Dr Jacob Bronowksi's The Ascent of Man traces the development of human society through our understanding of science.First published in 1973 to accompany the groundbreaking BBC television series, it is considered one of the first works of 'popular science', illuminating the historical and social context of scientific development for a generation of readers. In his highly accessible style, Dr Bronowski discusses human invention from the flint tool to geometry, agriculture to...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically goes on a rollicking journey to understand the enduring power of puzzles: why we love them, what they do to our brains, and how they can improve our world.**“Even though I’ve never attempted the New York Times crossword puzzle or solved the Rubik’s Cube, I couldn’t put down The Puzzler.”—Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project and Better T...

Professor's latest work 'FIGHTING MAN'S BIBLE' is haunting!!! It's a can't stop reading once you start type of book.It is a prolific, soul searching, thought provoking,insightful, honest,down to earth, in your face, let's roll in the dirt, let's touch the sky, just strip me naked, clothe me in royalty and empower me piece of literature. It is an original literary art work which facilitates standard English as well as, the use of Professor's mother tongue-Trinidad lexicon- Creole,to convey ...

God created you for a purpose - a purpose that includes fulfilling the great plans He has for you. God also desires that you live a fulfilled, successful and prosperous life. Every created human being is given desires and dreams straight from the heart of God to yours. The quest and desire of a person to live a fulfilled, successful and prosperous life is encapsulated in the personal vision God gives to every person. You cannot deny that you have this vision; you cannot deny that you desir...

Inspiration for the TV series Living Biblically streaming now!From the New York Times bestselling author of The Know-It-All comes a fascinating and timely exploration of religion and the Bible. A.J. Jacobs chronicles his hilarious and thoughtful year spent obeying?as literally as possible?the tenets of the Bible.Raised in a secular family but increasingly interested in the relevance of faith in our modern world, A...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Man Eaters: Episode 2YEAR 3 OF THE GREAT INFECTION | Zombie Horror | Mystery | Survival ThrillerWelcome to a chilling journey into the frozen heart of the apocalypse—a world ravaged by a deadly infection, where survival is a daily battle, and monsters wear the faces of those you once loved.In this epic young adult zombie horror story, we follow Katya, a teenage survivor turned leader, navigating a world overrun b...

“A colorful introduction to one of the most influential businessmen in history” (The New York Times Book Review), Jacob Fugger—the Renaissance banker “who wrote the playbook for everyone who keeps score with money” (Bryan Burrough, author of Days of Rage).In the days when Columbus sailed the ocean and Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, a German banker named Jacob Fugger became the richest man in history.Fugger lived in Germany at the...

A trip to Appalachia to investigate a religious "miracle" becomes a transformational spiritual journey for one unsuspecting Londoner in this modern tale that touches on the mysterious questions in our lives—a poignant, wry novel infused with the humor and warm skepticism of Nick Hornby's How to Be Good.Dumped, depressed, and bored with his dead-end job, Londoner John Mallory decides to shake up his life. He accepts his journalist brother's offer to help him on a documentar...

This remarkable new translation of the Nobel Prize-winner's great masterpiece is a major literary event.Thomas Mann regarded his monumental retelling of the biblical story of Joseph as his magnum opus. He conceived of the four parts-The Stories of Jacob, Young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt, and Joseph the Provider-as a unified narrative, a "mythological novel" of Joseph's fall into slavery and his rise to be lord over Egypt. Deploying lavish, persuasive detail, Mann conjures for us the w...

Tyler only screams when he stays at his daddy's house. Nathan isn't sure why his son can't sleep through the night, but he's determined to find out why.It's been just over a year since a messy divorce uprooted the life Nathan Cooley had so perfectly plotted for himself. Now, his job is taking off, he's moved into a new house, and he gets to spend weekends with his five-year-old son.Only now things are different again.Because something lurks inside Tyler's bedroom, r...

Part memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know-It-All chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs’s hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly impossible quest to read the Encyclopedia Britannica from A to Z.33,000 PAGES44 MILLION WORDS10 BILLION YEARS OF HISTORY1 OBSESSED MANTo fill the ever-widening gaps in his Ivy League education, A.J. Jacobs sets for himself the daunting task of reading all thirty-two volumes o...

From the bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically and The Know-It-All comes the true and truly hilarious story of one person’s quest to become the healthiest man in the world.Hospitalized with a freak case of tropical pneumonia, goaded by his wife telling him, “I don’t want to be a widow at forty-five,” and ashamed of a middle-aged body best described as “a python that swallowed a goat,” A.J. Jacobs felt compelled to change his ways and...