Mixing mystery and adventure in the tradition of Louis Sachar, Avi, and E.L. Konigsburg, If You Find This is the story of unlikely friendships, unexpected bravery and eleven-year-old Nicholas Funes's quest to prove his grandfather's treasure is real.Nicholas is a math and music genius with no friends and a huge problem: His father has lost his job, and they'll have to sell their house, which holds the only memory Nicholas has of his younger brother. Just i...

In a society obsessed with status, money, and external validation, a rare subset of individuals operates on an entirely different psychological framework. They are completely immune to the pursuit of rewards. They possess an Autotelic Personality. An autotelic individual derives meaning solely from the execution of the task itself, rather than its outcome. Whether they are coding complex software, painting a canvas, or climbing a mountain, the friction of the activity is the reward. This b...

Equal parts speculative and satirical, the stories in Why Visit America form an exegesis of our current political predicament, while offering an eloquent plea for connection and hope.The citizens of Plainfield, Texas, have had it with the broke-down United States. So they vote to secede, rename themselves America in memory of their former country, and happily set themselves up to receive tourists from their closest neighbor: America. Couldn't happen? Well, ...

« Bienvenue, cher visiteur, dans une nation fière et chargée d’Histoire. Quand vous reposerez ce guide, regardez autour de vous. Une nation n’est pas une terre. Une nation, ce sont ses habitants. »« Matthew Baker peint avec un œil avisé le mythe américain, entre usure et fantasme. Aussi bien dans leur forme que dans leur intention, ces nouvelles évoquent celles des grands fabulistes Italo Calvino, Luis Borges et Shirley Jackson. » GuernicaTraduit de l’anglais (État...

Cyberattacks are becoming more commonplace and the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), estimates 94% of sites have flaws in their access control alone. Attacks evolve to work around new defenses, and defenses must evolve to remain effective. Developers need to understand the fundamentals of attacks and defenses in order to comprehend new techniques as they become available. This book teaches you how to write secure web applications.The focus is highlighting how hackers a...

Bloomsbury presents Why Visit America by Matthew Baker, read by Peter Ganim.Welcome, dear visitor, to a proud and storied nation. When you put down this guidebook, look around you. A nation isn’t land. A nation is people.Equal parts speculative and satirical, the stories in Matthew Baker's collection portray a world within touching distance of our own. This is an America riven by dilemmas confronting so many of us, turned on its head by one of the most innovative voices of ...

Matthew Baker novelláinak középpontjában Amerika áll, és a szerző mindegyikben ugyanazt az izgalmas kérdést feszegeti: mi történik az országgal és lakosaival, ha megváltoztatunk benne valamit, akármilyen apró dolgot? A könyvben található tizenhárom történet a szépirodalom, szatíra, disztópia és science fiction eszköztárával különböző Amerikákba nyújt betekintést: olyanba, ahol a gyerekeket a születésük pillanatában elszakítják a szüleiktől; ahol az idősek hetvenéves korukban rituális öngyi...

Equal parts speculative and satirical, the stories in Why Visit America form an exegesis of our current political predicament, while offering an eloquent plea for connection and hope.The citizens of Plainfield, Texas, have had it with the broke-down United States. So they vote to secede, rename themselves America in memory of their former country, and happily set themselves up to receive tourists from their closest neighbor: America. Couldn’t happen? Well,...

Three boys, two grandpas, a tree, a map and some hidden treasure... Let the adventure begin.Eleven-year-old Nicholas Funes knows he's weird. He plays the violin far too well to be cool, he collects square roots and prime numbers and, weirdest of all, he talks to a tree who he believes is his brother. Plus, he doesn't have all that many friends. But even he is about to struggle with how strange his life is about to get. His long-lost and never-spoken-about Grandfather Rose turns up ...

Mixing mystery and adventure in the tradition of Louis Sachar, Avi, and E.L. Konigsburg, If You Find This is the story of unlikely friendships, unexpected bravery and eleven-year-old Nicholas Funes's quest to prove his grandfather's treasure is real.Nicholas is a math and music genius with no friends and a huge problem: His father has lost his job, and they'll have to sell their house, which holds the only memory Nicholas has of his younger brother. Just i...

Welcome, dear visitor, to a proud and storied nation. When you put down this guidebook, look around you. A nation isn't land. A nation is people.Equal parts speculative and satirical, the stories in Matthew Baker's collection portray a world within touching distance of our own. This is an America riven by dilemmas confronting so many of us, turned on its head by one of the most innovative voices of the moment.Read together, these parallel-universe stories create a ...

Explore how the roots of the ancient Christian tradition inform and shape faithfulness todayThe Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible enlists leading theologians to read and interpret scripture creedally for the twenty-first century, just as the church fathers, the Reformers, and other orthodox Christians did for their times and places.A rich resource for preachers, teachers, students, and study groups, the BTC provides guidance for reading the Bible u...