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  • This Way Up

    When Maps Go Wrong (And Why It Matters)

    by Map Men ...
    ***AN INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER!**AUDIO BOOK NARRATED BY MARK COOPER-JONES AND JAY FOREMAN**An Audible Most Anticipated Listen!*The debut book from the YouTube sensation and all-round cartographical nerds, The Map Men!**Hello, we’re the Map Men and in the following pages, we’ve selected what we believe to be some of the very best wrong maps. Some of them are decades old, some are centuries ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Phraseology

    Thousands of Bizarre Origins, Unexpected Connections, and Fascinating Facts about English's Best Expressions

    The Amazing Secrets of the Phrases We Use EverydayPhraseology is the ultimate collection of everything you never knew about the wonderful phrases found in the English language. It contains information about phrase history and etymology; unusual, lost, or uncommon phrases; how phrases are formed; and more than 7,000 facts about common English phrases.Practical enough to be used as a reference book ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • 如果這樣,會怎樣?(10週年增訂版):胡思亂想的搞怪趣問,正經認真的科學妙答

    What If? 10th Anniversary Edition: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

    Series series 科學天地
    ★《紐約時報》暢銷榜 TOP 1 ★★ 銷售突破100萬冊 ★★週年10倍強勢回歸 ★廣受歡迎的xkcd網站作者蘭德爾.門羅的熱銷名著《如果這樣,會怎樣?》,出版歷時10年,銷售突破100萬冊!書中充滿各種奇思怪想的問題,以及作者一本科學的幽默正經回覆。10週年版《如果這樣,會怎樣?》內容全面更新,外加全新的一章,有更多趣味漫畫,還有10倍極限的情境設定,讓你對世界的理解與想像更加10倍開展!.開車撞到減速坡仍安然存活的最快車速是多快? 如果所有減速坡都變成10倍高,又會怎麼?.從多高的地方把牛排丟下,能讓牛排在著地時煮熟? 如果高度增加10倍,又會怎麼?.你想過1莫耳的鼴鼠有多大嗎? 如果是10莫耳</... ... Read more

    $11.95 USD

  • Enhance Your Library, Enhance Your Well-Being

    How to Fight Burnout and Reclaim Library Joy

    Learn, step-by-step, how to avoid or navigate burnout and reclaim the joy of the library profession while making a deep impact in your service community.In the face of burnout caused by book bans, program challenges, and waning resources, how can library workers sustain their own mental well-being and enjoyment of the profession, while continuing to offer top-notch programs and services to their ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

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  • Cite Right

    A Quick Guide to Citation Styles—MLA, APA, Chicago, the Sciences, Professions, and More

    Series series Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
    Updated Edition: "An invaluable tool for researchers who must cite sources in their writing . . . you'll want to keep it within easy reach of your keyboard." — Technical CommunicationsCite Right is the perfect guide for anyone who needs to learn a new citation style or who needs an easy reference to Chicago, MLA, APA, AMA, and other styles. Each chapter serves as a quick guide that introduces the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

    by Oscar Wilde ...
    Series series Penguin Little Black Classics
    'It would be unfair to expect other people to be as remarkable as oneself'Wilde's celebrated witticisms on the dangers of sincerity, duplicitous biographers, the stupidity of the English - and his own genius.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and ... Read more

    $0.41 USD

  • Cribsheet

    A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool

    by Emily Oster ...
    Series Book 2 - The ParentData Series
    **From the author of Expecting Better, The Family Firm, and The Unexpected an economist's guide to the early years of parenting.“Both refreshing and useful. With so many parenting theories driving us all a bit batty, this is the type of book that we need to help calm things down.” —LA Times**“The book is jampacked with information, but it’s also a delightful read because Oster is such a good ... Read more

    $8.19 USD

  • Bird by Bird

    Some Instructions on Writing and Life

    by Anne Lamott ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An essential volume for generations of writers young and old. The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of this modern classic will continue to spark creative minds for years to come. Anne Lamott is "a warm, generous, and hilarious guide through the writer’s world and its treacherous swamps" (Los Angeles Times).**“Superb writing advice…. Hilarious, helpful, and provocative.” ... Read more

