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Second Lives
A Journey Through Virtual Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2008
We’ve always dreamed of perfect places: Eden, heaven, Utopia. Imagine gambling without loss, love without heartbreak, sex without exposure, experience without risk. Welcome to the fascinating world of online virtual reality, the land of invented places and populations that is entered and inhabited...
What Terrorists Want
Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2006
“This is at the top of my list for best books on terrorism.”–Jessica Stern, author of Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill
How can the most powerful country in the world feel so threatened by an enemy infinitely weaker than we are? How can loving parents and otherwise...
Turkmeniscam
How Washington Lobbyists Fought to Flack for a Stalinist Dictatorship
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2008
“As I have often said, I would represent the devil himself for the right price–it’s not personal, just business.”
–a Washington, D.C., lobbyist
For nearly as long as there have been politicians in the United States, there have been lobbyists haunting the halls of Congress–shaking...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2002
CodeNotes provides the most succinct, accurate, and speedy way for
a developer to ramp up on a new technology or language.
Unlike other programming books, CodeNotes drills down to
the core aspects of a technology, focusing on the key elements needed in order to implement it immediately. It is a unique...
It's Not You, It's the Dishes (originally published as Spousonomics)
How to Minimize Conflict and Maximize Happiness in Your Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Your marriage is fine, right? Sure, there are showdowns over who unloads more dishes, and some simmering discontent over who drives more car pools, cleans more dust bunnies, and keeps the social wheels of your existence greased. The sex is good, though you can’t remember when you last had it. Come...
I Only Say This Because I Love You
How the Way We Talk Can Make or Break Family Relationships Throughout Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2001
Why does talk in families so often go in circles, leaving us tied up in knots? In this illuminating book, Deborah Tannen, the linguist and and bestselling author of You Just Don't Understand and many other books, reveals why talking to family members is so often painful and problematic even when we're...
Guiding Lights
The People Who Lead Us Toward Our Purpose in Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2004
We all need people to help us find the way. In this stirring new book, acclaimed author and educator Eric Liu takes us on a quest for those guiding lights. He shares invaluable lessons from people whose “classrooms” are boardrooms, arenas, concert halls, theaters, kitchens, and places of worship–and...
The Divorce Handbook
Your Basic Guide to Divorce (Revised and Updated)
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Since its first publication in 1982, The Divorce Handbook has sold over 200,000 copies. In this new and fully revised edition, specialist in family law James T. Friedman covers, in an easy-to-use question-and-answer format, all the issues involved in negotiating a separation and divorce--how to choose...
by William Faulkner
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Published early in the author’s legendary career and collected here in a single illuminating volume, these are William Faulkner’s only two works of poetry: The Marble Faun (1924) and A Green Bough (1933).
“These are primarily the poems of youth and a simple heart. They are the poems of...
Heartbreaker
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
The love between a daughter and her mother—and the dark secrets they keep from each other—are at the heart of this wildly imaginative novel that combines elements of The Handmaid’s Tale, Stranger Things, and Twin Peaks.
“I love Heartbreaker’s outlandishness, its sizzling energy—the...
Doctor, What Should I Eat?
Nutrition Prescriptions for Ailments in Which Diet Can Really Make a Difference
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
One of America's most trusted physicians and the bestselling author of the blockbuster The Best Treatment prescribes the right foods to treat or prevent scores of health-care problems, from asthma, ulcers, and infertility to Alzheimer's, CFS, and Parkinson's disease. Nutrition tables throughout. Index.
Passing for Human
A Graphic Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
A visually arresting graphic memoir about a young artist struggling against what’s expected of her as a woman, and learning to accept her true self, from an acclaimed New Yorker cartoonist.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Guardian • New York • Refinery29 • Kirkus Reviews
In...
Excuse Me
Cartoons, Complaints, and Notes to Self
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2019
A razor-sharp collection from the acclaimed New Yorker cartoonist and Instagram sensation whom Vulture recently called “a remarkable young talent”
With her trademark, scratchy style and keen eye for the absurd, Liana Finck has amassed a large, devoted following who love the deeply insightful,...
by David Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
In one virtuosic, mind-bending novel after another, David Mitchell continues to strengthen his reputation as “one of the more fascinating and fearless writers alive” (Dave Eggers, The New York Times Book Review) and “the novelist who’s been showing us the future of fiction” (Ron Charles,...