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Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in …
"In Blueprint for Revolution, Srdja Popovic outlines his philosophy for implementing peaceful world change and provides a model for activists …
Decades into our future, a stone’s throw from the ancient city of Shanghai, a brilliant nanotechnologist named John Percival Hackworth …
Martin Hench is 67 years old, single, and successful in a career stretching back to the beginnings of Silicon Valley. …
A gorgeously illustrated deep dive into the immune system that will forever change how you think about your body, from …
The Begum's Fortune (French: Les Cinq cents millions de la Bégum, literally "the 500 millions of the begum"), also published …
Ted Chiang tackles some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine.
In “The Merchant and …
The Begum's Fortune (French: Les Cinq cents millions de la Bégum, literally "the 500 millions of the begum"), also published …
The story of Chesapeake pirates and patriots begins with a land dispute and ends with …
There are books that make history come alive, whose characters leap from the page and feel real because we understand who they are and what drives them. This is not one of those books. By the end of the introduction, I'd managed to lose track of who was who.
If you've read Morrow before, you know to expect a mix of intellectualism and goofiness, and this one doesn't disappoint: a yeti meets the current incarnation of the Dalai Lama to teach him Buddhism, which he does, as they bond over a shared love of James Bond movies.
"The real challenge of programming isn't learning a language's syntax--it's learning to creatively solve problems …
This would be more useful to a beginning programmer. I've been at it long enough that I've already learned the vast majority of what Spraul talks about.
Is rom-thriller a genre? I guess it is now. The titular girl is a member of a secret government agency, and also struggles with questions of who she is and how to have a real relationship, given who and what she is.
The biggest problem, for me, was that the author uses South African words and expressions throughout. This is fine in third-person narration, but here we have Angelenos complaining that the aircon isn't set high enough, and every time their tyres skid on the tarmac they hit the kerb. It tends to break the immersion just a bit.
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This book just showed in my mailbox, unsolicited. In it, the author gives a brief overview of his life: he was raised in a Jewish family, went to school in Switzerland, learned about sex, moved back to the US and met his wife, who was Christian. She was raped and became pregnant as a result. They decided to put the baby up for adoption. Later, Cantor felt pulled to explore Christianity, and eventually converted. After some initial resistance, his family eventually accepted this. He started a successful business. The end.
I'm sure Cantor intended this as a heartwarming story of how to find happiness in Jesus, but it winds up being an expose of how toxic religion can be. He tells of how his sexual experiences in school caused him to feel dirty, to the point of once having to take a two-hour shower, but he doesn't elaborate, beyond saying …
