THE BEST CURE FOR A COLD might just be a visit from your closest friends. Winner of the 2011 Caldecott Medal and 2010 Best Illustrated Books award from the New York Times. Amos McGee, a friendly zook
Shortlisted for the 2018 Royal Society Investment Science Book Prize A look inside the algorithms that are shaping our lives and the dilemmas they bring with them. If
A fascinating exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives, helping to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mindAll our lives a
Stella Lane thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe. She comes up with algorithms to predict customer purchases—a job that has given her more money than she knows what to do with as wel
A Cosmopolitan Title to Get Excited About in 2018! Stella Lane thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe. She comes up with algorithms to predict customer purchases—a job that has given h
A New York Times Notable Book of 2011A Publisher's Weekly Top 10 Book of 2011 A Kirkus Reviews Top 25 Best Fiction of 2011 Title One of Library Journal's Best Books of 2011A Salon Best Fiction of
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book for 2011A USA Today 10 Books We Loved Reading in 2011 TitleOne of NPR’s 10 Best Novels of 2011 What if—whoosh, right now,
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 One of The Economist’s 2011 Books of the Year One of NPR’s 10 Best Novels of 2011 Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams is an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative
A harrowing and thorough account of the massacre that upended Norway, and the trial that helped put the country back together. On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb outside governm
From the star of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills comes an emotional and eye opening behind-the-scenes look at her descent into uncovering the mystery of chronic Lyme disease.In early 2011, Yoland
A compelling, definitive account of how and why bin Laden's ideology keeps rising from the dead. In early 2011, the heart of the Muslim world roiled in protest, consumed with the upheaval of the Arab
On July 6, 2011, Richard Oland, scion of the Moosehead brewing family, was murdered in his office. The brutal killing stunned the city of Saint John, and news of the crime reverberated across the coun
From 1789 in France to 2011 in Cairo, revolutions have shaken the world. In their pursuit of social justice, revolutionaries have taken on the assembled might of monarchies, empires, and dictatorships
A harrowing and thorough account of the massacre that upended Norway, and the trial that helped put the country back together. On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb outside governm
In 2011, Mark Herzlich became a starting linebacker for a New York Giants team that would win the Super Bowl—just two years after he had been told that he would never play football again. Now Herzli
Winner of the Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography 2011 Drawing on a lifetime of writing about theatre and film, Callow takes us behind the curtain and behind the camera to introduce us to the
When Lisa traveled home to visit her parents in December 2011, she never expected an ordinary three-day weekend to turn into an extraordinary 14-day observance of her mother’s life – and ultimately –
Since its commencement in the upsurge of the Arab Spring in 2011, the Syrian civil war has claimed in excess of 200,000 lives, with an estimated eight million Syrians, more than a third of the country
In 2011, Philip Zimbardo gave a TED Talk called "The Demise of Guys," which has been viewed by over 1.8 million people. A TED eBook short followed that chronicled how in record numbers men a
July 22, 2011 was the darkest day in Norway's history since Nazi Germany's invasion. It was one hundred eighty-nine minutes of terror - from the moment the bomb exploded outside a government building
July 22, 2011 was the darkest day in Norway's history since Nazi Germany's invasion. It was one hundred eighty-nine minutes of terror - from the moment the bomb exploded outside a government building
Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, share their impassioned argument for responsible gun ownership.After the 2011 Tucson shooting that nearly took her life,
"When the Chinese leader Wen Jiabao visited Britain in 2011 he said that Shakespeare was the greatest writer who ever lived. People all over the modern world recognize the image of his face and have h
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Rumor of War traces his 2011 road trip from the southernmost to the northernmost points of the United States to experience firsthand the country's vast diversity
From the author of the internationally bestselling, award-winning The Devotion of Suspect X comes the latest novel featuring “Detective Galileo.”In 2011, The Devotion of Suspect X was a hit with criti
The year is 2011, and what starts as a pervasive and inexplicable illness ends up as a zombie infestation that devastates the world's population. Taking the form of a biologist's illustrated journal f
A key figure behind the Egyptian uprising in January 2011 that resulted in the ousting of President Mubarak tells the inside story and presents lessons on how to unleash the power of crowds to create
A key figure behind the Egyptian uprising in January 2011 which resulted in the ousting of President Mubarak tells the inside story and presents lessons on how to unleash the power of crowds to create
Documents the January 2011 assassination attempt that killed six people and wounded eighteen others, including U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords, analyzing vulnerabilities in the state's politica
Documents the January 2011 assassination attempt that killed six people and wounded eighteen others, including U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords, analyzing vulnerabilities in the state's politica
Recounts the author's personal struggle with terminal brain cancer and his take on the merits of the "anticancer" lifestyle that he adopted and advocated until his death in 2011.
Recounts the author's personal struggle with terminal brain cancer and his take on the merits of the "anticancer" lifestyle that he adopted and advocated until his death in 2011.
Recounts the author's personal struggle with terminal brain cancer and his take on the merits of the "anticancer" lifestyle that he adopted and advocated until his death in 2011.
The true story of the killing of bin Laden by author and former U.S. Navy SEAL Chuck Pfarrer On May 2, 2011, at 1:03 a.m. a satellite uplink was sent from Pakistan crackling into the situation room of
A New York Times Notable Crime Book and Favorite Cozy for 2011A Publishers Weekly Best Mystery/Thriller books for 2011 "Penny has been compared to Agatha Christie [but] it sells her short. Her charact
Music Sales AmericaIn this 2011 revision of the best-selling harmonica book and CD, Jon Gindick continues his fun-loving jam-with-me teaching style. He also shares secrets of the blues harp learned as
From the BBC Radio archives, a classic production of Anton Chekhov's famous play—due to be revived by Great Britain's National Theatre in 2011—in which Madame Ranevskaya must face the sale of her belo
When the wife of a North Korean diplomat dies, Inspector O is told to investigate, with a curious proviso: Don't look too closely at the details, and stay away from the topic of missiles. But O is soo
2011年英國童書桂冠作家可怕的怪獸Gruffalo又回來啦！但是這次，牠帶來了牠的九首怪獸歌，要和小朋友們一起分享！實際上，著名童書作者Julia Donaldson在成為專職作家之前，曾經是一名作詞作曲家。像她的童書一樣，她創作的歌曲充滿活力，而她本人的表演更深受小朋友們喜愛。這本歌譜裡收錄了故事改編的”The Gruffalo”、”A Squash and a Squeeze”以及”Monk
Our increasing reliance on technology and the Internet has opened a window for mathematicians and data researchers to gaze through into our lives. Using the data they are constantly collecting about w
