Benjamin: 3278 books
Secrets of Mental Math
The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
These simple math secrets and tricks will forever change how you look at the world of numbers.
Secrets of Mental Math will have you thinking like a math genius in no time. Get ready to amaze your friends—and yourself—with incredible calculations you never thought you could master, as renowned...
Utopia or Bust
A Guide to the Present Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
After the financial crash and the great recession, the media rediscovered Karl Marx, socialist theory, and the very idea that capitalism can be questioned.
But in spite of the publicity, the main paths of contemporary critical thought have gone unexplored
outside of the academy. Benjamin Kunkel’s...
by Benjamin Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
No one knows the day or hour of the resurrection, but the Bible does provide specific events and occurrences leading up to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. In addition to providing specific events surrounding the rapture, the Old and New Testaments give us instructions on how to prepare for the...
Building Products for the Enterprise
Product Management in Enterprise Software
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
If you’re new to software product management or just want to learn more about it, there’s plenty of advice available—but most of it is geared toward consumer products. Creating high-quality software for the enterprise involves a much different set of challenges. In this practical book, two expert...
Ghost of the Innocent Man
A True Story of Trial and Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
One of the Best Books of 2017: National Public Radio, San Francisco Chronicle, Library Journal, Shelf Awareness
"Remarkable . . . Captivating . . . Rachlin is a skilled storyteller." --New York Times Book Review
"A gripping legal-thriller mystery . . . Profoundly elevates...
Tyranny of the Minority
The Subconstituency Politics Theory of Representation
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2009
Why do politicians frequently heed the preferences of small groups of citizens over those of the majority? Breaking new theoretical ground, Benjamin Bishin explains how the desires of small groups, which he calls “subconstituencies,” often trump the preferences of much larger groups.
Demonstrating...
The Sabermetric Revolution
Assessing the Growth of Analytics in Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
From the front office to the family room, sabermetrics has dramatically changed the way baseball players are assessed and valued by fans and managers alike. Rocketed to popularity by the 2003 bestseller Moneyball and the film of the same name, the use of sabermetrics to analyze player performance...
by Benjamin Jacobson
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
In the Victorian tradition, SteampunX is a serial novel released monthly.
It’s 1875 on the Columbian calendar. Anowarakowa, the New World, has been at peace for a century. By treaty and vigilance the land has been divided among the English Colonies in the Northeast, New France in the South,...
by Benjamin Hope
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Magnus Drinkwater is close. Close to harnessing enough power to fuel his modified pocket-watch and stop time. But the answer continues to lie out of reach and when his daughter discovers a young woman no longer in possession of her soul, it quickly becomes clear that his own frustrations are the least...
Thomas Edison, le magicien de Menlo Park
La vie lumineuse d'un inventeur insatiable
Language: French
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Thomas Edison et ses inventions en moins d’une heure !
Inventeur de génie, Thomas Edison est aussi l’un des plus prolifiques de tous les temps. Pourtant, rien ne laissait présager un tel destin... Peu scolarisé, il est d’abord vendeur...
Railway Palaces of Portland, Oregon
The Architectural Legacy of Henry Villard
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
In 1883, railroad financier Henry Villard brought Portland and the Pacific Northwest their first transcontinental railroad. Earning a reputation for boldness on Wall Street, the war correspondent turned entrepreneur set out to establish Portland as a bourgeoning metropolis. To realize his vision,...
by William Gibson, Mark Teppo, Bruce Sterling
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2019
Before email,
before the world wide web,
before hackers,
Before sexting,
before always-on GPS,
before titanium implants,
before Alexa, Cortana, and Siri,
before the computer in your pocket was more powerful than the one that sent astronauts to the moon,
there was cyberpunk.
And science fiction...
The Art of Virtue
Ben Franklin's Formula for Successful Living
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
An indispensable guide to right living from a Founding Father.
Benjamin Franklin, one of our nation’s most revered founders, was a man of uncommonly fine common sense. Although he was never able to finish his project of compiling a comprehensive compendium of practical wisdom, he was able to lay...
by Benjamin Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 1986
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 1986
This authoritative Bantam Classic edition presents readers with a wide-ranging selection of Benjamin Franklin’s most important writings, illuminating the complex and appealing character of this quintessential American who rose to fame as a publisher, inventor, educator, bon vivant, and statesman.
Here...