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2011
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A new edition to celebrate the 30th anniversary of David Foster Wallace's iconic, bestselling novel Infinite Jest - with an introduction by Michelle Zauner, author of Crying in H Mart'We will likely not see another book like this in our lifetimes' Michelle Zauner, bestselling author of Crying in H Mart and frontwoman for Japanese BreakfastTennis prodigy Hal Incandenza and recovering addict Don Gately are consume...
The Uninhabitable Earth
A Story of the Future
2019
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**SUNDAY TIMES AND THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**'An epoch-defining book' Matt Haig'If you read just one work of non-fiction this year, it should probably be this' David Sexton, Evening StandardSelected as a Book of the Year 2019 by the Sunday Times, Spectator and New StatesmanA Waterstones Paperback of the Year and shortlisted for the Foyl...
2009
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The 30th anniversary edition of the virtuosic, wickedly comic modern classic about the pursuit of happiness in America, with a new foreword by Michelle Zauner, author of the New York Times bestselling sensation Crying in H Mart**.**“To my mind, there have been two great American novels in the past fifty years. Catch-22 is one; this is the other.” ...
2012
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In this hilarious essay, originally published in the collection A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again**, David Foster Wallace chronicles his seven days in the Caribbean aboard the m.v. Zenith.**Beloved for his keen eye, sharp wit, and relentless self-mockery, David Foster Wallace has been celebrated by both critics and fans as the voice of a generation. He showcase his writing prowess as he shares his experiences partaking in supposed...
2011
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The Pale King is David Foster Wallace's final novel - a testament to his enduring brillianceThe Internal Revenue Service Regional Examination Centre in Peoria, Illinois, 1985. Here the minutaie of a million daily lives are totted up, audited and accounted for. Here the workers fight a never-ending war against the urgency of their own boredom. Here then, squeezed between the trivial and the quotidian, lies all human life. And this is David Foster Wallace's ...
2012
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A collection of insightful and uproariously funny non-fiction by the bestselling author of INFINITE JEST - one of the most acclaimed and adventurous writers of our time. A SUPPOSEDLY FUN THING... brings together Wallace's musings on a wide range of topics, from his early days as a nationally ranked tennis player to his trip on a commercial cruiseliner. In each of these essays, Wallace's observations are as keen as they are funny.Filled with hilarious details and invigorating analys...
Chuckwalla Land
The Riddle of California's Desert
2011
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Described as "a writer in the tradition of Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and other self-educated seers" by the San Francisco Chronicle, David Rains Wallace turns his attention in this new book to another distinctive corner of California—its desert, the driest and hottest environment in North America. Drawing from his frequent forays to Death Valley, Red Rock Canyon, Kelso Dunes, and other locales, Wallace illuminates the desert’s intriguing flora and fauna as he explores a contr...
Philosophy of Physics
A Very Short Introduction
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- Very Short Introductions
2021
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Philosophy of physics is concerned with the deepest theories of modern physics - notably quantum theory, our theories of space, time and symmetry, and thermal physics - and their strange, even bizarre conceptual implications. A deeper understanding of these theories helps both physics, through pointing the way to new theories and new applications, and philosophy, through seeing how our worldview has to change in the light of wh...
On Tennis
Five Essays
2014
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From the author of Infinite Jest and Consider the Lobster**: a collection of five brilliant essays on tennis, from the author's own experience as a junior player to his celebrated profile of Roger Federer at the peak of his powers.**A "long-time rabid fan of tennis," and a regionally ranked tennis player in his youth, David Foster Wallace wrote about the game like no one else. On Tennis p...
The Broom of the System
A Novel
2027
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The remarkable debut novel from the bestselling author of Infinite Jest explores the paradoxes of language, storytelling, and reality. First published in 1987, now available in a brand-new paperback edition.**“Daring, hilarious ... a zany picaresque adventure of contemporary America run amok.” —**New York TimesAt the center of The Broom of the System is the bewitching—and also bewildered—heroine, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsma...
Available Jan 12, 2027
Sustain the Fight: From Support to Force Multiplier
A Junior Officer's Guide to Brigade Support Operations in Large-Scale Combat
2026
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Redefines military logistics as a decisive, combat-focused element shaping victory in modern multi-domain warfare.Sustain the Fight transforms military logistics from administrative support into strategic warfare. This combat-focused manual shatters the dangerous illusion that logistics officers are “support personnel” operating safely in rear areas, revealing instead their proper role as lethality enablers whose decisions determine victory or defeat in mo...
2023
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A visionary, a craftsman, a comedian and as serious as it is possible to be without accidentally writing a religious text. He can do anything with a piece of prose, and it is a humbling experience to see him go to work on what has passed up till now as "modern fiction". He's so modern he's in a different time-space continuum from the rest of us. Goddamn him'Zadie SmithThe mysterious disappearance of her great- grandmother and twenty-five other elderly inmates from a Shaker H...