Henry: 2809 books
by Henry Owen
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
At Friendship Gardens, we believe everyone should have access to fresh, healthy food and the knowledge to grow it themselves. Friendship Gardens is a nonprofit project teaching gardening and growing food for Friendship Trays, Charlotte's meals on wheels program. This ebook is our 'Gardening 101' guide...
by Mignon Fogarty
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008
Online sensation Grammar Girl makes grammar fun and easy in this New York Times bestseller
Are you stumped by split infinitives? Terrified of using "who" when a "whom" is called for? Do you avoid the words "affect" and "effect" altogether?
Grammar...
One Nation Under Dog
Adventures in the New World of Prozac-Popping Puppies, Dog-Park Politics, and Organic Pet Food
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
A witty, insightful, and affectionate examination of how and why we spend billions on our pets, and what this tells us about ourselves
In 2003, Michael Schaffer and his wife drove to a rural shelter and adopted an emaciated, dreadlocked Saint Bernard who they named Murphy. They vowed that they'd...
The Short Bus
A Journey Beyond Normal
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2007
A young man once called unteachable journeys across America to investigate the lives of those, like himself, who are forced to create new ways of living in order to survive
Labeled "dyslexic and profoundly learning disabled with attention and behavior problems," Jonathan Mooney was...
The White Cascade
The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2008
The never-before-told story of one of the worst rail disasters in U.S. history in which two trains full of people, trapped high in the Cascade Mountains, are hit by a devastating avalanche
In February 1910, a monstrous blizzard centered on Washington State hit the Northwest, breaking records....
Grammar Girl's Punctuation 911
Your Guide to Writing it Right
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
Previously published as part of Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing.
Online sensation Grammar Girl makes punctuation fun and easy in Grammar Girl's Punctuation 911.
Mignon Fogarty, a.k.a. Grammar Girl, is determined to wipe out bad punctuation—but she's also determined...
Killing Jesus
A History
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Millions of readers have thrilled to bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and historian Martin Dugard's Killing Kennedy and Killing Lincoln, page-turning works of nonfiction that have changed the way we read history.
Now the iconic anchor of The O'Reilly Factor details the events leading up to...
The Sixth Extinction
An Unnatural History
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
A major book about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes
Over the last half a billion years, there have...
The Eating Instinct
Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
An exploration, both personal and deeply reported, of how we learn to eat in today’s toxic food culture.
Food is supposed to sustain and nourish us. Eating well, any doctor will tell you, is the best way to take care of yourself. Feeding well, any human will tell you, is the most important...
Beyond Words
What Animals Think and Feel
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
I wanted to know what they were experiencing, and why to us they feel so compelling, and so-close. This time I allowed myself to ask them the question that for a scientist was forbidden fruit: Who are you?
Weaving decades of field observations with exciting new discoveries about the brain,...
The Devil's Teeth
A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2006
A journalist's obsession brings her to a remote island off the California coast, home to the world's most mysterious and fearsome predators--and the strange band of surfer-scientists who follow them
Susan Casey was in her living room when she first saw the great white sharks of the Farallon...
Falter
Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out.
Bill McKibben’s groundbreaking book The End of Nature -- issued in dozens of languages and long regarded...
The Moral Arc
How Science Makes Us Better People
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Bestselling author Michael Shermer's exploration of science and morality that demonstrates how the scientific way of thinking has made people, and society as a whole, more moral
From Galileo and Newton to Thomas Hobbes and Martin Luther King, Jr., thinkers throughout history have consciously...
Dark Summit
The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2008
The inside story of the deadly 2006 climbing season on Everest
On May 15, 2006, a young British climber named David Sharp lay dying near the top of Mount Everest while forty other climbers walked past him on their way to the summit. A week later, Lincoln Hall, a seasoned Australian climber,...