Download or read book The Slowest Book Ever written by April Pulley Sayre and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a S-L-O-W book. Do not read it while surfing, water skiing, or running to escape giant weasels..." April Pulley Sayre's wry, quirky storytelling tone shines from the warning on the first page right through to the glossary at the end. In between, readers will explore an astounding variety of information about all things slow—in nature, geology, art, outer space, etc. Throughout, The SLOWEST Book EVER playfully encourages readers to slow down and savor everything. As Sayre shows: "If you think slowly enough, the entire world is amazing." This innovative nonfiction work is a treasure trove of information that begs for multiple readings.

Download or read book The Slowest Book Ever written by April Pulley Sayre and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a S-L-O-W book. Do not read it while surfing, water skiing, or running to escape giant weasels..." April Pulley Sayre's wry, quirky storytelling tone shines from the warning on the first page right through to the glossary at the end. In between, readers will explore an astounding variety of information about all things slow—in nature, geology, art, outer space, etc. Throughout, The SLOWEST Book EVER playfully encourages readers to slow down and savor everything. As Sayre shows: "If you think slowly enough, the entire world is amazing." This innovative nonfiction work is a treasure trove of information that begs for multiple readings.

Download or read book Fastest and Slowest written by Camilla De la Bédoyère and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find out about the tallest, smallest, weakest, slowest and smartest and most interesting animals on the planet. Ideal for young animal lovers, this series is packed with fun facts and close-up photographs.

Download or read book The Clock Of The Long Now written by Stewart Brand and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the designing and building of the Clock of the Long Now as a framework, this is a book about the practical use of long time perspective: how to get it, how to use it, how to keep it in and out of sight. Here are the central questions it inspires: How do we make long-term thinking automatic and common instead of difficult and rare? Discipline in thought allows freedom. One needs the space and reliability to predict continuity to have the confidence not to be afraid of revolutions Taking the time to think of the future is more essential now than ever, as culture accelerates beyond its ability to be measured Probable things are vastly outnumbered by countless near-impossible eventualities. Reality is statistically forced to be extraordinary; fiction is not allowed this freedom This is a potent book that combines the chronicling of fantastic technology with equally visionary philosophical inquiry.

Download or read book Nona the Ninth written by Tamsyn Muir and published by Tordotcom. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tamsyn Muir's New York Times and USA Today bestselling Locked Tomb Series continues with Nona ...the Ninth? A Finalist for the Hugo and Locus Awards! An Indie Next Pick! The Locked Tomb is a 2023 Hugo Finalist for Best Series! “You will love Nona, and Nona loves you.” —Alix E. Harrow “Unlike anything I've ever read.” —V.E. Schwab on Gideon the Ninth “Deft, tense and atmospheric, compellingly immersive and wildly original.” —The New York Times on Gideon the Ninth Her city is under siege. The zombies are coming back. And all Nona wants is a birthday party. In many ways, Nona is like other people. She lives with her family, has a job at her local school, and loves walks on the beach and meeting new dogs. But Nona's not like other people. Six months ago she woke up in a stranger's body, and she's afraid she might have to give it back. The whole city is falling to pieces. A monstrous blue sphere hangs on the horizon, ready to tear the planet apart. Blood of Eden forces have surrounded the last Cohort facility and wait for the Emperor Undying to come calling. Their leaders want Nona to be the weapon that will save them from the Nine Houses. Nona would prefer to live an ordinary life with the people she loves, with Pyrrha and Camilla and Palamedes, but she also knows that nothing lasts forever. And each night, Nona dreams of a woman with a skull-painted face... At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book Reptiles Wild World Big and Small Animals written by Brenna Maloney and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2023-03-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you ever wonder which animals are the biggest... and the smallest? Reptiles can be found in all shapes and sizes. Did you know a nano-chameleon is small enough to fit on a fingernail? Or, that the saltwater crocodile can grow to be 20 feet long? What do these animals look like and where do they live? Look inside to discover which of the ten reptiles in this book are very small and which ones are really big! ABOUT THE SERIES: Kids can’t get enough animal facts! Starting with the smallest animal in each group — amphibians, birds, fish, mammals, and reptiles — readers will want to read to the end as the ten animals listed get bigger and bigger. All the books in this brand-new series brim with colorful photographs and fascinating facts about the featured animals ́ body, diet, and habitat. Short blocks of text entertain and explain why some animals are very small while others are really big!

