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A powerful new anthology that redefines ourunderstanding of existentialism and argues for itscontemporary relevance

A Penguin Classic

In the aftermath of the Second World War, a group of intellectuals gathered to discuss urgent questions of existence, commitment, racism, colonialism and feminism...

An engaging exploration of what makes work meaningful, by a popular Buddhist monk and cultural commentator

In our hectic days filled with long hours, endless emails, and tedious virtual meetings, it’s hard to stay connected to the higher purpose of work – to see past the grind and embrace what we’re...

A New York Times Bestseller


A Forbes Top 10 Conservation and Environment Book of 2016





The ultimate guide to interpreting natural signs in water

From oceans to puddles, lakes to streams, rain to fog, our planet is covered in water of all kinds. And once you learn to read water’s hidden clues the way...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice





“Charming, intelligent.… Open Socrates encourages us to recognize how little we know, and to start thinking.” ?Jennifer Szalai,?New York Times Book Review





An iconoclastic philosopher revives Socrates for our time, showing how we can answer—and, in the...

The secret sex lives of animals are not so secret anymore, thanks to this brilliant, punchy illustrated guide to how the other 99.99% get it on.

In delightful watercolor comics of pregnant seahorse dads, spider oral sex, and the four-headed echidna penis, Perrin Roosevelt Ireland takes us on a wild...

A data-driven, scientific account of our need for speed—exploring a wide range of topics including evolution, transportation, and technology

In a world obsessed with efficiency, perhaps nothing is valued as highly as being fast. Some of our greatest achievements include building planes that break the...

An Instant New York Times Bestseller

From one of our leading chroniclers of the intersection of innovation and capitalism, a landmark reckoning—based on unprecedented access—with one of the world’s most brilliant and driven tech visionaries, and his game-changing company

Even by the standard of a tech...

In contrast to the wave of noisy polemics around AI, AI For Good explores how, in practice, it can actually improve our lives and tells the stories of everyday citizens at the forefront of this new “AI entrepreneurship.”

AI is often framed as a force of radical transformation, either catapulting us...

A New York Times Bestseller * A Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick

Now a Netflix Film

“Remarkably Bright Creatures [is] an ultimately feel-good but deceptively sensitive debut. . . . Memorable and tender.” —Washington Post

A charming, witty and compulsively readable exploration of friendship...

From the author of How to Watch Basketball Like a Genius, a brilliant deconstruction of the most popular sport in the world, publishing ahead of the 2026 World Cup in North America

On the surface, soccer seems like the simplest of games: one ball, two teams, two goals, and (preferably) some grass...

The thrilling conclusion to William Gibson’s classic Sprawl Trilogy, which began with the groundbreaking Neuromancer and “open[ed] up a new genre” (San Francisco Chronicle)

“Brilliant, gritty, densely textured.”—Kirkus Reviews

Enter the uniquely prescient world of the Sprawl—lyric and mechanical...

Open a new portal into Shakespeare’s words—and his Renaissance life—with math and numbers as your key

“Highly readable. . . . Shakespeare’s surprising yet unsurprising mathematical sophistication led to some of his most creative feats.”—Bloomberg

Shakespeare’s era was abuzz with mathematical...

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The incendiary political pamphlet that helped launch the American Revolution, introduced by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Gordon S. Wood

The revolutionary fervor that sparked the American Revolution in 1776 had been a long time coming. Since the early 1760s, hundreds of pamphlets had been...

From the eighteenth century to the twenty–first, the surprising history and inspiring contemporary panorama of urban gardening: nurturing health, hope, and community.

Nurturing health, hope, and community, gardeners in cities and suburbs are reclaiming lost commons, transforming vacant lots into...

What does it mean to be deemed promising in an unjust world? The award-winning poet and MIT Distinguished Chair of the Humanities interrogates this question—and offers a more expansive vision of giftedness—in this striking, original work.

"Remind[s] us there is power in the collective body of a...

“It’s hard to imagine there’s light when we are so deep in the darkness. But it’s there, so let’s keep walking.”

Sometimes, to find The Most Beautiful Place in the World, we must traverse foreboding terrain.

As beloved friends Big Panda and Tiny Dragon journey to find the lost land, there are...

Math + cats = an infinitely more entertaining exploration of the concepts and principles that are the foundation of our understanding of mathematics.  

In Math Cats, mathematician and professor Daniel Look, along with a clowder of his feline friends, reveals the charming connections between...

A rich, narrative explanation of the mathematics that has brought us machine learning and the ongoing explosion of artificial intelligence

Machine learning systems are making life-altering decisions for us: approving mortgage loans, determining whether a tumor is cancerous, or deciding if someone...