mark Twain's classic examination of James Fenimore Cooper's classic works.

يجيب هذا الكتاب عن جمعٍ من الأسئلة شغلت الأدب المقارن منذ نشأته الأولى، مثل: ما الأدب المقارن؟ وما الأسس التي بني عليها؟ وما الممارسات التي تميزه؟ ومن هم أشهر أعلامه؟ وكيف تطور عبر القرون؟ وما المستقبل الذي ينتظره؟ وعبر تطوافنا بصفحاته، سنتعرف إلى ما أحدثه مصطلح «الأدب العالمي» من ثورة، وكيف أسهمت الحملات الاستعمارية -رغم شرورها- في إثراء حركة المقارنة بين اللغات والآداب، فضلاً عن الأثر الإيجابي الذي خلَّفه اكتشاف ألواح من القرن الخامس والعشرين قبل الميلاد تروي حكاية الطوفان على هذا الحقل. وسنقف -في الكتاب- على الطرائق التي تعاطى بها الأدب المقارن مع نظرية الأدب، وما جرى عليه من تطورات أسهمت في نقض «المركزية الأوروبية»، وإحلال أشكال جديدة من المقارنات، تُعنى بثقافات الأطراف، التي هُمشت لفترات طويلة. إن هذا الكتاب يضع الأدب المقارن في قلب الممارسة النقدية، ولا يرى مؤلِّفُه فارقاً بيِّناً بين المقارنة والقراءة.

"Manieren – Manners" ist ein bedeutender Essay von Ralph Waldo Emerson – einem der geistigen Wegbereiter des amerikanischen Transzendentalismus. In diesem Klassiker der Lebensführung betont Emerson, dass wahre Manieren mehr sind als bloße Etikette: Sie beruhen auf Charakter, Achtung und innerer Ausgeglichenheit. Zwischen Philosophie und Lebensweisheit vermittelt der Text eine zeitlose Haltung: dass echte Würde, Authentizität und Menschlichkeit der wahre Maßstab für gutes Benehmen sind.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “From The New Yorker’s beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about self-deception, examining everything from scammer culture to reality television.”—Esquire Book Club Pick for Now Read This, from PBS NewsHour and The New York...

NOW AVAILABLE ON AUDIO! Before he gave us the “one of a kind classic” (The Wall Street Journal) memoir On Writing, Stephen King wrote a nonfiction masterpiece in Danse Macabre, “one of the best books on American popular culture” (Philadelphia Inquirer). From the author of dozens of #1...

Internationally bestselling novelist and American icon Tom Robbins' legendary memoir--wild tales of his life and times, both at home and around the globe. Tom Robbins’ warm, wise, and wonderfully weird novels—including Still Life With Woodpecker, Jitterbug Perfume, and Fierce Invalids Home...

"Baby Boomers (and I confess I am one): prepare to squirm and shake your increasingly arthritic little fists. For here comes essayist Helen Andrews."--Terry Castle With two recessions and a botched pandemic under their belt, the Boomers are their children's favorite punching bag. But is the...

The Inconvenient Indian is at once a “history” and the complete subversion of a history - in short, a critical and personal meditation that the remarkable Thomas King has conducted over the past 50 years about what it means to be “Indian” in North America. Rich with dark and light, pain and magic, this book distills the insights gleaned from that meditation, weaving the curiously circular tale of the relationship between non-Natives and Natives in the centuries since the two first encountered each other.

Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying collection of essays that record the small joys that occurred in one year, from birthday to birthday, and that we often overlook in our busy lives. His is a meditation on delight that takes a clear-eyed view of the complexities, even the terrors, in his life, including living in America as a Black man; the ecological and psychic violence of our consumer culture; the loss of those he loves.

“A faithful translation is rare; a translation which preserves intact the original text is very rare; a perfect translation of Montaigne appears impossible. Yet Donald Frame has realized this feat. One does not seem to be reading a translation, so smooth and easy is the style; at each moment, one seems to be listening to Montaigne himself - the freshness of his ideas, the unexpected choice of words. Frame has kept everything.” (Andre Maurois, The New York Times Book Review)