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Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think
With the publication of the international bestseller The Selfish Gene some thirty years ago, Richard Dawkins powerfully captured a newly emerging way of understanding evolution–a gene’s eye view. Dawkins went on to publish five more bestselling books, including The Blind Watchmaker and Unweaving the Rainbow. He is one of the most high profile public intellectuals [...]
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“Murakami is like a magician who explains what he’s doing as he performs the trick and still makes you believe he has supernatural powers . . . But while anyone can tell a story that resembles a dream, it’s the rare artist, like this one, who can make us feel that we are dreaming it [...]
Rules for Writers
Rules for Writers is a college writer’s companion that covers writing, grammar, research, and documentation in an extremely affordable and portable spiral-bound format. From the best-selling family of handbooks, Rules has consistently been the best value for college writers. Now it’s even more so. The Seventh Edition actually teaches students how to make better use [...]
Culture Shock! China: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette
Angie Eagan is a Marshall Cavendish author. Paperback: 294 pages Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Corporation; 2 edition (May 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 0761460527
Logic Made Easy: How to Know When Language Deceives You
PENETRATING AND PRACTICAL, “Logic Made Easy is filled with anecdotal histories detailing the often muddy relationship between language and logic. Complete with puzzles you can try yourself and questions you can use to raise your test scores, “Logic Made Easy invites readers to identify and ultimately remedy logical slips in everyday life. Even experienced logicians [...]
Who Said That First?
Book Name ：Who Said That First?: The Curious Origins of Common Words and Phrases Writer：Max Cryer Publisher ：E x i s l e Publishing 2011 ISBN：1877437816, 0908988915 Format ：PDF；9MB；321 Pages
Einstein: His Life and Universe
By the author of the acclaimed bestseller Benjamin Franklin, this is the first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available.How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson’s biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. His fascinating story is a [...]
Steve Jobs
Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: [...]
Dreams Don’t Have Deadlines: Living Your Dream Life, No Matter What Your Age
DREAMS DON’T HAVE DEADLINES Living Your Dream Life, No Matter What Your Age No one knows more about making dreams come true than Mark Victor Hansen. As co-creator of the hugely successful Chicken Soup for the Soul series, Mark is responsible for the sale of more than eighty million books. However, Mark didn’t achieve this [...]
Performance in the Borderlands (Performance Interventions)
A border is a force of containment that inspires dreams of being overcome and crossed; motivates bodies to climb over; and threatens physical harm. This book critically examines a range of cultural performances produced in relation to the tensions and movements of/about the borders dividing North America, including the Caribbean.