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A misfit girl and her brother attend summer camp, where they struggle with primitive plumbing, snobby tentmates, and boys-versus-girls competitions.
Surveys the potential of emerging technologies, drawing on the insights of experts to explore how …
The first part, O'Reilly's history of the internet, felt like rehashing of stories and anecdotes that I'm already familiar with. The later parts I found much more interesting. They expanded how I think about markets, regulation, and economic systems.
The first part, O'Reilly's history of the internet, felt like rehashing of stories and anecdotes that I'm already familiar with. The later parts I found much more interesting. They expanded how I think about markets, regulation, and economic systems.
Bill Bryson describes his attempt to walk the Appalachian Trail with his friend "Stephen Katz". …
Hiking, humor, and environmentalism
I love hiking, and this book was a glorious celebration of hiking. It contained quite a bit more on the history of ecological management in the eastern United States than I expected, but those parts were interesting too and served as nice interludes to the primary travelogue narrative.
In these stories, Jemisin sharply examines modern society, infusing magic into the mundane, and drawing deft parallels in the fantasy …
The celebrated design professor here tackles the question of how best to communicate real-life experience in a two-degree format, whether …
Essays that I could relate to - the state fair, the cruise - were fantastic. Others that I felt less of a connection to - tennis, TV, David Lynch - contained great writing and a lot of interesting ideas, but also felt like they went on too long. I think I’m ready for his fiction now.
The Fated Sky continues the grand sweep of alternate history begun in The Calculating Stars. It is 1961, and …
On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to Earth and obliterated much of the east coast …
Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker urges us to step …
"The second, thrilling novel in the bestselling Interdependency series, from Hugo Award-winning author John Scalzi. The Interdependency, humanity's interstellar empire, …
The authoritative resource to writing clear and idiomatic Go to solve real-world problems
Google’s Go team member Alan A. …
