Jared Thomas: 9 books

Just as authors create books, books create authors — and these essays by thirty-one writers for young people offer a fascinating glimpse at the books that inspired them the most. What if you could look inside your favorite authors’ heads and see the book that led them to become who they...

Roxy May Redding’s got music in her soul and songs in her blood. She lives in a hot dusty town and is dreaming big. She survives run-ins with the mean girls at high school, sings in her dad’s band and babysits for her wayward aunt. But Roxy wants a new start. When she gets the chance to study...

**An “**engrossing collection of rigorously researched articles” from Elizabeth Warren, Jared Bernstein, William Julius Wilson, and more (Publishers Weekly). Can the wealthiest nation in the world do anything to combat the steadily rising numbers of Americans living in poverty—or the...

Imagine being able to fly. Walk through walls. Shape-shift. Breathe underwater. Conjure loved ones—or total strangers—out of thin air. Imagine experiencing your nighttime dreams with the same awareness you possess right now—fully functioning memory, imagination, and self-awareness. Imagine being...

Calypso Summer is a story told by Calypso, a young Nukunu man, fresh out of high school in Rastafarian guise. After failing to secure employment in sports retail, his dream occupation, Calypso finds work at the Henley Beach Health Food shop where his boss pressures him to gather Aboriginal plants...

Imagine ser capaz de voar. Atravessar paredes. Mudar de forma. Respirar embaixo d'água. Reencontrar pessoas que já morreram. Imagine poder vivenciar seus sonhos com a mesma consciência que você tem agora, enquanto lê este texto. Pois saiba que isso é possível, através do que a ciência chama...

Tres jóvenes autores, onironautas experimentados, despliegan el ya de por sí sugerente tema de los sueños con un libro que promete convertirse en una gran sensación editorial. Con evocadoras ilustraciones de Mahendra Singh, este delicioso tratado invita a los lectores a incorporar la experiencia...

Les quatre décennies qui viennent de s’écouler ont profondément modifié les bases mêmes du système international : mondialisation de tous les échanges, révolutions techniques, bouleversement de la hiérarchie des puissances, émergence de la Chine, explosion du Moyen-Orient, mutation des...

The last four decades have witnessed the profound transformation of the very foundations of the international system: the globalization of trade, technical revolutions, the upheaval of the hierarchy of powers, the emergence of China, the explosion of the Middle-East, the mutation of conflicts and...