Мэтью Инман3.3 "All runners wonder, at some point or another, why we do what we do. Mr. Inman's explanation is the best I've ever seen. And the funniest. Because he is clinically insane."
-Mark Remy, editor at large, Runner's World, author of The Runner's Rule Book
"He runs. He sweats. He heaves. He hates it. He loves it. He runs so hard his toenails fall off. He asks himself, why? Why do I do this? Here, gorgeously, bravely, hilariously, is Matt's deeply honest answer."
-Robert Krulwich, NPR
"Finally! A voice that sings with the Blerches of angels!"
-Christopher McDougall, author of Born to Run
This is not just a book about running. It's a book about cupcakes. It's a book about suffering.
It's a book about gluttony, vanity, bliss, electrical storms, ranch dressing, and Godzilla. It's a book about all the terrible and wonderful reasons we wake up each day and propel our bodies through rain, shine, heaven, and hell.
From #1 New York Times best-selling author, Matthew Inman, AKA The Oatmeal, comes this hilarious, beautiful, poignant collection of comics and stories about running, eating, and one cartoonist's reasons for jogging across mountains until his toenails fall off.
Containing over 70 pages of never-before-seen material, including "A Lazy Cartoonist's Guide to Becoming a Runner" and "The Blerch's Guide to Dieting," this book also comes with Blerch race stickers.
Кэти Хини4.0 "I've been single for my entire life. Not one boyfriend. Not one short-term dating situation. Not one person with whom I regularly hung out and kissed on the face."
So begins Katie Heaney's memoir of her years spent looking for love, but never quite finding it. By age 25, equipped with a college degree, a load of friends, and a happy family life, she still has never had a boyfriend... and she's barely even been on a second date.
Throughout this laugh-out-loud funny book, you will meet Katie's loyal group of girlfriends, including flirtatious and outgoing Rylee, the wild child to Katie's shrinking violet, as well as a whole roster of Katie's ill-fated crushes. And you will get to know Katie herself - a smart, modern heroine relaying truths about everything from the subtleties of a Facebook message exchange to the fact that "Everybody who works in a coffee shop is at least a little bit hot."
Funny, relatable, and inspiring, this is a memoir for anyone who has ever struggled to find love, but has also had a lot of fun in the process.
Б. Дж. Новак3.8 B.J. Novak's One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories is an endlessly entertaining, surprisingly sensitive, and startlingly original debut that signals the arrival of a brilliant new voice in American fiction.
A boy wins a $100,000 prize in a box of Frosted Flakes—only to discover that claiming the winnings might unravel his family. A woman sets out to seduce motivational speaker Tony Robbins—turning for help to the famed motivator himself. A new arrival in Heaven, overwhelmed with options, procrastinates over a long-ago promise to visit his grandmother. We meet Sophia, the first artificially intelligent being capable of love, who falls for a man who might not be ready for it himself; a vengeance-minded hare, obsessed with scoring a rematch against the tortoise who ruined his life; and post-college friends who try to figure out how to host an intervention in the era of Facebook.
Along the way, we learn why wearing a red T-shirt every day is the key to finding love, how February got its name, and why the stock market is sometimes just . . . down.
Finding inspiration in questions from the nature of perfection to the icing on carrot cake, One More Thing has at its heart the most human of phenomena: love, fear, hope, ambition, and the inner stirring for the one elusive element just that might make a person complete. Across a dazzling range of subjects, themes, tones, and narrative voices, the many pieces in this collection are like nothing else, but they have one thing in common: they share the playful humor, deep heart, sharp eye, inquisitive mind, and altogether electrifying spirit of a writer with a fierce devotion to the entertainment of the reader.
Эмма Чейз3.9 В четвертом сексуальном романе автора таких бестселлеров Нью-Йорк Таймс, как «Все запутано» и «Все закручено», Дрю и Кейт не могут дождаться, когда поженятся – если они выживут в предсвадебной гонке.
Большую часть моей жизни, я даже представить не мог, что когда-нибудь женюсь. Но Кейт сделала невозможное: она меня изменила. Думаю, мы все можем согласиться, что раньше я и так был классным парнем, но теперь я даже лучше.
