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It's All in How You Fall

Autor: Sarah Henning

Número de Páginas: 265

A contemporary young adult romance about moving on, finding your place, and recovering after life falls apart. Gymnast Caroline Kepler has three state balance beam titles, a new trick even most elites can’t do—and chronic, undeniable back pain. While she might never be an Olympian, she has dreams of leveling up to elite, making Nationals, and competing in college. But when one epic face-plant changes all that and Caroline’s back pain goes from chronic to career-ending, her dreams are shattered and her life is flipped upside down. Enter Alex Zavala, a three-sport athlete who’s both incredibly cute and incredibly off-limits. He offers to give Caroline a crash course in all the sports she’s missed, and she has an offer for him in return: For every sport Alex teaches her, she’ll play matchmaker for him. Deal done, Caroline “dates” new sports with Alex for the rest of the summer, which is loads more fun than wallowing in despair. Just as Caroline starts to see herself as more than her past athletic successes, she picks up something she didn’t bargain for: a big fat crush on Alex. Turns out life was way easier when it was just layout-fulls and beam burns....

The Fire Witness (Joona Linna, Book 3)

Autor: Lars Kepler

Número de Páginas: 584

WAKE UP TO TRUE EVIL The third gripping thriller in Lars Kepler’s bestselling series featuring Joona Linna. Perfect for fans of Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbo.

You Look Like a Thing and I Love You

Autor: Janelle Shane

Número de Páginas: 287

As heard on NPR's "Science Friday," discover the book recommended by Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain, Daniel Pink, and Adam Grant: an "accessible, informative, and hilarious" introduction to the weird and wonderful world of artificial intelligence (Ryan North). "You look like a thing and I love you" is one of the best pickup lines ever . . . according to an artificial intelligence trained by scientist Janelle Shane, creator of the popular blog AI Weirdness. She creates silly AIs that learn how to name paint colors, create the best recipes, and even flirt (badly) with humans—all to understand the technology that governs so much of our daily lives. We rely on AI every day for recommendations, for translations, and to put cat ears on our selfie videos. We also trust AI with matters of life and death, on the road and in our hospitals. But how smart is AI really... and how does it solve problems, understand humans, and even drive self-driving cars? Shane delivers the answers to every AI question you've ever asked, and some you definitely haven't. Like, how can a computer design the perfect sandwich? What does robot-generated Harry Potter fan-fiction look like? And is the world's best...

La vidente (Inspector Joona Linna 3)

Autor: Lars Kepler

Número de Páginas: 683

La vidente es la tercera entrega de la célebre serie de novelas policíacas protagonizada por el detective Joona Linna. Flora Hansen se considera a sí misma una médium capaz de comunicarse con los muertos. Tras el terrible asesinato perpetrado en una casa para chicas problemáticas, empieza a tener visiones demasiado reales. Asustada, llama a la policía, arguyendo haber visto un fantasma. Solo un detective dejará a un lado su escepticismo para escuchar lo que Hansen tiene que contar: Joona Linna. La explicación del homicidio parece obvia: una de las muchachas escapó en mitad de la noche, dejando tras de sí una cama ensangrentada y un hacha bajo la almohada. Pero, entonces, ¿por qué Hansen insiste en que el arma del crimen fue una piedra y no el hacha? ¿Y cómo se explica la presencia de un rojo y oscuro grano de arena, casi como la astilla de un rubí, en la uña de la víctima? La investigación de Linna, cuyo instinto le dice que no acepte respuestas fáciles, lo llevará a un fatal encuentro con una figura de su pasado. La crítica ha dicho... «Cualquiera que se disponga a leer un capítulo antes de irse a dormir se sorprenderá al alba con el libro aún entre las...

