From Hank Aaron to King Zog, Mao Tse-Tung to Madonna, Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes features
more than 2,000 people from around the world, past and present, in all fields. These short anecdotes provide remarkable insight into the human character. Ranging ...
Kids are never too young to start learning! With big, fun-to-say words for every letter
of the alphabet, this book will deliver read-aloud laughs while teaching something new to both parent and child.Do you know your gnashnabb from your widdershins? ...
A unique combination of travelogue, humor, and insider cycling critique, Chasing Lance brings into focus
the entire Tour de France experience. 8-page photo insert. 2 maps.
To end a history of World War II at VE Day is to leave the
tale half told. Endgame 1945 highlights the gripping personal stories of nine men and women, ranging from soldiers to POWs to war correspondents, who witnessed ...
In the tradition of Oliver Sacks's The Island of the Colorblind, Rosemary Mahoney tells the
story of Braille Without Borders, the first school for the blind in Tibet, and of Sabriye Tenberken, the remarkable blind woman who founded the school. ...
In this intriguing, insightful and extremely educational novel, the world's most famous hacker teaches you
easy cloaking and counter-measures for citizens and consumers in the age of Big Brother and Big Data (Frank W. Abagnale). Kevin Mitnick was the most ...
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Disgraced and American Dervish: an immigrant father and his
son search for belonging in post-Trump America, and with each other.Passionate, disturbing, unputdownable. Salman RushdieA deeply personal work about identity and belonging in ...
The bestselling authors of How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend show how their strong
connections with dogs and the natural world stem from the principles of monastic life. The elements of a monk's life self-discipline, solitude, prayer, acts ...