Дорога к этому дню была не такой уж радужной. Были ошибки и непонимания, достойные греческой трагедии. Но Кейт и я преодолели это, благодаря нашей неуемной страсти, безграничному обожанию и бесконечной любви.
И все же, в прошлые выходные в Вегасе случилось кое-что неожиданное, что могло бы стать проблемой. Это было что-то вроде … моего выпускного экзамена.
Я знаю, о чем вы думаете – что ты натворил на этот раз? Расслабьтесь. Давайте не будете судить меня и призывать к кастрации, пока не услышите всю историю.
Держитесь покрепче, потому что вас ждет безумное путешествие. А вы ожидали меньшего?
Стефани Перл‑Макфи0.0 From New York Times best-selling author and popular blogger Stephanie Pearl-McPhee comes a new spin and a hilarious look at life, parenting, and, well, pants.
The Amazing Thing About the Way It Goes takes on the amazing in the ordinary in this side-splitting series of short commentaries. Pearl-McPhee turns her trademark wit and perspective to everything from creative discipline to a way you would never think about fixing your email situation. This book looks at everyday problems, and honestly, it won't do much to solve them, but at least you'll be laughing.
Джим Гаффиган0.0 Have you ever finished a meal that tasted horrible but not noticed until the last bite? Eaten in your car so you wouldn’t have to share with your children? Gotten hungry while watching a dog food commercial? Does the presence of green vegetables make you angry?
If you answered yes to any of the following questions, you are pretty pathetic, but you are not alone. Feast along with America’s favorite food comedian, bestselling author, and male supermodel Jim Gaffigan as he digs into his specialty: stuffing his face. Food: A Love Story is an in-depth, thoroughly uninformed look at everything from health food to things that people actually enjoy eating.
Тара Сивек0.0 Alternate cover edition of ASIN: B00J7XX83C.
Ava Gilmore has the perfect life. She’s surrounded by people who love her, she’s having sex on a regular basis and her Coach bag collection just grew by three. The problem? She’s expected to follow in her family’s footsteps at Seduction and Snacks, working with sex toys and baked goods.
Ava loves vibrators and cupcakes as much as the next person, she’d just rather play with them than sell them. With her shopping addiction reaching an all time high and her credit card bills piling up, Ava decides to put her obsession to good use and start a fashion blog. But she has one other problem - the guy she’s having sex with has a My Little Pony addiction.
While dealing with her family’s disappointment and confusion over her choices, she finds support in the unlikeliest of places – Tyler Branson. Tyler has slowly wormed his way into her bed, her a$$ and her heart and he refuses to leave. Tyler has his own family problems to deal with and for the first time ever, Ava finds herself feeling bad for the annoying, immature guy and chanting “Friendship is magic!” during the sex she’d swore to stop having with him.
Ava needs to get her life in order once and for all before she finds herself doing something she swore she would never do – fall in love with a Brony.
Дэниел О'брайен0.0 Make no mistake: Our founding fathers were more bandanas-and-muscles than powdered-wigs-and-tea.
As a prisoner of war, Andrew Jackson walked several miles barefoot across state lines while suffering from smallpox and a serious head wound received when he refused to polish the boots of the soldiers who had taken him captive. He was thirteen years old. A few decades later, he became the first popularly elected president and served the nation, pausing briefly only to beat a would-be assassin with a cane to within an inch of his life. Theodore Roosevelt had asthma, was blind in one eye, survived multiple gunshot wounds, had only one regret (that there were no wars to fight under his presidency), and was the first U.S. president to win the Medal of Honor, which he did after he died. Faced with the choice, George Washington actually preferred the sound of bullets whizzing by his head in battle over the sound of silence.
And now these men—these hallowed leaders of the free world—want to kick your ass.
Plenty of historians can tell you which president had the most effective economic strategies, and which president helped shape our current political parties, but can any of them tell you what to do if you encounter Chester A. Arthur in a bare-knuckled boxing fight? This book will teach you how to be better, stronger, faster, and more deadly than the most powerful (and craziest) men in history. You’re welcome.