Las rosas de mayo

Autor: Dot Hutchison

Número de Páginas: 320

En una antigua iglesia ha aparecido una joven con el cuello cercenado y el cuerpo rodeado de hermosas flores. Un retorcido ritual de violencia, belleza y castidad que el asesino cumple cada invierno con escalofriante puntualidad. La hermana de Priya fue una de esas víctimas y, desde entonces, ella y su madre viven condenadas a cambiar de ciudad constantemente: cuando se mudan a un nuevo lugar con la esperanza de poder empezar de cero, la llegada de un misterioso arreglo floral aparece como un mal presagio, recordándoles que la muerte las acecha y que Priya podría ser la siguiente víctima. Tras resolver el caso de El Jardín de las Mariposas, los detectives del FBI saben que deben emprender una desesperada carrera contra reloj para descubrir al asesino antes de que sea demasiado tarde y, aunque en ello Priya arriesgue su propia vida, es la única oportunidad para conseguirlo.

Si te miento

Autor: Clare Mackintosh

Número de Páginas: 505

Vuelve la magistral Clare Mackintosh con un nuevo thriller psicológico. «Absolutamente brillante. Su mejor novela hasta la fecha.» Marian Keyes La policía dice que fue un suicidio. Anna dice que fue un asesinato. Ambos se equivocan. Hace un año, Caroline Johnson eligió acabar con su vida de forma brutal: un suicidio planeado para ponerle fin a todo del mismo modo que lo hizo marido meses atrás. Su hija, Anna, ha luchado desde entonces para superar la pérdida, el vacío y el dolor de un desenlace que aún no ha podido comprender. Ahora, con una hija pequeña a su cargo, Anna echa de menos a su madre más que nunca, y las dudas sobre su muerte y la de su padre no hacen sino crecer con el paso los días. Sin embargo, ¿es posible que indagando en el pasado esté poniendo en peligro su futuro? ¿Es posible que sus padres no se suicidaran? ¿Es posible que, después de todo, sea mejor vivir en la mentira? La crítica ha dicho... «Nadie escribe los giros argumentales como Clare Mackintosh.» Paula Hawkins «Una de las reinas indiscutibles del thriller psicológico.» La Vanguardia

En la mente del hipnotista

Autor: Lars Kepler

Número de Páginas: 620

Un asesino en serie conmociona a la sociedad sueca: graba a sus víctimas instantes antes de matarlas y cuelga los vídeos en Youtube prácticamente en tiempo real. La policía es incapaz de reconocer a las futuras víctimas y se encuentra en un callejón sin salida. Por ello deciden recurrir al eminente psiquiatra y experto en hipnosis Erik Maria Bark, con el que resolvieron su caso más mediático en El hipnotista, quien hallará una conexión entre el modus operandi del asesino con el de un antiguo paciente suyo. Sin embargo, la investigación da un giro inesperado y todos los indicios conducen a él, que además conoce a todas las víctimas. ¿Es posible que sea él el asesino? Nadie cuenta con que el sagaz inspector Joona Linna, que vuelve literalmente de los muertos, lo dará todo para devolverle al hipnotista toda la ayuda que éste le brindó en su caso más importante. «Si las luces están encendidas, alguien puede verte desde fuera. Si están apagadas, no podrás verlo si está dentro.» Cierra con llave, corre las cortinas, no te muevas: la pareja reina del thriller psicológico te dejará sin aliento.

À la poursuite de l’horizon

Autor: Jean-rené Roy

Número de Páginas: 231

Vous tentez d’imaginer le travail des scientifiques pour comprendre le monde? Ce livre répond à vos questions sur la nature de la recherche scientifique et la quête du savoir.

Eyesight Alone

Autor: Caroline A. Jones

Número de Páginas: 600

Even a decade after his death, Clement Greenberg remains controversial. One of the most influential art writers of the twentieth century, Greenberg propelled Abstract Expressionist painting-in particular the monumental work of Jackson Pollock-to a leading position in an international postwar art world. On radio and in print, Greenberg was the voice of "the new American painting," and a central figure in the postwar cultural history of the United States. Caroline Jones's magisterial study widens Greenberg's fundamental tenet of "opticality"-the idea that modernist art is apprehended through "eyesight alone"-to a broader arena, examining how the critic's emphasis on the specular resonated with a society increasingly invested in positivist approaches to the world. Greenberg's modernist discourse, Jones argues, developed in relation to the rationalized procedures that gained wide currency in the United States at midcentury, in fields ranging from the sense-data protocols theorized by scientific philosophy to the development of cultural forms, such as hi-fi, that targeted specific senses, one by one. Greenberg's attempt to isolate and celebrate the visual was one manifestation of a...

