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According to a leading cognitive scientist, we've been teaching reading wrong. The latest science reveals how we can do it right.

Statesman, diplomat, Founding Father--Benjamin Franklin was all of these things, but, according to Chaplin, it is his status as a scientific genius that is the key to understanding him and his world. Illustrations.

A call to address a major threat to our collective future

A cognitive psychologistNwho was told as a child that he wasn't smart enough to graduate from high schoolNsets out to prove traditional metrics wrong, questioning everything known about the childhood predictors of adult greatness, and proving that anyone can become great.

A rigorously researched narrative of the record of the Roosevelt Administration.

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From an acclaimed popular historian comes a lively, timely, and surprising exploration of how America's founding fathers would handle the most controversial issues facing the nation today.

Klass addresses the primary issues in the life of any doctor and, by extension, the lives of those for whom they care. In this newest addition to Basics Art of Mentoring Series, she offers her guidance and her stories to a new generation of doctors and readers.

How many people do you need in a room before there'll be a birthday in common? Why is 70 weird, and what can be done about it? After reading "Adam Spencer's Book of Numbers, " readers will never look at numbers the same way again.

A startlingly original psychoanalytic writer takes on death, loss, and the telling of life stories through an exploration of Darwin and Freud

This complete and definitive text, translated and edited by James Strachey, was first published in the United States in 1955 by Basic Books by arrangement with George Allen & Unwin Ltd. and The Hogarth Press, Ltd."--T.p. verso.

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The IgNobel Prize-winner and author of "Rock, Paper, Scissors" applies science-based solutions to seemingly complex problems in life.

The best available English translation... [It] compels intelligent readers to come to grips with what Plato actually wrote.' , American Political Science Review

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Hidalgo has made a bold attempt to synthesize a large body of cutting-edge work into a readable, slender volume. This is the future of growth theory." -- Financial Times What is economic growth? And why, historically, has it occurred in only a few places? Previous efforts to answer these questions have focused on institutions, geography, finances, and psychology. But according to MIT's antidisciplinarian CÃ(c)r Hidalgo, understanding the natur...

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The fascinating tale of one of the most remarkable inventions in human history and its effects on myth, religion, science, manners, and the arts.