The Year of Magical Thinking

The Year of Magical ThinkingFrom one of Americas iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion that explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriageand a life, in good times and badthat will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child. Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete

national and cosmopolitan ― a legal fiction with very real power

Martin Buber’s landmark work of philosophy and theology I and Thou remains one of the most important books of Western thought and a seminal work of 20th-century intellectual history

the twentieth century’s ‘Man of Letters’ whose reputation was forged not only on the strength of his verse

offering a new history of the British Empire

Calvino uses a set of scientific theory and facts to tell the story of the origins of the universe

Nuclear Is Not the Solution also unmasks the powerful groups with vested interests in the maintenance of the status quo

celebrate the importance of games

momentous consequences across time

but the world

With a wealth of original research

He reveals how every building - from the Parthenon to the Great Mosque of Damascus to a typical Georgian house - was influenced by the energy available to its architects

advocating critical imagination over knee-jerk accusations of elitism or simple fear of the new and the different