Philosophy

(Available after July 30th, 2023)A Goodreads Most Anticipated Book of 2023The New York Times best-selling author explores how “anti-science” became so virulent in American life—through a history of climate denial and its consequences.   In 1956, the New...

(Available after March 30th, 2023)For fans of Helen MacDonald’s H is for Hawk and Mary Roach, Erica Berry’s WOLFISH blends science, history, and cultural criticism in a years-long journey to understand our myths about wolves, and track one legendary...

In the cloud-washed airspace between the cornfields of Illinois and blue infinity, a man puts his faith in the propeller of his biplane. For disillusioned writer and itinerant barnstormer Richard Bach, belief is as real as a full tank of gas and sparks...

Robert Lanza is one of the most respected scientists in the world — a US News & World Report cover story called him a “genius" and a “renegade thinker," even likening him to Einstein. Lanza has teamed with Bob Berman, the most widely read astronomer...

An all-encompassing guide to skeptical thinking from podcast host and academic neurologist at Yale University School of Medicine Steven Novella and his SGU co-hosts, which Richard Wiseman calls "the perfect primer for anyone who wants to separate fact...

Strategy is the craft of a warrior - Miyamoto MusashiWritten around 1645, Miyamoto Musashi's Five Rings is a classic Japanese work on mastery in swordsmanship, leadership and conflict. Musashi was a swordsman, philosopher and strategist, and today his...

(Available after May 30th, 2023) Chloe Cooper Jones — child, wife, mother, academic, philosopher, writer, and born with a congenital “disabling” medical condition — travels a world that often defines her by what she cannot do. Easy Beauty is her epic...

Since its publication in 1968, Difference and Repetition, an exposition of the critique of identity, has come to be considered a contemporary classic in philosophy and one of Gilles Deleuze's most important works. The text follows the development of two...

Written during the winter of 1857-8, the Grundrisse was considered by Marx to be the first scientific elaboration of communist theory. A collection of seven notebooks on capital and money, it both develops the arguments outlined in the Communist...

This book is a classic of Marxism. It was highly recommended by Lenin as a 'text book' of scientific socialism. The book is a polemic by Engels against a German revisionist, Eugen Dühring, who challenged all the basic ideas of Marxism by counterposing...

Seventeenth-century pirate proletariats and Madagascar royalty as avant-garde “influencers” in the evolution of Enlightenment concepts of democratic governance, a pirate tale you haven’t read but should. The distinguished anthropologist, David Graeber,...

(Available after 3-20 days)“There are at least two kinds of games,” states James P. Carse as he begins this extraordinary book. “One could be called finite; the other infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the...

(Available after October 30th, 2023)Mathematician and popular science author Eugenia Cheng is on a mission to show you that mathematics can be flexible, creative, and visual. This joyful journey through the world of abstract mathematics into category...

'John Sellars excels at writing short books for a general audience on ancient philosophy. . . A great way into one of the greatest philosophers of all time' -- Nigel Warburton, Five BooksWhy has Aristotle had such an astounding influence on the world?...

(Available after May 30th, 2023)A brilliant new theory of the mind that upends our understanding of how the brain interacts with the worldFor as long as we’ve studied human cognition, we’ve believed that our senses give us direct access to the world...

An astrological guide to deepening your romantic connection—or finding the love of your life.Carolyne Faulkner knows the number-one reason her clients seek her out to consult the stars: love. After all, we are made of stardust, and understanding the...

Winner of the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize • Winner of the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography AwardShortlisted for the Costa Biography Award • Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction • Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn...

A heartfelt call and primer for community-oriented models of wellbeing in our age of polarization and turmoil.Creating compassionate communities takes more than good will—it requires a dedication to respecting cultural differences while remembering the...

Two pioneers in health - Dr Deepak Chopra and Prof Rudolph E. Tanzi, one of the world's foremost experts on the causes of Alzheimer's - share a bold new understanding of the brain and a prescriptive plan for how we can use it to achieve physical, mental...

(Available after April 30th, 2023)A book to let you know you're not alone: the wisdom of the ages can guide us through the struggles of the present. The fate of our civilization depends on whether ordinary people internalize the truth and beauty conveyed...