Pretty Little Mistakes
Pretty Little Mistakes

Author: Heather McElhatton

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-10-13

Total Pages: 783

ISBN-13: 0061857025

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There are hundreds of lives sown inside Pretty Little Mistakes, Heather McElhatton's singularly spectacular, breathtakingly unique novel that has more than 150 possible endings. You may end up in an opulent mansion or homeless down by the river; happily married with your own corporation or alone and pecked to death by ducks in London; a Zen master in Japan or morbidly obese in a trailer park. Is it destiny or decision that controls our fate? You can't change your past and start over from scratch in real life—but in Pretty Little Mistakes, you can! But be warned, choose wisely.

The Geography of the Imagination
The Geography of the Imagination

Author: Guy Davenport

Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9781567920802

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In the 40 essays that constitute this collection, Guy Davenport, one of America's major literary critics, elucidates a range of literary history, encompassing literature, art, philosophy and music, from the ancients to the grand old men of modernism.

A Child of Hitler
A Child of Hitler

Author: Alfons Heck

Publisher: American Traveler Press

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9780939650446

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The author's story of his rise to power in the Hitler Youth under the spell of Adolf Hitler.

The Joy of Science
The Joy of Science

Author: Richard A. Lockshin

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-11-05

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 1402060998

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This book reveals that scientific logic is an extension of common, everyday logic and that it can and should be understood by everyone. Written by a practicing and successful scientist, it explores why questions arise in science and looks at how questions are tackled, what constitutes a valid answer, and why. The author does not bog the reader down in technical details or lists of facts to memorize. He uses accessible examples, illustrations, and descriptions to address complex issues. The book should prove enlightening to anyone who has been perplexed by the meaning, relevance, and moral or political implications of science.

Noise Music
Noise Music

Author: David Cycleback

Publisher: Hamerweit Books

Published: 2016-02-23

Total Pages: 822

ISBN-13: 9780692567678

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"Will computers ever think like humans?" "Not if they're well designed." Mixing academic essay, anti-art philosophy, unsettling memoir and wry wit, Noise Music is a profoundly complex and open-ended collage covering a plethora of topics including psychology of information processing, consciousness, science, time, perception, art theory and criticism, morals, mental illness, the human condition, artificial intelligence, cognitive biases, language and communication. However, at its core the book is about the limits of human knowledge and understanding due to how minds and senses work. Going hand in hand with the philosophy, the aleatory narrative and miscellaneous scope expects readers to critique and expand beyond their conventional aesthetic modes of thinking and, in the end, makes the book itself "unsolvable."

Green Gold
Green Gold

Author: Alan Macfarlane

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2011-11-30

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1448116201

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Apart from water, tea is more widely consumed than any other food or drink. Tens of billions of cups are drunk every day. How and why has tea conquered the world? Tea was the first global product. It altered life-styles, religions, etiquette and aesthetics. It raised nations and shattered empires. Economies were changed out of all recognition. Diseases were thwarted by the magical drink and cities founded on it. The industrial revolution was fuelled by tea, sealing the fate of the modern world. Green Gold is a remarkable detective story of how an East Himalayan camellia bush became the world's favourite drink. Discover how the tea plant came to be transplanted onto every continent and relive the stories of the men and women whose lives were transformed out of all recognition through contact with the deceptively innocuous green leaf.

Cocaine
Cocaine

Author: Dominic Streatfeild

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2002-06-26

Total Pages: 540

ISBN-13: 9780312286248

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Examines the history of cocaine from its first medical uses to the worldwide issues it presents today.

The Pocket Paderewski
The Pocket Paderewski

Author: Michael Moran

Publisher: Australian Scholarly Publishing

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9781925588033

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From silent cinema pianist born in the Australian Bush to celebrity virtuoso entertaining Royalty in Mayfair--an extraordinarily magical and inspirational musical odyssey. The concert pianist Edward Cahill (1885-1975) rose to prominence from humble beginnings in the inauspicious setting of 19th-century rural Queensland. At a time when Australian concert artists were virtually unknown in Europe, he dazzled the salons of royalty, aristocratic patronage and privilege in London, Paris and the French Riviera during the glittering decades of the 1920s and 1930s ... 'With what vigour, what virtuosity and poetry this master plays the piano!' --Chronique musicale, Montreux, 5 May 1939

The Maggie B
The Maggie B

Author: Irene Haas

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1975-09

Total Pages: 39

ISBN-13: 0689500211

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The Maggie B is Irene Haas' creation of a world in which children will eagerly go to share in a little girl's dream come true. In a beautifully constructed story, a little girl's wish to sail for a day on a boat named for her" with someone nice for company" comes true.