Inventing the Future [June 1, 2018] Nick Srnicek, Alex Williams
A major new manifesto for a high-tech future free from workNeoliberalism isn't working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty and many more into precarious work, while the left remains trapped in stagnant political practices that offer no respit...
The Selfish Gene [May 20, 2018] Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins' brilliant reformulation of the theory of natural selection has the rare distinction of having provoked as much excitement and interest outside the scientific community as within it. His theories have helped change the whole nature o...
Society of Mind [May 15, 2018] Marvin Minsky
Marvin Minsky -- one of the fathers of computer science and cofounder of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT -- gives a revolutionary answer to the age-old question: "How does the mind work?" Minsky brilliantly portrays the mind as a "soci...
All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel [May 15, 2018] Anthony Doerr
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as ...
The Trial [May 13, 2018] Franz Kafka
The Trial and (original German title: Der Process,[1] later Der Proceß, Der Prozeß and Der Prozess and ) is a novel written by Franz Kafka between 1914 and 1915 and published posthumously in 1925. One of his best-known works, it tells the story of J...
Strangers to Ourselves [May 13, 2018] Timothy D. Wilson
"Know thyself," a precept as old as Socrates, is still good advice. But is introspection the best path to self-knowledge? Wilson makes the case for better ways of discovering our unconscious selves. If you want to know who you are or what you feel o...
We: New Edition [May 13, 2018] Evgeniĭ Ivanovich Zami︠a︡tin
A superb new translation of the classic dystopian novel Set in the twenty-sixth century AD, Zamyatin's masterpiece describes life under the regimented totalitarian society of OneState, ruled over by the all-powerful 'Benefactor'. Recognized as the i...
Fashionable Nonsense [May 13, 2018] Alan Sokal
In 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in Social Text—an influential academic journal of cultural studies—touting the deep similarities between quantum gravitational theory and postmodern philosophy. Soon thereafter, the essay wa...
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking [May 6, 2018] Malcolm Gladwell
The landmark book that has revolutionized the way we understand leadership and decision making -- from #1 bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell.
In his breakthrough bestseller The Tipping Point , Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world...
Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder [May 6, 2018] Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Antifragile is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series ar...
The Power: WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION [May 6, 2018] Naomi Alderman
WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION'Electrifying' Margaret Atwood'A big, page-turning, thought-provoking thriller' Guardian----------------------------------All over the world women are discovering they have the power.With a flick of the fingers ...
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies [March 30, 2018] Nick Bostrom
The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. Other animals have stronger muscles or sharper claws, but we have cleverer brains. If m...
Good to Great [March 30, 2018] Jim Collins
The Challenge Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning.But what about the...
Outliers [March 25, 2018] Malcolm Gladwell
There is a story that is usually told about extremely successful people, a story that focuses on intelligence and ambition. Gladwell argues that the true story of success is very different, and that if we want to understand how some people thrive, we...
The Hero Within: Six Archetypes We Live By [March 25, 2018] Carol S. Pearson
The Classic Guide, Updated for Our Contemporary World A modern classic of Jungian psychology, The Hero Within has helped hundreds of thousands of people enrich their lives by revealing how to tap the power of the archetypes that exist within. Drawin...
The Three-Body Problem [March 11, 2018] Cixin Liu
The winner of 2015 Hugo Award. Winner of the Nebula Award. The Three-Body Problem is a masterpiece of enormous scope and vision, written by Cixin, Liu, the most prevailing science fiction writer in China today and tells a story set against the backd...
Selected Papers on Design of Algorithms [July 29, 2010] Donald E. Knuth
CSLI Lecture Notes [191]: Donald Knuth’s influence in computer science ranges from the invention of methods for translating and defining programming languages to the creation of the TEX and METAFONT systems for desktop publishing. His award-winning t...
City of Glass [April 4, 2005] Paul Auster
New York Trilogy [1]:
From Paul Auster, author of the forthcoming 4 3 2 1: A novel – his debut work of fiction, the first volume in his acclaimed “New York Trilogy” series of novels
Nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Mystery of the Year, City o...
Selected Papers on Computer Science [July 29, 2004] Donald E. Knuth
CSLI Lecture Notes [59]: Donald Knuth's influence in computer science ranges from the invention of literate programming to the development of the TeX programming language. This anthology of essays includes articles on the history of computing, algori...
Selected Papers on Computer Languages [July 29, 2002] Donald E. Knuth
CSLI Lecture Notes [139]: This volume, sixth in a series of collected works by world-renowned computer scientist Donald E. Knuth, assembles approximately two dozen of his pioneering contributions to the field of computer languages, including papers o...
A New Kind of Science [April 4, 2002] Stephen Wolfram
This long-awaited work from one of the world's most respected scientists presents a series of dramatic discoveries never before made public. Starting from a collection of simple computer experiments--illustrated in the book by striking computer grap...
Scoop: A Novel About Journalists [April 4, 1938] Evelyn Waugh
One of Evelyn Waugh's most exuberant comedies, Scoop is a brilliantly irreverent satire of Fleet Street and its hectic pursuit of hot news. Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of The Daily Beast, has always prided himself on his intuitive ...
