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Physics of the Impossible_ A Scientific - Michio Kaku
From Publishers WeeklyIn this latest effort to popularize the sciences, City University of New York professor and media star Kaku (_Hyperspace_) ponders topics that many people reg... -
Paul Kleinman - Philosophy 101_ From Plato and Socrates to Ethics and Metaphysics, an Essential Primer on the History of Thought-Adams Media (2013)
Discover the world's greatest thinkers and their groundbreaking notions!Too often, textbooks turn the noteworthy theories, principles, and figures of philosophy into tedious discou... -
Fooling Some of the People All of the Time, a Long Short (And Now Complete) Story, Updated With New Epilogue - David Einhorn
A revealing look at Wall Street, the financial media, and financial regulators by David Einhorn, the President of Greenlight CapitalCould 2008's credit crisis have been minimized o... -
HTML5Canvas
HTML5 is revolutionizing the way web applications are developed, and this practical, hands-on book puts you right in the middle the action. You'll learn how to build interactive mu... -
Your Medical Mind - Jerome Groopman
The essential tools for making our own best medical decisions, cutting through the confusion caused by the health-care system, the media, and gaps in our own reasoning.Making the r... -
You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up - Annabelle Gurwitch
EDITORIAL REVIEW: In this hilarious and ultimately moving memoir, comedians and real-life married couple Annabelle Gurwitch and Jeff Kahn prove that in marriage, all you need is lo... -
unSpun_ Finding Facts in a Worl - Brooks Jackson; Kathleen Hall J
Americans are bombarded daily with mixed messages, half-truths, misleading statements, and out-and-out fabrications masquerading as facts. The news media--once the vaunted watchdog... -
Tommy Cooper_ Always Leave Them - John Fisher
SUMMARY: The first ever intimate portrait of Britain's best-loved, but little known, comedy entertainer, this fully authorized, biography of comedian Tommy Cooper shows the man beh... -
Tickling the English - Dara O. Briain
Nostalgia, identity, eccentricity, gin drinking and occasional violence... these are just some of the themes that stand-up comedian Dara O Briain explores in Tickling the English. -
The life of Charlotte Bronte - Elizabeth Gaskell
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Elizabeth Gaskell's biography of her close friend Charlotte Bronte was published in 1857 to immediate popular acclaim, and remains the most significant study of t...