Thing Explainer

Our songbook features all 12 exuberant and hook-laden tunes from Avril's third CD: The Best Damn Thing * Contagious * Everything Back but You * Girlfriend * Hot * I Can Do Better * I Don't Have to Tr

There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster is the first comprehensive critical book on the catastrophic impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans. The disaster will go down on record as one of the

In the riveting style of The Tipping Point, Stephen M. R. Covey uncovers the overlooked and underestimated power of trust in a gripping look into what he calls "the one thing that changes everything.

There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster is the first comprehensive critical book on the catastrophic impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans. The disaster will go down on record as one of the

I’m Lucy Rose and here’s the thing about me: I am eight and according to my grandfather I have the kind of life that is called eventful, which means NOT boring. According to my mom and my grandmother,

In Just One Thing, author John Mauldin offers an incomparable shortcut to prosperity: the personal guidance of an outstanding group of recognized financial experts, each offering the single most usefu

The Real Thing is a portrait of America’s most famous product and the people who transformed it from mere soft drink to symbol of freedom. With fresh insights and a penetrating eye, New York Times rep

Bold and defiant like the women profiled between its covers, YOU SAY I'M A BITCH LIKE IT'S A BAD THING is a cranked-up collection of affirmations for mommies on the edge, self-styled divas, and domest

Here is the first practical guide for dealing with the moral issues that regularly confront clinicians in their work. Written for all mental health professionals, Doing the Right Thing: An Approach to

There's no such thing as business ethics. How can that be? Because a single standard applies to both your business and personal life-and it's one we all know and trust: the Golden Rule. Now bestselli

Life is filled with moral dilemmas. And in this ever changing world, doing the right thing can be an increasingly complex endeavor. Now psychologist Aaron Hass leads you on a voyage of discovery that

Offering an outstanding balance of rigor and accessibility, DO THE RIGHT THING, 2E provides accessible, impartial introductions to an excellent collection of readings in contemporary social issues. Pr

Dubiously aided by mystic John Constantine, Swamp Thing is revealed to be an elemental whose power spans the globe and whose voyage takes him from the most visceral horrors of a haunted house to break

It"s a good thing you're not anoctopus!If you were an octopus, you would have eight legs to put into your pants!Follow one little boy through his day as he playfully considers how mealtime, bath time,

Perfect for the general reader of poetry, students and teachers of literature, and aspiring poets, All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing is a lively and comprehensive study of versification by one of

The author follows up her best-seller It's a Girl Thing: How to Stay Healthy, Safe, and in Charge with a light-hearted book of advice for girls ages eight to eleven on menstruation, puberty, and other

A playful comparison in words and pictures of all things great and small takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the natural world to find the biggest thing imaginable.

Meet the characters from Dr. Seuss's beloved Christmas classic, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, in this three-book collection perfect for holiday gifting! Get to know the Grinch, Max, and Cindy-Lou Who with this boxed set ideal for Christmas read-alouds! These sturdy board books feature simple rhyme and colorful illustrations to introduce Dr. Seuss's holiday characters to babies and toddlers. Look for more of these board book introductions to classic Dr. Seuss characters: - I Am the Cat in the Hat - I Am the Lorax - We Are Thing One and Thing Two - We Are the Sneetches

Hands-on guidance for professionals investigating crimes that include cryptocurrency In There’s No Such Thing as Cryptocurrency Crime: An Investigators Guide, accomplished cybersecurity and forensics consultant Nick Furneaux delivers an expert discussion of the key methods used by crypto investigators, including investigations on the light and dark web. The book explores the criminal opportunities available to malicious actors in the crypto universe, as well as the investigative principles common to this realm. The author explains in detail a variety of essential topics, including bitcoin, crypto exchanges, wallets, and visualization, as well as important alt-currencies like Ethereum, Tron, Ripple, and more.He also provides engaging and informative presentations of: Strategies used by investigators around the world to seize the fruits of crypto-related crimeHow non-fungible tokens, new alt-currency tokens, and decentralized finance factor into cryptocurrency crimeThe application of com

A brilliantly silly question-and-answer book, fact-checked by world-leading experts from across the University of Cambridge. Did you know that there's no set number of bones in the human body? Most babies are born with around 300 bones, but by the time they've grown up, they usually have between 206 and 213. Covering a range of subjects from science, technology, engineering and mathematics to evolution, zoology, social history and more, this hilarious yet clever book expertly answers 213 of the most unusual and interesting questions you never thought to ask about the world - one for at least every bone in your body!There really is no such thing as a silly question.

