In 2000, Douglas Preston and his family moved to Florence, Italy, fulfilling a long-held dream. They put their children in Italian schools and settled into a 14th century farmhouse in the green hills of Florence, where they devoted th...
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of...
Thomas L. Friedman"One mark of a great book is that it makes you see things in a new way, and Mr. Friedman certainly succeeds in that goal," the Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz wrote in The New York Times reviewing The World Is Flat in 2005...
The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nu...
William LangewiescheIn his shocking new work, this celebrated journalist investigates the burgeoning threat of nuclear-weapons technology shifting from the hands of the rich into the hands of the poor. As more unstable, undeveloped nations acquire the ul...
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari#1 NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER• InSapiens,he explored our past. In Homo Deus,he looked to our future.Now, one of the most innovative thinkers on the planet turns to the present to make sense of today’s most pressing issue...