Renowned Buddhist philosopher B. Alan Wallace reasserts the power of shamatha and vipashyana, traditional Buddhist meditations, to clarify the mind's role in the natural world. Raising profound questions about human nature, free will, and experience versus dogma, Wallace challenges the claim that co[...]

What do we value? Why do we value it? And in a neoliberal age, can morality ever displace money as the primary means of defining value? These are the questions that drove David Foster Wallace, a writer widely credited with changing the face of contemporary fiction and moving it beyond an emotionless[...]

David Foster Wallace's final and most ambitious undertaking - an audacious and hilarious look into the abyss of ordinary life. THE PALE KING remained unfinished at the time of his death, but it is a deeply intriguing and satisfying novel, hilarious and fearless and as original as anything Wallace ev[...]

Brilliant, dazzling, never-before-collected non-fiction writings by 'a prose magician'.

A magnificent collection of essays and insights from the cult figure David Foster Wallace.

Beloved for his brilliantly discerning eye, his verbal elasticity and his uniquely generous imagi[...]

The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive boredom-survival training, he learns of the extraordinary variety [...]

Viewed from above, Greenland offers an endless vista of whiteness interrupted only by scattered ponds of azure-colored melt water. Ninety percent of Greenland is covered by ice; its ice sheet, the largest outside Antarctica, stretches almost 1,000 miles from north to south and 600 miles from east to[...]

Working for reclusive author Alex Markoff sounded like Kelsey Albertelli's dream job...until she met her new boss. Alex might be movie-star handsome, but his gruff grouchiness makes it clear that Kelsey is not exactly welcome.Kelsey's a fighter and she refuses to tiptoe around a man who clearly need[...]

Offers advice to a current generation of parents on how to develop empathetic yet disciplined child rearing skills that place an emphasis on good communication and avoid negative reinforcements.[...]

This definitive poetry collection, originally published in 1954 to honor Stevens on his 75th birthday, contains:- Harmonium- Ideas of Order- The Man With the Blue Guitar- Parts of the World- Transport Summer- The Auroras of Autumn- The Rock[...]

The Basics of New Testament Syntax provides concise, up-to-date guidance for intermediate Greek students to do accurate exegesis of biblical texts. Abridged from Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics: An Exegetical Syntax of the New Testament, the popular exegetical Greek grammar for studies in Greek by D[...]

Wallace the dog is on hand to guide preschoolers though this giant early learning workbook, which has 300 pages of activities and puzzles to complete, encouraging children to develop and master key first concepts and skills as they get ready for school.[...]