New York Times bestselling author of The Everything Store Brad Stone takes us deep inside the new Silicon Valley. Ten years ago, the idea of getting into a stranger’s car…

The first fly-on-the-wall narrative account of the world’s largest online retailer and its genius creator, Jeff Bezos.

This is the only book-length intellectual biography of sociologist Robert Nisbet (1913-1996). It is now available in quality paperback.

Pragmatism is a philosophical school of thought emphasizing action, practices, and practical reasoning whereas prophecy is an ancient religious concept that requires belief in the reality of God. Although these…

Prior to his death in 2007, the self-described secular philosopher Richard Rorty began to modify his previous position concerning religion. Moving from atheism to anti-clericalism, Rorty challenges the metaphysical assumptions…

Charts the under-theorized dialogue between Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault on questions of life, death, punishment, and power - an untapped point of departure from which we might continue to…