A collection of Albert Einstein's writings, drawn from his books and letters, speeches and articles, that reveal the thinking, personality and philosophy of the world's most famous scientist.

Shows that the real world is brimming with wonderful, marvellous strangeness, whether it be in the surreal opulence of Dubai, the mind-bending self-denial of the Buddha Boy of Nepal, or even the seemingly mundane transactions of everyday American life.

In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. When he opened his eyes everything was transformed. Huxley described his experience in this book and its sequel Heaven and Hell .

In 1995, Adam Gopnik, his wife, and their infant son left the familiar comforts of New York for the urbane glamour of Paris. In the grand tradition of Stein and Hemingway, Gopnik planned to walk the paths of the Tuilleries, to lead the fabled life of an American in Paris. This is a memoir of his five years as an American family man in Paris.

A collection of essays that examine the relations between the literary and the mortuary arts. They explore the distance between birth and death, the condition of the human being and the state of ceasing to be in a world that seeks to define human experience in retail, high-tech or pop-psyche terms.

A guide to the twentieth-century, illuminating the careers of many of its greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, artists and philosophers, such as Louis Armstrong, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, Franz Kafka and Marcel Proust.

Intended for the fans of Anthony Bourdain, this is a collection of his journalism. Containing stories from his worldwide misadventures, it talks about scrounging for eel in the backstreets of Hanoi, the unglamorous aspects of making television, calling for the head of raw food activist Woody Harrelson, and confessing to lobster-killing guilt.

A collection of non-fiction, ranging from The Wizard of Oz , U2, Indian and Indian writing, the death of Princess Diana, and football, to twentieth century writers including Angela Carter, and Arthur Miller. This book also focuses on the fight against the Iranian fatwa, showing how it was to live through those days.

Volume 1 An Age Like This 1920-1940. An astonishing collection of essays, letters, and journalism from George Orwell that showcase his amazing gifts as a natural, unaffected writer.

New translation of Montaigne into contemporary English.

Woolf attempts to see literature from the perspective of the common reader , someone whom she distinguished from the critic and the scholar. She invesigates medieval England, tsarist Russia, Elizabethan playwrights, Victorian novelists and modern essayists.

A bestselling selection of essays from Britain's leading science writer.

This collection of prose writings by Adrienne Rich, an American poet and feminist theorist, reflects upon themes that have shaped her life and work. Issues explored include the politics of language, the uses of scholarship, racism, history and motherhood.

Volume 2 My Country Right or Left. An astonishing collection of essays, letters, and journalism from George Orwell that showcase his amazing gifts as a natural, unaffected writer.

Volume 4 In Front of Your Nose. An astonishing collection of essays, letters, and journalism from George Orwell that showcase his amazing gifts as a natural, unaffected writer.

Volume 3 As I Please. An astonishing collection of essays, letters, and journalism from George Orwell that showcase his amazing gifts as a natural, unaffected writer.

The setting is the seashore and as the author picks up shells she reflects how each symbolizes a facet of her development as a woman from young love to middle age and studies the ebb and flow of human relationships and upholds the importance of the free and individual spirit of woman and man.

Italian literary theorist and novelist Umberto Eco includes nine essays in this title concerning: the general significance of literature; major authors of the Western canon; the poetic qualities of Dante's Paradiso ; the style of the Communist Manifesto ; Joyce's views on language; and more.