From the bestselling author of "Change Your Brain, Change Your Life" and "Magnificent Mind at Any Age" comes a breakthrough approach to harnessing brain power to improve overall health and body function. (Consumer Health)
JODI PICOULT is the author of seventeen novels, including "Handle With Care, Change of Heart," "Nineteen Minutes," and" My Sister's Keeper, "now a major motion picture. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband and three children. Visit her website...
Best known for her role in "Clueless," Silverstone shares how her journey toward a vegan and now macrobiotic diet has left her feeling better than ever. "The Kind Diet" features nearly 100 easy--and Earth-friendly--recipes. 40 color photographs.
The bestselling author of "The Notebook" demonstrates how first love and love between parents and children can break hearts . . . and heal them. Miley Cyrus stars as rebellious teen Ronnie Miller in the Disney film version of "The Last Song," set to...
The acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries gives listeners an electrifying thriller that takes off into a sweeping international drama. In the Swedish hamlet of Hesjovallen, 19 people have been massacred--and the only clue is a red ribbon found...
In this second installment in the series Percy, Poseidon's 13-year-old demigod son, is desperate to rescue his friend and retrieve the healing Golden Fleece--the only protection for the children in Camp Half-Blood. Adventure follows chaotic adventure...
On April 20th, 2010 the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig suffered a huge explosion killing 11 workers and injuring 17 others. The explosion lead to the rig's eventual sinking. Ever since then there has been a serious and ongoing oil spill leaking from the wellhead at the drilling site in the Gulf of Mexico.
The oil gushed out of the sea floor at a rate of between 12 000 to 100 000 barrels per day, with many experts suggesting the rate was at the upper, worst case scenario limit. The oil spill is quickly becoming one of the world's worst environmental disasters with the effectiveness of the attempts by BP (owner of the drill site) to stem the flow still uncertain.
Below we have listed some books related to oil, oil rigs and deep sea drilling.
Deep Challenge: Our Quest for Energy Beneath the Sea
Clyde W. Burleson
Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline
Lisa Margonelli
Don't Tell Mom I Work on the Rigs: She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse
Paul Carter
Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil
Peter Maass
Last week the major players in the US publishing industry met at the annual BookExpo America conference. Reuters has an article with interviews in relation to the industry's views and approach to eBooks.
The Ars Technica blog also has an interesting article that concludes that publishers need to unite and agree on a good universal eBook standard, which is exactly what the publishers want:
"Our fondest wish is that all the devices become agnostic so that there isn't proprietary formats and you can read wherever you want to read," Penguin Group CEO David Shanks told Reuters. "First we have to get a standard that everybody embraces."
But as the Ars Technica author notes, publishers do not seem to be getting together and making it happen.
In the meantime consumers are being left with a few major eBook readers (The Apple iPad, Amazon Kindle and Barnes and Noble NOOK), which generally leads the consumer to be tied to one eBook seller and their chosen eBook format. This does not bode well for competition or for the little book shops out there. There is no doubt that the book industry is changing, and whether the publishers can keep up and whether their wish for a popular universal format will be fulfilled, are both yet to be seen.
Starting from today, we will occasionally post a reading list of books related to a topic currently or recently covered in the news.
In the past few months Thailand has experienced its worst political violence and upheaval of its recent history. The two main parties involved were the Red-Shirt protestors and the government led by Abhisit Vejjajiva. The protestors, who largely support the exiled ex-prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, were calling for the government to step down, claiming that it had come to power illegitimately. After months of negotiations and intermittent violence, the parties failed to come to an agreement and the government ordered a military crackdown on the main protest site which had been set up in the center of Bangkok.
What followed were days of street fighting between soldiers and those loyal to the Red-Shirt movement. The violence culminated in arson attacks on at least 27 buildings around Bangkok including Southeast Asia's second largest mall, CentralWorld, which was gutted by flames.
For those interested in reading more about Thailand's history and its politics we have listed some interesting books below. We also have many other books about Thailand which you can search for or browse for within the Southeast Asian Travel section.
A History of Thailand
Pasuk Phongpaichit & Chris Baker
Publication Date: 14/4/2009
Abhisit Vejjajiva
Frederic P. Miller and Agnes F. Vandome and John McBrewster
Publication Date: 11/10/2009
Thaksin (2nd edition)
Pasuk Phongpaichit & Chris Baker
Publication Date: 15/2/2010
Thailand Unhinged: Unraveling the Myth of a Thai-Style Democracy
Federico Ferrara
Publication Date: 27/01/2010
The King Never Smiles: A Biography of Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej
(Not available to customers residing in Thailand)
Paul M. Handley
Publication Date:28/6/2006
It's an exciting time to be a bookseller but also a worrying one both for brick and mortar bookshops and smaller online ones. The worry for those not selling online has been around for some years as large and small online shops take more of the sales. Concerns are likely to be exacerbated though as the demand for e-books grows.
Online sellers like ourselves need to monitor developments and time our move to eBooks carefully. Even with the new toys like the iPad and other readers hitting the market and owners looking for reasons for having one how great will the demand be in the short term? I have no doubt it will grow however as people adjust to the new technology and appreciate the lower prices.
What are the main advantages of using e-books, apart from price. First there are around two million free e-books that can be accessed over the internet. And you can store hundreds, perhaps thousands, of books on your portable reader. But what appeals to me is the ability to search text. Blame my poor short-term memory if you like but I am constantly flipping back through novels to track when a character first appeared or their significance. I'm sure that once digital text and reference books become widely available there will be many wanting them.
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The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill
When an elderly doctor takes over as state coroner of newly formed Communist Laos in the late 1970s, he unexpectedly stirs the bureaucratic pot and unravels three complicated and intertwined murder plots his superiors want to sweep under the carpet.
An astonishing new science called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the human brain is immutable. In this revolutionary look at the brain, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Norman Doidge, M.D., provides an introduction to both the brilliant scientists championing neuroplasticity and the people whose lives theyve transformed.
A bestseller that is striking a deep chord among the 15 million children of controlling parents, this book helps readers let go of the anxiety, self-blame, perfectionism, and relationship difficulties that can result from unhealthy control in childhood.
Toxic In-Laws: Loving Strategies for Protecting Your Marriage by Susan Forward
Drawing from real-life stories of men and women struggling to free themselves from their in-laws' destructive behavior, Forward offers highly effective strategies for getting your partner to stand up for you, for setting reasonable limits, and, most importantly, for protecting your marriage.