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In the footsteps of Alexander the Great: a journey from Greece to Asia
Par Michael Wood. 1997
Michael Wood retraces the 2000 mile journey from Greece to India, made by Alexander the Great. In an account based…
on a range of sources as diverse as medieval travellers' narratives, satellite photography and eye-witness reports, momentous events of the past are interwoven with present day reality. 1997.In search of the Trojan War
Par Michael Wood. 1985
The tale of the siege of Troy is perhaps the greatest non-religious story ever told. It has haunted the western…
imagination for nearly 3000 years, and the story of the modern quest for the reality behind Homer's epic has its own excitement: was there ever an actual siege of Troy? Did Helen, Agamemnon, Paris and all the other larger-than-life characters really exist? This is the story of the men who were determined to find out. 1985.The author of "Bringing Down the House" chronicles the invention of the Facebook social-networking computer web site by Harvard students…
Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin. Describes Zuckerberg's use of the university's database and legal problems with a rival site. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2009.The physics of Star Trek
Par Lawrence Maxwell Krauss, S. W Hawking. 1995
Krauss uses the original Star Trek television series (and its spinoffs) to explore concepts in physics, quantum mechanics, interstellar flight,…
and time travel, as he questions the possibility of "warp drives," "transporters," "wormholes," "phasers," and "holodecks," as well as extraterrestrial life. With a foreward by Stephen Hawking. 1995.Early Man: The Junior Novelization
Par Aardman Animation Ltd. 2018
The official novelization of the major stop-motion children's movie!Based on the hotly anticipated new stop-motion feature film Early Man, from…
director Nick Park (Shaun the Sheep, Wallace and Gromit, Chicken Run) and Aardman Animation, coming to U.S. theaters this February.Meet Dug, a scrawny but cheerful caveman who loves his valley and just wants the best for his tribe of misfits. Accompanied by his faithful pig sidekick Hognob, Dug is a dreamer—why settle for hunting rabbits when you can hunt a mammoth?! Then there’s Dug’s tribe, led by the cautious Chief Bobnar. Bobnar wants the best for the tribe, too, but he sees things a little differently from Dug.Then Dug meets the evil Lord Nooth. He’s the leader of the Bronze Age City. When the Bronze Age City invades the valley and the cavemen have to fight to save their home, Dug strikes a deal with Lord Nooth. The tribe can keep their valley if they beat the Bronze Agers at their own game: soccer!Can Dug and Hognob really unite a motley tribe of rabbit-hunters into a serious team? It’s the Stone Age versus the Bronze Age in the match of the millennium!Easy to read and side-splittingly funny, this story about cavemen with heart will appeal to young readers and their parents.The geeks will inherit the earth.With well over two hundred episodes and a dozen seasons, The Big Bang Theory is…
one of America’s favorite television series, bringing a new class of character to mainstream television: the science nerd.In spite of its evident popularity and influence in shaping public attitudes to science and scientists, there are relatively few books that explore the show’s culture and social dimension. The Science of The Big Bang Theory looks behind the comedy scenes and scripts of this long-running and successful TV show to explore topics such as:The Bachelor Party Corrosion and ArchimedesThe Valentino Submergence: Fun with FlagsThe Dumpling Decoupling: Sheldon and Doctor WhoThe Mystery Date Observation: The Unlikely Dating Habits of EggheadsAnd More!This book is a light-hearted science companion to TV's The Big Bang Theory, providing you with just the kind of dissection of the science and culture you’d need to understand “math, science, history, unraveling the mysteries, that all started with the big bang! Hey!”Call of the Last Survivor: An Unofficial Fortnite Novel
Par Ken A Moore. 2018
Will Mikaleh and her friends unravel the mystery of the ruby key and discover who—or what—is the Lone Survivor? Of…
all the squads in what remains of the known world—that is, after the onset of “The Storm” and the mysterious zombie hordes that came with it—no squad has a reputation like Squad #43! Helmed by the valiant Mikaleh (a mighty Soldier) and her sidekick Janet (a stalwart and even-tempered Constructor), they’re known across the multiverse of servers as the deadliest dispatchers of Mist Monsters and Husks in all the land. Their reputation for finding and freeing survivors is unmatched, and they’re second-to-none when it comes to discovering clever tricks and secrets. Rounded out by Sam (an Outlander) and Sammy (a Ninja)—a quirky pair, who fight like brothers but always reconcile like best friends—Squad #43 seems on an unstoppable trajectory to combat The Storm and restore the world, bit by bit, to something like its former self. Yet Mikaleh can hardly believe her eyes when she returns to base camp one morning—after a long evening of satisfying zombie-killing—to find that the Husks appear to have. . . reached out to them! A mysterious message, seeming to be from the very monsters themselves, urges Squad #43 to attend a secret rendezvous in Canny Valley where more will be revealed. Never one to turn down a mystery, Mikaleh soon finds her squad plunged into a strange intrigue beyond her wildest dreams