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  To Explain the World - The...

  Steven Weinberg

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  A masterful commentary on the history of science from the Greeks to modern times, by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg—a thought-provoking and important book by one of the most distinguished scientists and intellectuals of our time.In this rich, irreverent, and compelling history, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg takes us across centuries from ancient Miletus to medieval Baghdad and Oxford, from Plato’s Academy and the Museum of Alexandria to the cathedral school of Chartres and the Royal Society of London. He shows that the scientists of ancient and medieval times not only did not understand what we understand about the world—they did not understand what there is to understand, or how to understand it. Yet over the centuries, through the struggle to solve such mysteries as the curious backward movement of the planets and the rise and fall of the tides, the modern discipline of science eventually emerged. Along the way, Weinberg examines historic clashes and collaborations between science and the competing spheres of religion, technology, poetry, mathematics, and philosophy.An illuminating exploration of the way we consider and analyze the world around us, To Explain the World is a sweeping, ambitious account of how difficult it was to discover the goals and methods of modern science, and the impact of this discovery on human knowledge and development.

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  Death Camp Uprising - The Escape...

  Nel Yomtov

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  Experience the events that followed the Sobibor death camp prisoner's decision to escape. Readers will discover a powerful story of human courage and mankind's fierce will to live.

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  We - The book that inspired...

  Yevgeny 'Eugene' Zamyatin

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  In a utopian future society, where all social unrest has been engineered away, a man has an awakening. Starting as a happy worker drone, he meets a woman who reveals to him the reality of life outside the state's control - the glories of chaotic nature in the world and in the heart. They become entwined with a conspiracy against the state, and eventually try to escape beyond the walls of the state's control... only to meet betrayal, failure, and a dark ending in the glorious light of the state's total control. 
  Sound familiar? It's probably because you've read Orwell's nineteen eighty-four, which he wrote eight months after he read We, wrote a review of it, and said he was taking it as the model for his next novel. Or Huxley's Brave New World. 
  Or maybe you've read Vonnegut's Player Piano, which of Vonnegut said he "cheerfully ripped off the plot of Brave New World, whose plot had been cheerfully ripped off from Yevgeny Zamyatin's We". You might even have come across other plays on the theme, such as Ayn Rand's Anthem or Vladimir Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading, written while Nabakov was reading We. Or even possibly Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed. 
  The tale is familiar, but the satirical and farcical comedy is a delight all of its own.

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  The Quick Quarterback

  Michelle Lord

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  After his broken arm heals, Andre is nervous to play quarterback in the next football game. Will his arm be ready to throw?

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  Diary Of A Noob Steve Book 6 -...

  MC Steve

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  *On the surface Biff’s treasure map looks harmless, but looks can be deceiving….* 
  Noob Steve is on yet another adventure and his friends smart as a whip Courtney and boisterous Charles have decided to tag along. After meeting a very odd villager named Biff, Steve decides to make a trade with him that results in his *ownership of an underwater treasure map.* 
  Things take an odd turn on the trio’s venture towards the treasure though – Steve looses his cool, along with his navigation and fighting skills, and Courtney and Charles have begun to act cruel to their close friend. Steve can’t help but wonder if something is amidst with all of these *bizarre occurrences, and Biff’s creepy habit of showing up in the same places as the group*. Steve is about to realize his gut instinct is correct – that maybe the trade of his lifetime, was really a trade for his life. Will Steve get to the bottom of what is going on? What is the story of Biff, the strange and creeoy villager who seems to know more than he appears? Only time will tell when you read “Biff’s Curse” 
  Biff’s curse will engage any young reader, keeping them on the edge of their seat as they follow the characters through the plot line. This is the perfect holiday pick for your favorite Minecraft fan!

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  The Pest Show on Earth

  Aaron Reynolds

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  When the carnival comes to town, Tiger Moth and Kung Pow let their ninja guard down.  But when this funfest turns out to be an evil trick, they must stop the show before the main attraction- the deadly Wing Kong!

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