Spanish English Bilingual Visual Dictionary by DK
Category: Non Fiction
With over 6,750 fully illustrated words and phrases in Spanish and English, along with a free bilingual audio app, DK's Spanish-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary is your essential companion to learning Spanish.You will learn all the words and phrases you need to buy food and clothes, talk about work a ...Show more
Italian English Bilingual Visual Dictionary by DK
Category: Non Fiction
With over 6,750 fully illustrated words and phrases in Italian and English, along with a free bilingual audio app, DK's Italian-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary is your essential companion to learning Italian.You will learn all the words and phrases you need to buy food and clothes, talk about work a ...Show more
Birds Aren't Real: The true story of mass avian murder and the largest surveillance campaign in U.S. history by Peter McIndoe, Connor Gaydos
Category: Non Fiction
The true story of the greatest conspiracy in US history - and how to fight back.Have you ever seen a baby pigeon? You haven't, have you? No one has, not in many, many years. They used to be everywhere. That's because they come out of the factory as adults.In the 1970s, the United States government kille ...Show more
How to Win Friends and Influence Fungi: Collected Quirks of Science, Tech, Engineering, and Math from Nerd Nite by Chris Balakrishnan, Matt Wasowski
Category: Non Fiction
For 20 years, Nerd Nite has delivered to live audiences the most interesting, fun, and informative presentations about science, history, the arts, pop culture, you name it. There hasn't been a rabbit hole that their army of presenters hasn't been afraid to explore. Finally, after countless requests to b ...Show more
Vivienne Westwood A to Z: The Life of an Icon: From Anglomania to Zips by Nadia Bailey
Category: Non Fiction
From her humble childhood growing up in war-torn Britain to her famous collaborations with Malcolm McLaren, her pioneering of the punk fashion movement, and later her tireless advocacy work to "save the world by halting climate change, stopping war, defending human rights and protesting capitalism", Viv ...Show more
Of Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons & Dragons and The People Who Play It by David M. Ewalt
Category: Non Fiction
The Hobbit meets Moneyball in this definitive book on Dungeons & Dragons--from its origins and rise to cultural prominence to the continued effects on popular culture today. HERE, THERE BE DRAGONS. Ancient red dragons with 527 hit points, +44 to attack, and a 20d10 breath weapon, to be specific. In ...Show more
How The World Ran Out Of Everything by Peter S. Goodman
Category: Business
One of Foreign Policy's "Most Anticipated Books of 2024" Part Michael Lewis, part The Way Things Work: From the New York Times’s Global Economics Correspondent, an extraordinary journey revealing the worldwide supply chain—exposing both the fascinating pathways of manufacturing and transportation that b ...Show more
The Final Diagnosis by Cynric Temple-Camp
Category: Non Fiction
The Final Diagnosis: Obscure cases of death, disease & murder. An unlikely case of autocide, a rare and deadly amniotic avalanche, a victim of roasted peanuts... The 'if' of death is certain. The 'when' is unknown. It is the 'why' that really gets people's interest. Cynric Temple-Camp, bestselling ...Show more
The Social Space of the Essay 2002-2023 by Ian Wedde
Category: Non Fiction
'The essay will often have originated in conversation, or the conversations of groups gathered around an event. Its long form may both contain and measure the extended time of face-to-face conversation or imply that extent; in this it will differ from social media, email and instant messages. These form ...Show more
Putin's Wars - From Chechnya to Ukraine by Mark Galeotti
Category: Non Fiction
Written by one of the world's leading experts on modern Russia, Putin's Wars is a timely overview of the conflicts into which Russia has plunged since Vladimir Putin became prime minister and then president. From the First and Second Chechen Wars to the military incursion into Georgia, the annexation of ...Show more
Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century by Simon Kuper
Category: Non Fiction
An unsparing memoir of the city in the 21st century, from a long-time Parisien d'adoption From the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer's tale of a naif getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and often cruel city. Simon Kuper has experienced Paris both as a human being and as ...Show more
Kill Your Mortgage and Sort Your Retirement by Hannah McQueen
Category: Business
Kill Your Mortgage and Sort Your Retirement Updated Edition : The Go-To Guide for Getting Ahead. Amust-have guide to navigating your money so you can have the life you deserve. Financial conditions are tough. Back in the day, provided you spent less than you earned, you could pay off your mortgage and ...Show more