“The writing ever edges into the poetic; it’s just a constant pleasure. At a time when many are eyeing up that dusty expanse again for what Morton calls the “Return”, this book steps back, deftly explaining the science on our satellite and its cultural niche in the charged space betw...
"Miausi’s dream is to find a family."The story is about Miausi, a calico cat who is homeless but enjoys going about her daily life on various adventures. The book begins by explaining that a calico cat his three colors—orange, black, and white. Miausi loves to sleep, eat, and ...
The book is just as much art as it is literature, each page being illustrated with a distinctive combination of watercolor and scribbley ink. The illustrations look nice but they also show what’s happening on the journey, giving context to the messages. The custom drawn words were a bit ...
However, for the author they are not non-existent at all, since he believes that “every fairy tale is true” and that they point toward a new way of explaining and understanding the world and one’s own self. In one of the episodes in this book, an old man believes so completely ...
Other books explaining and defending Christianity includeMiracles: A Preliminary Study(1947),Reflections on the Psalms(1958), andThe Four Loves(1960). The posthumously publishedLetters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer(1964), in which Lewis returned to the epistolary form, is a series of letters to ...
Keynes’s reputation at Cambridge was quite different. He was esteemed as the most brilliant student of Marshall and fellow economistA.C. Pigou, authors of large definitive works explaining how competitive markets functioned, how businesses operated, and how individuals spent their incomes. After publi...
Written by the same author as the data visualization blog Information is Beautiful, "Knowledge is Beautiful” uses visuals to reveal the world. The book features infographics to present complex information, showing connections and relationships in visual displays. The book traverses data from art to...
Rob Smith has written a magnificently lucid book explaining how we got here and showing what algorithms are and what they are not. Carefully delineating how they were developed, and what assumptions and prejudices underlie them, he has written a timely and engaging book for the interested layman...
From discussing the experience of living and working in space to explaining how astronauts train and adapt (适应) to their new environment, she talks about her journey through space. Counting on Katherine This encouraging book tells the story of Katherine Johnson who has a gift for math. She ...
With a distribution from Canada and Greenland across to Scandinavia and Russia the Snowy Owl is widespread, but interestingly it is clear that much less is known about the birds present on the west side of the Atlantic compared to the east side. The authors start by explaining the basic fact...