Alan - Libros y biografía

Alan M. Turing war der erste, der überhaupt die Frage stellte, ob Maschinen denken können. Seine Überlegungen dazu stießen die Tür für das Zeitalter moderner Computer auf. Seine bahnbrechende Arbeit,...

In his previous book, The Attention Revolution, bestselling author Alan Wallace guided readers through the stages of shamatha, a meditation for focusing the mind. In Stilling the Mind, he uses the wisdom...

A ferocious novel, Caged Warrior is like a great fight movie, a tour-de-force of relentless conflict, but one that is leavened with rich characters and meaningful and loving relationships. McCutcheon...

After placing teenage mixed martial arts phenom McCutcheon Daniels and his mother and sister in the Witness Relocation Program,the FBI comes to realize they have a unique asset on their hands. Recruited...

Since 1899, the significant role Australian gunners have played in supporting the Australian Military Forces' campaigns has been well-documented. They have gallantly and whole-heartedly supported Australian,...

Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Inc., was truly one of this generation’s most innovative and forward-thinking entrepreneurs. Apple, under his vision and direction, changed the way people interact with each other...

From the nation's most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer comes a "dazzling and stimulating" exploration of how the creation of the ten commandments provides the origins to today's law (Library Journal)....

From Alan E. Kazdin, a Yale University psychology and child psychiatry professor, The Kazdin Method for Parenting the Defiant Child is a lifesaving handbook for parents of children who are occasionally,...

Everyone's interested in becoming more green these days—why should kids miss out on the fun? By cleverly combining creativity with eco-awareness, this timely book encourages children aged 7-14 to put...

Bob Benedict is one of the few scientists able to make contact with the invisible, dangerous world of The Thresholders and return - sane! For years he has tried to transport - and receive - matter by...

Billy Gimp was a bladerunner . . . one of the shadowy procurers of illegal medical supplies for the rapidly expanding, nightmare world of the medical black market. Doc was a skilled surgeon at a government-operated...

This fast-moving tale of the far future deals with the quest of the Hunter brothers for a mysterious bonanza located somewhere in the asteroid belt. The dangers and details of asteroid mining are carefully...

Wilderness Patrol fficer Pamela Tate, scouting in the mountains of Washington, sees and touches a ground squirrel in the dusty path, blood trickling from its mouth. Forty-eight hours later she lies dead...

The crew of the starship Ganymede were afraid their chief was losing his mind.Commander Walter Fox had explored and opened up more colony-worlds than any other man alive - yet it was rumored that he still...

“We have watched your plants for millennia.”The creature that spoke was barely three feet tall, with wrinkled gray skin and monstrous eyes . . .“Yours is a war of children. Only children would slaughter...

The mysterious, highly influential hidden world of Yale’s secret societies is revealed in a definitive and scholarly history.Secret societies have fundamentally shaped America’s cultural and political...

"Mean Girls meets Revenge of the Nerds, middle-school style, in a novel that peeks into the lives of an offbeat cast of 13-year-olds." --Publishers Weekly Maureen, a thirteen-year-old self-proclaimed...

Alan Smith’s Allenby’s Gunners tells the story of artillery in the highly successful World War I Sinai and Palestine campaigns. Following Gallipoli and the reconstitution of the AIF, a shortage of Australian...

As featured in The Wall Street Journal! One of Business Insider’s “5 Best Leadership Books I Read This Year” for 2022! A look back at entrepreneurial growth and venture capital in the last half century...

Le tome IV des Mystères de la procession de Lille contient l’édition critique de vingt-et-un mystères inspirés du Nouveau Testament. Ces pièces dramatiques sont connues par un manuscrit unique conservé...

Le tome V des Mystères de la procession de Lille, le dernier de la série, contient l’édition critique de huit mystères inspirés des légendes romaines et chrétiennes. Ces pièces dramatiques sont connues...

Le tome II des Mystères de la procession de Lille contient l’édition critique de seize pièces dramatiques inspirées de l’Ancien Testament. Ces mystères sont connus par un manuscrit unique conservé à la...

Le Moby Dick du western.Un hymne à la persévérance et à la loyauté familiale.Au lendemain de la guerre de Sécession, au Texas. Alors qu'ils rentrent d'une expédition contre des voleurs de bétail, Amos...

Comment est né le monde moderne ? Pourquoi l’Europe s’est-elle imposée comme le centre de la planète au XIXe siècle ? Cette domination est-elle le résultat d’une « culture » particulière qui serait...

Retrouvez tout l'univers Star Wars "légendes" chez 12-21, l'éditeur numérique ! La République connaît des heures sombres. Pour devancer des projets nuisibles de sécession, elle compte sur le ralliement...

« Puis elle passa des bas de chevreau glacé qui enserrèrent ses merveilleuses jambes jusqu'au haut des cuisses et elle chaussa d'adorables souliers vernis à talons hauts et par coquetterie passa à ses...

Miscreations are things that should not exist, but do. An event happens that transforms an entity into something so amazingly good or so horribly evil that you can't help but be fascinated by its existence.Scribings,...

For the past five years, the Greater Portland Scribists writing group has been independently publishing their fiction in annual anthologies. This Omnibus edition combines almost every story we've published....

The Terran Shift Anthology, Volume 1 is the first collection of stories set exclusively in the Terran Shift universe. The collection contains seven science fiction stories from five authors set in all...

Journey into lands long lost with the Greater Portland Scribists. Delve into an Egyptian pyramid in a peculiar location. See what a Viking boy does when handed the executioner's ax. Find out why sometimes...