“Wait—rewind. I was still a girl back then, before the universes converged.”Guided by premonitions and a fateful car ride, a burned-out retail worker stumbles into the grand exit from womanhood. Meanwhile, in a galaxy not so far away, an alien prince goes rogue with his sentient spaceship, seeking purpose in the great glimmering void. As the two of them come together in a fusion of body and mind, they must reckon with their assigned identities.Tender, witty, and da...

“The world's leading alien hunter” —New York Times MagazineFrom acclaimed Harvard astrophysicist and bestselling author of Extraterrestrial comes a mind-expanding new book on space exploration explaining why becoming an interstellar species is imperative for humanity’s survival and detailing a game plan for how we can settle among the stars.In the New York Times bestseller Extraterrestrial,

Disruption resulting from the proliferation of AI is coming. The authors of the bestselling Prediction Machines can help you prepare.Artificial intelligence (AI) has impacted many industries around the world—banking and finance, pharmaceuticals, automotive, medical technology, manufacturing, and retail. But it has only just begun its odyssey toward cheaper, better, and faster predictions that drive strategic business decisions. When prediction is taken to ...

Named one of "The five best books to understand AI" by The EconomistThe impact AI will have is profound, but the economic framework for understanding it is surprisingly simple.Artificial intelligence seems to do the impossible, magically bringing machines to life—driving cars, trading stocks, and teaching children. But facing the sea change that AI brings can be paralyzing. How should companies set strategies, governments design po...

Avi's treasured Newbery Honor Book now in expanded After Words edition!Thirteen-year-old Charlotte Doyle is excited to return home from her school in England to her family in Rhode Island in the summer of 1832. But when the two families she was supposed to travel with mysteriously cancel their trips, Charlotte finds herself the lone passenger on a long sea voyage with a cruel captain and a mutinous crew. Worse yet, soon after stepping aboard the ship, she becomes enmeshed in a conflict bet...

New York Times Bestseller | Wall Street Journal Bestseller | Publishers Weekly Bestseller | Publishers Marketplace 2020 Buzz Book | Amazon Best Book of the Year | Longlisted for the 2022 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award“Provocative and thrilling ... Loeb asks us to think big and to expect the unexpected.”—Alan Lightman, New York Times bestselling author of Einstein’s Dreams and Searching for Stars on an Island in MaineHarvard’s top astronomer lays out ...

Take your interview skills to the next level by reviewing hundreds of real-world interview questions and coding examples Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBookKey FeaturesSolve complex design and architecture tasksDevelop mature and complete answers to commonly asked questionsEnhance your interview prospects by building a strong developer brand through publications and online projectsBook DescriptionAs...

YOUR BODY IS A DEVER DREAM is A cosmic body horror anthology from trans and GNC voices, a companion volume to YOUR BODY IS NOT YOUR BODY, and a charity drive all rolled into one. Over thirty Trans and Gender Nonconforming writers and artists come together in this energetic, fierce, and richly illustrated volume. Great unknowable forces, big concepts, space, dimensions, existential drama, good ol' body horror, cosmic dread, genre blending, weird formats, and creativity abound. Currently aim...

Sohmeng Par is sick of being treated like a child.Ever since a tragic accident brought her mountain community’s coming-of-age ritual to a halt, she’s caused nothing but trouble in her impatience to become an adult. But when she finally has the chance to prove herself, she’s thrown from her life in the mountains and into the terror of the jungle below.Cornered by a colony of reptilian predators known as the sãoni, Sohmeng is rescued by Hei, an eccentric exil...

Scott O’Dell Award for Best Historical Fiction * A****LA Notable Book * ALA Best Books for YANewbery Medal-winning author Avi tells the “compelling story of a young boy’s first encounter with war and how it changes him.”—Publishers WeeklyJonathan may be only thirteen years old, but with the Revolutionary War unfolding around him, he’s more certain than ever that he wants to be a part of it—to fight for independence alongside his br...

In 1876, a recently dethroned sultan, Abdülaziz, was found dead in his cham- bers, the veins in hisarm slashed. Five years later, a group of Ottoman senior officials stood a criminal trial and werefound guilty for complicity in his murder. Among the defendants was the world-famousstatesman former Grand Vizier and reformer Ahmed Midhat Pasa, a political foe of the autocraticsultan Abdülhamit II, who succeeded Abdülaziz and ruled the empire for thirty-three years....