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Curious Folks Ask (Free Book for a Limited Time): 162 Real Answers on Amazing Inventions, Fascinating Products, and Medical Mysteries FT Press style MARGIN 0px Prepare to Be Fascinated / / UL LI Why does the flu change every year / LI LI What makes glue sticky / LI LI What causes out-of-body experiences / LI LI Are all brands of gas the same / LI LI Will adult stem cells work as well as embryonic stem cells / LI LI Is one horsepower really equal to the power of one horse / LI LI Why can t you sneeze with your eyes open / LI LI How much does a cremated body weigh / LI / UL style MARGIN 0px These are just a few of the fascinating science and health questions real people have asked top science writer and San Diego Union-Tribune columnist Sherry Seethaler Curious Folks Ask / brings together 162 of her best answers all crystal-clear accurate quick and a pleasure to read Seethaler knows exactly how to cut through jargon confusion and myths She s passionate about sharing what scientists have learned and what they still don t know She explores everything from our bodies to our best inventions what makes us healthy what makes us human and plenty more Prepare to be surprised intrigued and amazed / The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine W. W. Norton & Company Truth really is stranger than fiction Who better than the author of the signature bestseller Liar-s Poker to explain how the event we were told was impossible-the free fall of the American economy-finally occurred how the things that we wanted like ridiculously easy money and greatly expanded home ownership were vehicles for that crash and how shareholder demand for profit forced investment executives to eat the forbidden fruit of toxic derivatives Michael Lewis-s splendid cast of characters includes villains a few heroes and a lot of people who look very very foolish high government officials including the watchdogs heads of major investment banks some overlap here with previous category perhaps even the face in your mirror In this trenchant raucous irresistible narrative Lewis writes of the goats and of the few who saw what the emperor was wearing and gives them most memorably what they deserve He proves yet again that he is the finest and funniest chronicler of our times The Obama Diaries Threshold Editions ISBN13 9781439197516 Condition New Notes BUY WITH CONFIDENCE Over one million books sold 98 Positive feedback Compare our books prices and service to the competition 100 Satisfaction Guaranteed WASHINGTON D C / On May 20 2010 Laura Ingraham received a package from an anonymous source that will change the history of the United States and the legacy of President Barack Obama While retrieving her automobile from the underground garage at the Watergate complex where she had just enjoyed her weekly pedicure Ingraham discovered a manila envelope on the hood of her car When she picked it up a deep baritone voice called out from a nearby stairwell Just read it You ll know what to do The shadowy figure then disappeared into the darkness without another word The envelope contained copies of what appeared to be diary entries written by President Barack Obama his family and high-ranking administration officials Because the diaries are so revealing Ingraham felt compelled to release them to the American public and the citizens of the world Major media outlets love to describe the president as no drama Obama but The Obama Diaries tells a different tale Through these diary entries readers will see past the carefully constructed Obama fa ade to the administration s true plans to remake America In The Obama Diaries Ingraham hilariously skewers the president and his minions She takes aim at the cynical razzle-dazzle marketing of Obama s radical agenda the use of the Obama brand and family to obscure Obama s true aims Michelle Obama s gardening and anti-obesity initiative and much more Informative and hugely entertaining The Obama Diaries will inspire both laughter and critical thinking about the future of the nation and the man currently at the helm Excerpts from Laura Ingraham s The Obama Diaries / Obama on Sarah Palin / Hell doesn t Palin have anything better to do than criticize me Shouldn t she be back home shooting some endangered wolf species from a helicopter April 9 2010 Michelle on being First Lady / I ll be damned if all this fabulosity is going to go to waste reading Dr Seuss to snot-nosed kids all day January 23 2009 Vice President Joe Biden on Michelle Obama / She s kind of like a black Hillary Clinton I mean that in a good way May 5 2009 Obama on his visit to the Vatican / If I can ingratiate myself The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents--The Definitive Edition (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek, Volume 2) University Of Chicago Press An unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy intellectual and cultural history and economics The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians scholars and general readers for half a century Originally published in 1944 when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the efforts of Stalin and Albert Einstein subscribed lock stock and barrel to the socialist program The Road to Serfdom was seen as heretical for its passionate warning against the dangers of state control over the means of production For F A Hayek the collectivist idea of empowering government with increasing economic control would lead not to a utopia but to the horrors of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy R R First published by the University of Chicago Press on September 18 1944 The Road to Serfdom garnered immediate widespread attention The first printing of 2 000 copies was exhausted instantly and within six months more than 30 000 books were sold In April 1945 Reader s Digest published a condensed version of the book and soon thereafter the Book-of-the-Month Club distributed this edition to more than 600 000 readers A perennial best seller the book has sold 400 000 copies in the United States alone and has been translated into more than twenty languages along the way becoming one of the most important and influential books of the century R R With this new edition The Road to Serfdom takes its place in the series The Collected Works of F A Hayek The volume includes a foreword by series editor and leading Hayek scholar Bruce Caldwell explaining the books origins and publishing history and assessing common misinterpretations of Hayeks thought Caldwell has also standardized and corrected Hayeks references and added helpful new explanatory notes Supplemented with an appendix of related materials ranging from prepublication reports on the initial manuscript to forewords to