The publishing gods have smiled on French energy historian Jean-Baptiste Fressoz. His book, whose U.S. edition is coming out in August, is already getting wide notice. Its French title essentially ...

Irresistible in Escape from Tarkov is a pretty straightforward quest in which players are tasked with picking up a weapon's case and delivering it to Skier. As you may have already guessed, Skier ...

Cal Newport's "Digital Minimalism" offers a comprehensive guide to reclaiming your attention and focus in a world filled with digital distractions. Newport emphasises the importance of intentional ...

Mentor Public Library will share an online interview with author Adam Alter — the bestselling writer behind “Anatomy of a Breakthrough: How to Get Unstuck When It Matters Most” — at 2 p.m ...

A conversation with NYU Stern’s Adam Alter about climbing out of ruts and plateaus. You don’t have to be a famous author to suffer from writer’s block. We all can get stuck in our thought ...

Adam Alter, a marketing professor at the NYU Stern School of Business and author of Irresistible, a book on the rise of addictive tech, finds these projects a “hard sell” as people want digita ...

From left, John C. Reilly as Jerry Buss, Quincy Isaiah as Magic Johnson and Jason Clarke as Jerry West in “Winning Time.” (Warrick Page/HBO) Review by Inkoo Kang “Winning Time,” the new ...

According to Adam Alter, NYU Stern professor and author of Irresistible, there are times when a more complicated name can work better. In general, cognitive fluency is a measure of how easily our ...