#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF SWEDEN’S BEST CRIME NOVEL AWARD • WINNER OF THE GLASS KEY AWARD FOR BEST NORDIC CRIME NOVELIn this gripping and atmospheric thriller, a young family buys a run-down mansion in hopes of finding a new start—only to discover that their new home’s dark past may be catching up to them. . . .“Theorin writes so well about the natural world that the island is as much a character as the people who live...

**"The magical book that will have your kids asleep in minutes." —The New York PostThis groundbreaking #1 international bestseller is sure to calm racing minds and make bedtime easy and fun for kids and parents!**Do you struggle with getting your child to fall asleep? Do anxiety or worries ever interfere with bedtime?Join parents all over the world who have embraced The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep as their new nightly routine.When Roger...

Johan Thoms is poised for greatness. A promising student at the University of Sarajevo, he is young, brilliant, and in love with the beautiful Lorelei Ribeiro. He can outwit chess masters, quote the Kama Sutra, and converse with dukes and drunkards alike. But he cannot drive a car in reverse. And as with so much in the life of Johan Thoms, this seemingly insignificant detail will prove to be much more than it appears. On the morning of June 28, 1914, Johan takes his place as the c...

You don’t have to be a kitchen connoisseur to make homemade sausage. As the saying goes, if you can make a hamburger, you can make a sausage. And now, with Sausage!—the exciting new reference for all things sausage—creating any dish from corndogs to cheesedogs, flying tandoori to cider chicken sausages, is easy for any chef with a mixer and an appetite.Just remember the two basic rules: keep your ingredients clean, and keep them cold. That’s it—you’ve already mastered half ...

An essential reference for all game designers, this 1938 classic is “a fascinating account of ‘man the player’ and the contribution of play to civilization” (Harper’s).In this classic evaluation of play that has become a “must-read” for those in game design, Dutch philosopher Johan Huizinga defines play as the central activity in flourishing societies. Like civilization, play requires structure and participants willing to create within limits. Starting wit...

A Book of the Year for The Economist and the ObserverOur world seems to be collapsing. The daily news cycle reports the deterioration: divisive politics across the Western world, racism, poverty, war, inequality, hunger. While politicians, journalists and activists from all sides talk about the damage done, Johan Norberg offers an illuminating and heartening analysis of just how far we have come in tackling the greatest problems facing humanity. I...

2018 Nautilus Book Awards Silver WinnerWhat if you could unlock a better answer to your most vexing problem—in your workplace, community, or home life—just by changing the question?Talk to creative problem-solvers and they will often tell you, the key to their success in business and leadership is asking a different question.Take Debbie Sterling, the social entrepreneur who created GoldieBlox. The idea came when a friend complained ...

On the brink of a critical moment in human history, this book presents a vision of "planetary stewardship" - a rethinking of our relationship with our planet - and plots a new course for our future.The authors reveal the full scale of the planetary emergency we face - but also how we can stabilize Earth's life-support system. The necessary change is within our power, if we act now. In 2009, scientists identified nine planetary boundaries that keep Earth stable, ran...

All golden ages are marked by periods of spectacular cultural flourishing, scientific exploration, technological achievement and economic growth; yet no two are the same. Their beliefs, societies and place in the wider world all vary. Despite this, all previous golden ages have ended, whether it be because of external pressures or internal fracturing; too much hubris or too little wariness. Looking at seven of humanity's greatest civilizations - ancient Athens, the Roman Republic, Abbasid ...

Add variety to your child’s bedtime routine with the latest book from the author of The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep, the New York Times and international bestseller that parents have been raving about! Features all-new child-tested, parent-approved techniques to reclaim bedtime and provide a sweet and tender end to each day.Your child joins Ellen the Elephant on a journey through a magical forest that leads to sleep. Along the way, children me...

Marx and Engels were right when they observed in the Communist Manifesto that free markets had in a short time created greater prosperity and more technological innovation than all previous generations combined. A century and a half later, all the evidence shows that capitalism has lifted millions and millions from hunger and poverty.Today's story about global capitalism, shared by right-wing and left-wing populists, but also by large sections of the political and economic ...

"Here is the first full translation into English of one of the twentieth century's few undoubted classics of history." — The Washington Post Book WorldThe Autumn of the Middle Ages is Johan Huizinga's classic portrait of life, thought, and art in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century France and the Netherlands. Few who have read this book in English realize that The Waning of the Middle Ages, the only previous transl...