**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Wager comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction “with all the pace and excitement of a movie thriller”(The New York Times) that unravels the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century—the story of the legendary British explorer who ventured into the Amazon jungle in search of a fabled civilization and never returned."[Grann is] one of the preeminen...

"Presented with artful plausibility.... A thrilling historical drama, as engrossing as it is edifying." —Kirkus ReviewsWhat if Davy Crockett survived the Alamo?Texas, 1838. Silas Grant prepares for life with the girl of his dreams. The resourceful sixteen-year-old is learning the blacksmith trade from his father and frontier skills from Texas Revolution veterans. But when a portrait of David Crockett raises the possibility that the beloved ...

From the celebrated author of Quantum Mechanics and Experience comes a “provocative” (Nature) and “deeply important” (Mind) attempt at making sense of the strange laws of quantum mechanics.A century ago, Niels Bohr and a circle of brilliant physicists argued that the search for an objective, realistic, and mechanical picture of the inner workings of the atom was doomed to fail. Today, there is widespread agreement among philosophers and p...

This book is an attempt to get to the bottom of an acute and perennial tension between our best scientific pictures of the fundamental physical structure of the world and our everyday empirical experience of it. The trouble is about the direction of time. The situation (very briefly) is that it is a consequence of almost every one of those fundamental scientific pictures--and that it is at the same time radically at odds with our common sense--that whatever can happen can just as naturally...

Here the philosopher and physicist David Z Albert argues, among other things, that the difference between past and future can be understood as a mechanical phenomenon of nature and that quantum mechanics makes it impossible to present the entirety of what can be said about the world as a narrative of “befores” and “afters.”

A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the world. A quest for truth that leads to death, madness or disappearance for those who seek to solve it. The Lost City of Z is a blockbuster adventure narrative about what lies beneath the impenetrable jungle canopy of the Amazon.After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, acclaimed New Yorker writer David Grann set out to solve "the greatest expl...

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With A to Z Classics, discover or rediscover all the classics of literature.Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML)The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.This book contains the following w...

David Busch's Nikon Z6 III Guide to Digital Photography is your all-in-one comprehensive resource and reference for the Nikon Z6 III, the company’s next-generation enthusiast mirrorless camera.Equipped with the world’s first partially-stacked CMOS sensor, this 24.5MP camera shares many of the advanced photography features of Nikon’s top tier Z9 and Z8 flagship cameras, including a pre-capture feature that records action that happened before you cl...

This is a new volume of original essays on the metaphysics of quantum mechanics. The essays address questions such as: What fundamental metaphysics is best motivated by quantum mechanics? What is the ontological status of the wave function? Does quantum mechanics support the existence of any other fundamental entities, e.g. particles? What is the nature of the fundamental space (or space-time manifold) of quantum mechanics? What is the relationship between the fundamental ontology of quant...

David Busch's Nikon Z7 II/Z6 II Guide to Digital Photography is your all-in-one comprehensive resource and reference for Nikon’s next-generation Z7 II and Z6 II mirrorless cameras. The company has upgraded these compact cameras with the features most requested by enthusiasts, including two memory card slots, advanced autofocus features, and performance-enhancing dual EXPEED 6 processors. Serious photographers can select the high-resolution 45.7 megapixel Z7 II, or opt for the high...

So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Lost City of Z tells you what you need to know—before or after you read David Grann's book.Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.This short summary and analysis of The Lost City of Z includes:Historical contextChapter-by-chapter overviewsProfiles of the ma...