We are not, as many people assume, blank slates shaped by our environment. We are made for sex, aggression and jealousy - but also love, compassion and reason. To acknowledge human nature, Steven Pinker shows, is not fatalistic, but an impetus to embrace our common humanity.
How have the great states and empires of world history evolved their distinct identities and attitudes? And how do these shape global relations today? World Order is the summation of Henry Kissinger's thinking about statecraft, strategy, the fates of nations and the tectonic plates of history.
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afhganistan and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10,2001. The news-breaking book that has sent shockwaves through the White House, Ghost Wars is the most accurate and revealing account yet of the CIA's secret involvement in al-Qaeda's evolution.
If you're serious about getting rich, Felix Dennis can show you how. Starting out as a college dropout with no family money, he managed to make himself one of the hundred richest individuals in the U.K. Along the way, he founded Maxim magazine and created his own publishing empire.
A lyrical masterpiece by the father of modern Japanese literature. Notsume Soseki's Kusamakura follows its nameless young artist-narrator on a meandering walking tour of the mountains. At the inn at a hot spring resort, he has a series of mysterious encounters with Nami, the lovely young daughter of the establishment. Nami, or "beauty," is the center of this elegant novel...
Republic, Plato's masterwork, was first enjoyed 2,400 years ago and remains one of the most widely read books in the world: as a foundational work of Western philosophy, and for the richness of its ideas and virtuosity of its writing. Presented as a dialogue between Plato's teacher Socrates and various interlocutors, it is an exhortation to philosophy...
Edited and Translated with an Introduction by Richard Zenith. "One of the twentieth century's greatest literary talents... This superb edition of The Book of Disquiet is... a masterpiece" - John Lanchester, Daily Telegraph