Кирсти Даллас0.0 Goodreads Top 20 Comedy of 2014
Silver Medalist in Readers Favorite Awards 2015
RWDU15 Favourite Comedy
Was he a nude model? A stripper? An escort?
Blah, I had no idea what Decker Steele did for a living, but I'd figure it out. I was if anything tenacious when confronted with a mystery.
~ Andi
She was forbidden fruit, my friend without benefits.
Is that why my malfunctioning member wanted her so bad? Is that why I wanted her so bad?
I'd figure out the enigma that was Andi Jennings, and I'd have a damn good time while doing it.
~ Decker
Marina Keegan's star was on the rise when she graduated from Yale in May 2012. She had a play that was to be produced at the New York International Fringe Festival and a job waiting for her at the New Yorker. Tragically, five days after graduation, Marina died in a car crash. As her family, friends and classmates, deep in grief, joined to create a memorial service for Marina, her unforgettable last essay for the Yale Daily News, 'The Opposite of Loneliness', went viral, receiving more than 1.4 million hits. She had struck a chord. Even though she was just 22 when she died, Marina left behind a rich, expansive trove of prose that, like her title essay, captures the hope, uncertainty and possibility of her generation. The Opposite of Loneliness is an assemblage of Marina's essays and stories that articulates the universal struggle we all face as we work out what we aspire to be and how we can harness our talents to make an impact on the world.
Рэндалл Манро4.2 Эта книга — продолжение одного из самых знаменитых научно-популярных сайтов всех времен. Рэндалл Манро — инженер НАСА, ученый, художник и создатель невероятно популярного интернет—комикса xkcd.com — пытается найти серьезные ответы на самые невероятные вопросы, которые присылают ему посетители его сайта. Оказывается, о самых серьезных научных проблемах можно говорить легко и с большим юмором. Если вы любите науку, комиксы, Интернет и хорошую шутку — эта книга для вас.
Дженни Нордберг4.2 Их одевают и воспитывают как мужчин. Они - нерожденные сыновья, внуки и братья. Каждый в Афганистане знает их секрет, но никогда не говорит об этом вслух.
Ежедневно они бросают вызов шариатскому порядку. Бунтарки и одновременно узницы собственного тела, которое с каждым годом все больше выдает их секрет.
Их жизнь - воплощенная провокация. Их награда - свобода, которой они лишатся, как только наденут паранджу.
Roxane Gay4.1 Pink is my favorite color. I used to say my favorite color was black to be cool, but it is pink—all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink. I read Vogue, and I’m not doing it ironically, though it might seem that way. I once live-tweeted the September issue.
In these funny and insightful essays, Roxane Gay takes us through the journey of her evolution as a woman of color while also taking readers on a ride through culture of the last few years and commenting on the state of feminism today. The portrait that emerges is not only one of an incredibly insightful woman continually growing to understand herself and our society, but also one of our culture.
Bad Feminist is a sharp, funny, and spot-on look at the ways in which the culture we consume becomes who we are, and an inspiring call-to-arms of all the ways we still need to do better.
Митио Каку4.3 Прямое мысленное общение с компьютером, телекинез, имплантация новых навыков непосредственно в мозг, видеозапись образов, воспоминаний и снов, телепатия, аватары и суррогаты как помощники человечества, экзоскелеты, управляемые мыслью, и искусственный интеллект. Это все наше недалекое будущее. В ближайшие десятилетия мы научимся форсировать свой интеллект при помощи генной терапии, лекарств и магнитных приборов. Наука в этом направлении развивается стремительно. Изменится характер работы и общения в социальных сетях, процесс обучения и в целом человеческое развитие. Будут побеждены многие неизлечимые болезни, мы станем другими. Готов ли наш разум к будущему? Что там его ждет? На эти вопросы, опираясь на последние исследования в области нейробиологии и физики, отвечает Митио Каку, футуролог, популяризатор науки и автор научно-популярных бестселлеров.
Почему книга достойна прочтения
- Уникальная возможность - заглянуть в будущее!
- Невероятно сложные идеи по таким вопросам, как нанотехнологии, искусственный интеллект и космические путешествия, автор дает самым доступным для читателя языком… невозможно оторваться!
