Μmike: 6654 books

The first of its kind, this book provides a unique inside look into the hidden world of ordinary North Koreans. Mike Kim, who worked with refugees on the Chinese border for four years, recounts their experiences of enduring famine, sex-trafficking, and torture, as well as the inspirational stories...

Are you envious of the rich and famous? Do you think your life is meaningless? Greg Raslow does. He joins the "League for the Liberation of Nobodies" and finds himself in the midst of a mind-boggling revolution. Soon, the super rich and celebrities are on the run, desperately trying to protect their privileged lives as they find that ordinary people have finally turned against them.

You’ve probably heard the advice “put on your own oxygen mask before assisting others.” This is true both in airplanes and in classrooms—you have to take care of yourself before you can help someone else. If teachers are stressed out and exhausted, how can they have the patience, positive...

A short story. A man wakes up in a seemingly endless white hallway with no memory of who he is, or how he got there.

This book is an outstanding authority on Community Policing in Nigeria, taking its reader through epochs of police development in the United Kingdom, the examples of Community Policing in the United States of America and juxtaposing all those against the inglorious experiments in Nigeria. Nigeria...

Hero's Loop is a book about the fun and adventure of boating. It begins with circumstances that lead a young boy to love and own boats. His love for boats influences him as an adult to work on old boats as a hobby and enjoy the sight of seeing an old boat turn into a jewel. This book exults the friendships...

Noise is a widely recognized problem and health concern in the modern world. Given the importance of managing noise levels and developing suitable 'soundscapes' in contexts such as industry, schools, or public spaces, this is an area of active research for acousticians. But noise, in the sense of...

Did ancient “visitors”—of extraterrestrial origin—come to Earth long, long ago and fashion man in their own image? Did they then lift the human race out of the ashes of a great global catastrophe around 10,500 BC? Were the science and secrets that they taught the ancients intended...

Euler’s Formula is traditionally regarded as the most beautiful equation in all of mathematics. Yet it’s so much more than that. It’s the equation that governs the whole universe and even defines the human soul!It’s the centrepiece of the hyperrational mathematical religion of the Pythagorean...

Three hundred years ago, it was still possible for an intelligent person to have read all of the books that constituted the whole knowledge base of the world.Three hundred years ago, most intelligent people in the world believed that the world was a holistic, living organism of some kind, imbued...

What is time? Scientists know how to measure time, but they have no idea what it actually is. This books explains the deep mystery of time. It clarifies all of the enigmas concerning the tensed and tenseless theories of time, and addresses McTaggart's famous claim that time is "unreal".Hegel's...

“The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer.” – Terence McKennaAt school, you are taught “science”. You are not taught the history of science, so you have no idea how science came to be the institution it now is. Above all, you have no idea that science is a...

What is the most ingenious error in the history of science, so difficult to detect that only a genius could manage it?“In any collection of data, the figure most obviously correct, beyond all need of checking, is the mistake.” -- Finagle’s Third Law (Arthur Bloch)One of the foundation...

This book explains how the entire universe can be created using just two ingredients: nothing at all and the principle of sufficient reason.This is the final book in The God Series.