"David Epstein manages to make me thoroughly enjoy the experience of being told that everything I thought about something was wrong. I loved Range." Malcolm Gladwell, bestselling author of Outliers.Range is the ground-breaking and exhilarating New York Times bestselling exploration into how to be successful in the 21st Century, from David Epstein the acclaimed author of The Sports Gene.What if everything you have been tau...

How to do more with less and use limits to stimulate creativity, innovation and collaboration, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Range.We live in a world that gives us seemingly infinite choices and values freedom above all else. We have an unprecedented number of options regarding what to do, who to be and how to spend our time. All that choice is wonderful; it is also overwhelming. The irony is that total freedom can be paralyzing, and...

The truth about performance beyond the 10,000-hour theory.Are champions born or made? In The Sports Gene, investigative journalist David Epstein unpacks the decades-long debate about nature versus nurture in human performance. Drawing on genetics, physiology and psychology, Epstein explores how elite athletes push the limits of body and mind - from the DNA variations that enhance endurance to the training cultures that mou...

How to do more with less and use limits to stimulate creativity, innovation and collaboration, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Range.We live in a world that gives us seemingly infinite choices and values freedom above all else. We have an unprecedented number of options regarding what to do, who to be and how to spend our time. All that choice is wonderful; it is also overwhelming. The irony is that total freedom can be paralyzing, and...

From a surreal musical satire featuring much-loved American rogues like Billy The Kid and Ma Barker to a bitter takedown of the Iraq War and its toll on one family, these four plays by David Epstein expose painful home truths about our nation's soul.

*** Shortlisted for William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2013 ***Is Usain Bolt a superhuman one-off?Are sports stars like Paula Radcliffe and Tiger Woods born or made?Could we all be Olympians if we trained hard enough?And is the answer to be found by looking at Alaskan huskies?In this ground-breaking and entertaining exploration of athletic success, award-winning write...

'Fascinating . . . If you’re a generalist who has ever felt overshadowed by your specialist colleagues, this book is for you' – Bill Gates'A goldmine of surprising insights. Makes you smarter with every page' - James Clear, bestselling author of Atomic HabitsThe instant Sunday Times Top Ten and New York Times bestseller

In these three plays (Exact Change, Hair of the Dog, and***Shades***), dramatist and screenwriter David Epstein brilliantly sketches the bleak, despairing-and howlingly funny-underside of contemporary American life.

Playwright and film writer David Epstein presents a series of three plays-Mahalo, Desperados, and Arky-tracing the story of an American family navigating a years-long crisis driven by a child's mental illness. By turns harrowing, wildly comic, and deeply affecting, The Arky Trilogy vividly captures the shocking twists of life as experienced by one family touched by terror and grounded in love.

In a not-too-distant future, where household robots are stationed on every corner to help humans, an automated assistant takes over the home of an innocent family—just one more chapter in the man-versus-machine saga.But after one enemy has been defeated, a new threat emerges. Upon returning from vacation, Lior discovers that a new discipline officer has been installed at his school. It stands three feet tall, with spider legs, cameras, and microphones. Its name is DST-1780....

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In a not-too-distant future, where household robots are stationed on every corner to help humans, an automated assistant takes over the home of an innocent family—just one more chapter in the man-versus-machine saga.But after one enemy has been defeated, a new threat emerges. Upon returning from vacation, Lior discovers that a new discipline officer has been installed at his school. It stands three feet tall, with spider legs, cameras, and...

Reviews recent advances in understanding pollination dynamics and the role of plant-pollinator relationships in agro-ecosystemsProvides a comprehensive assessment of the major threats to economically important pollinators, including the impact of climate change and pest and disease threatExplores best practices for the protection of key pollinators and the ecosystem services they deliver