- Митио Каку - выдающийся ученый, один из создателей теории струн, получил особое признание во всем мире благодаря активной деятельности по популяризации теоретической физики и современных концепций об устройстве мироздания.
- Книги автора, в том числе такие бестселлеры, как "Физика невозможного" и "Физика будущего", переведены на десятки языков, а радио- и телепередачи слушают и смотрят на сотнях каналов.
In February 2013 I gave a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast. Standing a few feet from President Obama, I warned my fellow citizens of the dangers facing our country and called for a return to the principles that made America great.
Many Americans heard and responded, but our nation’s decline has continued. Today the danger is greater than ever before, and I have never shared a more urgent message than I do now. Our growing debt and deteriorating morals have driven us far from the founders’ intent. We’ve made very little progress in basic education. Obamacare threatens our health, liberty, and financial future. Media elitism and political correctness are out of control. Worst of all, we seem to have lost our ability to discuss important issues calmly and respectfully regardless of party affiliation or other differences. As a doctor rather than a politician, I care about what works, not whether someone has an (R) or a (D) after his or her name. We have to come together to solve our problems.
Knowing that the future of my grandchildren is in jeopardy because of reckless spending, godless government, and mean-spirited attempts to silence critics left me no choice but to write this book. I have endeavored to propose a road out of our decline, appealing to every American’s decency and common sense. If each of us sits back and expects someone else to take action, it will soon be too late. But with your help, I firmly believe that America may once again be “one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
Sincerely,
Элизабет Колберт4.2 Что отличает происходящее сейчас массовое вымирание от тех пяти, что Земля уже претерпела за последние 500 миллионов лет? Пятое, уничтожившее всех нептичьих динозавров, было вызвано падением астероида. Теперь, говорят ведущие ученые, мы, люди, - астероид. Штатный сотрудник журнала The New Yorker Элизабет Колберт переносит читателя в те места на планете, где признаки Шестого вымирания наиболее очевидны. Возможно ли его остановить? Тревожная, но совершенно необходимая всем нам книга.
Дэн Харрис3.7 Nightline anchor Dan Harris embarks on an unexpected, hilarious, and deeply skeptical odyssey through the strange worlds of spirituality and self-help, and discovers a way to get happier that is truly achievable. After having a nationally televised panic attack on Good Morning America, Dan Harris knew he had to make some changes. A lifelong nonbeliever, he found himself on a bizarre adventure, involving a disgraced pastor, a mysterious self-help guru, and a gaggle of brain scientists. Eventually, Harris realized that the source of his problems was the very thing he always thought was his greatest asset: the incessant, insatiable voice in his head, which had both propelled him through the ranks of a hyper-competitive business and also led him to make the profoundly stupid decisions that provoked his on-air freak-out.
We all have a voice in our head. It's what has us losing our temper unnecessarily, checking our email compulsively, eating when we're not hungry, and fixating on the past and the future at the expense of the present. Most of us would assume we're stuck with this voice - that there's nothing we can do to rein it in - but Harris stumbled upon an effective way to do just that. It's a far cry from the miracle cures peddled by the self-help swamis he met; instead, it's something he always assumed to be either impossible or useless: meditation. After learning about research that suggests meditation can do everything from lower your blood pressure to essentially rewire your brain, Harris took a deep dive into the underreported world of CEOs, scientists, and even marines who are now using it for increased calm, focus, and happiness.
10% HAPPIER takes readers on a ride from the outer reaches of neuroscience to the inner sanctum of network news to the bizarre fringes of America's spiritual scene, and leaves them with a takeaway that could actually change their lives.
Сэм Харрис4.1 Любительский русский перевод книги "Пробуждение. Путь к духовности без религии". Ее автор - Сэм Харрис, известный американский публицист, нейробиолог, популяризатор атеизма. Книга написана на основе кандидатской диссертации Харриса по нейробиологии и посвящена феномену так называемого «духовного опыта» или «духовного просветления». До последнего времени, состояния отсутствия «я», безусловной любви, слияния с миром брались объяснить лишь представители духовных течений от буддизма до New Age. Но чем на самом деле является и «как работает» просветление? Какие нейрофизиологические процессы лежат в основе медитации? Причем тут психофармакология? Что такие необычные состояния сознания могут нам сказать о его природе? Где в мозге находится чувство «я»? Эти вопросы, оперируя данными научных исследований и обращаясь к собственному многолетнему опыту практики медитации, рассматривает Харрис.
