Simon: 5480 books
Character Disturbance
the phenomenon of our age
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Modern permissiveness and the new culture of entitlement allows disturbed people to reach adulthood without proper socialization. In a book meant both for the general public and for professionals, bestselling author and psychologist George Simon explains in plain English:
•How most disturbed...
The Map That Changed the World
William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
In 1793, a canal digger named William Smith made a startling discovery. He found that by tracing the placement of fossils, which he uncovered in his excavations, one could follow layers of rocks as they dipped and rose and fell—clear across England and, indeed, clear across the world—making it...
The Men Who United the States
America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Simon Winchester, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Atlantic and The Professor and the Madman, delivers his first book about America: a fascinating popular history that illuminates the men who toiled fearlessly to discover, connect, and bond the citizenry and geography of the U.S.A....
The Code Book
The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
In his first book since the bestselling Fermat's Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, nations, and individual lives. From Mary, Queen of Scots, trapped by her own code, to the Navajo Code...
On the Map
A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
Cartography enthusiasts rejoice: the bestselling author of Just My Type reveals the fascinating relationship between man and map.
Simon Garfield’s Just My Type illuminated the world of fonts and made everyone take a stand on Comic Sans and care about kerning. Now Garfield takes on a subject...
Fermat's Enigma
The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
xn + yn = zn, where n represents 3, 4, 5, ...no solution
"I have discovered a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain."
With these words, the seventeenth-century French mathematician Pierre de Fermat threw down the gauntlet...
by Simon Monk
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2012
Program your own Raspberry Pi projects Create innovative programs and fun games on your tiny yet powerful Raspberry Pi. In this book, electronics guru Simon Monk explains the basics of Raspberry Pi application development, while providing hands-on examples and ready-to-use scripts. See how to set...
The Sunflower
On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
A Holocaust survivor's surprising and thought-provoking study of forgiveness, justice, compassion, and human responsibility, featuring contributions from the Dalai Lama, Harry Wu, Cynthia Ozick, Primo Levi, and more.
While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Simon Wiesenthal was taken...
Atlantic
Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms,and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
"Variably genial, cautionary, lyrical, admonitory, terrifying, horrifying and inspiring…A lifetime of thought, travel, reading, imagination and memory inform this affecting account." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Blending history and anecdote, geography and reminiscence, science...
The Brave Athlete
Calm the F*ck Down and Rise to the Occasion
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
The Brave Athlete solves the 13 most common mental conundrums athletes face in their everyday training and in races.
You don’t have one brain—you have three; your ancient Chimp brain that keeps you alive, your modern Professor brain that navigates the civilized world, and your Computer...
The River at the Center of the World
A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Rising in the mountains of the Tibetan border, the Yangtze River, the symbolic heart of China, pierces 3,900 miles of rugged country before debouching into the oily swells of the East China Sea. Connecting China's heartland cities with the volatile coastal giant, Shanghai, it has also historically...
Open to Him: Cat's Anal Punishment
Book #3 of the Punish Me Series
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Another STEAMY book from Lara Simon's Punish Me Series.
This time when Cat goes away on a business trip with her boss Knox Stowe, he unleashes his sexy rage in a very kinky session of anal sex. Don't miss the naughtiest BDSM book of the series yet!
Warning: this book is meant for an adult audience only. It contains explicit sexual content.
Wanderer's Odyssey - Books 1 to 3
The Epic Space Opera Series Begins
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
An ancient starship just woke up. A young slave just became its captain…
Jess has been a prisoner his entire life. He’s watched his fellow slaves visit boobytrapped ships for weeks. None of them ever came back alive. When Jess gets orders to clear the next ship, he knows he’s about to...
by Bill Doede, William Morrison, Michael Shaara
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
The awesomeness of the Golden Age of Science Fiction continues, with Volume V! Sail through space, visit rival galaxies, and suffer the void! Volume V contents include: The Moons of Mars, by Dean Evans Orphans of the Void, by Michael Shaara The Luckiest Man in Denv, by Simon Eisner The Awakening,...