
Adventures of the Mad Monk Ji Gong: The Drunken Wisdom of China's Most Famous Chan Buddhist Monk
Guo Xiaoting and John Robert Shaw
Book
Follow the brilliant and hilarious adventures of a mad Zen Buddhist monk who rose from humble...

Players and Pawns: How Chess Builds Community and Culture
Book
A chess match seems as solitary an endeavor as there is in sports: two minds, on their own, in...

The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives
Stephen Thomas Ziliak and Deirdre McCloskey
Book
"Statistical significance," a technique that dominates medicine, economics, psychology, and many...

Study Chess with Matthew Sadler
Book
Matthew Sadler is one of the UK's strongest ever players. He became a grandmaster at 19, won the...

Heart Berries: A Memoir
Book
"Heart Berries by Terese Mailhot is an astounding memoir in essays. Here is a wound. Here is need,...
What If?: The Architecture and Design of David Rockwell
Elizabeth Diller, David Rockwell, Chee Pearlman and Justin Davidson
Book
Widely admired for his sophistication, creativity and exuberance, David Rockwell is one of the...

Blackbox :: infamous puzzles
Games and Entertainment
App
Blackbox is one of iOS's #1 puzzle games but don't take my word for it—read from over 80,000...

Police Air Plane Flight Simulator 3D
Games
App
Ever dreamed about a brilliant career of policeman? Or maybe you wanted to be a driver or pilot,...

Rechnitz, and the Merchant's Contracts
Elfriede Jelinek and Gitta Honneger
Book
For much of her career, Elfriede Jelinek has been maligned in the press for both her unrelenting...

The Dictionary of Labour Quotations
Book
'The power of words is fundamental to political life. They help to influence, convince, change minds...