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NATIONAL BESTSELLER.An unsparing investigation into Spotify’s origins and influence on music, weaving unprecedented reporting with incisive cultural criticism, illuminating how streaming is reshaping music for listeners and artists alike.Drawing on...

Mixing the personal angle of working at Facebook with the overarching stakes of what was happening behind the scenes, this is a sharp, scathing and surprisingly fun narrative that speaks to some of the most pressing issues at the heart of the world...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. "The must-read book of the summer" (Megyn Kelly) from New York Times bestseller Maureen Callahan: a "harrowing, incendiary" exposé of the real...

One of the most astonishing aspects of Hesse's career is the clear-sightedness and consistency of his political views, his passionate espousal of pacifism and internationalism from the start of World War I to the end of his life. The earliest essay in...

Hesiod, who lived in Boetia in the late eighth century BC, is one of the oldest known, and possibly the oldest of Greek poets. His Theogony contains a systematic genealogy of the gods from the beginning of the world and an account of the struggles of the...

Walter Isaacson, highly accomplished biographer of iconic figures like Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein, takes on one of the most interesting and polarizing figures of the modern age.The #1 New York Times and global bestseller from...

Named One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of the Year.A vivid account of the past, present, and future of economic growth, showing how and why we must continue to pursue it while responding to the challenges it creates.Over the past two centuries,...

Jan Karski’s Story of a Secret State stands as one of the most poignant and inspiring memoirs of World War II and the Holocaust. With elements of a spy thriller, documenting his experiences in the Polish Underground, and as one of the first...

Deeply and darkly compelling, this is a comprehensive look at the evils of the Zodiac killer, as told by a Bay Area journalist who’s been covering the case for decades. If you or someone you know is a serial killer aficionado, this is the read for...

A “sweeping, delightfully readable” (Wall Street Journal) new history of Assyria, the ancient civilization that set the model for future empires.At its height in 660 BCE, the kingdom of Assyria stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the...

THE WASHINGTON POST'S TOP TEN NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE • SHORTLISTED FOR PRIX FÉMINA ETRANGER • LONGLISTED FOR PRIX MÉDICIS • An exquisite, genre-defying new book from the Booker...

Steinbeck and Capa’s account of their journey through Cold War Russia is a classic piece of reportage and travel writing.A Penguin Classic.Just after the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe, Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Steinbeck and...

Framed by ten words or phrases common in the Chinese vernacular, China in Ten Words reveals the world s most populous yet most often misunderstood nation. With Yu Hua's wit, insight and courage, this is a candid vision of the Chinese miracle and all its...

Through a chorus of voices from widows and orphans to rescue-workers and firefighters, the Nobel Laureate’s powerful and deeply humane oral history about Chernobyl reveals the full destruction and meaning of the catastrophe in breathtaking prose...

In November 1929, Christopher Isherwood - determined to become a 'permanent foreigner' - packed a rucksack and two suitcases and left England on a one-way ticket for Berlin. With incredible candour and wit, Isherwood recalls the decadence of Berlin's...

'Brilliant and disturbing' -- Stephen Spender, New York Review of Books The classic work on 'the banality of evil', and a journalistic masterpiece Hannah Arendt's stunning and unnverving report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as...

Celebrating the magick of the natural realm, Volume IV of The Library of Esoterica, delves into the symbolism, ceremony, and our ritual relationships with the botanical world. A visual journey through our interdependent evolution with nature, Plant...

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (a.d. 121 180) succeeded his adoptive father as emperor of Rome in a.d. 161 and Meditations remains one of the greatest works of spiritual and ethical reflection ever written. With a profound understanding of human behavior,...

Nineteen Arab women journalists speak out about what it’s like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection, with a foreword by CNN chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour.“A stirring,...

Control the sea, and you control everything...a gripping tale of naval warfare, dynastic rivalry, and technical innovation, from the author of the classic work Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World.Genghis Khan built a formidable land empire,...