| Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself
| THIS EDITION HAS BEEN REPLACED BY A NEWER EDITION. This enlarged edition of the most significant and celebrated slave narrative now completes the Jacobs family saga, surely one of the most memorable in all of American history. John Jacobs's short slave narrative, A True Tale of Slavery, published in London in 1861, adds a brother's perspective to Harriet Jacobs's own autobiography. It is an exciting addition to this now classic work, as John Jacobs presents additional historical informa...More
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| Thinking, Fast and Slow
| Selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the best books of 2011A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 TitleOne of The Economist’s 2011 Books of the Year One of The Wall Steet Journal's Best Nonfiction Books of the Year 2011Daniel Kahneman, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his seminal work in psychology that challenged the rational model of judgment and decision making, is one of our most important thinkers. His ideas have had a...More
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| Persuasion (Illustrated)
| This is author’s last completed novel. The book was published in 1818 after the death of Jane Austen. This is an illustrated version of the novel.• Includes 15 or more unique illustrations that are relevant to the book.
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| The Science of Yoga: The Risks and the Rewards
| IN THIS REMARKABLE BOOK ABOUT YOGA, William Broad, a lifelong practitioner, shows us that uncommon states are integral to a hidden world of risk and reward that lies beneath clouds of myth, superstition, and hype.Five years in the making, The Science of Yoga draws on more than a century of painstaking research to present the first impartial evaluation of a practice thousands of years old. It celebrates what’s real and shows what’s illusory, describes what’s uplifting and beneficial ...More
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| Cinderella
| This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
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| Outliers: The Story of Success
| In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way h...More
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| On the Origin of Species
| In 1831, naturalist and geologist Charles Darwin joined the Beagle expedition to Tierra del Fuego. What he observed when he got to the new world would eventually lead him to formulate his theory of natural selection. Published in 1859, “On the Origin of the Species” is the controversial classic that revolutionized natural science and altered our understanding of the world.
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| The Souls of Black Folk (An African American Heritage Book)
| William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an African American civil rights activist, leader, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar. The importance of his work to the success of the Civil Rights movement cannot be overestimated. "In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism-scholarship, propaganda, integration, national self-determination, human rights,...More
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| A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing (Library Edition)
| [This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.] Where did the universe come from? What was there before it? What will the future bring? And finally, why is there something rather than nothing? Lawrence Krauss' provocative answers to these and other timeless questions in a wildly popular lecture now on YouTube have attracted almost a million viewers. The last of these questions in particular has been at the center of religious and philosophical debates about the existence of God...More
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| The Einstein Theory of Relativity :Illustrated
| The action of the Royal Society at its meeting in London on November6, in recognizing Dr. Albert Einstein's "theory of relativity"has caused a great stir in scientific circles on both sides of theAtlantic. Dr. Einstein propounded his theory nearly fifteen yearsago. The present revival of interest in it is due to the remarkableconfirmation which it received in the report of the observationsmade during the sun's eclipse of last May to determine whether raysof light passing close to the sun are def...More
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| Life on the Mississippi (Bantam Classics)
| Mark Twain's own story of his youthful years as a cub-pilot on a steamboat plowing up and down the Mississippi River.
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| Man's Search for Meaning
| Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the experiences of those he treated in his practice, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move fo...More
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| As A Man Thinketh: Audio
| You are what you think.
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| The Sign of Four (The Oxford Sherlock Holmes)
| When a woman who has received mysterious pearls in the mail is asked to meet her correspondent, Holmes and Watson are called in on the case. A terrible death and vanishing treasure lead to an epic chase through the dawn streets and along the River Thames in this spellbinding mystery.
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| The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
| This celebrated New York Times bestseller -- now poised to reach an even wider audience in paperback -- is a book that is changing the way Americans think about selling products and disseminating ideas.
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| Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
| In his landmark bestseller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant-in the blink of an eye-that actually aren't as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consistently inept? Why do some people follow their instincts and win, while othe...More
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| Freakonomics Rev Ed: (and Other Riddles of Modern Life) (P.S.)
| Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? How did the legalization of abortion affect the rate of violent crime?These may not sound like typical questions for an econo-mist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much-heralded scholar who studies the riddles of everyday life—from cheating and crime to sports and child-rea...More
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| Chocolate and Cocoa Recipes and Home Made Candy Recipes
| The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Cooking / Courses
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| Lord of the Flies
| FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.
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| Digital Multiplication Flash Cards in Color (Ordered and Shuffled 1-9)
| This eBook includes 162 digital multiplication flash cards in color (where color is available). Each flash card is decorated with smiley faces and looks just like the flash cards depicted on the thumbnail image for the cover of this eBook.The first set of 81 flash cards has the problems 1x1 thru 9x9 in order. The first half of this eBook is designed for kids who are still memorizing their times tables.The second set of 81 flash cards has the problems 1x1 thru 9x9 shuffled. The second half of thi...More
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