    $11.79 USD

  • 100 Hoaxes & Mistakes That Fooled Science

    Series series Popular Science
    Even experts get duped from time to time! The stories behind scientific fakes and mistakes, from crop circles to miracle cures and beyond.Science is an ongoing quest for knowledge filled with discoveries and experiments, trial and error. And occasionally, the errors can be whoppers—especially when hoaxers are involved. Some hoaxes are intended merely as well-intended humorous tricks, while others ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Writing Frame of Mind

    From Bird by Bird

    by Anne Lamott ...
    Series series A Vintage Short
    A Vintage Shorts selection. • To the enormous challenges of being a writer, Anne Lamott offers invaluable advice and encouragement, which more than a million scribes and scribblers of all ages and abilities have been inspired by for a quarter century.In this selection from her essential volume, Bird by Bird, Lamott tenderly recommends and outlines the qualities that every writer should learn to ... Read more

    $1.16 USD

  • What Every BODY is Saying

    An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Speed-Reading People

    OVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLDJoe Navarro, a former FBI counterintelligence officer and a recognized expert on nonverbal behavior, explains how to "speed-read" people and master the science of understanding human behavior: decode sentiments and behaviors, avoid hidden pitfalls, and look for deceptive behaviors. You'll also learn how your body language can influence what your boss, family, friends, and ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • 黑天鵝語錄(全新擴充版)

    隨機世界的生存指南,未知事物的應對之道The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

    Series series FROM
    《黑天鵝效應》《反脆弱》《不對稱陷阱》作者塔雷伯最凝練、精闢的警世格言集1000天的安全,不保證1001天心領神會醒腦警句,對抗虛假、蠢俗,跨越思考局限原文書名《普洛克拉斯提之床》(The Bed of Procrustes)取自希臘神話:普洛克拉斯提是一位國王,他引誘訪客留宿,為使床符合客人身長,將高個兒雙腿截短,把矮子身體拉長。故事聽來不可思議,在塔雷伯看來,卻正是某些現代文明發展的縮影——改變人類行為以適應科技、將經濟危機怪罪於現實與經濟模型不符、發明疾病以利銷售更多藥物、將聰明定義為在校考試成績好,甚至要大家相信受僱於人並不是當奴隸。內容嬉笑怒罵兼且離經叛道,這些警句有助你看清現實,擺脫知識局限。塔雷伯以他一針見血的機鋒和大智慧,將勇氣、優雅、博學的古典價值觀與現代性的迂蠢、庸俗、虛假等弊病對照在我們眼前,爬梳了人類的種種幻覺。</... ... Read more

    $7.14 USD

  • The Greek Myths

    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    by Robert Graves ...
    Series series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
    Robert Graves, classicist, poet, and unorthodox critic, retells the Greek legends of gods and heroes for a modern audienceAnd, in the two volumes of The Greek Myths, he demonstrates with a dazzling display of relevant knowledge that Greek Mythology is “no more mysterious in content than are modern election cartoons.” His work covers, in nearly two hundred sections, the creation myths; the legends ... Read more

    $5.29 USD

  • Unofficial Guide to FamilySearch.org

    How to Find Your Family History on the World's Largest Free Genealogy Website

    Master the #1 Free Genealogy Website!Discover your ancestry on FamilySearch.org, the world's largest free genealogy website. This in-depth user guide shows you how to find your family in the site's databases of more than 3.5 billion names and millions of digitized historical records spanning the globe. Learn how to maximize all of FamilySearch.org's research tools--including hard-to-find features- ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • The Accidental Taxonomist, Third Edition

    The Accidental Taxonomist is the most comprehensive guide available to the art and science of building information taxonomies. Heather Hedden—a leading taxonomy expert and instructor—walks readers through the process, displaying her trademark ability to present highly technical information in straightforward, comprehensive English.In this fully revised third edition, Hedden adds an entirely new ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • A Poetry Handbook

