Brothers in Arms

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Sean Condon

Sean Condon is young, urban and a connoisseur of hair wax. He can't drive, and he doesn't travel well.So when Sean and his friend David set out to explore Australia in a duck-egg blue 1966 Ford Falcon, the result is a decidely offbeat look at life on the road. Over 14,000 death-defying kilometres later, our heroes check out the re-runs on tv, get fabulously drunk, listen to Neil Young and wonder why they ever left home.Sean & David's Long Drive mixes sharp insights with deadpan humour and outright lies. Crank it up and read it out loud.

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Ernesto 'Che' Guevara

Ernesto "Che" Guevara chronicles his second journey through Latin America--after graduation from medical school--with letters, poetry, and journalism, revealing his account of the 1954 coup in Guatemala, encounters with Fidel Castro, and more. Includes photographs.

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Stuart Stevens

The author describes his experiences traveling with three companions from Beijing to India via Kashgar in order to retrace the route followed by Peter Fleming in 1936.

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Murray Gell-Mann

From one of the architects of the new science of simplicity and complexity comes a highly personal, unifying vision of the natural world. As a theoretical physicist, Murray Gell-Mann has explored nature at its most fundamental level. His achievements include the 1969 Nobel Prize for work leading up to his discovery of the quark - the basic building block of all atomic nuclei throughout the universe. But Gell-Mann is a man of many intellectual passions, with lifelong interests in fields that seek to understand existence at its most complex: natural history, biological evolution, the history of language, and the study of creative thinking. These seemingly disparate pursuits come together in Gell-Mann's current work at the Santa Fe Institute, where scientists are investigating the similarities and differences among complex adaptive systems - systems that learn or evolve by utilizing acquired information. They include a child learning his or her native language, a strain of bacteria becoming resistant to an antibiotic, the scientific community testing new theories, or an artist implementing a creative idea. The Quark and the Jaguar is Gell-Mann's own story of finding the connections between the basic laws of physics and the complexity and diversity of the natural world. The simple: a quark inside an atom. The complex: a jaguar prowling its jungle territory in the night. Exploring the relationship between them becomes a series of exciting intellectual adventures.