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The Undercover Economist
Published: 2007-01-30
Paperback: 265 pages
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“The economy [isn’t] a bunch of rather dull statistics with names like GDP (gross domestic product),” notes Tim Harford, columnist and regular guest on NPR’s Marketplace, “economics is about who gets what and why.” In this acclaimed and riveting book–part exposé, part user�...
The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge
Published: 2016-10-25
Paperback: 368 pages
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Human society evolves. Change in technology, language, morality, and society is incremental, inexorable, gradual, and spontaneous. It follows a narrative, going from one stage to the next, and it largely happens by trial and error—a version of natural selection. Much of the human world i...
Why We Do What We Do: Understanding Self-Motivation
Published: 1996-08-01
Paperback: 240 pages
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What motivates us as students, employees, and individuals?If you reward your children for doing their homework, they will usually respond by getting it done. But is this the most effective method of motivation? No, says psychologist Edward L. Deci, who challenges traditional thinking and...
The Cafe by the Sea: A Novel
Published: 2017-06-27
Paperback: 416 pages
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The beloved author of The Bookshop on the Corner returns with a sparkling, sunny, soulful new novel perfect for fans of Elin Hilderbrand. Years ago, Flora fled the quiet Scottish island where she grew up -- and she hasn't looked back. What would she have done on Mure? It's a place where ...
Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations
Published: 2017-09-12
Paperback: 384 pages
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A freewheeling, sharp-shooting indictment of a tech-besotted culture.With razor wit, Nicholas Carr cuts through Silicon Valley’s unsettlingly cheery vision of the technological future to ask a hard question: Have we been seduced by a lie? Gathering a decade’s worth of posts from his bl...
Why Don't We Learn from History?
Published: 2012-02-27
Paperback: 126 pages
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Much has been written on the Theory of History by philosophers and historiologists, but nothing so concise and readable as Liddell Hart’s Why Don’t We Learn from History; the kind of title that makes one wonder and consider. And consider we certainly should in an era when so much bad history and...
The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook
Published: 2015-03-01
Paperback: 488 pages
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Now in its sixth edition and recommended by therapists worldwide, The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook has been the unparalleled, essential resource for people struggling with anxiety and phobias for almost thirty years. Living with anxiety, panic disorders, or phobias can make you feel like ...
Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It
Published: 2017-06-13
Hardcover: 240 pages
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America is becoming a class-based society.It is now conventional wisdom to focus on the wealth of the top 1 percent—especially the top 0.01 percent—and how the ultra-rich are concentrating income and prosperity while incomes for most other Americans are stagnant. But the most important...
The Sisters Chase
Published: 2017-06-27
Hardcover: 304 pages
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“Thoroughly surprising…The Sisters Chase is that rare thing, a slow burner that conceals its cunning and sneaks up on you unawares.”—New York Times A gripping novel about two sisters who are left homeless by their mother’s death and the lengths the fierce older sister will go t...
Rob Delaney: Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage.
Published: 2014-12-02
Paperback: 224 pages
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From one of the creators, writers, and stars of Catastrophe comes a “hilarious, raw” (Rolling Stone) memoir about love, sex, parenthood, work, substance abuse, and everything else that makes life wonderful and/or horrible. Updated with new material! Rob Delaney is a comedy superstar. B...
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