Ebooks Review

Science Fiction: A Very Short Introduction /by David Seed. Frankenstein, The Time Machine, Star Trek, Dune, 1984, Blade Runner--science fiction has been explained as a combination of romance, science, and prophecy; as a genre based on an imagined alternative to the reader's environment; and as ... Read more »

Cognitive Approaches to Tense, Aspect, and Epistemic Modality /by Adeline Patard and Dr. Frank Brisard. This volume addresses problems of semantics regarding the analysis of tense and aspect (TA) markers in a variety of languages, including Arabic, Croatian, English, French, German, Russian, Thai, and Turkish. Its main i ... Read more »

Berlin Psychoanalytic: Psychoanalysis and Culture in Weimar Republic Germany and Beyond /by Veronika Fuechtner. One hundred years after the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute was established, this book recovers the cultural and intellectual history connected to this vibrant organization and places ... Read more »

Eyewitness Travel Guides: Mandarin Chinese Visual Phrase /by DK Publishing. This book provides all the key words and phrases you are likely to need in everyday situations. It is grouped into themes, and key phrases are broken down into short sections, to help you build a wide variety of s ... Read more »

Love: A History /by Simon May. Love—unconditional, selfless, unchanging, sincere, and totally accepting—is worshipped today as the West's only universal religion. To challenge it is one of our few remaining taboos. In this pathbreaking and superbly written book, philosopher Simon ... Read more »

The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life /by Robert Trivers. Whether it’s in a cockpit at takeoff or the planning of an offensive war, a romantic relationship or a dispute at the office, there are many opportunities to lie and self-deceive—b ... Read more »

Native Sources of Japanese Industrialization, 1750-1920 /by Thomas C. Smith. Native Sources is a collection of seminal essays on the demographic, economic, and social history of Tokugawa and modern Japan by one of the most eminent historians of Japan in this country. Gathered together for the first time ... Read more »

No Excuses!: The Power of Self-Discipline /by Brian Tracy. Most people think success comes from good luck or enormous talent, but many successful people achieve their accomplishments in a simpler way: through self-discipline. No Excuses! shows you how you can achieve success in all three major areas of y ... Read more »

Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn /by Cathy N. Davidson. When Cathy Davidson and Duke University gave free iPods to the freshman class in 2003, critics said they were wasting their money. Yet when students in practically every discipline in ... Read more »

Culture Shock! China: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette /by Angie Eagan and Rebecca Weiner. The CultureShock! series is a dynamic and indispensable range of guides for those travellers who are looking to truly understand the countries they are visiting. Each title explains the customs, traditions, social a ... Read more »

The Buried Foundation of the Gilgamesh Epic /by Daniel E. Flemming and Sarah J. Milstein . The Akkadian Gilgamesh Epic, perhaps the most famous of Mesopotamian literature, has been considered the artistry of one author inspired by Sumerian tales. Specialists have assumed that all the earliest ev ... Read more »

Optimal High-Throughput Screening: Practical Experimental Design and Data Analysis for Genome-Scale RNAi Research /by Xiaohua Douglas Zhang. This concise, self-contained, and cohesive book focuses on commonly used and recently developed methods for designing and anal ... Read more »

Fourth Gospel in First-Century Media Culture /by Anthony Le Donne and Tom Thatcher. This book examines the Fourth Gospel in reference to First-Century media culture, including issues of issues of orality, aurality and performance. Werner Kelber's "The Oral and the Written Gospe ... Read more »

Endgame: The End of the Debt Supercycle and How It Changes Everything /by John Mauldin and Jonathan Tepper. Greece isn't the only country drowning in debt. The Debt Supercycle—when the easily managed, decades-long growth of debt results in a massive sovereign debt and cr ... Read more »

You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself /by David McRaney. You believe you are a rational, logical being who sees the world as it really is, but journalist David McRaney is here to tell you th ... Read more »