earlier editions by John Chamberlain Milton Friedman and Hayek himself this new edition of The Road to Serfdom will be the definitive version of Friedrich Hayeks enduring masterwork Outliers: The Story of Success Little, Brown and Company ISBN13 9780316017923 Condition New Notes BUY WITH CONFIDENCE Over one million books sold 98 Positive feedback Compare our books prices and service to the competition 100 Satisfaction Guaranteed In this stunning new book Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of outliers --the best and the brightest the most famous and the most successful He asks the question what makes high-achievers different His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like and too little attention to where they are from that is their culture their family their generation and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires what it takes to be a great soccer player why Asians are good at math and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band R/ R/ R/ Brilliant and entertaining OUTLIERS is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate Amazon Best of the Month November 2008 / Now that hes gotten us talking about the viral life of ideas and the power of gut reactions Malcolm Gladwell poses a more provocative question in em Outliers / em why do some people succeed living remarkably productive and impactful lives while so many more never reach their potential Challenging our cherished belief of the self-made man he makes the democratic assertion that superstars dont arise out of nowhere propelled by genius and talent they are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot Examining the lives of outliers from Mozart to Bill Gates he builds a convincing case for how successful people rise on a tide of advantages some deserved some not some earned some just plain lucky r / r / em Outliers / em can be enjoyed for its bits of trivia like why most pro hockey players were born in January how many hours of practice it takes to master a skill why the descendents of Jewish immigrant garment workers became the most powerful lawyers in New York how a pilots culture impacts their crash record how a centuries-old culture of rice farming helps Asian kids master math But theres more to it than that Throughout all of these examples--and in more that delve into the social benefits of lighter skin color and the reasons for school achievement gaps--Gladwell invites conversations about the complex ways privilege manifests in our culture He leaves us pondering the gifts of our own history and how the world could benefit if more of our kids were granted the opportunities to fulfill their remarkable potential -- em Mari Malcolm / em r/ r/ Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time Penguin Books Three Cups of Tea English First Edition Paperback gelatine plate paper The astonishing uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban s backyard / Anyone who despairs of the individual s power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson a homeless mountaineer who following a 1993 climb of Pakistan s treacherous K2 was inspired by a chance encounter with impoverished mountain villagers and promised to build them a school Over the next decade he built fifty-five schools especially for girls that offer a balanced education in one of the most isolated and dangerous regions on earth As it chronicles Mortenson s quest which has brought him into conflict with both enraged Islamists and uncomprehending Americans Three Cups of Tea combines adventure with a celebration of the humanitarian spirit The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel Harper Paperbacks The Art of Racing in the Rain A Novel Paperback The Art of Racing in the Rain A Novel The Art of Racing in the Rain A heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family love loyalty and hope a captivating look at the wonders and absurdities of human life as only a dog could tell it / The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Crown Her name was Henrietta Lacks but scientists know her as HeLa She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors yet her cells taken without her knowledge became one of the most important tools in medicine The first immortal human cells grown in culture they are still alive today though she has been dead for more than sixty years If you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale they d weigh more than 50 million metric tons as much as a hundred Empire State Buildings HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine uncovered secrets of cancer viruses and the atom bomb s effects helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization cloning and gene mapping and have been bought and sold by the billions r r Yet Henrietta Lacks remains virtually unknown buried in an unmarked grave r r Now Rebecca Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey from the colored ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to stark white laboratories with freezers full of HeLa cells from Henrietta s small dying hometown of Clover Virginia a land of wooden slave quarters faith healings and voodoo to East Baltimore today where her children and grandchildren live and struggle with the legacy of her cells r r Henrietta s family did not learn of her immortality until more than twenty years after her death when scientists investigating HeLa began using her husband and children in research without informed consent And though the cells had launched a multimillion-dollar industry that sells human biological materials her family never saw any of the profits As Rebecca Skloot so brilliantly shows the story of the Lacks family past and present is inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans the birth of bioethics and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of r r Over the decade it took to uncover this story Rebecca became enmeshed in the lives of the Lacks family especially Henrietta s daughter Deborah who was devastated to learn about her mother s cells She was consumed with questions Had scientists cloned her mother Did it hurt her when researchers infected her cells with viruses and shot them into space What happened to her sister Elsie who died in a mental institution at the age of fifteen And if her mother was so important to medicine why Amazon Best Books of the Month February 2010 / From a single abbreviated life grew a seemingly immortal line of cells that made some of the most crucial innovations in modern science possible And from that same life and those cells Rebecca Skloot has fashioned in em The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks / em a fascinating and moving story of medicine and family of how life is sustained in laboratories and in