“It’s like you have to travel Ruins Road first, through the abandonment, to come out correctly,” a newfound friend tells Jon at Mesa Verde National Park.Jon and Suzy share the freedom of summer on Jon’s motorcycle and sidecar following high school graduation. Their young love is filled with silliness and dreams of the future and starting college. But the futility of freshman year Basic Studies, requisites of little perceived value, and the rigors of Math class where pedant...

The Financial Times Business Book of the Year, this epic account of the decades-long battle to control one of the world’s most critical resources—microchip technology—with the United States and China increasingly in fierce competition is “pulse quickening…a nonfiction thriller” (The New York Times).You may be surprised to learn that microchips are the new oil—the scarce resource on which the modern world depends. Today, military, economic, and geo...

From the informal games of Homer's time to the highly organized contests of the Roman world, Miller has compiled a trove of ancient sources: Plutarch on boxing, Aristotle on the pentathlon, Philostratos on the buying and selling of victories, Vitruvius on literary competitions, and Xenophon on female body building. Arete offers readers an absorbing lesson in the culture of Greek athletics from the greatest of teachers, the ancients themselves, and demonstrates that the concepts of...

With The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Stephen R. Donaldson changed the face of fantasy fiction forever. In The Mirror of Her Dreams, the astonishing first novel in the two-volume Mordant’s Need series, Donaldson shows us a world of wondrous beauty and seductive illusion, where mirrors hold the deadliest of magics and nothing is what it seems. . . .The daughter of rich but neglectful parents, Terisa Morgan lives alone in a New York City apartment...

This audiobook is dedicated to anyone who has any kind of mental health or any kind of condition that precludes them from reading or even concentrating when they pick up a book to read. I am one of those individuals. I have never read a book from cover to cover except for my very own two books.. I know there are many people out there who are drugged up on some type of witches brew to make them a zombie so that they are incapable of doing anything but just being relaxed. I would like to int...

The daughter of rich but neglectful parents, Terisa Morgan lives alone in a New York City apartment, a young woman who has grown to doubt her own existence. Surrounded by the flat reassurance of mirrors, she leads an unfulfilled life-until the night a strange man named Geraden comes crashing through one of her mirrors, on a quest to find a champion to save his kingdom of Mordant from a pervasive evil that threatens the land. Terisa is no champion. She wields neither magic nor power. And ye...

This “vivid and compelling account” (The Wall Street Journal) opens not only the inner workings of one of physics’ greatest minds, but also a view into an extraordinary friendship and the human capacity to overcome insurmountable challenges.A BEST SCIENCE BOOK OF 2020 (The Telegraph, The Guardian)A BEST BOOK OF 2020 (New Statesmen)One of the most influential physicists of our time, Stephen Hawking touched the lives of milli...

***Winner of the 2022 Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award******Selected as one of Barack Obama's Favourite Books of 2023***'Pulse quickening. A nonfiction thriller - equal parts The China Syndrome and Mission Impossible' New York TimesAn epic account of the decades-long battle to control the world's most critical resource—microchip technologyPower in the modern ...

Stephen Miller, bestselling author of Complete Guide to the Bible and Who’s Who and Where’s Where in the Bible, compares reading the Bible to driving a country road. “We’re cruising along reading a fine little story when suddenly we hit a jaw dropper of a narrative pothole. Right out loud we might say, ‘What on earth is this doing in God’s holy Word?’”You can’t read far in the Bible without being jolted by an account of polygamy, slavery, or gender inequality. Oth...

Brought to you by Penguin.An icon of the last fifty years, Stephen Hawking seems to encapsulate genius: not since Albert Einstein has a scientific figure held such a place in our popular consciousness. In this enthralling memoir, writer and physicist Leonard Mlodinow tells the story of his friend and colleague, offering an intimate account of this giant of science.The two met in 2003, after Stephen asked Leonard if he would consider writing a book with him....

For nine generations the Justo family has traveled outside of time by opening portals into eternity. Flying in an eternal river of fire is fast and exciting, but it's also dangerous: you have to be a good person or the voyage kills you! Are you ready to step outside of time and enter the realm of eternity? Danger, life or death consequences - straight ahead!When Marion Justo inherits his family's most prized possession, the starship Isian, he is attacked by pirates, forcing him to o...

THE NEW AMERICAN COMMENTARY is for the minister or Bible student who wants to understand and expound the Scriptures. Notable features include:* commentary based on THE NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION;* the NIV text printed in the body of the commentary;* sound scholarly methodology that reflects capable research in the original languages;* interpretation that emphasizes the theological unity of each book and of Scripture as a whole;* readable and applicable exposition.