Download or read book The RecordSetter Book of World Records written by Corey Henderson and published by Workman Publishing Company. This book was released on 2011-12-05 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of the nuttiness and obsessives in all of us, RecordSetter is the new world record– setting phenomenon, a website that believes everyone can be the world’s best at something—and where 80,000 people a month come to prove it, or just enjoy watching. Corey Henderson and Dan Rollman, the creators of RecordSetter, are two entrepreneurs obsessed by world records who appear regularly on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and host events in cities around the country. The RecordSetter Book of World Records captures all the exuberance, energy, and quirky good humor of the records and record-setters. Here are more than 300 of the longest, loudest, slowest, weirdest, coolest, and most-difficult-to-break world records. There are Food & Drink Records. Sports & Games Records. Records set by (not-so) average Joes, and records set by celebrities (Most Bunnies Snuggled in a Hammock by Cameron Diaz).

Download or read book Biggest Strongest Fastest written by Steve Jenkins and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1997-08-25 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An informative introduction to the "world records" held by fourteen members of the animal kingdom. Each spread portrays an animal that is the largest, slowest, longest lived. Readers can see the animal's size in relation to something familiar.

Download or read book Seagulls Soar written by April Pulley Sayre and published by Thinkingdom. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning author April Pulley Sayre explores everyone's favorite impertinent birds--seagulls--examining their intelligence, behavior, and surprisingly widespread habitat in this STEAM nonfiction picture book. Did you know that seagulls sometimes live far from the sea--near a lake or farm, or even in a desert? Or that they are omnivores, eating everything from fish and clams, to grasshoppers and mice, and even to blueberries? Or that they dance? These birds are full of surprises! Join April Pulley Sayre as she poetically describes the curious behaviors and wide-ranging habitats of one of the most graceful birds to soar in the sky.

Download or read book Finished Business written by Ray Didinger and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-26 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The memoirs of Philadelphia sportswriter Ray Didinger, including his time covering the Eagles, Flyers, 76ers, and Phillies"--

Download or read book Something to Talk About written by Meryl Wilsner and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A showrunner and her assistant give the world something to talk about when they accidentally fuel a ridiculous rumor in this debut romance. Hollywood powerhouse Jo is photographed making her assistant Emma laugh on the red carpet, and just like that, the tabloids declare them a couple. The so-called scandal couldn't come at a worse time—threatening Emma's promotion and Jo's new movie. As the gossip spreads, it starts to affect all areas of their lives. Paparazzi are following them outside the office, coworkers are treating them differently, and a “source” is feeding information to the media. But their only comment is “no comment”. With the launch of Jo’s film project fast approaching, the two women begin to spend even more time together, getting along famously. Emma seems to have a sixth sense for knowing what Jo needs. And Jo, known for being aloof and outwardly cold, opens up to Emma in a way neither of them expects. They begin to realize the rumor might not be so off base after all…but is acting on the spark between them worth fanning the gossip flames?

Download or read book Thinking Fast and Slow written by Daniel Kahneman and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Major New York Times Bestseller *More than 2.6 million copies sold *One of The New York Times Book Review's ten best books of the year *Selected by The Wall Street Journal as one of the best nonfiction books of the year *Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient *Daniel Kahneman's work with Amos Tversky is the subject of Michael Lewis's best-selling The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds In his mega bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, world-famous psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning our next vacation—each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems shape our judgments and decisions. Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives—and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble. Topping bestseller lists for almost ten years, Thinking, Fast and Slow is a contemporary classic, an essential book that has changed the lives of millions of readers.

