Essays
Great minds share their sharpest observations and most compelling arguments through the intimate art of the essay, exploring everything from creativity and culture to philosophy and the peculiarities of modern life. Whether wrestling with life's biggest questions or finding profound meaning in everyday moments, these carefully crafted pieces invite readers to see the world through fresh eyes.
Essays Book Summaries
What This Comedian Said Will Shock You
Humor
Politics
Comedy
The Boy Who Could Change the World
The Writings of Aaron Swartz
Biography
Politics
Essays
Superman is an Arab
Feminism
Lebanon
Essays
Industrial Society and Its Future
Philosophy
Politics
Sociology
Dishonesty Is the Second-Best Policy
And Other Rules to Live By
Comedy
Humor
Politics
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
Essays
Memoir
Writing
The Art of Always Being Right
Philosophy
Psychology
Classics
Eloge du risque
Philosophy
Psychology
Psychoanalysis
Movement Matters
Essays on Movement Science, Movement Ecology, and the Nature of Movement
Health
Science
Essays
Notes To Self
Essays
Feminism
Memoir
The Empathy Exams
Essays
Memoir
Psychology
Colonize This!
Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism
Feminism
Race
Social Justice
Power Shift
The Longest Revolution
Feminism
Canada
Womens
This Idea Is Brilliant
Lost, Overlooked, and Underappreciated Scientific Concepts Everyone Should Know
Science
Philosophy
Essays
Step Across This Line
Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002
Essays
India
Politics
This Idea Must Die
Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress
Science
Philosophy
Psychology
The Two Cultures
Science
Philosophy
History
Heaven Is a Place on Earth
Memoir
History
Essays
The Anatomy of Influence
Literature as a Way of Life
Literary Criticism
Literature
Poetry
For the New Intellectual
The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
Philosophy
Politics
Classics
Design Your Work
Praxis Volume 1
Productivity
Business
Self Help
Écrits
Philosophy
Psychology
Psychoanalysis
Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals
Philosophy
Psychology
Education
This Is How
Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.
Self Help
Memoir
Humor
Letters on Cézanne
Art
Poetry
Classics
Small Things Considered
Why There Is No Perfect Design
Design
Science
Engineering
Life in Code
A Personal History of Technology
Memoir
Technology
Science
The Care We Dream Of
Liberatory & Transformative Justice Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health
Queer
Disability
LGBT
Science in the Soul
Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist
Science
Philosophy
Essays
The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings
Philosophy
Politics
Classics
Reading the Silver Screen
A Film Lover's Guide to Decoding the Art Form That Moves
Film
Art
Reference
The Book of (More) Delights
Essays
Essays
Poetry
Memoir
Chronicles
On Our Troubled Times
Economics
Politics
Essays
Soccer in Sun and Shadow
Sports
Football
Soccer
Thinking In Numbers
On Life, Love, Meaning, and Math
Science
Mathematics
Essays
Fanged Noumena
Collected Writings, 1987–2007
Philosophy
Theory
Politics
Pause, Rest, Be
Stillness Practices for Courage in Times of Change
Self Help
Spirituality
Health
Q is for Quantum
Science
Physics
Technical
Stupid Things I Won't Do When I Get Old
Humor
Self Help
Memoir
The Return of the Russian Leviathan
Russia
Politics
History
We've Been Too Patient
Voices from Radical Mental Health--Stories and Research Challenging the Biomedical Model
Psychology
Mental Health
Disability
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
Essays
Philosophy
Humor
Down and Delirious in Mexico City
The Aztec Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century
Travel
History
Memoir
The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist
Writing
Essays
Turkish Literature
The Wisdom of the Heart
Essays
Philosophy
Writing
The Inner History of Devices
History
Technology
Science
The New Vichy Syndrome
Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism
Politics
History
Essays
Gathering Moss
A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
Nature
Science
Environment
When Women Were Birds
Fifty-four Variations on Voice
Memoir
Essays
Feminism
Saving Time
Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
Self Help
Philosophy
Psychology
