Paranormal Experience and Survival of Death
Paranormal Experience and Survival of Death amasses data and surveys from a century of research on the paranormal on four continents: Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Studying the tensions between religious and scientific perspectives, Becker revie...
Rogue Regime
How combustible is the Korean crisis? Very, is the only sensible answer. In 1994, the united states came close to launching a pre-emptive strike against North Korea. Since then perhaps three million have died of starvation in the North, a disaster...
One Nation Under Stress
The wear and tear of American life has been a topic of public concern ever since the mid-nineteenth century when middle-class men faced pressures to succeed in a newly industrialized society. But although stress is often associated with conditions...
William Greenberg Desserts Bakes Vegan
Classic recipes from a beloved New York Bakery, now made vegan! William Greenberg Desserts has been a New York City staple for more than seventy years. Now those following a plant-based diet can partake in their fabulous treats, including soft and...
Thinking in Place
Carol Becker, preeminent arts educator and contributor to leading art magazines, offers a beautifully poignant meditation on the role of place in artistic creativity. She focuses on place as a historical, physical entity and a conceptual site wher...
Inorganic Mass Spectrometry
Providing an exhaustive review of this topic, Inorganic Mass Spectrometry: Principles and Applications¿provides details on all aspects of inorganic mass spectrometry, from a historical overview of the topic to the principles and functions of mass ...
Even Superheroes Make Mistakes
"A highly appealing read. . . . Children will readily gravitate to this book." --School Library Journal What do young superheroes do when they've blundered and bungled? They don't get mad; they get SMART! This fun follow-up to Even Super...
Compassion for Couples
How resilient is your relationship? Do you and your partner go into "reactivity mode" when a conflict arises? Do you wish you were closer and more connected? We all need healthy, secure relationships in order to thrive--but they can be h...
You Are Light
With a wondrously simple die-cut book, the Caldecott Honor-winning creator of the Journey trilogy brings his talents further into the light. This is the light that brings the day. Open this beautiful book to find a graphic yellow sun surrounded by a halo of bright die-cut circles. Now hold the page up to the light and enjoy the transformation as the colors in those circles glow. In an elegant, sparely narrated ode to the phenomenon of light, Aaron Becker follows as light reflects off the earth to warm our faces, draws up the sea to make the rain, feeds all the things that grow, and helps to create all the brilliant wonders of the world, including ourselves.
Journey
WINNER OF THE CALDECOTT HONOR AWARD OVER HALF-A-MILLION COPIES SOLD A NEW YORK TIMES BEST ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN'S BOOK "A beautiful example of the power of illustration." Guardian "A masterwork." The New York Times "An abso...
More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity
This 'smart and wonderfully readable' (New York Times) expos shows why Silicon Valley's heartless, baseless, and foolish obsessions--with escaping death, building AI tyrants, and creating limitless growth--are about oligarchic power, not preparing for the future Tech billionaires have decided that they should determine our futures for us. According to Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Sam Altman, and more, the only good future for humanity is one powered by technology: trillions of humans living in space, functionally immortal, served by superintelligent AIs. In More Everything Forever, science journalist Adam Becker investigates these wildly implausible and often profoundly immoral visions of tomorrow--and shows why, in reality, there is no good evidence that they will, or should, come to pass. Nevertheless, these obsessions fuel fears that overwhelm reason--for example, that a rogue AI will exterminate humanity--at the expense of essential work on solving crucial problems like climate change.
Gay TV and Straight America
After decades of silence on the subject of homosexuality, television in the 1990s saw a striking increase in programming that incorporated and, in many cases, centered on gay material. In shows including Friends, Seinfeld, Party of Five, Homicide,...
Himawari House
A young adult graphic novel about three foreign exchange students and the pleasures, and difficulties, of adjusting to living in Japan. Living in a new country is no walk in the park--Nao, Hyejung, and Tina can all attest to that. The three of them became fast friends through living together in the Himawari House in Tokyo and attending the same Japanese cram school. Nao came to Japan to reconnect with her Japanese heritage, while Hyejung and Tina came to find freedom and their own paths. Though each of them has her own motivations and challenges, they all deal with language barriers, being a fish out of water, self discovery, love, and family.
Looking for Betty MacDonald
Betty Bard MacDonald (19071958), the best-selling author of The Egg and I and the classic Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle childrens books, burst onto the literary scene shortly after the end of World War II. Readers embraced her memoir of her years as a young ...
Roliga Sudokun
Findus är nyfiken och Pettson är klok. Tillsammans brukar de klura och lösa gåtor. I denna bok finns det en mängd roliga sökuppgifter och knepiga sudokun att lösa.
Mochi Magic
Mochi - the traditional Japanese treat made of chewy rice dough - is a popular and versatile vehicle for all kinds of sweet and savory fillings, and easily molded into adorable shapes and characters that define Japan's culture of cuteness. Food wr...
All I Need to Know I Learned From My Cat (And Then Some)
Including more observations from the authors life with cats, this illustrated book also includes her astute "Are you a Cat Person?" quiz as part of the narrative.
Das Leben ist eins der Härtesten
Das Leben ist eins der Härtesten
Titanic Secret
Was it really an iceberg that sunk the Titanic? Or is that just what they want you to think? On Sunday 15 April 1912, the 'unsinkable' RMS Titanic sinks on her maiden voyage to New York. But the truth is quickly suppressed. On board she carries th...