Penguin Random House USA

Can reading a book make you more rational? Can it help us understand why there is so much irrationality in the world? Steven Pinker, author of Enlightenment Now (Bill Gates's "new favorite book of all time") answers all the questions here Today humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding--and also appears to be losing its mind.

Believe this: every single space in your house has the potential to function efficiently and look great. The mishmash of summer and winter clothes in the closet? Yep. Even the dreaded junk drawer? Consider it done. And the best news: it’s not hard to do—in fact, it’s a lot of fun.

"What would happen if the president of the U.S.A. went stark-raving mad?" Back by popular demand, The New York Times calls the 1965 bestselling political thriller by the author of Seven Days in May, "A little too plausible for comfort."

67 tales including:

The Fall of the House of Usher

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

The Masque of the Red Death

The Pit and the Pendulum

 

30 poems including:

The Raven

Annabel Lee

A Dream Within a Dream

The Haunted Palace  

I, Robot: Noveller om robotikens utveckling och de tre robotlagarna. The Caves of Steel: Polisen Elijah Baley får hjälp av roboten R. Daneel Olivaw att lösa ett mord i yttre världarna. The Naked Sun: Baley och Daneel utreder ett mord på Solaria, där robotar eller en kvinna kan vara skyldiga. The Robots of Dawn: Efter Solaria-fallet hamnar Baley i onåd när det blir en hyperwave-såpa.

A love triangle plays out over decades on a Montana dude ranch. A hurdler and a gymnast spend a single night together in the Olympic village. Mistakes and mysteries weave an intangible web around an old man's deathbed in Paris, connecting disparate destinies. On the slopes of an unfinished ski resort, a young woman searches for her vanished lover. A couple's Romanian honeymoon goes ominously awry,

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, a thrilling and addictive new novel--a prequel to The Pillars of the Earth--set in England at the dawn of a new era: the Middle Ages It is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages. England is facing attacks from the Welsh in the west and the Vikings in the east. Those in power bend justice according to their will, regardless of ordinary people.

The family from Dim Sum for Everyone is back for a new outing- building and flying their own kite The wind is blowing. It is a good day for kites The whole family makes a trip to the local craft store for paper, glue, and paint.

In 1985, anthropologist Hank Wesselman began to experience disturbingly vivid altered states that ultimately propelled him on 12 fantastic journeys across time and space. He wrote about these in Spiritwalker. Now Dr.

Many seek happiness in wealth, fame, relationships, even drugs-and, of course, they fail. How CAN we be happy? In his most inspirational best-selling book to date, Dr. Robert H. Schuller, probes the Beatitudes for the answer-and discovers eight universal positive mental attitudes that have been used for their healing value through the ages.