Celebrate your all-out geekery with your very own journal! Did you finally figure out that calculation for String Theory? How did you feel about the Doctor`s latest regeneration? What superpower would you most love to have? Did you find a hack in the latest video game? You can put it all in one place! &, if you`re not sure what to write in your Nerd Journal, Julie Huffman & Jenavieve Brown have peppered this 144-page, hardcover with some of the greatest science facts, jokes, & more!
- Why can`t you trust atoms? They make up everything
- At room temperature, there are only two liquid elements. These are bromine & mercury.
- The only letter in the English alphabet not used on the periodic table is J. The letter q only appears in the symbol for the placeholder name for element 114, ununquadium, which has the symbol Uuq. When element 114 is officially discovered, it will be given a new name. So think about your passions, obsessions, brainstorms, & inventions. Write them down, because some day, we might find your Nerd Journal & put it in a museum, smarty pants!


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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away... When the parents of Milo & Lina Graf are abducted by agents of the evil Empire, the children must undertake a perilous journey across the unknown reaches of Wild Space to rescue them
- & to discover hope for the future. In this second full-length adventure, Milo & Lina trace their latest clue to a remote jungle world
- where a terrifying beast lies in wait... Look out for the other titles in this series: The Snare & The Escape.

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” The first time I saw them, I thought they were angels.” The baby is sick. Mom & Dad are sad. & all Steve has to do is say, ” Yes” to fix everything. But yes is a powerful word. It is also a dangerous one. & once it is uttered, can it be taken back? Treading the thin line between dreams & reality, Steve is stuck in a nightmare he can`t wake up from & that nobody else understands. & all the while, the wasps` nest is growing, & the `angel` keeps visiting Steve in the night. A haunting coming of age story that will hold you captive, The Nest is lyrical, surreal & one of the most moving stories you`ll read this year. ...

” The first time I saw them, I thought they were angels.” The baby is sick. Mom & Dad are sad. & all Steve has to do is say, ” Yes” to fix everything. But yes is a powerful word. It is also a dangerous one. & once it is uttered, can it be taken back? Treading the thin line between dreams & reality, Steve is stuck in a nightmare he can`t wake up from & that nobody else understands. & all the while, the wasps` nest is growing, & the `angel` keeps visiting Steve in the night. A haunting coming of age story that will hold you captive, The Nest is lyrical, surreal & one of the most moving stories you`ll read this year. ...

With 6000km of navigable waterways, the Netherlands offers one of the most extensive cruising guides to the Netherlands. The guide is a comprehensive user's guide to the whole network, covering all the mast-up routes & excluding only those waterways which offer less than 3.5m bridge height. Navigational details are provided for each waterway; comprising

Dimensions & obstacles to be expected; included service arrangements for bridges & locks. This is followed by details of over 300 stopping places across all 12 provinces; some of which are large or popular harbours, & others which are well off the beaten track. Comments on significant features are expanded for nearly 100 'principal' venues where more details on things to do & see are provided, as well as information on practical facilities ashore & the authors' restaurant tips. The guide is designed to be of interest to all crew members, not just the skipper or navigator, to establish not only how to approach a place but also what to do or see, & whether it will be of interest on arrival. Easy to browse, the book's illustrationshave been selected to give a flavour of this water-loving country as well as to prepare the visiting yachtsman, whether under power or sail.

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In this book Mr. Sacheverell Sitwell, looking at the Netherlands through his own eyes rather than through those of his many predecessors, has produced a pic-ture of the country which may appear un-orthodox only because of its unfamiliarity. In his belief Holl&, as a country, is as individual as Russia or as Spain, & there is a great deal more to be seen & enjoyed in it than the picture galleries, windmills, canals, flower markets & bare empty churches which seem to have impressed previous writers. It has been Mr. Sitwell`s endeavour to get out of the museums & into the open-air-out of the museums &, likewise, away from the great cities (although not without having entered some of the old & forgotten patrician houses of The Hague & Amsterdam). In this way the author has discovered a new & beautiful Holland in which the architecture of the eighteenth century, the strange villages & costumes of Friesl&, or the art of a Daniel Marot & a Cornelis Troost are taken as truly representative of this at once phlegmatic & poetical people & the man-made wonders of their largely artificial country. The result is a book both to awaken curiosity &, so far as a book may do so, to satisfy it-more especially as the very numerous photographs go side by side with the text & illustrate it at almost every point. If the traditionally pic-turesque & quaint appear as seldom among these illustrations as they do in the text the intelligent reader is presented all the more with a picture of a country whose proximity & unfamiliarity will form added inducements to a visit. ...

The world is about to change... In the months leading up to 9/11 the intelligence community is on high alert for terrorist threats. Former army officer Anthony Taverner is recruited by the Secret Intelligence Service for an apparently straightforward mission: to destroy a cache of the CIA's precious Stinger missiles in Taliban-held Afghanistan. But in the kaleidoscopic world of spying, nothing is what it seems. & as the struggle to avert a catastrophe begins, Taverner's allegiance is to an authority he must keep secret from even his closest allies. ...

The world is about to change... In the months leading up to 9/11 the intelligence community is on high alert for terrorist threats. Former army officer Anthony Taverner is recruited by the Secret Intelligence Service for an apparently straightforward mission: to destroy a cache of the CIA`s precious Stinger missiles in Taliban-held Afghanistan. But in the kaleidoscopic world of spying, nothing is what it seems. & as the struggle to avert a catastrophe begins, Taverner`s allegiance is to an authority he must keep secret from even his closest allies... ...

For a decade ” National Geographic Adventure” magazine has been committed to telling great stories about the outdoors & adventure travel. To celebrate its 10th anniversary, editor-in-chief John Rasmus & staff assemble 30 of the best articles reported from the ends of the earth in an unbeatable anthology. More than great travel writing, gripping narratives & excellent reportage, the stories collected here explore our world & its inhabitants & ask important questions about travel in the 21st century. The list of contributors is impressive, with topics ranging from the new high-speed railway to Tibet, angry elephants in India, & visiting a Shaman in Peru. Sebastian Junger chronicles his experiences with the great Pashtun fighter Amed Shah Massoud, who defeated the Russians in Afghanistan & liberated Kabul from the Taliban; David Quammen waxes lyric & geologic while kayaking down the Grand Canyon with old friends shortly after 9/11; legendary climber Reinhold Messner writes about his encounter with a yeti; Michael Finkel crosses the Sahara & finds `13 ways of looking at a void`; & Tim Cahill retraces legs of Lewis & Clark`s westward journey. This is a vivid collection for adventurers
- armchair or otherwise.
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Less than twenty-four months after the hope-filled Arab uprising, the popular movement had morphed into a dystopia of resurgent dictators, failed states, & civil wars. Egypt`s epochal transition to democracy ended in a violent military coup. Yemen & Libya collapsed into civil war, while Bahrain erupted in smothering sectarian repression. Syria proved the greatest victim of all, ripped apart by internationally fueled insurgencies & an externally supported, bloody-minded regime. Amidst the chaos, a virulently militant group declared an Islamic State, seizing vast territories & inspiring terrorism across the globe. What happened? The New Arab Wars is a profound illumination of the causes of this nightmare. It details the costs of the poor choices made by regional actors, delivers a scathing analysis of Western misreadings of the conflict, & condemns international interference that has stoked the violence. Informed by commentators & analysts from the Arab world, Marc Lynch`s narrative of a vital region`s collapse is both wildly dramatic & likely to prove definitive. Most important, he shows that the region`s upheavals have only just begun--and that the hopes of Arab regimes & Western policy makers to retreat to old habits of authoritarian stability are doomed to fail. ...