With exceptional clarity and power of argument, Noam Chomsky lays bare as no one else can the realities of contemporary geopolitics. This title collects speeches and interviews with Chomsky. It includes What Uncle Sam Really Wants; The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many; Secrets, Lies and Democracy; and, The Common Good.
Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where he and his wife Pauline journeyed in December 1933. Hemingway's well-known interest in - and fascination with - big-game hunting is magnificently captured in this evocative account of his trip.
If you loved BBC4's Hemingway, rediscover Ernest Hemingway's classic portrait of the pageantry of bullfighting.
In Death in the Afternoon, Hemingway shares the sights, the sounds, the excitement, and above all, the knowledge, which fuelled his passion for Spain and the bullfight.
The final volume in the Kinfolk travel trilogy (following Kinfolk Islands and Kinfolk Wilderness) invites readers along on eighteen of the most unforgettable trips around the world, full of sustainable and sustaining ways to slow down and see the world anew.
The #1 bestselling author of Looking for Jane returns with a moving novel about a pianist in Berlin on the cusp of WWII and the choices she makes that echo across time and continents.
From the bestselling authors of Atlas Obscura and Gastro Obscura, comes Wild Life, an over the top, dazzling collection of the world's most fascinating, most unusual, and least-understood natural wonders. It's more than a field guide--it's an adventure.
In the modern information age, our brain's coping mechanisms have been overloaded, and our irrationality turned up to eleven. Amanda Montell blends cultural criticism and personal narrative to explore our modern cognitive biases and the power, disadvantages and highlights of magical overthinking.