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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
17 critic reviews | 146 user reviews | Published: November 27, 2012
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the bestselling author of The Black Swan and one of the foremost thinkers of our time, reveals how to thrive in an uncertain world. Just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension, and rumors or riots intensify when someone tries to repress them, many things in life benefit from stress, disorder, volatility, and turmoil. What Taleb has identified and calls “antifragile” is that category of things that not only gain from chaos but need it in order to survive and flourish. In The Black Swan, Taleb s...
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The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
12 critic reviews | 36 user reviews | Published: November 13, 2012
Self-help books don’t seem to work. Few of the many advantages of modern life seem capable of lifting our collective mood. Wealth—even if you can get it—doesn’t necessarily lead to happiness. Romance, family life, and work often bring as much stress as joy. We can’t even agree on what “happiness” means. So are we engaged in a futile pursuit? Or are we just going about it the wrong way? Looking both east and west, in bulletins from the past and from far afield, Oliver Burkeman introduces us to an unusual group of people who share a single, su...
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ObamaCare Survival Guide
4 critic reviews | 165 user reviews | Published: October 2, 2012
When President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, he handed Americans one of the most sweeping pieces of social legislation in U.S. history. Now that the Supreme Court has upheld ObamaCare, it is imperative that the American people understand the overwhelming impact it will have on their lives. The Affordable Care Act totals more than 2,700 pages and comprises nearly 500 provisions. For the first time, Humanix Books provides an easy-to-read guide to the law and its implications for every American. The ObamaCa...
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The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court
19 critic reviews | 282 user reviews | Published: September 18, 2012
From the prizewinning author of The Nine, a gripping insider's account of the momentous ideological war between the John Roberts Supreme Court and the Obama administration. From the moment John Roberts, the chief justice of the United States, blundered through the Oath of Office at Barack Obama's inauguration, the relationship between the Supreme Court and the White House has been confrontational. Both men are young, brilliant, charismatic, charming, determined to change the course of the nation—and completely at odds on almost every major c...
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Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story
16 critic reviews | 86 user reviews | Published: July 9, 2012
2012 New York Times Top 10 Book of the Year Slate.com 2012 Staff Pick In this astonishing and profound work, an irreverent sleuth traces the riddle of existence from the ancient world to modern times. Whether framed philosophically as “Why is there a world rather than nothing at all?” or more colloquially as “But, Mommy, who made God?” the metaphysical mystery about how we came into existence remains the most fractious and fascinating question of all time. Following in the footsteps of Christopher Hitchens, Roger Penrose, and even Stephen Ha...
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America the Philosophical
16 critic reviews | 12 user reviews | Published: May 22, 2012
A bold, insightful book that rejects the myth of America the Unphilosophical, arguing that America today towers as the most philosophical culture in the history of the world, an unprecedented marketplace of truth and argument that far surpasses ancient Greece or any other place one can name. With verve and keen intelligence, Carlin Romano-Pulitzer Prize finalist, award-winning book critic, and professor of philosophy-takes on the widely held belief that ours is an anti-intellectual society. Instead, while providing a richly reported ov...
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Incognito
15 critic reviews | 417 user reviews | Published: May 15, 2012
Renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman takes us on a thrilling exploration of the subconscious mind, effortlessly guiding readers through erudite discussions of brain damage, dating, drugs, beauty, infidelity, criminal law, artificial intelligence, and visual illusions. If the conscious mind-the part you consider to be you-is just the tip of the iceberg, what is the rest doing? In this engaging and provocative book, Eagleman navigates the depths of the subconscious brain to illuminate surprising mysteries: Why can your foot move halfway to t...
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The Social Conquest Of Earth
9 critic reviews | 124 user reviews | Published: April 9, 2012
#13 on NPR's Bestseller ListFrom the most celebrated heir to Darwin comes a groundbreaking book on evolution, the summa work of Edward O. Wilson's legendary career. Where did we come from? What are we? Where are we going? In a generational work of clarity and passion, one of our greatest living scientists directly addresses these three fundamental questions of religion, philosophy, and science while "overturning the famous theory that evolution naturally encourages creatures to put family first" (Discover magazine). Refashioning the story of...
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Tangled Webs
8 critic reviews | 97 user reviews | Published: March 27, 2012
Bestselling author James B. Stewart investigates our era's most high-profile perjurers, revealing the alarming extent of this national epidemicAMERICA FACES A CRISIS: an explosion of perjury and false statements occurring at the highest levels of business, politics, sports, and culture. In Tangled Webs, Pulitzer Prize–winning author James B. Stewart applies his investigative reporting and storytelling skills to four dramatic cases, all involving people at the top of their fields: Martha Stewart, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Barry Bonds, and not...
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Religion for Atheists : A Non-believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion by Alain De Botton
36 critic reviews | 182 user reviews | Published: March 6, 2012
What if religions are neither all true nor all nonsense? The long-running and often boring debate between fundamentalist believers and non-believers is finally moved forward by Alain de Botton's inspiring new book, which boldly argues that the supernatural claims of religion are entirely false-but that it still has some very important things to teach the secular world.Religion for Atheists suggests that rather than mocking religion, agnostics and atheists should instead steal from it-because the world's religions are packed with good ideas o...
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