Download or read book A Walk in the Words written by Hudson Talbott and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of a Schneider Family Honor! “A beautifully rendered and deeply inspiring book for everyone who has ever read slowly—myself included! Hudson shows us the beauty and magic that can come from taking our time. Brilliant.”—Jacqueline Woodson Hudson Talbott's inspiring story vividly reveals the challenges--and ultimately the rewards--of being a non-mainstream kind of learner. When Hudson Talbott was a little boy, he loved drawing, and it came naturally to him. But reading? No way! One at a time, words weren't a problem, but long sentences were a struggle. As his friends moved on to thicker books, he kept his slow reading a secret. But that got harder every year. He felt alone, lost, and afraid in a world of too many words. Fortunately, his love of stories wouldn't let him give up. He started giving himself permission to read at his own pace, using the words he knew as stepping-stones to help draw him into a story. And he found he wasn't so alone--in fact, lots of brilliant people were slow readers, too. Learning to accept the fact that everyone does things in their own unique way, and that was okay, freed him up and ultimately helped Hudson thrive and become the fabulous storyteller he is today.

Download or read book Kendi the Slowest Cheetah written by Joshua Bali and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kendi is the slowest cheetah in the land. Teased and picked on by his brothers and unable to fit in with other animals only leaves him more discouraged and convinced he can do nothing right. When his mother is taken by poachers, will Kendi find the strength and courage to overcome his doubts and rescue her?

Download or read book One Last Read written by Ray Didinger and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a career that has spanned over thirty five years, Ray Didinger has seen and written about every sport, team, and athlete that has made a mark in American and the world. In this collection of profiles, articles, and columns from his days in the Bulletin, the Daily News and through his current life on television and film, Ray Didinger takes his readers to the major moments and events that have measure the life of sports in Philadelphia, this country, and the world. From Didinger's earliest days covering the Eagles, to the highs when Philadelphia was a city of champions (and the lows in between), One Last Read is an absorbing journey through the education of a writer and the love this city has always had with sports. Included in this collection or profiles of athletes, essays on professional wrestling, opinion pieces on the Phillies, the Sixers, the Flyers, and of course the Eagles. Didinger's introduction gives the reader the story of his professional life, how he became a beat writer, a columnist, and eventually a producer for NFL Films.One Last Read is a treasure trove of stories for every fan of Philadelphia sports, and a snapshot of a city that lives and dies by its teams. More than anything, it is also a representation of some of the most brilliant writing from one of the finest sportswriters Philadelphia has every produced. If you lived through the moments Didinger describes in his essays, you will relive them with intensity; if you are too young to remember, Didinger will take you through the triumphs, follies, and tragedies of Philadelphia and American sports with the mastery of a great storyteller.

Download or read book Happy Sloth Day written by April Pulley Sayre and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a stunning sloth’s-eye view of the world in this beautiful and informative photographic nonfiction picture book from award-winning author and photographer April Pulley Sayre. Come meet sloths in the rainforest canopy where these slow, gentle creatures live and see what they eat, how they hide from predators, and much more. Young readers will also learn about some of the other creatures that share this interconnected and fragile tropical forest ecosystem. With gorgeous photographs, a text that’s perfect for reading aloud, info-packed side bars, and detailed end matter, this book will captivate sloth enthusiasts of all ages!

Download or read book World Record Animals written by Oldřich Růzička and published by Albatros Media. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superheroes, record holders, and fascinating facts from the animal kingdom! Welcome to our animal Olympics! The animal world has almost infinite variety. Many of its creatures have strengths similar to superheroes. The world's fastest animals can move at the speed of a race car; one small creature has the strength of a trained weightlifter; the world's strongest animal can lift many times its own weight; and the longest-lived animal survives for several hundred years. Fastest, slowest, strongest, largest, smallest, longest living, furthest jumping, most dangerous, most beautiful, ugliest, deepest diving--these and many other record holders from the animal kingdom fill this book with unexpected, fascinating facts.