A hilarious informational picture book that exposes vegetables for what they truly are—a social construct—by National Book Award finalist and Newbery Honor winner Kyle Lukoff, perfect for fans of Red: A Crayon's Story.Chester plans to have a salad for lunch, but in order to do that, he'll need vegetables. So he goes to the community garden, except he quickly learns that he won't be dressing a salad anytime soon. Instead, the vegetables start dressing him down. According to them, "vegetables" don't exist!What the bell pepper? That's right! What we know as "vegetables" are really just a variety of different parts of a plant. Kale is a leaf, broccoli is a flower, potatoes are roots. Thanks to a lively, sassy cast of talking "veggies," Chester is schooled on social constructs and taxonomy.But with a slyly informative text and illustrations that will crack readers up, the lessons in There's No Such Thing As Vegetables go down easy . . . actually, it's not a reach to say it's a total TREAT.

'So clear is Ditlevsen's eye that it is impossible to tear yourself away' John Self, GuardianAn unforgettable collection of stories from the author of The Copenhagen Trilogy'The most important thing is probably always precisely the thing you can't have. That's where all the happiness is'In these brief, acid-sharp stories of love, marriage and family from one of Denmark's most celebrated writers, the ordinary events of everyday life - a wife anxious not to wake her husband, a little boy losing his father's beloved knife, a woman's obsessive longing for a yellow silk umbrella - become dark and disconcerting. Here Tove Ditlevsen explores yearning, fear and the elusiveness of that strange thing called happiness.'The purity and dazzling insight of Ditlevsen's writing speaks for itself' Daily Telegraph'Authentic, unforced and utterly lucid' Sunday Times'Ditlevsen's wonderful and devastatingly bleak short stories simmer with melancholy and despair' Daily MailTranslated by Michael Favala Goldm

A board book based on The Cat in the Hat--perfect for introducing Dr. Seuss's most beloved characters to babies and toddlers! The Cat in the Hat introduces himself, Thing One and Thing Two, and Little Cats A-Z in this simple, sturdy board book about the joy of having fun. Written in rhymed verse, it's an ideal introduction to the characters for children too young for the Beginner Books The Cat in the Hat and The Cat in the Hat Comes Back. Now everyone in the family--even pre-readers--can get to know (and love) the Cat in the Hat!

Combining a cosmic scope with a heartfelt, earthbound humanism, John Byrne’s run on Fantastic Four remains a high point in Marvel history. Marvel Masterworks continues its collection of that epic era, pitting the FF against Terrax the Terrible, the former herald of Galactus now in the thrall of Doctor Doom! Then, the classic “Trial of Reed Richards” puts the FF’s leader in the stand of a Shi’ar courtroom for the crime of rescuing the god-killer Galactus! The Torch and Thing take on the Mole Man, the Beyonder cometh and welcome to the FF, She-Hulk! Plus: In one of the most emotional stories in comics history, a desperate Reed and Sue place the fate of their unborn child in the hands of Otto Octavius. COLLECTING: Fantastic Four (1961) 258-268, Alpha Flight (1983) 4, Thing (1983) 10; material from Thing (1983) 7, Marvel Fanfare (1982) 15, Fantastic Four Special Edition (1984) 1

The beloved star of Friends takes us behind the scenes of the hit sitcom and his struggles with addiction in this candid, funny, and revelatory memoir that delivers a powerful message of hope and persistenceIn an extraordinary story that only he could tell, Matthew Perry takes readers onto the soundstage of the most successful sitcom of all time while opening up about his private struggles with addiction. Candid, self-aware, and told with his trademark humour, Perry vividly details his lifelong battle with the disease and what fuelled it despite seemingly having it all.Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing is an unforgettable memoir that shares the most intimate details of the love Perry lost, his darkest days, and his greatest friends.Unflinchingly honest, moving, and hilarious: this is the book fans have been waiting for.

The beloved star of Friends takes us behind the scenes of the hit sitcom and his struggles with addiction in this candid, funny, and revelatory memoir that delivers a powerful message of hope and persistenceIn an extraordinary story that only he could tell, Matthew Perry takes readers onto the soundstage of the most successful sitcom of all time while opening up about his private struggles with addiction. Candid, self-aware, and told with his trademark humor, Perry vividly details his lifelong battle with the disease and what fueled it despite seemingly having it all.Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing is an unforgettable memoir that shares the most intimate details of the love Perry lost, his darkest days, and his greatest friends.Unflinchingly honest, moving, and hilarious: this is the book fans have been waiting for.

