Author : Makram Haddad
Publisher : World Heritage Publishers Ltd
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,87 MB
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 6144135294
Super Brainy, Level Five, a sequel of Brainy Kids, escorts learners to their multiple destinations on the fifth leg of their English-language journey. By the end of this fun journey, learners will have mastered the set objectives in listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
Author : Makram Haddad
Publisher : World Heritage Publishers Ltd
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 23,11 MB
Release : 2018-01-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 6144134972
Super Brainy, Level Four, a sequel of Brainy Kids, escorts learners to their multiple destinations on the fourth leg of their English-language journey. By the end of this fun journey, learners will have mastered the set objectives in listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
Author : Makram Haddad
Publisher : World Heritage Publishers Ltd
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 16,13 MB
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 6144135316
Super Brainy, Level Six, a sequel of Brainy Kids, escorts learners to their multiple destinations on the sixth leg of their English-language journey. By the end of this fun journey, learners will have mastered the set objectives in listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
Author : Aileen Friedman
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 30,39 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780590489898
While trying to keep track of his many royal commissioners, the king learns some new ways of counting.
Author : Liao Yiwu
Publisher : Atria/One Signal Publishers
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 11,12 MB
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1982126655
A “memorable series of portraits of the working class people who defended Tiananmen Square” (The New York Review of Books) during the protests from the award-winning poet, dissident, and “one of the most original and remarkable Chinese writers of our time” (Philip Gourevitch). Much has been written about the Tiananmen Square protests, but very little exists in the words of those who were actually there. For over seven years, Liao Yiwu—a master of contemporary Chinese literature, imprisoned and persecuted as a counter-revolutionary until he fled the country in 2011—secretly interviewed survivors of the devastating 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Tortured, imprisoned, and forced into silence and the margins of Chinese society for thirty years, their harrowing and unforgettable stories are now finally revealed in this “indispensable historical document” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
Author : Berit Brogaard, PhD
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 38,68 MB
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 069819036X
Did you know your brain has superpowers? Berit Brogaard, PhD, and Kristian Marlow, MA, study people with astonishing talents—memory champions, human echolocators, musical virtuosos, math geniuses, and synesthetes who taste colors and hear faces. But as amazing as these abilities are, they are not mysterious. Our brains constantly process a huge amount of information below our awareness, and what these gifted individuals have in common is that through practice, injury, an innate brain disorder, or even more unusual circumstances, they have managed to gain a degree of conscious access to this potent processing power. The Superhuman Mind takes us inside the lives and brains of geniuses, savants, virtuosos, and a wide variety of ordinary people who have acquired truly extraordinary talents, one way or another. Delving into the neurological underpinnings of these abilities, the authors even reveal how we can acquire some of them ourselves—from perfect pitch and lightning fast math skills to supercharged creativity. The Superhuman Mind is a book full of the fascinating science readers look for from the likes of Oliver Sacks, combined with the exhilarating promise of Moonwalking with Einstein.
Author : George Saunders
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,91 MB
Release : 2013-01-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1408837358
The prize-winning, New York Times bestselling short story collection from the internationally bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo 'The best book you'll read this year' New York Times 'Dazzlingly surreal stories about a failing America' Sunday Times WINNER OF THE 2014 FOLIO PRIZE AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2013 George Saunders's most wryly hilarious and disturbing collection yet, Tenth of December illuminates human experience and explores figures lost in a labyrinth of troubling preoccupations. A family member recollects a backyard pole dressed for all occasions; Jeff faces horrifying ultimatums and the prospect of Darkenfloxx(TM) in some unusual drug trials; and Al Roosten hides his own internal monologue behind a winning smile that he hopes will make him popular. With dark visions of the future riffing against ghosts of the past and the ever-settling present, this collection sings with astonishing charm and intensity.
Author : Donald J. Sobol
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 47,54 MB
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1101591676
The boy detective is back with ten new exciting adventures Since 1963, when Dutton published Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective, the first book in the series, the brainy crime-stopper has been a favorite character among middle-grade readers. Following the classic formula, this new installment presents ten new mysteries, complete with answers at the end of the book that allow the reader to solve the cases along with the boy detective. Join Encyclopedia as he takes on cases of an African killifish, a library book vandal, and a nail-biting soccer game.
Author : Eliot Sappingfield
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 10,85 MB
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1524738476
Guardians of the Galaxy meets The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in this wild, warm-hearted, and hilarious sci-fi adventure about a brainy young girl who is recruited for a very special boarding school. Nikola Kross has given up on living in harmony with her classmates and exasperated teachers: she prefers dabbling in experimental chemistry to fitting in. But when her life is axially inverted by a gang of extraterrestrials who kidnap her dad and attempt to recruit her into their service, she discovers he's been keeping a world of secrets from her--including the school for geniuses where she's sent for refuge, a place where classes like Practical Quantum Mechanics are the norm and where students use wormholes to commute to class. For Nikola, the hard part isn't school; it's making friends, especially when the student body isn't (entirely) human. But the most puzzling paradox of all is Nikola herself, who has certain abilities that no one understands--abilities that put her whole school in greater danger than she could have imagined.
Author : Joshua Ferris
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 29,63 MB
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0316329134
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, this big, brilliant, profoundly observed novel by National Book Award Finalist Joshua Ferris explores the absurdities of modern life and one man's search for meaning. Paul O'Rourke is a man made of contradictions: he loves the world, but doesn't know how to live in it. He's a Luddite addicted to his iPhone, a dentist with a nicotine habit, a rabid Red Sox fan devastated by their victories, and an atheist not quite willing to let go of God. Then someone begins to impersonate Paul online, and he watches in horror as a website, a Facebook page, and a Twitter account are created in his name. What begins as an outrageous violation of his privacy soon becomes something more soul-frightening: the possibility that the online "Paul" might be a better version of the real thing. As Paul's quest to learn why his identity has been stolen deepens, he is forced to confront his troubled past and his uncertain future in a life disturbingly split between the real and the virtual. At once laugh-out-loud funny about the absurdities of the modern world, and indelibly profound about the eternal questions of the meaning of life, love and truth, To Rise Again at a Decent Hour is a deeply moving and constantly surprising tour de force.
