The seminal treatise on the code of the samurai--now available as a Shambhala Pocket Classic. Hagakure is a treatise on the samurai code written by Yamamoto Tsunetomo, an eighteenth-century samur
In nineteenth-century China, when wives and daughters were foot-bound and lived in almost total seclusion, the women in one remote Hunan county developed their own secret code for communication: nu s
"A PULSE-QUICKENING,BRAIN-TEASING ADVENTURE...[BROWN IS] A NEW MASTER OF SMART THRILLS."__PeopleWhile in Paris, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is awakened by a phone call in the dead of the night.
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D Strategy Guide includes: FREE eGuide — Includes a code to access the mobile-friendly eGuide, a digital version of the full strategy guide optimized for a second s
Sit in your car in your car and wait or take a walk through the trees.? “Cruising” has always been a part of gay culture; the word itself is a code, innocuous to outsiders, but representing an incogni
Joining an anthropologist's 1950 expedition to discover a lost tribe on a remote Micronesian island, a young doctor investigates and proves a theory that the tribe's considerable longevity is linked t
An autobiographical look at the work of a seminal modernist architect. This is the first comprehensive treatment of the architecture of Bernard Tschumi. Part monograph, part architectural theory, and
Kathryn E. Holliday (architectural history and theory, U. of Texas-Arlington) is Director of the David Dillon Center for Texas Architecture. She has written the first book on the career of Ralph Walke
Groundbreaking mathematician Gregory Chaitin gives us the first book to posit that we can prove how Darwin’s theory of evolution works on a mathematical level. For years it has been received wisdom am
In this compelling new book, Michael E. Raynor, coauthor of the national bestseller The Innovator’s Solution, shows that Disruption, Clayton M. Christensen’s landmark theory that explains how fringe i
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is a master of game theory, which is a fancy label for a simple idea: People compete, and they always do what they think is in their own best interest. Bueno de Mesquita uses g
Kristine Barnett’s son Jacob has an IQ higher than Einstein’s, a photographic memory, and he taught himself calculus in two weeks. At nine he started working on an original theory in astrophysics that