Inspired by her popular Wild Thing podcast, journalist Laura Krantz incorporates the scientific method and her journalistic skills to determine if Bigfoot is realWhen journalist Laura Krantz discovered that her long-lost cousin, Grover Krantz, a distinguished anthropologist and professor at Washington State University, had devoted much of his career to the search for Bigfoot, she couldn’t quite believe it. A natural skeptic and a strong believer in facts, Krantz decided to conduct her own quest for the most famous and elusive mythical creature. The Search for Sasquatch takes readers through the big guy’s fun, fascinating, and complex world, posing the question: Could Bigfoot be out there? Exploring the gray area between myth and science, Krantz takes readers on a strange, surreal, and surprising hunt for the fabled Sasquatch―showing us how to challenge our gut assumptions and open our minds to new possibilities, to think critically, and to use the scientific method along the way. Th

Everything I Need I Get From You will fascinate aficionados, but even for someone who's never so much as logged on, it makes a rich and heartfelt explainer on the feelings and phenomena that thrive on the internet. --Jenny Odell, author of How to Do NothingA thrilling dive into the world of superfandom and the fangirls who shaped the social internet. In 2014, on the side of a Los Angeles freeway, a One Direction fan erected a shrine in the spot where, a few hours earlier, Harry Styles had vomited. "It's interesting for sure," Styles said later, adding, "a little niche, maybe." But what seemed niche to Styles was actually a signpost for an unfathomably large, hyper-connected alternate universe: stan culture. In Everything I Need I Get from You, Kaitlyn Tiffany, a staff writer at The Atlantic and a superfan herself, guides us through the online world of fans, stans, and boybands. Along the way we meet girls who damage their lungs from screaming too loud, fans rallying together to manipul

What is a thingamabob? A thingamabob can be anything . . . and so can you A sweet, empowering picture book about self-discovery from the acclaimed author-illustrator of Petra. In the beginning, the universe was one great big thing. Then that thing exploded into gobs and gobs of thingamabobs. All of the thingamabobs had a purpose . . . all except for one small, shapeless thingamabob. No one knew what it was for. It wasn't this or that. It wasn't here or there. What's the use of this thingamabob? But everything changes for Thingamabob when it makes a friend in the park. And Thingamabob realizes that if you aren't one thing . . . you can be everything

A YA romance about a girl on a boys’ hockey team, from the author of The Last Thing You SaidA Junior Library Guild SelectionFrom the author of The Last Thing You Said, a YA romance about a girl on a b

Mole’s best friend, the Lumpy-Bumpy Thing, has found a hat. On it there’s a label that reads Warning! Do Not Touch! The Lumpy-Bumpy Thing picks up the hat and puts it on his head. But Mole is worried.

Express yourselfwith stickers! If there's one thing that's certain in these extraordinarily uncertain times, it's that we are feeling all the feelshappy, sad, anxious, loving, angry, worried, and more

A must-read for young feminists, The Prettiest is an incisive, empowering novel by Brigit Young about fighting back against sexism and objectification.THE PRETTIEST: It's the last thing Eve Hoffmann e

'Enthralling, a real thing of beauty. Dazzling' -- JOSIE SILVER In Second World War Bath, young, naive wireless engineer Will meets German refugee Elsa Klein: she is sophisticated, witty and wordly, a

'Enthralling, a real thing of beauty. Dazzling' -- JOSIE SILVER In Second World War Bath, young, naive wireless engineer Will meets German refugee Elsa Klein: she is sophisticated, witty and wordly, a

'It is certainly a good thing for the world that Hitler's crowd or Stalin's did not discover this atomic bomb. It seems to be the most terrible thing ever discovered' - US President Harry S. TrumanTr

An introduction to one of the most awe-inspiring spectacles on Earth--with the Cat in the Hat as your guide!With a little help from Thing One and Thing Two, the Cat in the Hat travels the Earth--and b

The epic conclusion to the #1 bestselling Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series.The last thing Jacob Portman saw before the world went dark was a terrible, familiar face.Suddenly, he and Noor are

From the winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction'Powerful . . .truly a living and breathing thing.' Financial Times'McBride is on blistering form.' Sinead Gleeson'Nothing else feels so fresh, so radic

For some, perfection just isn't enough.Things are looking bright at the Beifong Metalbending Academy! But after all the adventures Toph's had with Aang, Sokka, Zuko, and Katara, the whole thing feels