The Gypsy Moth Summer

Autor: Julia Fierro

Número de Páginas: 399

"Fierro doesn't just observe, she knows. Like all great novelists, she gives us the world." - Amy Bloom, bestselling author of Away and Lucky Us It is the summer of 1992 and a gypsy moth invasion blankets Avalon Island. Ravenous caterpillars disrupt early summer serenity on Avalon, an islet off the coast of Long Island--dropping onto novels left open on picnic blankets, crawling across the T-shirts of children playing games of tag and capture the flag in the island's leafy woods. The caterpillars become a relentless topic of island conversation and the inescapable soundtrack of the season. It is also the summer Leslie Day Marshall—only daughter of Avalon’s most prominent family—returns with her husband, a botanist, and their children to live in “The Castle,” the island's grandest estate. Leslie’s husband Jules is African-American, and their children bi-racial, and islanders from both sides of the tracks form fast and dangerous opinions about the new arrivals. Maddie Pencott LaRosa straddles those tracks: a teen queen with roots in the tony precincts of East Avalon and the crowded working class corner of West Avalon, home to Grudder Aviation factory, the island's...

SEEDs of the Inside Straight

Autor: Caroline Misner

Número de Páginas: 132

In the year 2140, on the red planet Mars, a bold project is underway. The Tyson Research and Space Corporation has assembled teams to embark on a groundbreaking mission: launching spacecraft towards our solar system’s nearest stars. Their flagship vessel, the Inside Straight, is set to venture towards nearby Gliese, with the hope of establishing first contact with extraterrestrial life. But the journey is far from ordinary. Onboard the Inside Straight are two Sentient Exoplanetary Exploration Devises, or SEEDs, named Luna Splendida and Sol Lucet. These androids possess functioning human brains, harvested from the International Cryobiosis Laboratories on Earth. As they hurtle through the vast expanses of space, they recall the memories of their past lives, slowly realizing the true essence of humanity. Join Luna and Sol on their epic voyage, as they grapple with existential questions and unravel the mysteries of the universe. Will they achieve their mission and make history, or will their quest for knowledge lead them down an uncertain path? Find out in this gripping sci-fi adventure that explores what it means to be alive, and what it takes to reach for the stars.

All Around the Zodiac

Autor: Bil Tierney

Número de Páginas: 484

All Around the Zodiac provides a revealing, up-to-date look at the astrological signs, from Aries to Pises, a deeper understanding of how each sign motivates you to grow and evolve in consciousness. Learn to assess the psychological strengths of any sign emphasized in your birth chart. -- from Publisher.

Precious Thoughts, Moral and Religious

Autor: John Ruskin , Louisa Caroline Tuthill

Número de Páginas: 372

Connecting Primary Maths and Science: A Practical Approach

Autor: Alan Cross , Alison Borthwick

Número de Páginas: 258

At last, a unique book that explores and exploits the links between primary mathematics and science so that you can promote learning in both of these important STEM subjects! Rich in engaging ideas and activities for the classroom this book helps you plan and teach well-structured lessons in a more integrated way. The book outlines key curriculum topics in both subjects and considers why it is important and beneficial to make connections between the two. As well as covering key subject knowledge (what you need to know) and teaching activities (what you need to do), the book explores learners’ mathematical and scientific needs, and defines the characteristics of effective teaching and learning, bringing it all together with ideas which you can use straightway in your classroom. Key features: • promotes an informed approach to integrating primary mathematics and science teaching • helps address the time constraints of delivering the primary national curriculum • presents engaging ideas which can be directly transferred to the classroom • provides a real-life context to mathematics and science activities to inspire student learning • helps you combine two closely related...

