Life at the Extremes

Reducere. When it comes to the subject of demons, Christians fall into two equal and opposite extremes. The first extreme is believing that demons don't exis...

The debut of a female Steve Jones - likeable, literate, lucid and laconic. A sprightly, lavishly illustrated book on the science of human survival.

Reducere. My War is a blunt, funny, idiosyncratic account of Andy Rooney's World War II. As a young, naive correspondent for The Stars and Stripes, Rooney fl...

Reducere. A New Statesman best book of the year New York Times Editors' Choice pickA Financial Times best economics book of 2019An accessible, story-driven l...

Reducere. This biography of Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), a giant of American literature who invented both the horror and detective genres, is a portrait of e...

This memoir from adventure author Wilbur Smith discloses the real-life extremes that have informed his fiction, with lion attacks, close shark enco...

Reducere. Why Modern Anxiety? Anxiety has always been with us, but what is anxiety in a technological society? If our tolerance for sensory stimulus is finit...

The story of Herbert Martin Massey CBE, DSO, MC, from his flying days in the First World War to life as a prisoner-of-war in the Second World War, ...

Reducere. Rihanna's story is one of extremes. This sensational book traces her life growing up with a crack-cocaine dependant father in St Michael, Barbados ...

Reducere. A mathematical journey through the most fascinating problems of extremes and how to solve them What is the best way to photograph a speeding bullet...

Reducere. DescriptionEschewing extremes, Bible scholar D. A. Carson explores the controversial subject of the role of the Holy Spirit in the life of a believ...

Reducere. The follow-up to her critically acclaimed Lie to Me, J.T. Ellison's Tear Me Apart is the powerful story of a mother willing to do anything to prote...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Elin HilderbrandA husband's secret life, a wife's new beginning: escape to the Caribbean with New York Times bestselling au...

Contributor(s): Author: Elin HilderbrandA husband's secret life, a wife's new beginning: escape to the Caribbean with New York Times bestselling au...

Reducere. DescriptionA husband's secret life, a wife's new beginning: escape to the Caribbean with New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand. Irene ...

Reducere. Ben Mezrich, author of the New York Times bestseller Bringing Down the House, returns with an astonishing story of Ivy League hedge-fund cowboys, h...

DescriptionThe period from 1939 to 1945 saw some of the most devastating and remarkable events in living memory. Laboring beneath a daily burden of...

DescriptionDavid Levithan is back with the sequel that continues A's story from the New York Times bestseller Every Day Every day a new body. Every...

Reducere. Readers of Flying the Alaska Wild marveled at Mort Mason's true tales of braving the elements at the extremes in a Piper Super Cub. But the bush pi...

Reducere. A luminous and unforgettable first novel by an astonishing new voice in fiction, hailed by Esquire magazine as one of America s best young writers....

Reducere. What does it take to raise great kids? If you've read any books on parenting, conflicting opinions have probably left you feeling confused. Get tou...

Reducere. The essential biography of one of music's most influential icons: Lou Reed As lead singer and songwriter for the Velvet Underground and a renowned ...

Reducere. Klingsor's Last Summer tells the story of a famous painter named Klingsor as he experiences a final burst of creativity in his last summer of life....

Reducere. In a time not far from our own, Lawrence sets out simply to build an artifical intelligence that can pass as human, and finds himself instead with ...

Reducere. DescriptionParsons and Leas have created an important tool for congregational leaders in this application of systems theory to evaluating a congreg...

Reducere. A teenage genius and his teacher take readers on a wild ride to the extremes of mathematicsEveryone has stared at the crumpled page of a math assig...

In this moving and personal work, Rade B.Vukmir MD, JD vividly re-creates life in an American steel town. Relying on extensive interviews and his o...

In this moving and personal work, Rade B.Vukmir MD, JD vividly re-creates life in an American steel town. Relying on extensive interviews and his o...

Reducere. Growing up in the caverns underneath the colosseum is anything but ordinary for a Roman teenager like Noemi. Helping her father train wild beasts f...

Reducere. These episodes are non-fiction accounts relating to New Mexico from the earliest visit by a priest, Fray Marcos de Niza, sent by the Viceroy of New...

Reducere. DescriptionHanna lives each day to its fullest. This is her autobiography, a true story of growing up in Nazi Germany, marrying an American GI, and...

War-time France - intrigue, deception and divided loyalties. Under the Mediterranean sun, a shadowy world where ambivalence and compromise test loy...

Reducere. Author Benjamin Lorr wandered into a yoga studio--and fell down a rabbit holeHell-Bent explores a fascinating, often surreal world at the extremes ...

Reducere. DescriptionMost people would agree that we aren't taught much about 'wellness.' And while there seems to be an increased awareness related to 'fitn...

Reducere. "Tares among the Wheat" By "H. Melvin James" This second volume concludes the two established primary framed story-lines that traverse the entirety...

This book is perhaps the jewel in Prospect's crown. Within a few months of its first appearance in 1986 it was hailed as a modern classic. Fiona Ma...

Reducere. "Daphne Merkin meets the formidable challenge of describing female lust and romantic obsession with all the desired daring, candor, and skill. The ...

Reducere. In this deeply original book, science writer Anil Ananthaswamy sets out in search of the telescopes and detectors that promise to answer the bigges...

With "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" guts and determination, Emma Rivers fights her ex-husband in court to hold on to the life and financial ...

Reducere. Here We Are is a heart-wrenching memoir about an immigrant family's American Dream, the justice system that took it away, and the daughter who foug...

Reducere. What is the purpose of life? Is religion the answer? How, in a world beset with misery and conflict, can we help to find inner peace? Siddhartha he...

You and your ego: how to develop a healthy sense of self without becoming an egotist--and how to see through that sense of self for the happiness o...