In The Cult of LEGO, Wired's GeekDad blogger John Baichtal and BrickJournal founder Joe Meno take you on a magnificent, illustrated tour of the LEGO® community, its people, and their creations.

The Cult of LEGO introduces us to fans and builders from all walks of life. People like professional LEGO artist Nathan Sawaya; enigmatic Dutch painter Ego Leonard (who maintains that he is, in fact, a LEGO minifig); Angus MacLane, a Pixar animator who builds CubeDudes, instantly recognizable...

The New York Times bestseller that gives readers a paradigm-shattering new way to think about motivation from the author of When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing

Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money-the carrot-and-stick approach. That's a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others). In this provocative and persuasive new book, he asserts that the secret to high performance an...

You know, the moment at the airport, the moment in the rain, the moment with a boombox outside my bedroom window.

A friendly, fully-illustrated introduction to the most important computer programming algorithms. The algorithms you'll use most often as a programmer have already been discovered, tested, and proven. This book will prepare you for those pesky algorithms questions in every programming job interview and help you apply them in your day-to-day work.

And if you want to understand them without slogging through dense multipage proofs, this is the book for you. In Grokking Algorithms, Second Edition...

If you're feeling down or need some encouragement, this pocket-sized book of positive quotes and powerful affirmations will help show you how great you are. Filled with sage insights from philosophers and superstars, these inspiring words are here to remind you that there is no one quite like you, and your uniqueness is what makes you amazing.

A design monograph series on Frank Lloyd Wright: a historical-critical essay discussing his life and work, followed by an illustrated appreciation of groundbreaking work.

One big question. Two great answers. In Is Free Speech Under Threat? two leading thinkers tackle the issue at the very heart of the culture wars.

Suzanne Nossel (CEO of PEN America) puts the case that even though there is an important rebalancing of power taking place in society today, rightly giving minority voices the space and prominence they have long been owed, even so the uncompromising intolerance of a left-leaning minority crosses the threshold of an important principle on which free ...