Over complicated: Technology at the limits of comprehension

You don't understand the software running your car or your iPhone. But here's a secret: neither do the geniuses at Apple or the Ph. D.'s at Toyota--not perfectly, anyway. No one, not lawyers, doctors, accountants, or policy makers, fully grasps the rules governing your tax return, your retirement account, or your hospital's medical machinery. The same technological advances that have simplified…

A brief history of science: As seen through the development of scientific ins…

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Thank for the days: A boy's own adventures in radio and beyond

BBC Radio2 DJ Mark Radcliffe looks back on some of the best and worst days of his life in this love letter to music.

Faithful

Growing up on Long Island, Shelby Richmond is an ordinary girl until one night an extraordinary tragedy changes her fate. Her best friend's future is destroyed in an accident, while Shelby walks away with the burden of guilt. What happens when a life is turned inside out? When love is something so distant it may as well be a star in the sky? Faithful is the story of a survivor, filled with emot…

One Kiss, One Hug

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The crossing: My journey to the shattered heart of Syria

Samar Yazbek was well-known in her native Syria as a writer and a journalist but, in 2011, she fell foul of the Assad regime and was forced to flee. Since then, determined to bear witness to the suffering of her people, she revisited her homeland by squeezing through a hole in the fence on the Turkish border. Here she testifies to the appalling reality that is Syria today. From the first innoce…

Sam and the Robots - Read it yourself with Ladybird: Level 4 (Read It Yoursel…

Sam loves building things, especially robots. His robots are all very good at helping out, but when they start going wrong it's clear that Sam needs to take his robots on holiday for a rest! Read it yourself with Ladybird is one of Ladybird's best-selling series. For over thirty five years it has helped young children who are learning to read develop and improve their reading skills. Each…

Alice from Dallas

Alice is the most rootin’, tootin’ cowgirl in all of Dallas . . . Pennsylvania. Each day she puts on her favorite boots and hat and sets off on her stick pony for school with a “Yippee ki-yay!” Alice is used to being the only cowgirl around, until Lexis from Texas arrives at school one day. Lexis seems to be a real cowgirl, with her fancy hat, jingling spurs, and lasso tricks. Alice dec…

Don't worry life is easy (La vie est facile, ne t'inquiete pas)

Diane needs to start over again. After returning from Ireland and turning the page on her stormy relationship with Edward, the brooding Irish photographer, she is determined to rebuild her life in Paris with help from her best friend Félix. She focuses solely on getting her literary café back on track until she meets Olivier.

The lantern moon

Life is not easy for children in 1811. Annie Spears is a maid at Dinham house where Lucien Bonaparte is on parole. Her brother, William, makes silk top-hats for the mad hatter, while her little sister works as a glove-maker for the despicable Leonard Evans. They have not heard from their father since he was transported to Australia years ago. When a fire destroys the Spears home and William a…

Our tragic universe

Meg Carpenter is broke. Her novel is years overdue. So when a book called The Science of Living Forever lands on her desk, she jumps at the chance to review it, starting on a labyrinthine journey that takes her from mysterious beasts of the moor to forest fairies to ships in bottles. New Age theories of everything to physics to narrative theory, and forces her to ask: Does anyone really want to…

Mother tongue

A story set in Russia, about the aftermath of a terrorist attack in which the 18-year-old narrator, Darya, loses her young sister Nika. Darya escapes to Moscow where she eventually realises that running away is no cure for grief.

My grandmother sends her regards & apologises

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Kartini: Skenario film

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I Love Bugs!

A little boy loves all kinds of bugs, from spiky spiny bugs to pretty spotty bugs. But the best bugs are hairy bugs-eightlegged scary bugs that send the boy squealing. Perfect for miniscientists everywhere!

The fabulous Udin

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The Wallace Collection Children's Art Book

Introduces children age 7 to 9 to key works in the Wallace Collection through nine accessible themes, such as 'Kings and Queens', 'Heroes and Monsters', and 'Showing Off". Beautiful images, analysis and questions tailored to their age group will encourage children to explore paintings, furniture, ceramics and arms by some of the world's greatest makers.

Starfish

Kiko Himura yearns to escape the toxic relationship with her mother by getting into her dream art school, but when things do not work out as she hoped Kiko jumps at the opportunity to tour art schools with her childhood friend, learning life-changing truths about herself and her past along the way.

She is not invisible

A London teenager who is blind and her younger brother travel to New York to find their missing father, using clues from his notebook.

Etta and Otto and Russell and James

Otto finds a note left by his wife in the kitchen of their farmhouse in windswept Saskatchewan. Eighty-three-year-old Etta will be walking 3,200 kilometers to see the ocean, but somehow, Otto understands. He took his own journey once before, to fight in a faraway land. With Etta gone, Otto struggles with his demons of war, while their friend Russell initially pursues the woman he has loved from…

The golden son: A novel

Anil is the first person in his family to leave India, the first to attend college, the first to become a doctor. Half a world away in Dallas, Texas, he is caught up in his new life, experiencing all the freedoms and temptations of American culture: he tastes alcohol for the first time, falls in love, and learns firsthand about his adopted country's alluring, dangerous contradictions.

Woman on the edge of time

Connie Ramos, a woman in her mid-thirties, has been declared insane. But Connie is overwhelmingly sane, merely tuned to the future, and able to communicate with the year 2137. As her doctors persuade her to agree to an operation, Connie struggles to force herself to listen to the future and its lessons for today.

West of the moon

In nineteenth-century Norway, fourteen-year-old Astri, whose aunt has sold her to a mean goatherder, dreams of joining her father in America.

Seven letters from Paris: A memoir

At age 40, Samantha Vérant's life is falling apart. Then one day she finds 7 old love letters written by Jean-Luc, the sexy French scientist she met in Paris when she was 19. She tracks him down online, and what starts out as flirty e-mails transforms into pure romance as Samantha visits France to see Jean-Luc for the first time in 20 years. Reunited with her lost love in Paris, Samantha real…

Seri Aku Bisa Bercocok Tanam - Cabai

Siapa yang tidak kenal sayuran lezat ini ? Selain lezat, cabai termasuk sayuran yang dapat dimasak dalam waktu singkat serta bergizi tinggi. Menanam cabai ternyata tidak sulit, lho. tentu senang sekali jika kita dapat memanen cabai dari halaman sendiri. Yuk, ikuti langkah-langkah mudah menanam cabai dalam buku ini. kalian akan merasakan betapa asyiknya kegiatan bercocok tanam. Selamat bercocok …

Aku Bisa Bercocok Tanam Kangkung

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Lusy Goosey = Lusi si Angsa

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Where's Wally Now?

Find Wally among cavemen, gold diggers, and aliens.

Fragile Earth

Using images from the air, land and space, this work brings together dramatic natural and man-made events. It traces the path Hurricane Katrina took through New Orleans, and looks at the damage done to the presidential palace in Baghdad during the war in Iraq. It also provides a look at the effects our actions have on the planet.

The third day, the frost

The rebel group manages to get a message to someone in New Zealand before falling into the clutches of the dreaded Major Harvey, and Ellie is set to face a firing squad until fate sends a bomb a Hack and a sacrifice.