Never Shut Up

Ex-NFL player, gentleman scholar, and Fox Sports personality Marcellus Wiley sucks you into a world of inner-city violence, Ivy League intrigue, and pro-football escapades that’s one part touching, one part hilarious, and all parts impossible to put down.

The Medium is the Massage

30 years after its publication Marshall McLuhan’s The Medium is the Massage remains his most entertaining, provocative and piquant book.

The Gulag Archipelago

THE OFFICIALLY APPROVED ABRIDGEMENT OF THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO VOLUMES I, II & III

Here I stand

Robeson’s international achievements as a singer and actor in starring roles on stage and screen made him the most celebrated black American of his day,

Life At The Bottom

On the street, which was ankle-deep in discarded fast-food wrappings, I saw a woman who had pulled down her slacks and tied a pair of plastic breasts to her bare buttocks

The Brain That Changes Itself

An astonishing new science called “neuroplasticity” is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the human brain is immutable.

Why I Write

A selection of George Orwell’s politically charged essays on language and writing that give context to his dystopian classic, 1984

40 Million Dollar Slaves

From Jackie Robinson to Muhammad Ali and Arthur Ashe, African American athletes have been at the center of modern culture, their on-the-field heroics admired and stratospheric earnings envied. But for all their money, fame, and achievement, says New York Times columnist William C. Rhoden, black athletes still find themselves on the periphery of true power in the multibillion-dollar industry their talent built.

A Confession

An unabridged, digitally enlarged edition to include an epilogue by the author.

Art as Therapy

What is art’s purpose? In this engaging, lively, and controversial new book, bestselling philosopher Alain de Botton and art historian John Armstrong propose a new way of looking at familiar masterpieces, suggesting that they can be useful, relevant, and – above all else – therapeutic for their viewers.

Black Rednecks & White Liberals

This explosive new book challenges many of the long-prevailing assumptions about blacks, about Jews, about Germans, about slavery, and about education. Plainly written, powerfully reasoned, and backed with a startling array of documented facts, Black Rednecks and White Liberals takes on not only the trendy intellectuals of our times but also such historic interpreters of American life as Alexis de Tocqueville and Frederick Law Olmsted.

End of Alzheimer’s

The instant New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller A groundbreaking plan to prevent and reverse Alzheimer’s Disease that fundamentally changes how we understand cognitive decline.

The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Since its release in 1949, The Hero with a Thousand Faces has influenced millions of readers by combining the insights of modern psychology with Joseph Campbell’s revolutionary understanding of comparative mythology. In these pages, Campbell outlines the Hero’s Journey, a universal motif of adventure and transformation that runs through virtually all of the world’s mythic traditions. He also explores the Cosmogonic Cycle, the mythic pattern of world creation and destruction.

The Crunch

“A wry, witty look at life with the Dallas Cowboys during the heyday of Tom Landry and Roger Staubach, The Crunch shows the real life that makes legends and lacerates the Cowboys mechanistic corporate image, revealing a world that is both more and less than we expect, yet funnier than we could image.” -Peter Gent, author of North Dallas Forty “More characters than War and Peace. More laughs than Laugh-In. . . . A pro football classic!” -Frank Luksa, The Dallas Morning News

Maps of Meaning

Why have people from different cultures and eras formulated myths and stories with similar structures? What does this similarity tell us about the mind, morality

Player Piano

“A funny, savage appraisal of a totally automated American society of the future.”—San Francisco Chronicle

The Prophet

Kahlil Gibran’s masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved classics of our time. Published in 1923, it has been translated into more than twenty languages, and the American editions alone have sold more than nine million copies.

Asylums

Four essays with a main focus on the world of the inmate, not the world of the staff. A chief concern is to develop a sociological version of the structure of the self.

Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?

In this urgent and passionate book, Frank Furedi explains the essential contribution of intellectuals both to culture and to democracy – and why we need to recreate a public sphere in which intellectuals and the general public can talk to each other again.

Man Made Man

A Man Made Man chronicles a young black male’s journey to manhood and the life and leadership lessons he learned along the way. It highlights the men who were instrumental in the young man’s success journey and helps the reader to discover the transformational power of positive black men investing in the lives of today’s black male youth.

The Magic Mountain

In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps–a community devoted exclusively to sickness–as a microcosm for Europe, which in the years before 1914 was already exhibiting the first symptoms of its own terminal irrationality. The Magic Mountain is a monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, a book that pulses with life in the midst of death.

The Responsive Chord

The essential guide to how media shape our lives. By the creator of the most talked about political ad in television history.

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Hyperkinetic and relentlessly inventive, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is Haruki Murakami’s deep dive into the very nature of consciousness.

How Fear Works

In 1997, Frank Furedi published a book called Culture of Fear. It was widely acclaimed as perceptive and prophetic. Now Furedi returns to his original theme, as most of what he predicted has come true. In How Fear Works, Furedi seeks to explain two interrelated themes: why has fear acquired such a morally commanding status in society today and how has the way we fear today changed from the way that it was experienced in the past?