A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Bill Nye is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Bill Nye then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. Views: 307
To Each His Star is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Bryce Walton is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Bryce Walton then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. Views: 305
No other writer can blend the science of the brain with the love of language like Diane Ackerman. In this extraordinary memoir, she opens a window into the experience of wordlessness—the language paralysis called aphasia. In narrating the recovery of her husband, Paul West, from a stroke that reduced his vast vocabulary to a single syllable, she evokes the joy and mystery of the brain’s ability to find and connect words. Deeply rewarding to readers of all kinds, Ackerman has given us a literary love story, accessible insight into the science and medicine of brain injury,
and invaluable spiritual sustenance in the face of life’s myriad
physical sufferings. Views: 304
Asimov at his best! A 21-story salute
About Nothing • (1975)
A Perfect Fit • (1981)
Belief • (1953)
Death of a Foy • (1980)
Fair Exchange? • (1978)
For the Birds • (1980)
Found! • (1978)
Good Taste • (1976)
How It Happened • (1979)
Ideas Die Hard • (1957)
Ignition Point! • (1981)
It Is Coming • [Multivac] • (1979)
The Last Answer • (1980)
The Last Shuttle • (1981)
Lest We Remember • (1982)
Nothing for Nothing • (1979)
One Night of Song • [Azazel] • (1982)
The Smile That Loses • [Azazel] • (1982)
Sure Thing • (1977)
To Tell at a Glance • (1983)
The Winds of Change • (1982) Views: 304
With the nation reeling from the recent terrorist attacks, Q and Angela leave Chicago and arrive in San Francisco. Their parents are determined to continue the Match tour but for safety's sake, they have decided to send Q and Angela to boarding school. Not happy at the thought of being taken off the trail of the ghost cell, Q and Angela race against time with Boone and the SOS team to find Number One, the leader of the world's most feared terrorist organization. It's the final showdown. Views: 304
The ghettos of Rio de Janeiro are crawling with street kids. They have nothing, and are forced into lives of crime in order to get enough to eat. Their life expectancies are short, not least because the Brazilian authorities allow paramilitaries to shoot them like rats.But it's with the street kids of Rio that the cadets must become embedded. Some of these kids have been recruited by the cartels. The cartels are causing untold misery, both in Brazil and on the streets of the UK. The cadets must befriend the cartel kids in the hope that they will lead them into the heart of the drug lords' empire.But when you head into the lion's den, you must expect to be bitten. The cartel chiefs are the most ruthless people in the world, and they do not take kindly to the infiltration of their secret, violent world . . . Views: 300
Life Sentence is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by James V. McConnell is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of James V. McConnell then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. Views: 298
Contents:
· I Just Make Them Up, See!
· Rejection Slips
· Profession
· The Feeling of Power
· The Dying Night
· I’m in Marsport Without Hilda
· The Gentle Vultures
· All the Troubles of the World
· Spell My Name with an S
· The Last Question
· The Ugly Little Boy [“Lastborn”] Views: 298
For a million years the bubble had been growing, like a vast abscess, below the root of the mountains. Now the abscess was about to burst. Captain Harris had left the controls on autopilot and was talking to the front row of passengers in the first tremor shook the boat. For a fraction of a second he wondered if a fan blade and hit some submerged obstacle; then, quite literally, the bottom fell out of his world.
It fell slowly, as all things must upon the Moon. The sea was alive and moving . . . Every stage of that nightmare transformation was pitilessly illuminated by the earth light, until the crater was so deep that it's firewall was completely lost in shadow, and it seemed as if Selene were racing into a curving crescent of utter blackness – an arc of annihilation.
In darkness and in silence, they were sinking into the Moon. . . . Views: 296
From the best-selling author of Gratitude, On the Move, and* Musicophilia, * a collection of essays that displays Oliver Sacks's passionate engagement with the most compelling and seminal ideas of human endeavor: evolution, creativity, memory, time, consciousness, and experience.
Oliver Sacks, a scientist and a storyteller, is beloved by readers for the extraordinary neurological case histories (Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars) in which he introduced and explored many now familiar disorders--autism, Tourette's syndrome, face blindness, savant syndrome. He was also a memoirist who wrote with honesty and humor about the remarkable and strange encounters and experiences that shaped him (Uncle Tungsten, On the Move, Gratitude). Sacks, an Oxford-educated polymath, had a deep familiarity not only with literature and medicine but with botany, animal anatomy, chemistry, the history of science, philosophy, and psychology. The River of Consciousness is one of two books Sacks was working on up to his death, and it reveals his ability to make unexpected connections, his sheer joy in knowledge, and his unceasing, timeless project to understand what makes us human. Views: 294
Ellen had a secret. In all of the world, it was something only she knew. That was how she wanted it. And her worst fear was that somehow, someday, her secret might be exposed. And her most secret desire was that somehow, someday, her secret might become known--and no longer be her secret any more.A professional baseball coach, disillusioned and discouraged, receives new hope in an unexpected form. Views: 293
Two hundred years after his humiliating defeat at the hands of Earthman Elijah Baley, Keldon Amadiro still dreamed of revenge. Now, finally, he set into motion a plot that would totally destroy the planet Earth.
But Amadiro had not counted on the power Baley still exerted long after his death. For Baley's vision continued to guide his robot partner, R. Daneel Olivaw, and the extraordinarily gifted robot Giskard—and they were the only ones who could save Earth.
Fortunately for Amadiro, Daneel and Giskard were restrained by the Three Laws of Robotics. Or were they? Views: 292
This eBook is a collection of original student writing crafted by Ms. Amy Balogh's ESOL students at Chattahoochee High School during 2015-2016. This anthology reflects students' efforts in a yearlong writer's workshop integrated into their course. Genres include essays, poetry, short stories, microfiction, plays, memoirs, monologues, and speeches.This eBook is a collection of original student writing crafted by Ms. Amy Balogh's ESOL students at Chattahoochee High School during 2015-2016. This anthology reflects students efforts in a yearlong writer's workshop integrated into their course. Views: 289
George Gibbs was an American writer best known for writing action and adventure novels, as well as spy thrillers in foreign lands. George Gibbs was an American writer best known for writing action and adventure novels, as well as spy thrillers in foreign lands. Views: 287
