Non-Fiction

Cool War: The Future of Global Competition

von Noah Feldman

A bold and thought-provoking look at the future of U.S.-China relations, and how their coming power struggle will reshape the competitive playing field for nations around the world

The Cold War seemingly...

The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan

von Ivan Morris

Ivan Morris’s definitive and widely acclaimed portrait of the ceremonious and melancholy world of ancient Japan.

Using The Tale of Genji and other major literary works from Japan’s Heian period as a frame...

Noel Coward: A Biography of Noel Coward

von Philip Hoare

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

Capone: The Man and the Era

von Laurence Bergreen

In this brilliant history of Prohibition and its most notorious gangster, acclaimed biographer Laurence Bergreen takes us to the gritty streets of Chicago where Al Capone forged his sinister empire. Bergreen...

The Moonlight Sonata at the Mayo Clinic

von Nora Gallagher

This taut yet lyrical memoir tells of the author’s experience with a baffling illness poised to take her sight, and gives a deeply felt meditation on vulnerability and on what it means to lose the faith you...

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Inspiration for Writers: 101 Motivational Stories for Writers - Budding or Bestselling - from Books to Blogs

von Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen & Amy Newmark

With 101 stories from published writers who stuck with it and succeeded, you will be inspired and encouraged, whether you’re an aspiring author, a blogger, or a bestselling writer.

No matter the genre, no matter...

Citizen McCain

von Elizabeth Drew

The most original, the most sought-after politician in America today, Senator John McCain is at the front of a large movement -- people who are dissatisfied with the way politics is conducted in this country....

The Bourgeois: Between History and Literature

von Franco Moretti

Who - and what - are the Bourgeois?

"The bourgeois ... Not so long ago, this notion seemed indispensable to social analysis; these days, one might go years without hearing it mentioned. Capitalism is more powerful...

The Ancestral Continuum: Unlock the Secrets of Who You Really Are

von Natalia O'Sullivan & Nicola Graydon

The Ancestral Continuum is an extraordinary investigation into the spiritual and emotional legacies we inherit at our birth from our ancestors, and a powerful and revolutionary blueprint for transforming how...

Stretching Exercises for Guitarists

von Gareth Evans

Stretching Exercises for Guitarists is a compact guide that can be used as part of a healthy and productive practice regime. All 30 exercises are demonstrated with over 40 professionally hand-drawn illustrations...

The Body Economic: Why Austerity Kills

von David Stuckler & Sanjay Basu

Politicians have talked endlessly about the seismic economic and social impacts of the recent financial crisis, but many continue to ignore its disastrous effects on human health—and have even exacerbated...

Che Wants to See You: The Untold History of Che Guevara

von Ciro Bustos, Anne Wright & Jon Lee Anderson

Riveting memoir of revolution in South America by Che Guevara's Argentine lieutenant

Ciro Bustos was Che Guevara's Argentinian lieutenant, fighting beside El Comandante in Bolivia. Here, for the first time, Bustos...

Soldier Box

von Joe Glenton

A brave, moving account of a soldier who refused to return to Afghanistan

When the War on Terror began, Joe Glenton signed up to serve his nation. He passed through basic training and deployed to Afghanistan...

Distant Reading

von Franco Moretti

The formation of an unorthodox literary critic

How does a literary historian end up thinking in terms of z-scores, principal component analysis, and clustering coefficient?

In the ten essays collected in this...

The Frontman: Bono (In the Name of Power)

von Harry Browne

Scathing and hilarious takedown of a frontman for the rich and powerfulCelebrity philanthropy comes in many guises, but no single figure better encapsulates its delusions, pretensions and wrongheadedness than...

Anywhere or Not at All: Philosophy of Contemporary Art

von Peter Osborne

A new reading of the philosophy of contemporary art by the author of The Politics of Time

Contemporary art is the object of inflated and widely divergent claims. What kind of discourse can help us give it a critical...

Aisthesis: Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime of Art

von Jacques Rancière & Zakir Paul

Rancière's magnum opus on the aestheticAisthesis is Jacques Rancière's long-awaited, definitive statement on aesthetics, art and modernity. The book comprises a string of dramatic and evocative locales, each...

The Girl Who Stole My Holocaust

von Noam Chayut & Tal Haran

Haunting, beautifully written and deeply moving memoir of a young Israeli soldier"She took from me the belief that absolute evil exists in this world, and the belief that I was avenging it and fighting against...

24/7: Terminal Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep

von Jonathan Crary

Capitalism's colonization of every hour in the day

24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep explores some of the ruinous consequences of the expanding non-stop processes of twenty-first-century capitalism....

The Suffragette Derby

von Michael Tanner

On Wednesday 4 June 1913, fledgling newsreel cameras captured just over two-and-a-half minutes of neverto-be-forgotten British social and sporting history. The 250,000 people thronging Epsom Downs carried with...