Books

Raise your chess to the next level with this program of 600 instructive and challenging exercises covering all aspects of the game. This book will sharpen your tactical vision, deepen your positional understanding, and enrich your knowledge of theoretical positions. It will also strengthen...

Behold the Marvel Universe's devastating future - but Luke Cage remains to fight for good, and becomes more powerful than ever! In a dark future born from the choices of today, all of time and space is threatened by an ancient evil's ascension. The...

(UPDATED)Charles Atlas transformed himself into a powerful Muscular He-man with his muscle-building method. This book is more than bodybuilding, this book is designed to enhance your overall health, strength and lifestyle. Charles Atlas will show you first hand, by training you, motivating you, and...

Unleash powerful teaching and the science of learning in your classroom Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning empowers educators to harness rigorous research on how students learn and unleash it in their classrooms. In this book, cognitive scientist Pooja K. Agarwal, Ph.D., and...

This thoughtful devotional made specifically for women, will help you replace anxiety with peace, self-doubt with truth, and overwhelm with the strength and hope found in God's love. One positive and encouraging thought can change everything! Your thoughts have incredible power. They can lift...

Featuring nationally acclaimed photographer Chuck Haney, this handsome coffee-table book beautifully showcases California's legendary City by the Bay. With 145 stunning color photographs, Haney celebrates the golden city's iconic landmarks and attractions, diverse people and neighborhoods, and her dazzling cityscapes and breathtaking bay views....

"Spectacular story-telling . . . the author's elaborate skill in weaving intimate emotional detail into the broad canvas of history is in fantastic display."--Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionA spellbinding family saga--a sequel to Daughter of Fortune--from the bestselling author of The House of the Spirits and A...

A compact and comprehensive history of Portland from first European contact to the twenty-first century, Portland in Three Centuries introduces the women and men who have shaped Oregon's largest city. The expected politicians and business leaders appear, but Carl Abbott also highlights workers and...

An Oxford physicist "seeks to shatter complacency" (David Deutsch) in modern physics and show why five revolutionary experiments in quantum physics promise to open the gates separating us from a true understanding of the universe For the last century, physics has been treading along...

Aerodynamics, lightweight construction, power, and balance: RS models from Porsche are always the sharpest upgrade on this side of the racetrack. For more than 50 years, Porsche 911s of every generation have borne the RS abbreviation for Renn Sport ("sport racing"). RS models dominate...

On May 8, 2025, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost left the papal conclave--a gathering of the College of Cardinals to select the new pope of the Catholic Church--as Pope Leo XIV. He is the first pope from the United States, and he is also a...

Read and find out about the science behind bubbles in this colorfully illustrated nonfiction picture book.What are bubbles made of? Why are they always round? Read and find out about the science behind soap bubbles, and learn why bubbles always go POP!POP! explains how...

Nick Corey is a terrible sheriff on purpose. He doesn't solve problems, enforce rules or arrest criminals. He knows that nobody in tiny Potts County actually wants to follow the law and he is perfectly content lazing about, eating five meals a day, and...

���� Discover the Timeless Wisdom of Poor Richard's Almanac! ����Are you ready to embark on a captivating journey through the corridors of history? Look no further than Benjamin Franklin's iconic masterpiece: Poor Richard's Almanac. This literary gem, lovingly curated and meticulously typeset, awaits your...

For fans of Stephanie Foo's What My Bones Know, a memoir of a middle-aged Japanese immigrant mother's struggle to raise her teenage son and save her marriage when she finds herself triggered by memories of her own childhood trauma as he enters adolescence. At...

This is a fresh new take on Polish cooking from young food writer Zuza Zak. The food of Poland has long been overlooked, but the time is right for a reinvention, with an estimated 10 million people of Polish descent living in the US....

The rebel hero of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) careened through his life like a firework across the American art landscape. Channeling ideas from sources as diverse as Picasso and Mexican surrealism, he rejected convention to develop his own way of seeing, interpreting, and...

This book continues and revises the ideas of justice as fairness that John Rawls presented in A Theory of Justice but changes its philosophical interpretation in a fundamental way. That previous work assumed what Rawls calls a "well-ordered society," one that is stable and...

"As I moved with stiff legs along the reefs I slipped into the water.It was cold beyond belief-thevery quintessence of deathly Arctic ice, so cold that it seemed to sear and bleach the skin." Fired up by the accounts of exploring parties in the...

Awesome Pokémon adventures inspired by the best-selling Pokémon movies! The graphic novel tie-in to the latest Pokémon movie of the same name, a CGI remake of the first Pokémon movie released in theaters nationwide. Long ago, the mighty Pokémon Arceus was betrayed by a...