From the best-selling author of The Black Swan and one of the foremost thinkers of our time, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a book on how some things actually benefit from disorder.  In The Black Swan Taleb outlined a problem, and in Antifragile he offers a ...

Antifragile

Number-one New York Times best seller A bold work from the author of The Black Swan that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibility. In his most provocative and practical...

Skin in the Game

Top cybersecurity journalist Kim Zetter tells the story behind the virus that sabotaged Iran’s nuclear efforts and shows how its existence has ushered in a new age of warfare - one in which a digital attack can have the same destructive capability as...

Countdown to Zero Day

The Black Swan is a stand-alone 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...

The Black Swan, Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility"

2019 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Finalist "Science book of the year" (The Guardian) One of New York Times 100 notable books for 2018. One of Publishers Weekly's top 10 books of 2018. One of Kirkus' best books of 2018. One of Mental...

She Has Her Mother's Laugh

Fooled by Randomness is a stand-alone 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 ...

Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

“Carl Zimmer is one of the best science writers we have today.” (Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks) We all assume we know what life is, but the more scientists learn about the living world - from protocells to brains, fro...

Life's Edge

Explore this stunning quality of God’s grace: It never ends!  In this revision of a foundational work, John Piper reveals how grace is not only God’s undeserved gift to us in the past, but also God’s power to make good happen for us today, tomorrow, ...

Future Grace

The compelling story of an acclaimed journalist and New York Times best-selling author's ongoing struggle with epilepsy - how, through personal resilience and the support of loved ones, he overcame medical incompetence and institutional discriminatio...

A Mind Unraveled

In this unforgettable work of fiction, Donald Ray Pollock peers into the soul of a tough Midwestern American town to reveal the sad, stunted but resilient lives of its residents. Spanning a period from the mid-'60s to the late '90s, the linked storie...

Knockemstiff

A mob boss in therapy. An experimental, violent prison unit. The death of an American city, as seen through a complex police investigation. A lawless frontier town trying to talk its way into the United States. A corrupt cop who rules his precinct li...

The Revolution Was Televised

With a rare combination of emotional insight, narrative power, and lyrical grace, Justin Cronin transforms the simple story of a dying man’s last wish into a rich tapestry of family love.  On an evening in late summer, the great financier Harry Wainw...

The Summer Guest

When young Theodore Roosevelt was appointed police commissioner of New York City, he had the astounding gall to try to shut down the brothels, gambling joints, and after-hours saloons. This is the story of how TR took on Manhattan vice... and vice wo...

Island of Vice

You are shrunk to the height of a nickel and thrown in a blender. The blades start moving in 60 seconds. What do you do? If you want to work at Google, or any of America's best companies, you need to have an answer to this and other puzzling question...

Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?

A thrilling true crime caper, bursting with colorful characters and awash in '70s glamour, that spotlights the FBI's first white-collar undercover sting.  The Thunderbird Motel, 1977. J. J. Wedick and Jack Brennan - two fresh-faced, maverick FBI agen...

Chasing Phil

A thoughtful, poignant novel that explores the creation of artificial intelligence - illuminating the very human need for communication, connection, and understanding.  In a narrative that spans geography and time, from the Atlantic Ocean in the 17th...

Speak

From bestselling author Kenneth C. Davis comes a treasure trove of answers to questions about our world.  Was there an Atlantis?  What's the smallest country in the world?  What's the difference between a jungle and a rain forest?  Kenneth C. Davis, ...

Don't Know Much About Geography: Revised and Updated Edition

Witty and thought provoking, two Vatican astronomers shed provocative light on some of the strange places where religion and science meet.  "Imagine if a Martian showed up, all big ears and big nose like a child’s drawing, and he asked to be baptized...

Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial?

In this lost classic, the pioneering motivational coach teaches how to make the crucial leap from faith to action in bringing your dreams to life. Believe in yourself.... Have faith. We often hear these expressions. But faith is not enough. We need A...

Wishes Won't Bring Riches

The powerful story of a college basketball team who carried an era's brightest hopes - racial harmony, social mobility, and the triumph of the underdog - but whose success was soon followed by a shocking downfall "A masterpiece of American storytelli...

The City Game

She Has Her Mother’s Laugh presents a profoundly original perspective on what we pass along from generation to generation. Charles Darwin played a crucial part in turning heredity into a scientific question, and yet he failed spectacularly to answer ...

The gripping story of one American lawyer's obsessive crusade - waged at any cost - against Big Oil on behalf of the poor farmers and indigenous tribes of the Amazon rainforest.  Steven Donziger, a self-styled social activist and Harvard educated law...

Law of the Jungle

She cannot run. She cannot walk. She cannot even blink. As her batteries run down for the final time, all she can do is speak. Will you listen? Speak is the story of artificial intelligence and those who loved it, hated it, and created it. Spanning g...

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