First, they try to knock his house down. Then, they blow up his planet. Can Arthur Dent's day get any worse? Well, yes. Join the dressing gown-clad Earthman and his companions--Betelgeusian reporter Ford Prefect; the former President of the Galaxy, two-headed Zaphod Beeblebrox; ex-astrophysicist Trillian; and Marvin the Paranoid Android--in a wild and zany journey in time and space, with stops to visit the planet-building planet of Magrathea, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, the man who secretly rules the galaxy, and the site of God's last message to His creation. Originally conceived as a radio program for the BBC, the internationally bestselling Hitchhiker's series also spawned a TV series, a 2005 film, a text-based computer game, and a popular website. This omnibus contains all five books in the cult classic science fiction series (THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY; THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE; LIFE, THE UNIVERSE, AND EVERYTHING; SO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH; and MOSTLY HARMLESS), plus the short story "Young Zaphod Plays It Safe."

In "Uncommon Wisdom," Capra charts his own intellectual odyssey through lively discussions with many of this century's most influential thinkers such as Werner Heisenberg, R. D. Laing, Gregory Bateson, Hazel Henderson, Alan Watts, and Krishnamurti on the leading edge of such diverse fields as family therapy, physics, psychiatry, futurism, medicine, anthropology, and oncology.