Anthony Bourdain is a seasoned traveler who's hit up all corners of the globe many times over. More often than not, he has time to kill in some of the world's biggest airport hubs. Instead of sitting at the airport hotel, he sets out to explore each city in the short amount of ti...
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"$UPERHUBS is a rare, behind-the-scenes look at how the world's most powerful titans, the "superhubs" pull the levers of our global financial system. Combining insider's knowledge with principles of network science, Sandra Navidi offers a startling new perspective on how superhub...
"An insider's guide to Toronto for all hockey lovers--fans and players alike. Attention hockey heads: Want to know where to join a league, play a pick-up game, or get your blades sharpened? Where to grab some grub before heading to the rink or where to find a post-skate brew? In ...
It's just not fair. Hub's good at everything - including all the sports that Fat finds impossible. So when Max Sutton, the local school teacher, puts together an athletic team to compete for the Fall Fair's Human Pyramid contest, Hub naturally is right in the thick of things. Who...
"A world-leading expert shares her amazing story of discovering the communication that exists between trees, and shares her own story of family and grief. Dr. Suzanne Simard was born and raised in the rainforests of British Columbia and has forged a lifelong relationship of love ...
"Diana Helmuth, thirty-three, is skeptical of organized religion. She is also skeptical of disorganized religion. But, more than anything, she is tired of God being dead. So, she decides to try on the fastest growing, self-directed faith in America: Witchcraft. The result is 366 ...
As well as being essential for creative trades of all kinds -- carpenters, photographers, caterers, gardeners and graphic designers to name but a few -- blogs can be inspirational and beautiful; becoming hubs for people with similar tastes and interests. Blogging for Creatives is...
"Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history. Most military t...
This book presents a "narrative of the true global and human scope of the transatlantic slave trade. The trade existed for 400 years, during which 12 million people were trafficked, and 2 million would die en route. In these pages we meet the remarkable group, Diving with a Purpo...
"Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history. Most military t...
One of . . . Electric Literature 's "Most Anticipated Debuts of Early 2020" O Magazine 's "31 LGBTQ Books That'll Change the Literary Landscape in 2020" Publisher Weekly 's "Spring 2020 Literary Fiction Announcements" • Buzzfeed 's "Most Highly Anticipated Books Of 2020...
One of . . . Electric Literature 's "Most Anticipated Debuts of Early 2020" O Magazine 's "31 LGBTQ Books That'll Change the Literary Landscape in 2020" Publisher Weekly 's "Spring 2020 Literary Fiction Announcements" • Buzzfeed 's "Most Highly Anticipated Books Of 2020...
"Across the world, cities and regions have wasted trillions of dollars on blindly copying the Silicon Valley model of growth creation. We have lived with this system for decades, and the result is clear: a small number of regions and cities at the top of the high-tech industry bu...
"Across the world, cities and regions have wasted trillions of dollars on blindly copying the Silicon Valley model of growth creation. We have lived with this system for decades, and the result is clear: a small number of regions and cities at the top of the high-tech industry bu...
This essential overview of what it means to be a library and information professional today provides a broad overview of the transformation of libraries as information organizations, why these organizations are more important today than ever before, the technological influence on...
Capturing profound cultural shifts underway in unexpected places and revealing a national network of chosen family fighting for a better world, this is a treasure trove of uplifting stories and a much-needed source of hope and inspiration in these divided times.
Winner of the 2016 Whiting Award One of Publishers Weekly 's "Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2016" One of Lit Hub's "10 must-read poetry collections for April" Reading Vuong is like watching a fish move: he manages the varied currents of English with muscled int...