This book shows you how to investigate the world around you and discover science in action. Specially chosen activities include testing your eyes and making electricity, bending light and weather watching.

It's not just who you are—it's what you do. Are you at the top of your game—or still trying to get there? Take your cues from the short, powerful 9 Things Successful People Do Differently, where the strategies and goals of the world’s most successful people are on display—backed by research that shows exactly what has the biggest impact on performance. Here’s a hint: accomplished people reach their goals because of what they do, not just who they are. Readers have called this “a gem of a book.” Get ready to accomplish your goals at last.

Describes what people do in different jobs, such as pilots, athletes, and hairdressers; what different places look like, from factories, to schools, to theaters; and how things are made, including cars, clay pots, and buildings. Suggested level: junior.

“Well-written and fascinating . . . this is the kind of book you want everyone to read.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer “Curiosity, awareness, attention,” Laurence Gonzales writes. “Those are the tools of our everyday survival. . . . We all must be scientists at heart or be victims of forces that we don’t understand.” In this fascinating account, Gonzales turns his talent for gripping narrative, knowledge of the way our minds and bodies work, and bottomless curiosity about the world to the topic of how we can best use the blessings of evolution to overcome the hazards of everyday life. Everyday Survival will teach you to make the right choices for our complex, dangerous, and quickly changing world—whether you are climbing a mountain or the corporate ladder.

An Oprah Editor's Pick and NPR Best Book of the Year From the author of the award-winning and word-of-mouth sensation Our Endless Numbered Days comes an exhilarating literary mystery that will keep readers guessing until the final page. Ingrid Coleman writes letters to her husband, Gil, about the truth of their marriage, but instead of giving them to him, she hides them in the thousands of books he has collected over the years. When Ingrid has written her final letter she disappears from a Dorset beach, leaving behind her beautiful but dilapidated house by the sea, her husband, and her two daughters, Flora and Nan. Twelve years later, Gil thinks he sees Ingrid from a bookshop window, but he’s getting older and this unlikely sighting is chalked up to senility. Flora, who has never believed her mother drowned, returns home to care for her father and to try to finally discover what happened to Ingrid. But what Flora doesn’t realize is that the answers to her questions are hidden in the books that surround her. Scandalous and whip-smart, Swimming Lessons holds the Coleman family up to the light, exposing the mysterious truths of a passionate and troubled marriage.

A typical sweet romance which is soon turned upside down by a series of riddles and revelations. Through this rough journey, Everly Gardner, our protagonist, experiences and witnesses the different kinds of love, and what people can do for it. It is a fun, reassuring and light story, with a touch of suspense to keep you at the edge of your seats!

Have you ever been at work and someone did something that pissed you off? Like being in a meeting and it’s always that one person who thinks they are smarter than everyone, but they really aren’t, annoying the heck out of everyone with their irrelevant questions? Or what about the person who uses the bathroom but does not wash their hands after they are done! They want to shake everybody’s hands, but they didn’t care enough to run those hands through soap and water! Nasty! And the beggar, you want a quarter, you want a dollar, you want a cigarette, heck, you even want a freaking bite of my sandwich—the sandwich that I made with my time and energy! The things people do that piss you off at work!

Have you, or has anyone you know, ever suffered from stupidity? From Dr. Larry, the Internationally Renowned Psychotherapist, Self-Righteous Occupier of the Moral High Ground, and All-Around Better Person than You, comes 563 Stupid Things People Do to Mess Up Their Lives. Dr. Larry's previous books, such as You Can't Spell Stupid Without U and I and Why Mediocre Things Happen to Mediocre People, have changed the lives of millions of intelligence-challenged individuals all over the world. So if you're interested in hearing a perfect stranger explain to you how stupid and useless you really are, you'll love Dr. Larry's latest collection of condescending wisdom. For example, don't do the following: Stupid Thing #50: Attempt the Vulcan mind meld. If you don't know what you're doing, this can lead to permanent melding. Stupid Thing #228: Accentuate the positive. Rather than accentuate the positive or eliminate the negative, I'd recommend messing around with Mr. In-Between. Stupid Thing #44: Send in the clowns. I can think of no situation that would be improved by sending in the clowns.

IN SEARCH OF AN ORGASM - The Wild and Crazy Things People do to Achieve One... At 64 Horatio contacted prostate cancer, and with a loving and caring wife, Natasha, he survived the cancer, through surgery, but was faced with the dreaded ED Aftermath... Neither willing to give up on the Pleasures and Joy they both shared, started on an epic journey to find a solution to 'get it up!' This is their Story; Educational, Entertaining, Informative, Raw, Unapologetic and Brutally Honest... What Wild & Crazy Things People Do To Achieve An Orgasm...? Pornography? Rape? Incest? Bestiality? Fornication? Adultery? Homosexuality? Heterosexuality? Peeping?