The Story of Science: Newton at the Center

Autor: Joy Hakim

Número de Páginas: 901

In volume two, students will watch as Copernicus's systematic observations place the sun at the center of our universe—to the dismay of establishment thinkers. After students follow the achievements and frustrations of Galileo, Kepler, and Descartes, they will appreciate the amazing Isaac Newton, whose discoveries about gravity, motion, colors, calculus, and Earth's place in the universe set the stage for modern physics, astronomy, mathematics, and chemistry. In the three-book The Story of Science series, master storyteller Joy Hakim narrates the evolution of scientific thought from ancient times to the present. With lively, character-driven narrative, Hakim spotlights the achievements of some of the world's greatest scientists and encourages a similiar spirit of inquiry in readers. The books include hundreds of color photographs, charts, maps, and diagrams; informative sidebars; suggestions for further reading; and excerpts from the writings of great scientists.

Joss Whedon's Dollhouse

Autor: Sherry Ginn , Alyson R. Buckman , Heather M. Porter

Número de Páginas: 255

Although it lasted barely more than a season, Dollhouse continues to intrigue viewers as one of Joss Whedon’s most provocative forays into television. The program centered on men and women who have their memories and personalities repeatedly wiped and replaced with new ones by a shadowy corporation dedicated to “fulfilling the whims of the rich.” This chilling scenario was used to tell stories about big issues—power and resistance, freedom and servitude, class and gender—while always returning to its central themes of identity and individuality. In Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse: Confounding Purpose, Confusing Identity, Sherry Ginn, Alyson R. Buckman, and Heather M. Porter bring together fourteen diverse essays that showcase the series’ complex vision of the future. Contributors probe deeply into the fictional universe of the show by considering the motives of the wealthy clients and asking what love means when personalities are continually remade. Other essays consider the show’s relations to politics, philosophy, and psychology and its representations of race and gender. Several essays explore the show’s complex relationship to transhumanism: considering the dark...

The Spectator

Número de Páginas: 1462

A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.

Life in the Universe, 5th Edition

Autor: Jeffrey Bennett , Seth Shostak , Nicholas Schneider , Meredith Macgregor

Número de Páginas: 545

The world’s leading textbook on astrobiology—ideal for an introductory one-semester course and now fully revised and updated Are we alone in the cosmos? How are scientists seeking signs of life beyond our home planet? Could we colonize other planets, moons, or even other star systems? This introductory textbook, written by a team of four renowned science communicators, educators, and researchers, tells the amazing story of how modern science is seeking the answers to these and other fascinating questions. They are the questions that are at the heart of the highly interdisciplinary field of astrobiology, the study of life in the universe. Written in an accessible, conversational style for anyone intrigued by the possibilities of life in the solar system and beyond, Life in the Universe is an ideal place to start learning about the latest discoveries and unsolved mysteries in the field. From the most recent missions to Saturn’s moons and our neighboring planet Mars to revolutionary discoveries of thousands of exoplanets, from the puzzle of life’s beginning on Earth to the latest efforts in the search for intelligent life elsewhere, this book captures the imagination and...

An account of John Flamsteed the first royal astronomer ...

Autor: Francis Baily

Número de Páginas: 754

An Account of the Revd. John Flamsteed, the First Astronomer-royal

Autor: Francis Baily

Número de Páginas: 758

An Account of the Revd. John Flamsteed, the First Astronomer-Royal

Autor: Francis Baily , John Flamsteed

Número de Páginas: 833

Flamsteed's edited papers, published in 1835, over a century after his death, restored his reputation as a meticulous observational astronomer.

