Cryptocurrency (WIRED guides): How Digital Money Could Transform Finance

Volpicelli Gian

The everything-you-need-to-know WIRED guide to cryptocurrencyThe past decade has seen the relentless rise of cryptocurrency as an alternative form of digital currency. But what precisely is it and what potential does it have to change the world of money? In this brilliantly clear, one-stop guide WIRED S...

The History of Western Art in Comics Part One: From Prehistory to the Renaissance

Marion Augustin

Learning about art through the ages has never been as interesting or fun as in this humorous and very informative graphic novel.As two kids give their grandpa a tour of Paris, he starts an interesting conversation with them--about where all the art they see in their lives--from the movie house to the st...

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

One of the acknowledged masterpieces of 19th century realism, Madame Bovary is revered by writers and readers around the world, a mandatory stop on any pilgrimage through modern literature. Flaubert's legendary style, his intense care over the selection of words and the shaping of sentences, his unmatch...