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What If?
Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask
Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe’s iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language,...
by Augusten Burroughs
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2007
From the million-copy bestselling author of Running with Scissors comes Augusten Burroughs's most provocative collection yet.
This book is approved for consumption by those seeking pleasure, escape, amusement, enlightenment, or general distraction. This book is not approved to treat disorders...
Drinking and Dating
P.S. Social Media Is Ruining Romance
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
On the heels of her New York Times bestselling book Drinking and Tweeting, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Brandi Glanville takes readers on a wild ride through her dating life in this highly-entertaining relationship book.
Drinking and Dating chronicles Glanville’s misadventures stumbling...
by Rius
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 1, 2013
La Panza es Primero, editado por primera vez en 1973, fue el primer
libro en cuestionar las fallas nutricionales de la comida mexicana. No
la sabrosura de nuestra comida, sino sus grandes deficiencias
nutritivas. Su aceptación fue instantánea. Hasta entonces todos los
libros sobre la comida mexicana...
by James Kakalios
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
A complete update to the hit book on the real physics at work in comic books, featuring more heroes, more villains, and more science
Since 2001, James Kakalios has taught "Everything I Needed to Know About Physics I Learned from Reading Comic Books," a hugely popular university course...
The Book of the Dead
Lives of the Justly Famous and the Undeservedly Obscure
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
The team behind the New York Times bestseller The Book of General Ignorance turns conventional biography on its head—and shakes out the good stuff.
Following their Herculean—or is it Sisyphean?—efforts to save the living from ignorance, the two wittiest Johns in the English language turn...
by John Gierach
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general by the acknowledged master of fishing writers.
With his inimitable combination of wit and wisdom, John Gierach once again celebrates the fly-fishing life in Standing in a River Waving a Stick and notes...
Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders
A John Gierach Fly-Fishing Treasury
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2001
Brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general by the acknowledged master of fishing writers.
Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders collects forty of John Gierach’s finest essays on fishing from six of his books. Like all his writing, these essays are...
by John Gierach
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
Brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general by the acknowledged master of fishing writers.
In No Shortage of Good Days John Gierach takes readers from the Smokies in Tennessee to his home waters in Colorado, from the Canadian Maritimes to Mexico—saltwater...
Obfuscation
A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
How we can evade, protest, and sabotage today's pervasive digital surveillance by deploying more data, not less—and why we should.
With Obfuscation, Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum mean to start a revolution. They are calling us not to the barricades but to our computers, offering us ways...
by Dale Miller, Gopalan Nadathur
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Formal systems that describe computations over syntactic structures occur frequently in computer science. Logic programming provides a natural framework for encoding and animating such systems. However, these systems often embody variable binding, a notion that must be treated carefully at a computational...
How Can I Get Better?
An Action Plan for Treating Resistant Lyme & Chronic Disease
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER!
“Horowitz is one of the most prominent ‘Lyme literate’ physicians…patients wait for months to see him, and several told me that he had essentially cured them of a disease that nobody else seemed able to treat.” —The New Yorker
“If you have...
Lessons from Madame Chic
20 Stylish Secrets I Learned While Living in Paris
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Inspired by Paris, this lighthearted and deceptively wise contemporary memoir serves as a guidebook for women on the path to adulthood, sophistication, and style. Jennifer Scott’s self-published success is now a beautifully packaged and fully illustrated gift book, perfect for any woman looking...
by David Lampe
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
A HISTORY OF FIVE YEARS OF SECRET WARFARE AGAINST THE NAZI OCCUPATION
Students were the first to resist
Entire cities went on strike
All the Danish population worked to save their Jewish countrymen
V-2 component factories were destroyed in pitched battles
General Montgomery described the Danish Resistance...