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The Elements of Style Illustrated - This indispensable guide to writing and grammar was first published in 1957. Many millions have read it. A great many of them may have even learned a thing or two from it. Now
The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir - Sherry Turkle, Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT, has spent decades studying the impact of digital technology on our lives and culture. She’s written groundbreaking
The End of the World As We Know It - Maybe you read The New York Times article about the badly wounded Iraq vet who tried to kill himself seventeen times after he came home. It
The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America - A great many people are reading The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life. It's almost 1,000 pages long, and if there's anything about Warren Buffett that isn't
The Essential Marcus Aurelius - “Life is all warfare and a stranger’s wanderings, and the reward is oblivion,” Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) writes. His remedy: Do not waste what remains of your life in speculating
The Ethnic Paris Cookbook - The Ethnic Paris Cookbook Charlotte Puckette and Olivia Kiang-Snaiji
The Everything Kids’ Science Experiments Book: Boil Ice, Float Water, Measure Gravity — Challenge the World Around You! - It’s summer, and because it’s important that our kids help us in the fields… Oooops. Sorry. That was a while ago. The industrial farmers who grow our food have no need
The Execution of Noa P. Singleton: A Novel - Maybe I’ve had bad luck, but most of the legal thrillers I’ve read suffer from the same ailments: pathologically neat plots, facts withheld for maximum effect, characters who make the
The Experts’ Guide to 100 Things Everyone Should Know How to Do - Back in the day, Dad taught you how to knot a tie and Mom taught you how to write a thank-you note. Your uncle taught you how to swim; your aunt
The Experts’ Guide to Doing Things Faster -
The Experts’ Guide to Life at Home - The biggest-selling book in the long and distinguished history of HeadButler.com is The Experts' Guide to 100 Things Everyone Should Know How to Do, by Samantha Ettus. Huh? It's not so
The Fabulous Sylvester - Sylvester was Pride Month all by himself/herself. From this biography: "Sylvester was gay, black, a woman and a man. And that is why he was beloved: His sound brought to
The Fame Lunches: On Wounded Icons, Money, Sex, the Brontës, and the Importance of Handbags - Daphne Merkin is frighteningly intelligent. You only have to read a few paragraphs of her writing to know that she’s read, heard and seen everything written, recorded and filmed, and
The Fault in our Stars - Have you seen the trailer for the movie adaptation of “The Fault in Our Stars?” Many have. Like: 20,000,000 views on YouTube. Did they respond? 35,000 messages. Who watched? Every smart teenager you know. And
The Film Club - His grades started dropping in the ninth grade. In the tenth, they toppled. He switched to a private school. No difference. Jesse Gilmour just didn't give a damn. His
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom - A therapist of unbreakable sanity told me she encourages her clients to read “The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom.” It’s clear. It’s short. It seems simple. It’s
The Four Just Men - On an ancient episode of "Law & Order," someone says, "There are two laws, one for the poor, one for the rich." Assistant District Attorney Jack McCoy replies, "Not so
The Fran Lebowitz Reader - "Pretend It's a City" is a seven-part Netflix series Fran Lebowitz made with Martin Scorsese. It's Fran at her most lovable: mean, condescending, rude and judgmental. Friends who binge nothing
The Freds at Barneys New York Cookbook - I bought my suit for Wedding #1 at Barneys. A decade later, I wrote a Vanity Fair piece about the wildly ambitious sons of Fred Pressman who took the store
