Adam: 4614 books
Imbeciles
The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
**Longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction
One of America’s great miscarriages of justice, the Supreme Court’s infamous 1927 Buck v. Bell ruling made government sterilization of “undesirable” citizens the law of the land**
In 1927, the Supreme Court handed down...
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived
The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
**National Book Critics Circle Award—2017 Nonfiction Finalist
“Nothing less than a tour de force—a heady amalgam of science, history, a little bit of anthropology and plenty of nuanced, captivating storytelling.”—The New York Times Book Review, Editor's Choice
A National Geographic...
Half Truths
God Helps Those Who Help Themselves and Other Things the Bible Doesn't Say
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
They are simple phrases. They sound Christian—like something you might find in the Bible. We’ve all heard these words. Maybe we’ve said them. They capture some element of truth, yet they miss the point in important ways.
Join Adam Hamilton in this 5-week Bible study to search for the...
The Genius of Earth Day
How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
The first Earth Day is the most famous little-known event in modern American history. Because we still pay ritual homage to the planet every April 22, everyone knows something about Earth Day. Some people may also know that Earth Day 1970 made the environmental movement a major force in American political...
The Body Builders
Inside the Science of the Engineered Human
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Fareed Zakaria GPS Book of the Week
Weaving together vivid storytelling and groundbreaking science, The Body Builders explores the current revolution in human augmentation, which is helping us to triumph over the limitations and constraints we have long accepted as an inevitable part of being...
Radical Technologies
The Design of Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
A field manual to the technologies that are transforming our lives
Everywhere we turn, a startling new device promises to transfigure our lives. But at what cost? In this urgent and revelatory excavation of our Information Age, leading technology thinker Adam Greenfield forces us to reconsider...
by Adam Segal
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2011
"Thoughtful . . . . [Segal's] striking argument is that the challengers [India and China] lack America's resilient, open and risk-taking culture." —Economist
The emergence of India and China as economic powers has shifted the global landscape and called into question the ability...
The Mirror at Midnight
A South African Journey
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2007
A “stunning blend of reportage, travelogue, history and meditation” by the New York Times–bestselling author of King Leopold’s Ghost (Publishers Weekly).
National Book Award finalist Adam Hochschild brings a lifetime’s familiarity with South Africa to bear in this eye-opening examination...
How to be German in 50 easy steps
A guide from Apfelsaftschorle to Tschüss
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Breakfast lavishly, pre-book all your holidays years in advance, dress sensibly and obey the red man! «How to be German» presents all the little absurdities that make living in Germany such a pleasure. It’s required reading for all Ausländer and for Germans who sometimes have the feeling they...
by Adam Hodge
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Against the backdrop of fear-mongering media and against the advice of his family, Adam Hodge set out to explore the real Pakistan in a rare road trip through the country that turned into an extended stay. In Pakistan Chronicles, Hodge takes us from Lahore to Islamabad and through the Taliban-controlled...
by Adam J Smith
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2019
You cannot outrun the sun...
With Earth falling to pieces, those who escaped look back with sorrow, and forward with hope. Hope of a new beginning. A chance to start over.
Then the fires began...
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Dive into the Neon series with this novella prequel, packed with...
Killing the Hydra
Eagles and Dragons Book II
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
At the peak of Rome’s might a dragon is born among eagles, an heir to a line both blessed and cursed by the Gods for ages.
In Killing the Hydra, Lucius Metellus Anguis returns to North Africa, determined to investigate the death of his centurion and root out the treason that has infiltrated...
by Adam Dreece
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
As the clockwork carriage shuttled along, Richelle Pieman’s mind was on the next step of their ambitious enterprise. Their nemesis, the secret society known as the Tub, had just been dealt a devastating blow, but was it going to be enough?
All her life, Richelle followed in the footsteps...
by Adam J. Whitlatch
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
On the eve of World War I, the Martians from the original H.G. Wells classic have returned to finish what they started, but this time humanity is ready. Armed with steam-powered battle machines created from reverse-engineered alien technology, the global defense force A.R.E.S. prepares for the coming...