An Account of the Rev. John Flamsteed, the First Astronomer Royal, Compiled from His Own Manuscripts, and Other Authentic Documents, Never Before Published, to which is Added His British Catalogue of Stars, Corrected and Enlarged by Francis Baily

Autor: John Flamsteed

Número de Páginas: 754

The Dog Lover's Companion to California

Autor: Maria Goodavage

Número de Páginas: 785

The Dog Lover's Companion to California has the inside scoop on the best dog runs, parks, beaches, hiking trails, camping areas, pet-friendly businesses, and much more. Local author Maria Goodavage and her trusty companion Jake have dug up many surprising resources available to dogs in the Golden State, such as baseball games, summer camps, and pet parades. For the less outdoorsy dog, there are doggy spas, art openings, and even winery visits! Packed with helpful maps, up-to-date leash laws, and a useful "paw" ranking system for all locations in the book, The Dog Lover's Companion to California is a dog's best friend.

The Correspondence of John Flamsteed, The First Astronomer Royal

Autor: Eric Gray Forbes , Lesley Murdin , Frances Wilmoth

Número de Páginas: 1144

The Correspondence of John Flamsteed: The First Astronomer Royal, Volume Two contains the letters Flamsteed wrote and received from June 1682 to the spring of 1703. A leading figure in the final phases of the seventeenth-century scientific revolution, his extensive correspondence with 129 British and foreign scholars touches on many of the scientific discussions of the day. Some of these exchanges involved established correspondents, chiefly Newton and Wallis, but members of a younger generation, such as Stephen Gray, William Derham, and Abraham Sharp, appear with increasing frequency, especially after 1700.

The Heart of Wisdom Teaching Approach

Autor: Robin Sampson

Número de Páginas: 512

Details the Bible-based homeschool teaching approach for parents, and discusses Christian education, learning styles, unit studies, bible study, and more.

Resurrecting the Black Body

Autor: Tonia Sutherland

Número de Páginas: 232

Introduction : trouble these waters -- Recording trauma -- Recording hate -- The resurrection of Henrietta Lacks -- The resurrection of Tupac Shakur -- The right to be forgotten -- The right to be remembered -- Conclusion : homegoing.

The Georgian Star: How William and Caroline Herschel Revolutionized Our Understanding of the Cosmos

Autor: Michael Lemonick

Número de Páginas: 201

“A bright, shiny gift to popular-science collections.”—Booklist Trained as a musician, amateur scientist William Herschel found international fame after discovering the planet Uranus in 1781. Though he is still best known for this finding, his partnership with his sister Caroline yielded other groundbreaking work that affects how we see the world today. The Herschels made comprehensive surveys of the night sky, carefully categorizing every visible object in the void. Caroline wrote an influential catalogue of nebulae, and William discovered infrared radiation. Veteran science writer Michael D. Lemonick guides readers through the depths of the solar system and into his subjects’ private lives: William developed bizarre theories about inhabitants of the sun; he procured an unheard-of salary for Caroline from King George III even as he hassled over the funding for an enormous, forty-foot telescope; and the siblings feuded over William’s marriage but eventually reconciled.

The Scientific Revolution

Autor: Caroline Kennon

Número de Páginas: 106

The Scientific Revolution is known as the time period when modern science was born. Without the people who made discoveries, theories, and inventions during this time, the world as we know it today would not exist. Readers are introduced to the figures, discoveries, and events that defined the Scientific Revolution through annotated quotes from historians and historical documents, primary sources, fact-filled sidebars, and a detailed timeline. As readers explore this essential social studies topic, they also learn the important connections that can be made between history and STEM, broadening their view of each topic.

Inquiry

Autor: Lynn Z. Bloom , Edward Michael White

Número de Páginas: 738

This composition reader emphasizes writing as thinking. Since good questions are at the heart of good writing, the book is organized around six perennially interesting questions, including: what is a good idea?; how do I know what I know?; how do we develop values?; and how do I know who I am?

The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes

Autor: Clifton Fadiman

Número de Páginas: 1322

A book compiled of anecdotes from other collections, arranged under the name of the person they're about.

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