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The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It
Kelly McGonigal · Avery; Second edition
Format: Hardcover
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The author of The Willpower Instinct delivers a controversial and groundbreaking new book that overturns long-held beliefs about stress. More than forty-four percent of Americans admit to losing sleep over stress. And while most of us do everything we can to reduce it, Stanford psychologist... |
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The Daily 5: Fostering Literacy in the Elementary Grades
Gail Boushey · Stenhouse Publishers
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
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The Daily 5, Second Edition retains the core literacy components that made the first edition one of the most widely read books in education and enhances these practices based on years of further experience in classrooms and compelling new brain research. The Daily 5 provides a way for any teacher... |
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The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
Alex Epstein · Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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Could everything we know about fossil fuels be wrong?For decades, environmentalists have told us that using fossil fuels is a self-destructive addiction that will destroy our planet. Yet at the same time, by every measure of human well-being, from life expectancy to clean water to climate... |
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The Burning Room
Michael Connelly · Little, Brown
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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In the new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly, Detective Harry Bosch and his rookie partner investigate a cold case that gets very hot... very fast.In the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die a decade after the crime. So when a man succumbs... |
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The Road to Character
David Brooks · Random House
Pages: 300
Format: Print book
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST * "I wrote this book not sure I could follow the road to character, but I wanted at least to know what the road looks like and how other people have trodden it." - David Brooks With the wisdom,... |
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The Wright Brothers
David G McCullough · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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#1 New York Times bestseller Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly: Wilbur and Orville Wright.On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown... |
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Writer's Market 2016: The Most Trusted Guide to Getting Published
Robert Lee Brewer · Writer's Digest Books
Pages: 896
Format: Paperback
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THE MOST TRUSTED GUIDE TO GETTING PUBLISHEDWant to get published and paid for your writing? Let Writer's Market 2016 guide you through the process with thousands of publishing opportunities for writers, including listings for book publishers, consumer and trade magazines, contests and awards,... |
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A House Among the Trees: A Novel
Julia Glass · Pantheon
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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In Julia Glass's fifth book since her acclaimed novel Three Junes won the National Book Award, she gives us the story of an unusual bond between a world-famous writer and his assistant - a richly plotted novel of friendship and love, artistic ambition, the perils of celebrity, and the power... |
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Data Science from Scratch: First Principles with Python
Joel Grus · O'Reilly Media; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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Data science libraries, frameworks, modules, and toolkits are great for doing data science, but theyre also a good way to dive into the discipline without actually understanding data science. In this book, youll learn how many of the most fundamental data science tools and algorithms work... |
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Leaving Time: A Novel
Jodi Picoult · Ballantine Books
Pages: 450
Format: Print book
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThroughout her blockbuster career, Jodi Picoult has seamlessly blended nuanced characters, riveting plots, and rich prose, brilliantly creating stories that "not only provoke the mind but touch the flawed souls in all of us" (The Boston Globe) . Now,... |
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Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles
Bernard Cornwell · Harper
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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#1 Bestseller in the U.K.From the New York Times bestselling author and master of martial fiction comes the definitive, illustrated history of one of the greatest battles ever fought - a riveting nonfiction chronicle published to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Napoleon's last... |
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Love Wins: The Lovers and Lawyers Who Fought the Landmark Case for Marriage Equality
Jim Obergefell · William Morrow
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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The fascinating and very moving story of the lovers, lawyers, judges and activists behind the groundbreaking Supreme Court case that led to one of the most important, national civil rights victories in decades - the legalization of same-sex marriage.In June 2015, the Supreme Court made... |
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Official GRE Verbal Reasoning Practice Questions
Educational Testing Service · McGraw-Hill; 1 edition
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150 REAL GRE Verbal Reasoning questions--direct from the test maker! The best way to prepare for the Verbal Reasoning measure of the GRE revised General Test is with real GRE test questions--and that is what you will find in this unique guide! Specially created for you by ETS, it offers... |
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