From the award winning author of Fat Kid Rules the World and The Liberation of Gabriel King comes a lyrical, middle grade gem that asks all the hard questions and hits all the right notes--perfect for
Finalist for the 2014 Man Booker Prize“J is a snarling, effervescent, and ambitious philosophical work of fiction that poses unsettling questions about our sense of history, and our self-satisfied ort
A comprehensive and practical guide to watercolor painting from sought-after instructor and acclaimed artist Leslie Frontz that answers the two most common questions students at all levels want to kno
Why have we failed to create the happy, peaceful world that we all want? And what can we do about it? For more than three decades, Jalaja Bonheim has explored these questions in her work with women le
The companion book to an upcoming museum exhibition of the same name, Places of Inventionseeks to answer timely questions about the nature of invention and innovation: What is it about some places tha
An examination of how mainstream feminism has been mobilized in support of racist measuresFeminist Christine Delphy co-founded the journal Nouvelles questions feministes with Simone de Beauvoir in the
An examination of how mainstream feminism has been mobilized in support of racist measuresFeminist Christine Delphy co-founded the journal Nouvelles questions feministes with Simone de Beauvoir in the
Thomas, a man in search of answers, interrogates a varied group of people he has captured, including an astronaut, a policeman, and his own mother, in his quest to resolve questions concerning injusti
"An irresistibly gifty A-to-Z book of expert answers to wedding planning questions, humorous observations, offbeat advice about wedding and marriage prep, and pure, quickfire fun for brides-to-be"--
You’ll Never Make a Decision the Same Way Again Should I take this job? Buy this house? Marry this person? We ask questions every day about the choices we face. But are we asking the most important q
In the course of our enduring quest for knowledge about ourselves and our universe, we haven't found answers to one of our most fundamental questions: Does life exist anywhere else in the universe? Te
“Alan Lightman brings a light touch to heavy questions. Here is a book about nesting ospreys, multiple universes, atheism, spiritualism, and the arrow of time. Throughout, Lightman takes us back and f
Do you ever wonder…What does she have that I haven’t got?Why doesn’t he ask me out?What makes her popular? Why not me? Maybe it’s time to change the questions you’re asking. Maybe it’s time to ask in
What is the secret to a stable marriage? How many gay people are still in the closet? Do we truly live in a postracial society? Has Twitter made us dumber? These are just a few of the questions Christ
Now that the tournament is over, Negi wants to find his missing students and take them home but first, he's confronted by a sinister man who claims to know the answers to all of Negi's questions. Reis
Divorce is painful. Take comfort in God as healer and counselor. With divorce comes many questions, pain, and frustration. What am I going to do? How will I survive? What about the children? What wil
MAKE A CHOICE WITH NO REGRETSThis prequel to megahit Attack on Titan answers the questions: How did Captain Levi of the Survey Corps go from street tough to humanity's strongest soldier? And how did C
An award-nominated debut is set in a Jesuit school-dominated community over the course of a Halloween weekend and follows the tragedies of its residents, from a doomed quarterback who questions his fa
Powerful and lean, Eleven Days is an astonishing first novel full of suspense that addresses our most basic questions about war as it tells of the love between a mother and her son. When the story ope
Why do we still have religion? It seems to offer nothing but violence, suppression and conflict. Discussing the relationship between religion and politics, exploring questions of faith, love, human na
Precious wants to be a detective when she grows up. She is always practicing at being a detective by asking questions and finding out about other people’s lives. There are two new students in her clas
Analyzes philosophical and economic questions that arose in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis while assessing the 1930 predictions of John Maynard Keynes, sharing the authors' views on the qualiti
An Emmy Award-winning staff writer for The Daily Show presents an offbeat revision of the U.S. Constitution that reflects 21st-century realities and addresses unresolved questions while describing the
Easy answers for your most common exposure questions Bryan Peterson’s Understanding Exposure has demystified the elements of exposure for nearly half a million readers, making it one of the most pop
“What’s new. What else. What next. What’s happened here.”???? Pitch Dark is a book of questions, a book of false starts, red herrings, misunderstandings, and lightning revelations. It is a book about
This is what it is to be a slave: that everything is decided for you from out there. You just got to listen and do as they tell you. You don’t say no. You don’t ask questions. You just do what they te
From the #1 wedding website, this completely revised and updated edition of the classic wedding planning bible answers all of your questions, with all the latest information and tools a bride could wa
Laney—a skinny, awkward teenager alone in the world—thinks she’s found a kindred spirit in thirty-five-year-old Delilah. Until the police come to ask Laney questions and she finds herself reconstructi
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This groundbreaking book presents a new perspective on three of cosmology’s essential questions: What came before the Big Bang? What is the source of order in our universe? And what cosmic future awai
Hakuin Ekaku (1685-1769) is one of the most influential figures in Zen Buddhism. He revitalized the Rinzai Zen tradition (which emphasizes the use of koans, or unanswerable questions, in meditation pr
“With his engaging blend of travelogue, conversations with a wise and charismatic spiritual father, and musings on the big questions of life and death, Professor Markides takes us as companions on his
More than six million golfers turn to the pages of Golf Digest for answers to their most perplexing golf questions and for tips on how to improve their game. Now, Golf Digest turns to its team of play
An extensively researched, lavishly illustrated consideration of the myths, memories, and questions that gathered around our most beloved—and most enigmatic—president in the years between his assassin
In The Secret Tradition of the Soul, author Patrick Harpur argues that answers to life’s most difficult questions—the meaning of life, the nature of self, and the existence of an afterlife—can be met
If you need to know it, it’s in this book! Cracking the AP Biology Exam, 2012 Edition, includes: ‧ A thorough review of all 12 AP Biology labs and possible testing scenarios ‧ Review questions an
Who are you? It’s the most fundamental of human questions. Are you the type of person who tilts at windmills, or the one who prefers to view them from the comfort of an air-conditioned motorcoach? Our
A wide-ranging and detailed survey dedicated to the protagonists of the contemporary art scene in Eastern Europe. As the title suggests, history, memory and identity are the principle "open questions"
Send in the clones! On second thought, maybe not.?CAN IT READ MY MIND?WILL IT BE EVIL?HOW DO I STOP IT??Find out the answers to these and other burning questions in this funny, informative, and ingeni
What is magazine design? What are magazine designers and art directors thinking, and in which directions are they heading? Armed with those simple questions, the author visited ten prominent magazine