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The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a New Section: On Robustness and Fragility
A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation …
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and …
The Satanic Verses
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - " A] torrent of endlessly inventive prose, by turns comic and enraged, embracing life in all its contradictions. In this spectacular novel, verbal …
The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II
A long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia--from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature NAMED ONE …
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - MORE THAN 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD - This instant classic explores how we can change our lives by changing our habits."Few books] become essential manuals …
The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life
Are you on your first or second mountain? Is life about you - or others? About success - or something deeper? The world tells us that we should pursue our self-interest: career …
The Power of Strangers: The Benefits of Connecting in a Suspicious World
A "meticulously researched and buoyantly written" (Esquire) look at what happens when we talk to strangers, and why it affects everything from our own health and well-being to the …
All Quiet on the Western Front
The masterpiece of the German experience during World War I, considered by many the greatest war novel of all time--with an Oscar-winning film adaptation now streaming on Netflix. …
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman's journey from diagnosis to remission to re-entry into "normal" life--from …
Building a Life Worth Living: A Memoir
Marsha Linehan tells the story of her journey from suicidal teenager to world-renowned developer of the life-saving behavioral therapy DBT, using her own struggle to develop life …
The Captain Class: A New Theory of Leadership
A bold new theory of leadership drawn from elite captains throughout sports--named one of the best business books of the year by CNBC, The New York Times, Forbes, …