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Let's Play Doctor
The Instant Guide to Walking, Talking, and Probing Like a Real M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
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Let’s Play Doctor is your instant...
Tough Talk
How I Fought for Writers, Comics, Bigots, and the American Way
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
The boisterous freedom promised by the First Amendment is both the heart of American experiment and the fissure along which it divides itself. Those who would fight freedom's enemies, from political correctness to corporate intimidation to outright censorship, face powerful adversaries. But...
On Edge
A Journey Through Anxiety
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
A celebrated science and health reporter offers a wry, bracingly honest account of living with anxiety.
A racing heart. Difficulty breathing. Overwhelming dread. Andrea Petersen was first diagnosed with an anxiety disorder at the age of twenty, but she later realized that she had been experiencing...
Can't Remember What I Forgot
The Good News from the Front Lines of Memory Research
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
An essential behind-the-scenes foray into the world of cutting-edge memory research that unveils findings about memory loss only now available to general readers.
When Sue Halpern decided to emulate the first modern scientist of memory, Hermann Ebbinghaus, who experimented on himself, she...
Release your inner drive
Everything you need to know about how to get good at stuff
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Customer Notice: this book contains a large amount of image-based text therefore any digital version would be better rendered by being viewed using large screen devices. Release Your Inner Drive: Everything You Need to Know about How to Get Good at Stuff by Bradley Busch and Edward Watson is a book...
Nothing Happens Until It Happens to You
A Novel Without Pay, Perks, or Privileges
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Jeffrey Reiner is a middle manager’s dream.
Predictable, almost invisible, and lacking ambition, he’s held the same tedious job for eighteen years, typing up the calendar listings for a South Florida weekly. As the economy and the newspaper industry crashed around him, Jeffrey kept his...
Lost Men
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2008
A novel of rare grace and power, Lost Men is the story of a father and a son each confronting his past. Westen Chan was just eight years old when his Caucasian mother died and his father, Xin, sent him away to be raised by her relatives.
Twenty years later, after a lifetime of estrangement,...
Instant Love
Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2006
“We are all walking around this city with our hearts sadly swimming in our chests, like dying fish on the surface of a still pond. It’s enough to make you give up entirely.” —from Instant Love
But we don’t give up. We keep trying. We’re either too stupid to learn from our mistakes...
The Tyranny of Tolerance
A Sitting Judge Breaks the Code of Silence to Expose the Liberal Judicial Assault
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2006
For the first time, a sitting judge blows the whistle on America’s out-of-control courts.
A judge for more than twenty years, Robert Dierker has enjoyed a distinguished legal career. But now that career may be on the line. Why? Because he is breaking the code of silence that has long kept...
The Book of Animal Ignorance
Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
Fast on the heels of the New York Times bestseller The Book of General Ignorance comes The Book of Animal Ignorance, a fun, fact-filled bestiary that is sure to delight animal lovers everywhere. Arranged alphabetically from aardvark to worm, here are one hundred of the most interesting members of...
The Bumper Book of Nature
A User's Guide to the Great Outdoors
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
When was the last time you climbed a tree? Picked blackberries? Held a snail race? Made maple syrup candy, an old-fashioned quill pen from a bird feather you found, or a plaster cast of an animal track? If the answer is "can't remember" or quite possibly "never," The Bumper...
A Sea in Flames
The Deepwater Horizon Oil Blowout
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Carl Safina has been hailed as one of the top 100 conservations of the 20th century (Audubon Magazine) and A Sea in Flames is his blistering account of the months-long manmade disaster that tormented a region and mesmerized the nation. Traveling across the Gulf to make sense of an ever-changing story...
My Boys Can Swim!
The Official Guy's Guide to Pregnancy
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
Finally—A Pregnancy Book That Won't Put Men to Sleep
My Boys Can Swim! tells real men everything they really want to know about pregnancy, such as: How much is it going to cost? Why does your wife primp before seeing her doctor when she hasn't put a stitch of make-up on for you in months? And, most...
by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2007
Guess what? The Indians didn’t save the Pilgrims from starvation by teaching them to grow corn. Thomas Jefferson thought states’ rights—an idea reviled today—were even more important than the Constitution’s checks and balances. The “Wild” West was more peaceful and a lot safer than most...