The Black Swan

The Black Swan

Special Price!The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable is a book by the essayist, scholar and statistician Nassim Nicholas Taleb. It was released on April 17, 2007 by Random House. The book focuses on the extreme impact of certain kinds of rare and...
The Perfect Bookstore

The Perfect Bookstore

I confess I’m puzzled by one reported outcome of the recent two-day session in New York aimed at defining, and maybe even laying the groundwork for a perfect, dream bookstore. Organizer (and friend) Chris Kubica set out with a strong agenda and the group included true...
Dubliners: An Aerbook Edition

Dubliners: An Aerbook Edition

Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its...