Get a handpicked carefully curated section of books to widen your intellect and challenge what you think you already know. From the edge of time and space to subatomic particles, this collection is ideal for people from the ages of 12 to 100. Comes with coffee or high tea, snacks and an in-depth discussion on these books.

The collection includes:

Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony: A magnificent collection of witty provocative essays by award-winning scientist Lewis Thomas.

Physics of the Impossible: Michio Kaku explores force fields, invisibility and what technological advances await us in the future.

The Books of Nothingness: Why do some cultures celebrate nothingness, but St. Augustine equated it with the devil? John Barrow explores.

The Edges of Sciences: Richard Morris blows our mind as he explores how convenient it is to traverse between the physical and the metaphysical. Not for the weak hearted.

Long for this World: Pulitzer Prize winning author Jonathan Wiener ponders . . . is there a secret to eternal youth?

The Cosmic Blueprint: Davies melds a variety of disciplines from biology to math and physics to understand the source of the universe's creative potency.

The Map that Changed the World: Written about William Smith, the father of modern geology.

Superstrings: Wouldn't we all like to know the theory of everything? Davies and Brown, modern day intellectuals, explore in layman terms.

Imagining Numbers: What happens when a poet examines imaginary numbers? Barry Muzak muses why the square root of minus 15 is so interesting.

All this comes with coffee or high tea with the person that curated this list, Subbu Ravi. Enjoy.