In his early twenties, poor, depressed, stranded in the Coral Sea on the HMS Rattlesnake, hopelessly in love with the young Englishwoman Henrietta Heathorn, Thomas Henry Huxley was a nobody. And ye...więcej »
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. "Mr Jones, the owner of Manor Farm, is a lazy drunk. The animals decide to overthrow him in a revolution t...więcej »
Animal Tails contains four short stories: The Bird, The Caticorn, Daisy the Dog, and Sammy the Little Star. The Bird is about a bird that thinks that he is ugly, but once he actually gets what h...więcej »
The reader will find the book revealing with sporadic tragedy and humor. It is based on the author's upbringing by struggling parents with many children. Working as a journalist on various Engli...więcej »
Stunningly sensual and visceral NEW YORK TIMES'Smart, beautiful . . . paints a lyrical picture' STYLIST'Groff is a sensuous writer' GUARDIANIn the fields of western New York...więcej »
Jules Verne's most famous adventure, now in a beautiful clothbound editionOne night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eigh...więcej »
Art of Shadows is set after a great war that ended in the Kingdom of Tokai. The kingdom is currently experiencing a time of peace, but in an age of kings that are determined to keep power, al...więcej »
Believing that the grass is greener on your side of the fence. Throughout Kristy's life, she was told "No" or "You can't do it. It's not possible" or "You are not (blank) enough. Kristy is determin...więcej »
Never before has there been a real discovery where all the physical characteristics of a proposed location matched Plato's description of Atlantis. Not even the original Santorini hypothesis cou...więcej »
A revolutionary system to get 1 per cent better every dayPeople think when you want to change your life, you need to think big. But world-renowned habits expert James Clear has discover...więcej »
In 2011, a 43-foot-high tsunami crashed into a nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan. In the following days, explosions would rip buildings apart, three reactors would go into nuclear meltdown, a...więcej »
This book, Rushing Shores, is about growth about overcoming obstacles and facing your obstacles and fears head on! About developing yourself in every way to accomplishing and achieve true happin...więcej »
They called him the 'angriest black man in America' . . .Celebrated and vilified the world over for his courageous but bitter fight to gain for millions of black men and women the equal...więcej »
This is the story of how two people bridged the age gap and found each other.Larry Watts is fifty-two. He is the senior forklift driver at Marr Freight in the flyover country city ...więcej »
Social psychologist Dacher Keltner has spent his career speaking to different groups of people, from schoolchildren to prisoners to healthcare workers, about the good life. These conversations and ...więcej »
'A memoir and a master class in musing on modern design . . . It's a collection of thoughtful, absorbing essays about many aspects of modern design, a subject nobody writes better about than Sudjic...więcej »
No-hitters are rare in baseball. Father-and-son combinations are rarer. Baseball the Wright Way covers all those bases and then some.
Two pitchers with vastly contrasting styles, both Clyde Wright...więcej »
Alien miners traveling thousands of light years through space in search of colored diamonds discover the rare stones on earth at the bottom of the East China Sea. The aliens are discovered us...więcej »
Come along to review a lifetime of outdoor enthusiasm and a thirty-two year career as a wildlife biologist. You may learn a few things, be entertained and amused, develop a better understandi...więcej »
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