An irreverent look at how randomness influences our lives, and how our successes and failures are far more dependent on chance events than we recognize.

Pink argues that the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today's world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.

A retelling of the medieval poem about a group of travelers on a pilgrimage to Canterbury and the tales they tell each other. With their astonishing diversity of tone and subject matter, The Canterbury Tales have become one of the touchstones of medieval literature. Translated here into modern English, these tales of a motley crowd of pilgrims drawn from all walks of life-from knight to nun, miller to monk-reveal a picture of English life in the fourteenth...

A memoir based on the author's one-woman show describes growing up with celebrity parents, her early success in "Star Wars, " battle with addiction and mental illness, turbulent romances, role as a single mother, and struggle for recovery and healing.

The man who invented shock rock tells how he slayed his demons--with a golf club. One day between concerts, when Cooper was bored and drunk on a quart-of-whiskey-a-day habit, a friend dragged the rocker out of his room and suggested a round of golf. Cooper has been a golf addict ever since. This is his tell-all memoir; he talks candidly about his life and career, his struggles with alcohol, how he fell in love with golf, how he dried out at a sanitarium...

Butler-Bowdon explores important contemporary writings as well as wisdom from key figures in psychology's development to discover why we think and act the way we do.

This course examines the growth and development of the largest empire in world history, the British Empire, beginning with the late 15th-century Tudor dynasty and ending with the death of Queen Victoria in 1901.

Discusses the theme and characters in Fitzgerald's novel and includes excerpts from the book and background information on the author.