Things I Didn't Know

Things I Didn't Know

Author: Robert Hughes

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2009-06-03

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 0307498271

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Robert Hughes has trained his critical eye on many major subjects, from the city of Barcelona to the history of his native Australia. Now he turns that eye inward, onto himself and the world that formed him. Hughes analyzes his experiences the way he might examine a Van Gogh or a Picasso. From his relationship with his stern and distant father to his Catholic upbringing and school years; and from his development as an artist, writer, and critic to his growing appreciation of art and his exhilaration at leaving Australia to discover a new life, Hughes’ memoir is an extraordinary feat of exploration and celebration.


Things We Didn't See Coming

Things We Didn't See Coming

Author: Steven Amsterdam

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2010-02-02

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0307378918

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Michael Williams, in Melbourne’s The Age, wrote of this award-winning, dazzling debut collection, “By turns horrific and beautiful . . . Humanity at its most fractured and desolate . . . Often moving, frequently surprising, even blackly funny . . . Things We Didn’t See Coming is terrific.” This is just one of the many rave reviews that appeared on the Australian publication of these nine connected stories set in a not-too-distant dystopian future in a landscape at once utterly fantastic and disturbingly familiar. Richly imagined, dark, and darkly comic, the stories follow the narrator over three decades as he tries to survive in a world that is becoming increasingly savage as cataclysmic events unfold one after another. In the first story, “What We Know Now”—set in the eve of the millennium, when the world as we know it is still recognizable—we meet the then-nine-year-old narrator fleeing the city with his parents, just ahead of a Y2K breakdown. The remaining stories capture the strange—sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes funny—circumstances he encounters in the no-longer-simple act of survival; trying to protect squatters against floods in a place where the rain never stops, being harassed (and possibly infected) by a man sick with a virulent flu, enduring a job interview with an unstable assessor who has access to all his thoughts, taking the gravely ill on adventure tours. But we see in each story that, despite the violence and brutality of his days, the narrator retains a hold on his essential humanity—and humor. Things We Didn’t See Coming is haunting, restrained, and beautifully crafted—a stunning debut.


100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know: Math Explains Your World

100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know: Math Explains Your World

Author: John D. Barrow

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2010-05-24

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 0393072789

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“Where else does math become a romp, full of entertaining tricks and turns?”—Bryce Christensen, Booklist Have you ever considered why you always get stuck in the longest line? Why two’s company but three’s a crowd? Or why there are six degrees of separation instead of seven? In this hugely informative and endlessly entertaining book, John D. Barrow takes the most baffling of everyday phenomena and—with simple math, lucid explanations, and illustrations—explains why they work the way they do. His witty, crystal-clear answers shed light on the dark and shadowy corners of the physical world we all think we understand so well.


The Things I Didn't Say

The Things I Didn't Say

Author: Kylie Fornasier

Publisher: Penguin Group Australia

Published: 2016-05-02

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1760142212

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I hate the label Selective Mutism - as if I choose not to speak, like a kid who refuses to eat broccoli. I've used up every dandelion wish since I was ten wishing for the power to speak whenever I want to. I'm starting to wonder if there are enough dandelions.' After losing her best friend that night, Piper Rhodes changes schools, determined that her final year will be different. She will be different. Then she meets West: school captain, star soccer player, the boy everyone talks about. Despite her fear of losing everything all over again, they fall in love without Piper ever speaking one word to West. But can a love mapped by silence last?


1,001 Things You Didn't Know You Wanted to Know

1,001 Things You Didn't Know You Wanted to Know

Author: Anna Mantzaris

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Published: 2008-08

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9781402763052

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Crammed with 1,001 tidbits of information, this trivia book covers such categories as food and drink, health, religion, business, and more.


500 Things You Didn't Know

500 Things You Didn't Know

Author: Samantha Barnes

Publisher: Buster Books

Published: 2020-08-06

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9781780557243

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Packed with over 500 fascinating facts, tricks and teasers, this book is the perfect companion for curious young minds.


Things We Didn't Say

Things We Didn't Say

Author: Amy Lynn Green

Publisher:

Published: 2020-11-03

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 9780764237874

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In this epistolary novel from the WWII home front, Johanna Berglund is forced to return to her small Midwestern town to become a translator at a German prisoner of war camp. There, amid old secrets and prejudice, she finds that the POWs have hidden depths. When the lines between compassion and treason are blurred, she must decide where her heart truly lies.


101 Things You Didn't Know about the Civil War

101 Things You Didn't Know about the Civil War

Author: Thomas Turner

Publisher: Adams Media

Published: 2018-10-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781507209264

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Get the lowdown on America’s Bloodiest War—the Civil War—with this essential guide to 101 interesting and unexpected facts about this defining event in US history. Do you know which state first seceded from the Union? What about the individual who could be considered the Mata Hari of the Civil War? Or how about which Bible passage Southerners used to justify slavery? You’ll find answers to these questions and many, many more in 101 Things You Didn’t Know about the Civil War. Packed with fascinating details about the people, places, and events that defined our nation’s most contentious conflict, this tell-all guide reveals the inside scoop on slavery and its impact on the war; great—and not-so-great—leaders and generals; battles fought and lost—and fought again; some of the most shocking horrors of the war; women, children, and African Americans in the war. Complete with a helpful timeline, 101 Things You Didn’t Know about the Civil War is your go-to guide for little-known facts about the war that dramatically altered the course of American history forever.


Things I Didn't Throw Out

Things I Didn't Throw Out

Author: Marcin Wicca

Publisher:

Published: 2021-10

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9781914198021

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A wry and unsentimental account of the attempt to understand a parent as an independent person with their own history.