memory Henrietta Lacks was a mother of five in Baltimore a poor African American migrant from the tobacco farms of Virginia who died from a cruelly aggressive cancer at the age of 30 in 1951 A sample of her cancerous tissue taken without her knowledge or consent as was the custom then turned out to provide one of the holy grails of mid-century biology human cells that could survive--even thrive--in the lab Known as HeLa cells their stunning potency gave scientists a building block for countless breakthroughs beginning with the cure for polio Meanwhile Henriettas family continued to live in poverty and frequently poor health and their discovery decades later of her unknowing contribution--and her cells strange survival--left them full of pride anger and suspicion For a decade Skloot doggedly but compassionately gathered the threads of these stories slowly gaining the trust of the family while helping them learn the truth about Henrietta and with their aid she tells a rich and haunting story that asks the questions Who owns our bodies And who carries our memories -- em Tom Nissley r / r / / em hr size 1 / span class h1 Amazon Exclusive Jad Abumrad Reviews em The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks / em / / span r / r / Jad Abumrad is host and creator of the public radio hit em Radiolab / em now in its seventh season and reaching over a million people monthly em Radiolab / em combines cutting-edge production with a philosophical approach to big ideas in science and beyond and an inventive method of storytelling Abumrad has won numerous awards including a National Headliner Award in Radio and an American Association for the Advancement of Science AAAS Science Journalism Award Read his exclusive Amazon guest review of em The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks / em / r / mg align right border 0 src http / / g-ecx images-amazon com/ images/ G/ 01/ randoEMS/ jad pic sm200 jpg / / Honestly Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen Random Knopf ISBN13 9780307266309 Condition New Notes BUY WITH CONFIDENCE Over one million books sold 98 Positive feedback Compare our books prices and service to the competition 100 Satisfaction Guaranteed An epic adventure that began with one simple question Why does my foot hurt r r Isolated by Mexicos deadly Copper Canyons the blissful Tarahumara Indians of have honed the ability to run hundreds of miles without rest or injury In a riveting narrative award-winning journalist and often-injured runner Chris McDougall sets out to discover their secrets In the process he takes his readers from science labs at Harvard to the sun-baked valleys and freezing peaks across North America where ever-growing numbers of ultra-runners are pushing their bodies to the limit and finally to a climactic race in the Copper Canyons that pits America s best ultra-runners against the tribe McDougall s incredible story will not only engage your mind but inspire your body when you realize that you indeed all of us were born to run Book Description / r/ Full of incredible characters amazing athletic achievements cutting-edge science and most of all pure inspiration Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question Why does my foot hurt In search of an answer Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world s greatest distance runners and learn their secrets and in the process shows us that everything we thought we knew about running is wrong r/ Isolated by the most savage terrain in North America the reclusive Tarahumara Indians of Mexico s deadly Copper Canyons are custodians of a lost art For centuries they have practiced techniques that allow them to run hundreds of miles without rest and chase down anything from a deer to an Olympic marathoner while enjoying every mile of it Their superhuman talent is matched by uncanny health and serenity leaving the Tarahumara immune to the diseases and strife that plague modern existence With the help of Caballo Blanco a mysterious loner who lives among the tribe the author was able not only to uncover the secrets of the Tarahumara but also to find his own inner ultra-athlete as he trained for the challenge of a lifetime a fifty-mile race through the heart of Tarahumara country pitting the tribe against an odd band of Americans including a star ultramarathoner a beautiful young surfer and a barefoot wonder / With a sharp wit and wild exuberance McDougall takes us from the high-tech science labs at Harvard to the sun-baked valleys and freezing peaks across North America where ever-growing numbers of ultrarunners are pushing their bodies to the limit and finally to the climactic race in the Copper Canyons Born to Run is that rare book that will not only engage your mind but inspire your body when you realize that the secret to happiness is right at your feet and that you indeed all of us were born to run / r/ span class h1 Amazon Exclusive A Q A with Christopher McDougall / / span r/ mg align right border 0 src http / / g-ecx images-amazon com/ images/ G/ 01/ randoEMS/ McDougall credit James Rexroad jpg / Question / Born to Run explores the life and running habits of the Tarahumara Indians of Mexico s Copper Canyon arguably the greatest distance runners in the world What are some Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and The Dawn of the Modern Woman Harper Collins, Inc. Audrey Hepburn is an icon like no other yet the image many of us have of Audrey dainty immaculate is anything but true to life Here for the first time Sam Wasson presents the woman behind the little black dress that rocked the nation in 1961 The first complete account of the making of Breakfast at Tiffanys Fifth Avenue 5 A M reveals little-known facts about the cinema classic Truman Capote desperately wanted Marilyn Monroe for the leading role director Blake Edwards filmed multiple endings Hepburn herself felt very conflicted about balancing the roles of mother and movie star With a colorful cast of characters including Truman Capote Edith Head Givenchy Moon River composer Henry Mancini and of course Hepburn herself Wasson immerses us in the America of the late fifties before Woodstock and birth control when a not-so-virginal girl by the name of Holly Golightly raised eyebrows across the country changing fashion film and sex for good Indeed cultural touchstones like Sex and the City owe a debt of gratitude to Breakfast at Tiffanys / In this meticulously researched gem of a book Wasson delivers us from the penthouses of the Upper East Side to the pools of Beverly Hills presenting Breakfast at Tiffanys as we have never seen it before through the eyes of those who made it Written with delicious prose and considerable wit Fifth Avenue 5 A M shines new light on a beloved film and its incomparable star /