Books

What can a kingfisher teach you about patience?

What does a lotus know about strength?

A pond. Four seasons. One grandmother's wisdom. When Yuki arrives at her grandmother's house beside a pond amidst the verdant pastoral stillness beyond Yamanashi, Japan, she expects a quiet summer. What she finds is a living classroom. Woven through the lessons...

In the autumn of 1709, a Virginia farmer named Elias Fermier walks into his cornfield at dawn and vanishes - leaving behind only his blood-soaked boots and his terrified dog. Three centuries later, the anomaly is still there, buried in the data.

Are the most baffling features of quantum mechanics inherent flaws or intriguing clues to a programmed...