Non-fiction

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

by Michael M. Lewis

2011

The author examines the causes of the U.S. stock market crash of 2008 and its relation to overpriced real estate, bad mortgages, shareholder demand for excessive profits, and the growth of toxic derivatives.…

The Illustrated Art of War

by Sunzi

2005

This classic work on planning and conducting war is available in an elegant illustrated edition, featuring 75 color and black-and-white images. It offers the definitive translation of Sun Tzu's text, by former U.S.…

AI Superpowers

by Kai-Fu Lee

2018

AI Superpowers is Kai-Fu Lee's New York Times and USA Today bestseller about the American-Chinese competition over the future of artificial intelligence.…

How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age

by Brent Cole, Dale Carnegie & Associates

2011

An up-to-the-minute adaptation of Dale Carnegie's timeless, commonsense approach to communicating. In today's world, where more and more of our communication takes place across wires and screens, Carnegie's lessons have not only…

A Night to Remember

by Walter Lord

2005

A cloth bag containing eight copies of the title.…

Alexander

by Peter Tsouras

2004

Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.E.), who reigned as king of Macedonia for only thirteen years, set a flame of conquest that introduced the dynamism of Hellenism to the Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, and South Asian worlds. Re-creating thei…

Factfulness

by Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund

2019

*the #1 Sunday Times bestseller * instant New York Times bestseller * an Observer 'best brainy book of the decade' * #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller * Irish Times bestseller * Audio bestseller * Guardian bestseller * * Endorsed by…

The Oxford Illustrated History of the Holy Land

by Robert G. Hoyland, Hugh Godfrey Maturin Williamson

2018

The story of the Holy Land, encompassing the three millennia that saw the birth of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Each chapter is written by a leading scholar and is highly illustrated with paintings, photographs, and ancient texts.…

Science in the Soul

by Richard Dawkins

2017

A "defense of science and clear thinking [in a] career-spanning collection of essays, including twenty pieces published in the United States for the first time"--Amazon.com.…

Lonely Planet Vietnam

by Iain Stewart

2022

Lonely Planet's Vietnam is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Experience Hanoi’s labyrinth-like Old Quarter, kayak in Halong Bay, and wander through hist…

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Dinner with Darwin

by Jonathan Silvertown

2017

What do eggs, flour, and milk have in common? They form the basis of crepes of course, but they also each have an evolutionary purpose. Eggs, seeds (from which flour is derived by grinding) and milk are each designed by evolution to nourish…

Band of Brothers

by Stephen E. Ambrose

1992

A look at the exploits of the men of E Company during World War II describes how they parachuted into France early D-Day morning, parachuted into Holland during the Arnhem campaign, and captured Hitler's Bavarian outpost.…