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Written by Naoki Higashida, a very smart, very self-aware, and very charming thirteen-year-old boy with autism, it is a one-of-a-kind memoir that demonstrates how an autistic mind thinks, feels, perceives, and responds in ways few of us can imagine. Parents and family members who never thought they could get inside the head of their autistic loved one at last have a way to break through to the curious, subtle, and complex life within.

Traces the author's journey from the painful deprivations of her homeland to the sudden bounty of the United States, where she endured five jobs, crime, and a painful marriage before the birth of a daughter inspired her writing career.

Temple Grandin reports from the forefront of autism science, bringing her singular perspective to a thrilling journey into the heart of the autism revolution. Weaving her own experience with remarkable new discoveries, Grandin introduces the neuroimaging advances and genetic research that link brain science to behavior, even sharing her own brain scan to show us which anomalies might explain common symptoms. We meet the scientists and self-advocates who are exploring innovative theories of what causes autism and how we can diagnose and best treat it.

A celebration of music offers insight into the roles of time, place, and recording technology, discussing how evolutionary patterns and responses to cultural and physical contexts have influenced music expression throughout history.

With razor-sharp insight, Broad shows how "unreasonable thinking" can drive innovation and positive change. Too often people look at problems and explain away possible solutions with logic such as, "It's never been done this way before." But Broad shows a better way for taking ideas to all-new levels of success.

Describes how their different political views caused friends Thomas Jefferson and John Adams to become rivals, until they learned to set aside their differences for the sake of their friendship.

Profiles Brazilian aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont, who made great strides in the invention of flight.

Baker offers an eye-opening account of Margaret Marcus' dramatic conversion from an American secular Jew to a proponent of radical Islam. In 1962, Margaret left New York for Lahore, Pakistan, changed her name, and quickly became one of Islam's loudest critics of the West.

Frances Hesselbein has built a career in leadership, serving as a top executive in numerous charitable organizations. Here she recounts her own story, in her own words, while detailing the many leadership lessons she learned from people like Presidents Reagan, H.W. Bush and Clinton, Peter Drucker, Jim Collins, and more.

Relates how one delegate to the Second Continental Congress battled bad weather and physical disabilities to arrive in Philadelphia in 1776, in time for the historic vote that led to independence.