PRE-ORDER THE MOVING, CAPTIVATING NEW NOVEL FROM LAURA IMAI MESSINA: THE ISLAND OF LOST LETTERS'Absolutely breathtaking' Christy Lefteri, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo.We all have something to tell those we have lost . . .On a windy hill in Japan, in a garden overlooking the sea stands a disused phone box. For years, people have travelled to visit the ...

In this erudite yet practical book Professor Cheng shares the secrets of his lineage and takes us to the heart of T'ai Chi Ch'uan, presenting it as a martial artm a medicine, and a means of exercise and self-development. With examples from anatomy and physics, he demonstrates precisely how the postures and moves work, internally as energetic principles, and externally on opponents. Professor Cheng always emphasizes that disease (like an attack from an opponent) is an opportunity for traini...

'A thorough guide to just about everything worth drinking.' The Times'Space for only one wine book in your life? This is it.' Howard G. Goldberg, The New York TimesTHE WORLD'S MOST TRUSTED ANNUAL WINE GUIDEHugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book is the essential reference book for everyone who buys wine - in shops, restaurants, or on the internet. Now in its 48th year of publication, it has no riv...

This is how Einstein would have taught his kids the gravity of farts:) The list of fart situation goes like this: * The Wake Upper Popper * The Straight Up Breakfast Table Shot * The Flying Carpet * The Backpack Burster * The Gasification In The Car * The Neighbour Detonator * The Imaginary Bone Shot Or Fart Expressionism * The Blue Hour In The Elevator (This is a brand new & never before released story. It is included for the first time in this new & enhanced color & audio version of the ...

In the 1930s, the pioneering Danish scientist Inge Lehmann (1888–1993) made a groundbreaking discovery about the nature of Earth. Analyzing data from earthquakes, she determined that the heart of the planet is a solid inner core. Her discovery overturned the widely accepted theory of the core being fluid, but she trusted her calculations: “If I am right, and I know I am,” she wrote in a letter. A fiercely independent thinker, Lehmann forever changed our understanding of our planet....

The Armillaria Bulbosa is an underground fungus that lives beneath the surface of the earth in a huge forest near Crystal Falls, in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.It was born over two thousand years ago. And with each passing year, it grew.Time passed, and the Armillaria continued to develop, to expand underground. Feeding…and growing.It still lives today, after centuries. It lies beneath the ground, an unseen, unbelievable monstrosity: thirty-eight ac...

Ayn Rand presents her views of the world, politics, and human thought.

Rand Fishkin, the founder and former CEO of Moz, reveals how traditional Silicon Valley "wisdom" leads far too many startups astray, with the transparency and humor that his hundreds of thousands of blog readers have come to love.Everyone knows how a startup story is supposed to go: A young, brilliant entrepreneur has a cool idea, drops out of college, defies the doubters, overcomes all odds, makes billions, and becomes the envy of the technology world.This...

e-artnow presents to you the greatest Christmas novels, magical Christmas tales, legends, most famous carols and the unique poetry of the giants of literature dedicated to this one and only holiday: The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry) The Holy Night (Selma Lagerlöf) A Merry Christmas & Other Christmas Stories (Louisa May Alcott) A Letter from Santa Claus (Mark Twain) Silent Night The Night After Christmas The Child Born at Bethlehem The Adoration of the Shepherds The Visit of the Wise Men As J...

**NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHEDIn print for the first time ever, author and philosopher Ayn Rand’s novel Ideal.**Originally conceived as a novel, but then transformed into a play by Ayn Rand, Ideal is the story of beautiful but tormented actress Kay Gonda. Accused of murder, she is on the run and turns for help to six fans who have written letters to her, each telling her that she represents their ideal—a respectable family man, a far-left activist, a cynical art...

Northern Heist – Welcome to the F*ing UnionBook One of the Meltwater SagaIn a future where the United States has swallowed Canada like a pill chased with fire, the Arctic is no longer just frozen ground—it's the new front line. The polite north is gone. What remains is a stitched-together dystopia of rogue AI, burned-out mercs, and data heists that crack reality itself.Cassian Vale is a washed-up smuggler with too many scars...

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction, articles, interviews and art. Our June 2025 issue (#225) contains:Fiction* "Emily of Emerald Starship" by Ng Yi-Sheng* "If an Algorithm Can Cast a Shadow" by Claire Jia-Wen* "In the Shells of Broken Things" by A. T. Greenblatt* "The Eighth Pyramid" by Louis Inglis Hall* "Faces of the Antipode" by Matthew Marcus