Non Fiction

Essay by Michel Serres, one of the most brilliant French thinkers, composed as a list of all the “old curses”. Formerly Everything Was Better recounts the sufferings of the past to relativize and ridicule our incessant complaints. For pessimists and grumps it will be...

Organizing a perfect and memorable wedding is easier than it seems. You just must have the key information to make the best decisions and enjoy the preparations. The initial budget, the diplomatic management of family involvement, the choice of space, everything you need to...

So often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. Does it remain key to our autonomy, justice, and well-being, or is freedom’s long star turn...

In this work, the author addressed an in-depth discussion about the truth and its different meanings, and why the truth is essential. He delves into the arguments about why and how to sustain truths that can be shared on the basis of good reasons,...

In this essay, Thomas Bauer reconsiders classical and modern Islam by tracing differing attitudes toward ambiguity. Over a span of many centuries, he explores the tension between one strand that aspires to annihilate all uncertainties and establish absolute, uncontestable truths and another, competing tendency...

How to Innovate is an engaging and entertaining introduction to key ideas about―and examples of―innovation and creative thinking from ancient Greece. Armand D’Angour provides lively new translations of selections from Aristotle, Diodorus, and Athenaeus, with the original Greek text on facing pages. These writings...

WELCOME TO A JOURNEY BEYOND REALITY, WELCOME TO THE METAVERSE. The metaverse is the new three-dimensional Internet about to change everything in digital consumption. A new dimension will allow us to have incredible experiences in fairy-tale places never before explored. Locations where we will...

Knowledge has never been so important and at the same time so suspicious. In the era of triumphant rationality, institutionalized science, technological advances and intelligent systems, a strange constellation appears: while science enjoys enormous recognition, many people distrust it, from mere distrust to extreme...

In the fourth century a. C., Aristotle founds his school in Athens, a much-improved version of the Platonic Academy, where he himself studied in his youth. Aristotle's teachings do not expire, the author tells us. Extensively tracing the work of Aristotle, inserted in the...

A hypnotic narrative essay, travel book, and non-fiction novel that takes place during one hundred days of the year 2020. From mid-February, when Reinaldo Laddaga contracted the coronavirus, to the demonstrations that caused the murder of George Floyd. During those strange months, the author...

Dr. Mukwege, in his book -part autobiography and part a call against sexual violence in times of peace and war- highlights the role of the extraordinary women who shaped and inspired him. The book also denounces the rapes and sexual violence suffered by women...

Why a handbook? Because it aspires to be easy to handle and easy to understand and its intention is fundamentally practical. Why portable? Because it is a tribute to walkers. Portable philosophy is an effort to liberate thought from the seclusion to which it...

This is not another precept-filled guide on how to establish the plot, develop the characters, create empathy... No rules are given here, nor shortcuts promised to write well. Vanni Santoni is very honest with the reader, or rather the aspiring writer, to whom this...

No abstract can convey the quality of its opening and closing pages,' Isaiah Berlin once said about the 'Manifesto'. The revolutionary pamphlet written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels is still surprisingly relevant today. Of course, history has made some of its parts obsolete...

What was the first fossilized bone ever found? Who came up with the idea of ​​calling them dinosaurs? How did scientists imagine them in the past? Since when are we obsessed with them? What relationship do the fossil remains of dinosaurs and other prehistoric...

It is undeniable that human beings seek happiness and have difficulty finding it. This is not a new phenomenon: ever since ancient times man has wondered about what happiness is, where it lies and how to achieve it. For the Greeks, a people of...

A radically immersive exploration of three pivotal moments in the evolution of human consciousness, asking what kinds of creatures humans were, are, and might yet be How did humans come to be who we are? In his marvelous, eccentric, and widely lauded book Being a...

In Two Wheels Good, writer and critic Jody Rosen reshapes our understanding of this ubiquitous machine, an ever-present force in humanity’s life and dream life—and a flash point in culture wars—for more than two hundred years. Combining history, reportage, travelogue, and memoir, Rosen’s book sweeps across...

How to read signs in every cloud, breeze, hill, street, plant, animal, and dewdrop, The weather changes as we walk around a tree or turn down a street, There is a secret world of weather – one that we all live in, but very...

There's so much we don't know about what lies deep beneath the ocean's surface - and the time to find out is growing increasingly precious...Professor Alex Rogers is one of the world's leading experts in marine biology and oceanology, and has spent his life...