We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet's Culture Laboratory, Paperback - Christine Lagorio-Chafkin

Reducere. Named a Best Book of 2018 by Fast Company, this is a "sharply written and brilliantly reported" (Shelf Awareness) look inside Reddit, the wildly po...

Trade paperback. Tech journalist Christine Lagorio tells the story of internet giant }Reddit{, offering a compelling narrative of how the world of ...

"State Origin: The Evidence of the Laboratory Birth of AIDS" is lawyer Boyd E. Graves' first book providing critical historical review of a formerl...

DescriptionA kinswoman to Elizabeth I, Lettice Knollys had begun the Queen's glittering reign basking in favor and success. It was an honor that sh...

Reducere. I WAS BORN with the ability to prophesize the future. The destinies I dream about are impossible to alter, despite my many attempts to do so. With ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)Author(s): Chafkin Max ChafkinNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 234 x 153 x 36Cover type: ...

DescriptionNever in history have so many people been displaced by political and military conflicts at home--more than 65 million globally. Unsparin...

From the big bang, to the origin and evolution of intelligent life in a search for the meaning of human existence, Why are We Here?, by author Bruc...

Reducere. "We Are the Luckiest is a masterpiece. It's the truest, most generous, honest, and helpful sobriety memoir I've read. It's going to save lives." --...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Christine H. MortonAuthor: Elayne G. CliftBirth Ambassadors documents the social history of the emergence of doula care in ...

Reducere. DescriptionBirth Ambassadors documents the social history of the emergence of doula care in the United States. What are doulas and where did they c...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Geoff OltonIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 540Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 156 x 235 x 54Co...

Reducere. One of fourteen children, Augusta Savage grew up in a small town in the Deep South under oppressive Jim Crow laws, but she was determined to accomp...

Reducere. Description"We Are the Luckiest is a masterpiece. It's the truest, most generous, honest, and helpful sobriety memoir I've read. It's going to save...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Geoff OltonIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 540Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 162 x 240 x 54Co...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Amy EdwardsIllustration(s): 18 b-w figures, 1 mapNumber of pages: 384Collection: Berkeley Serie...

Examines the life and work of William Lamport (d. 1659), an Irish rebel, soldier, poet, and thinker who was burned at the stake by the Inquisition ...

Reducere. Why has Haiti been plagued by so many woes? Why have multiple U.S. efforts to create a stable democracy in Haiti failed so spectacularly? Philippe ...

DescriptionWhat identity means in an algorithmic age: how it works, how our lives are controlled by it, and how we can resist it Algorithms are eve...

Reducere. DescriptionNo one likes to think about death and many are not ready for it, either as the patient or a loved one. And yet, the dying process is oft...

This book unpacks seven core values of the Christian life, giving young people a simple framework for an active faith that goes against the grain o...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. DescriptionA trip back to the era of troubled teens and awesome soundtracks; of Reagan, rap, and Ridgemont High; of MTV, VHS, and "Axel F"; of outs...

Description"The best political stories are the human ones, and Jen Rubin recognizes this...Anyone who cares about urban policy, the history and the...

A guide to developing the art of finding serenity by understanding the sources of our anxiety and frustrations.Publisher: The School of Life PressA...

DescriptionIn celebration of the Brady Bunch's 50th anniversary, TV writer Kimberly Potts writes a Seinfeldia-like definitive history of the show t...

DescriptionIt's hard to imagine that "the cool" could ever go out of style. After all, cool is style. Isn't it? And it may be harder to imagine a w...

'Read this book. Saving Planet Earth starts right here, right now' Stella McCartneyFrom the bestselling author of Eating Animals, a brilliantly fre...

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...

Publisher: Dutton Books for Young ReadersAuthor(s): Joy McCulloughNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 164 x 227 x 30Cover type: P...

This highly original work presents laboratory science in a deliberately skeptical way: as an anthropological approach to the culture of the scienti...

Reducere. An updated and revised edition of the controversial classic--now more relevant than ever--argues that boys are the ones languishing socially and ac...

As humanity has spent more and more time on earth, we have begun to understand better, albeit in little bits, our world and its impact on us. Astro...

Five friends in their fifties find themselves dealing with unforeseen upheaval as they uncover long-hidden and devastating family secrets. Meanwhil...

**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**In the vein of Mary Beth Keane's Ask Again, Yes and Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's The Nest, Tracey Lange's We Are ...

Reducere. Enthralling . . . breathtaking . . . Metazoa brings an extraordinary and astute look at our own mind's essential link to the animal world. --The Ne...

"Rethinking Malevich" is an English-language collection of sixteen innovative essays by leading international scholars that document new and intrig...

Publisher: Imagine & WonderAuthor(s): Ruth McCartneyNumber of pages: 32Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 222 x 222 x 11Cover type: HardbackIllustra...

Reducere. The saga of GameStop and other meme stocks is revealed with the skill of a thrilling whodunit. Jakab writes with an anti-Midas touch. If he touched...

The order in which we are born has a powerful, far-reaching influence on the way we interact with others--at home, at work, with friends, and in th...

Reducere. Based on fieldwork at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory--the facility that designed the neutron bomb and the warhead for the MX missile--N...

DescriptionA illustrated biographical tale that follows Hollywood revolutionary Rod Serling's rise to fame in the Golden Age of Television, and his...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: David A. BellThe twentieth century is usually seen as "the century of total war." But as the historian David Bell argues in...

Reducere. Including oral history, letters and excerpts from diaries, this is a documentary study of 2 million black slave women and 200, 000 free black women...

We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: The Promise of Civic Renewal in America - Peter Levine

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Max ChafkinIllustration(s): 1x8pp 4x4 plate sectionNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2022Dimensi...

An eye-opening look at why we keep the secrets we keep, how to better understand and cope with them, and when (and how) we should bring them to lig...

Reducere. Henry VIII's sisters, neglected by generations of historians, affected the lives of their contemporaries much more forcefully than did any of their...