"Reading this book was like entering a whole different world, one that's layered with depth and intrigue. It's the kind of fiction that makes you pause and think about the complexities of life, love, and the freedom to feel. The way the author weaves these themes into a story full of suspense and emotion really kept me hooked. What's cool about this book is how it dives into some pretty heavy topics but manages to do so in a way that's both engaging and thought-provoking. You get pulled in...

Take off with this new spin on a beloved classic - with voodoo, gangs, and gunfire! Another Journey brought to you by Lars Ray.Are you bored by the “rote” audiobooks coming your way? Bore no more. This page-turner will bring you to an escape of your own, and a deep dive into the world of gangs, voodoo, a new drug, and our gangsta thug heroes that save the day! Are too many of your books “forgettable”?If so, SNO...

'Fifty years into my life journey I realise that, while I love remote wild places and the peoples I meet there, it is in forests that I find the greatest joy. Of all the forests that I have explored, it is the great circumpolar Boreal forest of the North that calls to me most. Here is a landscape where bush knowledge really counts and where experience counts even more ... This book has been thirty years in the making.'Out on the Land is an absorbing exploration of...

We have lost one of the giants of the twentieth century physics when Yoichiro Nambu passed away in July, 2015, at the age of 94.Today's Standard Model, though still incomplete in many respects, is the culmination of the most successful theory of the Universe to date, and it is built upon foundations provided by discoveries made by Nambu in the 1960s: the mechanism of spontaneously broken symmetry in Nature (with G Jona-Lasinio) and the hidden new SU(3) symmetry of quarks and gluons (with M...

An essential guide to everything you need to stay sheltered, fed, healthy, and safe in the backcountryOrganized around the six essentials of survival (shelter, water, food, fire, comfort and health, and navigation), Wilderness Survival Handbook covers 100 skills and techniques, including preserving fire, building pit shelters, toolmaking, stoneboiling cookery, and trapping and hunting animals with handmade tools and weapons. By mastering these skills, you ...

One of Booklist's Top 10 Science Books of the Year: "A superb biography . . . A definite study of Fermi's life and work." — The Wall Street JournalA Bloomberg Best Book of the YearA Finalist for Physics World 's Book of the YearA New York Times Book Review Editor's ChoiceNobel Prize winner Enrico Fermi is unquestionably among the world's greatest physicists, the most famous Italian s...

In What's Wrong With the World, one of the twentieth century's most memorable and prolific writers takes on education, government, big business, feminism, and a host of other topics. Chesterton eloquently opposed materialism, snobbery, hypocrisy, and any adversary of freedom and simplicity in modern society. As readable and rewarding today as when they were written over a century ago.

With the World desperate to find energy sources that do not emit carbon gasses, nuclear power is back on the agenda and in the news, following the increasing cost of fossil fuels and concerns about the security of their future supply. However, the term 'nuclear power' causes anxiety in many people and there is confusion concerning the nature and extent of the associated risks. Here, Maxwell Irvine presents a concise introduction to the development of nuclear physics leading up to the emerg...

"A surprise best-seller which, apparently, has the power to turn even the most feeble of us into axe-wielding lumberjacks." — IndependentThe latest Scandinavian publishing phenomenon is not a Stieg Larsson-like thriller; it's a book about chopping, stacking, and burning wood that has sold more than 200,000 copies in Norway and Sweden and has been a fixture on the bestseller lists there for more than a year. Norwegian Wood provides useful advice on ...

Geocaching has steadily grown into a fun and enduring outdoor adventure and with the popularity of GPS units and the development of applications for nearly all of the most popular smartphone platforms, it has become an adventure that's available to pretty much anyone.In The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Geocaching, Third Edition, the editors and staff of Geocaching.com open the world of geocaching up to a much broader audience and take the reader through all of the core essen...

The book is based on the lectures delivered at the XCIII Session of the École de Physique des Houches, held in August, 2009. The aim of the event was to familiarize the new generation of PhD students and postdoctoral fellows with the principles and methods of modern lattice field theory, which aims to resolve fundamental, non-perturbative questions about QCD without uncontrolled approximations. The emphasis of the book is on the theoretical developments that have shaped the field in the la...

Creating H-Bombs and stockpiling them in large numbers is folly of the most extreme kind, since their use in thermonuclear World War 3 would mean the end of all human life.This book explains why H-Bombs were created and stockpiled, and the significance of their existence in such large numbers. The H-Bomb's history, its testing and test results, the men behind the bomb, how it works, etc. are all described and explained by informative text with 10 graphic illustrations.The H...