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by Anita Tsuchiya
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK Lance Edward Armstrong, born in Plano, TX, on September 18, 1971, had a difficult childhood. His mother, Linda Mooneyham, was a high-school student with dreams of joining drill team and going to college. Instead, she found herself a newly married, 16-year-old dropout. Lance’s...
by Nicole Cipri
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK In his introduction to A Short History of Nearly Everything, author Bill Bryson describes a childhood experience common to many of us: a brief infatuation with science, with all its potential and possibility. For Bryson, it was inspired by a textbook’s cut-away illustration...
by Elise O.
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK Many people know Beatrix Potter was a children's author and conservationist, but did you know she was also a rebel at heart? Born in 1866, Beatrix lived in England during the reign of Queen Victoria, commonly known as the Victorian Era. Don't let the fact that there was a woman...
by Scott Charles
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK Someone I worked for once said to me, “there is a difference between your sphere of influence and your sphere of concern.” That’s the challenge of Thomas Friedman’s “The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization” ‒ to grasp the awesome power of...
Quicklet on Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Quicklet on Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOKIsabel Wilkersons The Warmth of Other Suns is truly a labor of love. It took 15 years to research and write, as she interviewed over 1,200 people. Wilkerson tracked down her subjects at churches, quilting clubs, funerals, family reunions, and others. After preliminary rounds of...
by Lacey Kohlmoos
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Have you ever walked through a park on a sunny spring day when everyone looks like they're having a great time and thought, gee, I wish I were that happy? Have you ever perused Facebook and seen a group of friends beaming into the camera and wished that your life could be as good as theirs? Have you...
by Leslie Truex
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK Jane Austen is more famous, loved and regarded today than when she was alive writing her witty stories of love in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Some suggest the resurgence has to do with the 1995 BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice that propelled Colin Firth’s...
by Karen Lac
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK At first glance, it would not seem that I, someone who was born in the United States and has never been to Africa, would have anything in common with a woman from Nigeria. My exposure to Nigeria is so limited that I am largely unable to distinguish it from the rest of the continent,...
by Christina St-Jean
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
This book is part of Hyperink's best little books series. It's close to 3,000 words of fast, entertaining information on a highly demanded topic. Based on reader feedback (including yours!), we may expand this book in the future. If we do so, we'll send a free copy to all previous buyers.ABOUT...
by Jason Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
ABOUT THE BOOK It's not surprising that one of the of the twentieth century's most enduring and controversial figures, Ayn Rand, produced one of the twentieth century's most enduring and controversial books, Atlas Shrugged. In the novel's fifty-plus years of existence, Atlas Shrugged has been...
by Alexandra Grashkina-Hristov
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK This book includes a collection of essays and one short story ("The Simplest Thing in the World"). The first edition of the book was published by The World Publishing Company in 1969, The revised edition in 1975 added the essay "Art and Cognition. This was the first book Rand...
Quicklet on Michel Foucault's Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison (CliffNotes-like Summary)
Quicklet on Michel Foucault's Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison (CliffNotes-like Summary)
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK To read and understand Foucault is to know that you are not a free man, but in fact a prisoner/guard in a penitentiary named Western Society. Discipline and Punish changed the way the humanities and social sciences understood power and the way that I understood my place in the...
by Mandy Howard
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK If you’ve ever had moral qualms with grisly medical experiments, secretly wondered what a cross between a man and a hog would look like, or even taken issue with the testing of cosmetics on animals, the book The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells will address your sticky...
by Kate Kastelein
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK Lions may be king of the jungle, but cats are king of the Internet. One quick google search for cat images produces over 300 million results. And though all those cats are cute as can be, nothing can compare to kittens when it comes to cuteness. After relentless searching, I’ve...