    A Prose Guide to Understanding and Writing Poetry

    by Mary Oliver ...
    “Mary Oliver would probably never admit to anything so grandiose as an effort to connect the conscious mind and the heart (that’s what she says poetry can do), but that is exactly what she accomplishes in this stunning little handbook.”—Los Angeles TimesFrom the beloved and acclaimed poet, an ultimate guide to writing and understanding poetry.With passion and wit, Mary Oliver skillfully imparts ... Read more

    $11.29 USD

  • The Craft of Research, Fifth Edition

    Series series Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
    A thoroughly updated edition of a beloved classic that has guided generations of researchers in conducting effective and meaningful research.With more than a million copies sold since its first publication, The Craft of Research has helped generations of researchers at every level—from high-school students and first-year undergraduates to advanced graduate students to researchers in business and ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • A Dictionary of Human Geography

    Series series Oxford Quick Reference
    A Dictionary of Human Geography is a brand new addition to Oxford's Paperback Reference Series, offering over 2,000 clear and concise entries on human geography terms. From basic terms and concepts to biographical entries, acronyms, organisations, and major periods and schools in the history of human geography, it provides up-to-date, accurate, and accessible information. It also includes entry ... Read more

    $4.08 USD

  • 4,000 Questions for Getting to Know Anyone and Everyone

    4,000 ways to achieve instant intimacyWhat, more than anything, makes you angry?Who were your childhood idols?What kind of leader are you most inclined to follow?What has happened to the art of conversation? In the age of Internet chat rooms, speed dating, and frantic text messaging, have we forgotten how to meaningfully connect? This book of 4,000 provocative questions will help you get to know ... Read more

    $12.69 USD

  • 101 Things I Learned® in Product Design School

    Series series 101 Things I Learned
    An engaging, enlightening, and cleverly illustrated guide to product design, written by experienced professional designers and instructors.Products are in every area of our lives, but just what product designers do and how they think is a mystery to most. Product design is not art, engineering, or craft, even as it calls for skills and understandings in each of these areas—along with psychology, ... Read more

    $9.69 USD

  • Uncle John's Bathroom Reader: Zipper Accidents

    Series series Uncle John's Bathroom Reader
    For 25 years, there's always been a home in Uncle John's Bathroom Reader for those times in life you wish you could take back--"oops" moments, embarrassing accidents, spectacular failures. Because we never get tired of reading about unfortunate accidents (as long as they're happening to someone else), here is a whole book of "the best of the worst," the troubling and funny stories of things got ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • Penguin Classics

    A Complete Annotated Listing

    by Penguin Books ...
    A Complete Annotated ListingMore than 1,500 titles in printAuthoritative introductions and notes by leading academics and contemporary authorsUp-to-date translations from award-winning translatorsReaders guides and other resources available onlinePenguin Classics on air online radio programs ... Read more

    Free

  • Divina Commedia

    Series series Grandi Classici
    Divina Commedia - Inferno, Purgatorio e Paradisoraccolta dell'opera originale di Dante Alighieri in versione integralelettura agevolata in formato ebook ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • 巴菲特的人生之道──成功致富與圓滿人生的永恆智慧

    The New Tao of Warren Buffett

    無價的投資智慧與人生洞見引領每個人邁向成功與富足的經典之作!長期鑽研巴菲特投資理念的全球頂尖權威 ╳ 暢銷作家「巴菲特線上學院」創辦人|瑪麗.巴菲特Mary Buffett《窮查理的智慧語錄》作者|大衛.克拉克David Clark繼《和巴菲特同步買進》後再度攜手全新精選135則巴菲特語錄涵蓋近二十年來投資環境的重大變化完整呈現巴菲特締造驚人財富的投資策略與他充滿智慧和幽默感的人生哲學❝ 如果你投資在自己身上,沒有人可以奪走你的投資成果。❞If you invest in yourself, no one can take it away from you.————華倫.巴菲特Warren Buffett《巴菲特的人生之道》是暢銷作家瑪麗.巴菲特與大衛.克拉克精心彙編的全新精選語錄集,收錄巴菲特針對當代經濟情勢的精闢見解,涵蓋加密貨幣、氣候變遷等近二十年來投資環境的重大... ... Read more

    Was $11.15 USD Now $9.50 USD