"Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world." Napoleon's words seem eerily prescient today, as the shock waves from China's awakening reverberate across the globe. Through dramatic stories of entrepreneurs and visionaries, factory workers and store clerks, Kynge describes the breakneck rise of China, the extraordinary problems the country now faces, and the consequences of both. Winner of the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year 2006 Award.

Renowned theoretical physicist Lee Smolin argues that physics is losing its way. Ambitious—but untested—ideas about extra dimensions, multiple universes, and strings dominate the field, attracting the best talent and much of the funding and creating a climate in which emerging physicists are often penalized for pursuing other avenues. Smolin offers an unblinking assessment of the troubles that face modern physics—and an encouraging view of where the search for the next big idea may lead.

Thomas Railles, an American expatriate and former "odd-jobber" for the CIA, is a successful painter living with his beloved wife in a small village in the Pyrenees. When his wife is killed by unknown assailants while she is out on a walk, Thomas is left to wonder whether her death was simply a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time; or was it somehow connected to Thomas's work with the CIA? This gripping and insightful novel is a haunting depiction of the corrosive effects of today’s war on terror and its unexpected consequences for the individual conscience.

In this thought-provoking and Bancroft Prize–winning biography, William James emerges as an immensely complex and fascinating man. Pivotal member of the Metaphysical Club, author of The Varieties of Religious Experience, and older brother of extraordinary siblings Henry and Alice, the remarkable James put an indelible stamp on psychology, philosophy, teaching, and religion—on modernism itself.

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way," Tolstoy famously wrote in Anna Karenina. But is it really true that happiness is so predictable and bland? Literature professor Tracy Farber—
content with friends and work and satisfied to be single at age thirty-three—takes umbrage and sets out to prove that happiness can be uniquely interesting, in literature and in life.