From the author of The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell''''s international bestseller Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking is a revolution in the understanding of the mind. An art expert sees a ten-million-dollar sculpture and instantly spots it''''s a fake. A marriage analyst knows within minutes ...
A condensed guide to life from the bestselling author of "The Black Swan", Nassim Nicholas Taleb''''s "The Bed of Procrustes" is an invaluable collection of aphorisms navigate the modern world. Why are we so often unwilling to accept that life is unpredictable? In this brilliant book Nassim Nicholas ...
When Mario Puzo''s blockbuster saga, The Godfather, was first published in 1969, critics hailed it as one of the greatest novels of our time, and "big, turbulent, highly entertaining." Since then, The Godfather has gone on to become a part of America''s national culture, as well as a trilogy of landmark ...
''Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man''. California''s fertile Salinas Valley is home to two families whose destinies are fruitfully, and fatally, intertwined. Over the generations, between the beginning of the twentieth ...
Gabriel Garcia Marquez has been one of the undisputed literary giants of the past century; his stories are vivid, energetic, tender and unforgettable; they have touched the lives of readers across the globe and earned him countless awards including the Nobel Prize for Literature. In the wake of the author''s ...
