More than 150 people in common and unusual occupations talk about their lives and work in the new economy, encompassing the human experience from a labor-support doula to a funeral home director.
From the host of the podcast Terrible, Thanks for Asking —called “a gift” by The New York Times —a raw and humorous essay collection in the spirit of Jenny Lawson and Samantha Irby.…
Shelve Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)
Behold the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM), today's fastest growing carbohydrate-based religion. According to church founder Bobby Henderson, the universe and all life within it were crea…
A new book that explores the science of productivity, and why, in today’s world, managing how you think—rather than what you think—can transform your life.
Shelve Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business
From one of our leading technology thinkers and writers, a guide through the twelve technological imperatives that will shape the next thirty years and transform our lives
Much of what will happen in t…
Shelve The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it ...
What should we have for dinner? For omnivore like ourselves, this simple question has always posed a dilemma. When you can eat just about anything nature (or the supermarket) has to offer, deciding wh…
Shelve The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Unsparing and important. . . . An informative, clearheaded and sobering book.―Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post (1999 Critic's Choice) Inner-city black America is often stereotyped as a place of rando…
Shelve Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City
What if — whoosh, right now, with no explanation — a number of us simply vanished? Would some of us collapse? Would others of us go on, one foot in front of the other, as we did before the world turne…
What does it mean to be lonely? How do we live, if we're not intimately engaged with another human being? How do we connect with other people? Does technology draw us closer together or trap us behind…
Shelve The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
His life was like a recurring nightmare: a train to nowhere. But an ordinary life has a way of taking an extraordinary turn. Add a girl whose ears are so exquisite that, when uncovered, they improve s…
Growing up in the suburbs of post-war Japan, it seemed to Hajime that everyone but him had brothers and sisters. His sole companion was Shimamoto, also an only child. Toge…
From the bestselling author of Just Like You, High Fidelity, and Fever Pitch, a short, warm, and entertaining book about art, creativity, and the unlikely similarities between Victorian novelist…
Shelve Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius
The Farming of Bones begins in 1937 in a village on the Dominican side of the river that separates the country from Haiti. Amabelle Desir, Haitian-born and a faithful maidservant to the Dominican fami…
With an Introduction and Notes by Martin Scofield, University of Kent at Canterbury. Henry James was arguably the greatest practitioner of what has been called the psychological ghost story. His stori…
This sensitive picture of the constant and circumspect struggle waged by peasants materially and ideologically against their oppressors shows that techniques of evasion and resistance may represent th…
Shelve Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance
Warszawa 1958. Szare ulice, na każdym kroku milicja. W mieście pojawia się mężczyzna o niebanalnej urodzie i światowych manierach. Wynajmuje mieszkanie, zaczyna pracę, wieczorami wychodzi albo przyjmu…
