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The Perfect Weapon
War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
“An important—and deeply sobering—new book about cyberwarfare” (Nicholas Kristof, New York Times), now updated with a new chapter.
The Perfect Weapon is the startling inside story of how the rise of cyberweapons transformed geopolitics like nothing since the invention of the atomic...
What the Great Ate
A Curious History of Food and Fame
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
What was eating them? And vice versa.
In What the Great Ate, Matthew and Mark Jacob have cooked up a bountiful sampling of the peculiar culinary likes, dislikes, habits, and attitudes of famous—and often notorious—figures throughout history. Here is food
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by Bill Bryson
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. This time in Australia.
His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted in the sublime national bestseller A Walk in the Woods. In A Sunburned Country is his report on what he found in...
I'm a Stranger Here Myself
Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body.
After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they...
Tell Me Where It Hurts
A Day of Humor, Healing, and Hope in My Life as an Animal Surgeon
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
From the front lines of modern medicine, Tell Me Where It Hurts is a fascinating insider portrait of a veterinarian, his furry patients, and the blend of old-fashioned instincts and cutting-edge technology that defines pet care in the twenty-first century.
For anyone who’s ever wondered what...
Paradox
The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
A fun and fascinating look at great scientific paradoxes.
Throughout history, scientists have come up with theories and ideas that just don't seem to make sense. These we call paradoxes. The paradoxes Al-Khalili offers are drawn chiefly from physics and astronomy and represent those...
The Zombie Survival Guide
Complete Protection from the Living Dead
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2003
From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, World War Z, The Zombie Survival Guide is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now.
Fully illustrated and exhaustively comprehensive, this book covers everything you need to know, including how to...
by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
How do you conjure a life examined? Give the truest account of what you saw, felt, learned, loved, strived for?
For Amy Krouse Rosenthal, the surprising answer came in the form of an encyclopedia. In Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life she has ingeniously adapted this centuries-old format for...
Queen of the Road
The True Tale of 47 States, 22,000 Miles, 200 Shoes, 2 Cats, 1 Poodle, a Husband, and a Bus with a Will of Its Own
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
A pampered Long Island princess hits the road in a converted bus with her wilderness-loving husband, travels the country for one year, and brings it all hilariously to life in this offbeat and romantic memoir.
Doreen and Tim are married psychiatrists with a twist: She’s a self-proclaimed...
Endgame
Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall - from America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Acclaimed biographer Frank Brady traces the meteoric ascent—and confounding descent—of enigmatic chess genius Bobby Fischer.
Endgame is acclaimed biographer Frank Brady’s decades-in-the-making tracing of the meteoric ascent—and confounding descent—of enigmatic genius Bobby Fischer. ...
American Lightning
Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
It was an explosion that reverberated across the country—and into the very heart of early-twentieth-century America. On the morning of October 1, 1910, the walls of the Los Angeles Times Building buckled as a thunderous detonation sent men, machinery, and mortar rocketing into the night air. When...
At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream
Misadventures in Search of the Simple Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
We all dream about it, but Wade Rouse actually did it. Discover his journey to live the simple life in this hilarious memoir.
Finally fed up with the frenzy of city life and a job he hates, Wade Rouse decided to make either the bravest decision of his life or the worst mistake since his botched...
by Bill Bryson
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2006
From one of the world's most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of One Summer, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950s
Bill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century—1951—in the middle of the United States—Des Moines,...
by Nujood Ali, Delphine Minoui
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
“I’m a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything. Today I have decided to say no.”
Nujood Ali's childhood came to an abrupt end in 2008 when her father arranged for her to be married to a man three...