The Book of Tea
Long essay linking the role of chad to the aesthetic and cultural aspects of Japanese life.
Pensees
Collection of fragments written by the French 17th-century philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal
The Famished Road
Novel by Nigerian author Ben Okri, the first book in a trilogy that continues with Songs of Enchantment and Infinite Riches . Published in London in 1991 by Jonathan Cape, the story of The Famished Road follows Azaro, an abiku or spirit child, living in an unnamed African, most likely Nigerian, city
The Cosmic Code
American physicist, an associate professor of physics at Rockefeller University, the executive director and chief executive officer of the New York Academy of Sciences, and president of the International League for Human Rights
Metamorphoses
8 AD Latin narrative poem by the Roman poet Ovid, considered his magnum opus
The Gnostic Gospels
Collection of early Christian and Gnostic texts discovered near the Upper Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi in 1945.Thirteen leather-bound papyrus codices buried in a sealed jar were found by a local farmer named Muhammed al-Samman