From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd comes this hilarious and informative book of answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe’s iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following. Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pit...

From a mesmerizing storyteller, the gripping search for a missing World War II crew, their bomber plane, and their legacy.In the fall of 1944, a massive American bomber carrying eleven men vanished over the Pacific islands of Palau, leaving a trail of mysteries. According to mission reports from the Army Air Forces, the plane crashed in shallow water—but when investigators went to find it, the wreckage wasn’t there. Witnesses saw the crew parachute to safety, yet t...

They are hunting us.In this sweeping, threaded narrative of the global phenomenon known as the Vampire Wars, mankind is unwittingly infected by a millennia-old bacteria unknowingly exhumed by a scientific expedition in Antarctica. Now, in some rare cases, a person's so-called junk DNA becomes activated. Depending on their racial and ethnic heritage, they begin to manifest one of the many diverse forms of the "others" that are the true basis for the legends of supernatural creatures...

**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The origin story of one of the most influential and transformative business leaders and philanthropists of the modern age“A surprisingly candid memoir of the Microsoft mogul’s early years…Reading this book feels like watching someone take a well-known black-and-white sketch, fill in the details, and paint it in vivid color.” —GeekWire**Everyone is programmed a little differently, and Bill Gates' unique insight led to busine...

★★★★"If you're looking for a lighthearted space saga, then this is definitely a book you're going to want to pick up." - Literary Titan“Join NASA, see the stars.” They said.No one mentioned getting stranded in the outer solar system.They sure as heck didn’t mention alien space pirates!Wil Calder is a human, the only one to leave our solar system.But that was years ago.Now, he...

The subway system underneath Mosaic City is like no other. Sixteen years ago, a bombing and massive earthquake shut the entire metro down—but from the abandoned fathoms, a mysterious drug appeared.A wonderful, magical drug.From the success of the substance, Prysm City rose from the decimation. A survivor from that day, a baby pulled from the heart of the blast, begrudgingly follows the one command of living in the underground: Do your job.Some become Roscoes Patroll...

Amelia Swann is a lady by day but at night she gets her pleasure by being dominated by men.When Detective Bradley Stone is assigned to assist her in a case, she wonders if she might find what she needs in him.But she soon learns that Brad has secrets of his own and as the case unfolds, Amelia attempts to get the gorgeous detective to treat her roughly and take her in hand.ADULTS 18+

New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow returns to the world of Red Team Blues to bring us the origin story of Martin Hench and the most powerful new tool for crime ever invented: the personal computer.The year is 1986. The city is San Francisco. Here, Martin Hench will invent the forensic accountant--what a bounty hunter is to people, he is to money--but for now he's an MIT dropout odd-jobbing his way around a city still reeling from the ...

This adventure has no brakes.When a mysterious iron golem asks us for help, Amelia, Yappers and I are thrown into our next quest.We need a horse to help us. Too bad the only one we can find is incredibly slow, super grumpy and has some secrets of his own.There’s also swarms of undead mobs chasing us in the night, an uncanny race where the audience wants you to fail hard, and a non-stop minecart ride. Like literally, there’s no brakes.Oh, and...

Vanuit een verrassend inzicht in het Onze Vader, in het hart van de Bergrede, ontvouwt zich een aansprekend beeld van hoe God in zijn kinderen wil werken.

A MODERN SCIENCE FICTION CLASSIC FROM WIL MCCARTHYIn the eighth decade of the Queendom of Sol, three commodities rule the day. The first is wellstone, a form of programmable matter capable of emulating almost any substance: natural, artificial, even hypothetical. The second is collapsium, a deadly crystal composed of miniature black holes, vital for the transmission of information and matter—including humans—throughout the solar system. The third is the bitter riva...

Covering every aspect from design to full operation, this clear and detailed book is perfect for photographers at all levels. It includes information on darkroom design, woodworking for the novice, lightproofing, ventilation, worktables, building enlarger baseboards, light boxes, water supply panels, print drying racks, darkroom sinks, and much more.