The foundational and wildly popular go-to resource for influence and persuasion?a renowned international bestseller, with over 5 million copies sold?now revised adding: new research, new insights, new examples, and online applications.In the new edition of this highly acclaimed bestseller, Robert Cialdini?New York Times bestselling author of Pre-Suasion and the seminal expert in the fields of influence and persuasion?explains the psychology of why people say yes and how to apply these insight...

In The $100 Startup, Chris Guillebeau shows you how to lead of life of adventure, meaning and purpose - and earn a good living.

Still in his early thirties, Chris is on the verge of completing a tour of every country on earth - he's already visited more than 175 nations - and yet he's never held a "real job" or earned a regular paycheck. Rather, he has a special genius for turning ideas into income, and he uses what he earns both to support his life of adventure and to give back.

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One of the most important collections of medieval ivory carvings and small sculpture, available to the public for the first time.

A history of the writer's organization PEN International, published to mark its centenary.

National Bestseller The literary sensation of the year, a book that redefines both family and narrative for the twenty-first century. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the moving memoir of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother. Here is an exhilarating debut that manages to be simultaneously hilarious and wildly inventive as well as a deeply heartfelt story of the love that holds a family togethe...

Wonderful . . . a thoughtful discussion of what made [the Greeks] so important, in their own time and in ours. Natalie Haynes, Independent"

Literary Hub'sThe Island at the Center of the World