Creativity, Inc. is the inside story of Pixar Animation – which created the Toy Story trilogy, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles – by Ed Catmull, Pixar president and co-founder (with George Lucas) which also serves as “an expression of the ideas that I believe make the best in us possible.” Catmull reveals the creative philosophy and practices that have made Pixar a profitable success story.
Four wonderful essays on tennis by sports writer David Foster Wallace, including an epic tribute to the greatness of Roger Federer.
An extraordinary biography of America’s greatest President.
With precision and clarity, the greatest philosopher of the 20th century provides an elegant solution to the problem of “universals” that has been troubling philosophy since the time of Plato and Aristotle, and in doing so, provides a defense of sense perception, concept formation, logic, and objectivity.
Set in medieval Paris, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo (1831) tells the gripping story of the kind, gypsy Esmeralda, condemned as a witch by the lustful, archdeacon Frollo, and the deformed, bell ringer of Notre-Dame Cathedral, Quasimodo, who tries to save the woman he loves.