Rebecca Solnit3.5 In her essay “Men Explain Things to Me,” Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She wrote about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don’t, about why this arises, and how this aspect of the gender wars works, airing some of her own awful encounters.
Solnit emphasized that the ultimate problem is the silencing of women who have something to say, including those saying things like, “He’s trying to kill me!”
This book features that now-classic essay with six perfect complements, including an examination of the writer Virginia Woolf ’s embrace of mystery, of not knowing, of doubt and ambiguity, a highly original inquiry into marriage equality, and a terrifying survey of the scope of contemporary violence against women.
Атул Гаванде4.3 Атул Гаванде уверен, что одна из главных проблем современной медицины – нежелание признавать ограниченность своих возможностей и неумение говорить с пациентами о неизбежном – о смерти. А ведь смерть не просто трагическая случайность, а естественный и закономерный итог нашей жизни. К этому надо готовить, это надо объяснять и это надо знать. Каковы свойства памяти, мышц, кожи, костей? Почему мы стареем, как изнашивается организм, какие процессы запускает в нем неумолимый бег времени? Можно ли скрасить последние мгновения умирающих? Есть ли способы отсрочить неизбежное и всегда ли нужно к ним прибегать? Реальные истории, случаи из практики, последние открытия. Все то, что медицина должна была рассказать о смерти. Но она не умеет и боится.
Уолтер Айзексон4.3 После ставшей мировым бестселлером биографии Стива Джобса Айзексон написал о людях, благодаря которым появились компьютеры и интернет. Это история о разных этапах цифровой революции, о том, как добиваться того, чтобы мечты претворялись в жизнь. Начинается она с сороковых годов XIX века, с Ады Лавлейс, первой нащупавшей принципы компьютерного программирования. А дальше следует рассказ о тех, без кого не было бы ни компьютеров, ни интернета, — о Вэниваре Буше, Алане Тьюринге, Билле Гейтсе, Стиве Возняке, СтивеДжобсе и Ларри Пейдже.
Гленн Гринвальд4.1 Скрытое наблюдение Дядюшки Сэма - больше не секрет. Тайны Агентства национальной безопасности раскрыты. Книга основана на сенсационных документах, полученных автором лично от Эдварда Сноудена. Впервые преданы огласке секретные материалы, касающиеся массового электронного шпионажа.
Автор - Гленн Гринвальд, золотое перо газеты "Гардиан", признанный мастер журналистских расследований.
Сэм Кин4.6 Сэм Кин, известный американский писатель, признанный мэтр жанра научно-популярной литературы, предлагает увлекательное путешествие во времени. Вы узнаете, как на протяжении столетий менялось представление о мозге и как курьезные, порой страшноватые, а иногда и просто фантастические случаи помогали совершить прорыв в науке и медицине. Каждая глава книги представляет собой невероятную, увлекательную и правдивую историю о том, на что способен мозг человека, если что-то (или кто-то) воздействует на него со стороны, будь то болезнь, скальпель хирурга или… железный лом.
Дженнифер Сениор3.7 Thousands of books have examined the effects of parents on their children. In All Joy and No Fun, award-winning journalist Jennifer Senior now asks: what are the effects of children on their parents?
In All Joy and No Fun, award-winning journalist Jennifer Senior tries to tackle this question, isolating and analyzing the many ways in which children reshape their parents' lives, whether it's their marriages, their jobs, their habits, their hobbies, their friendships, or their internal senses of self. She argues that changes in the last half century have radically altered the roles of today's mothers and fathers, making their mandates at once more complex and far less clear.
Recruiting from a wide variety of sources—in history, sociology, economics, psychology, philosophy, and anthropology—she dissects both the timeless strains of parenting and the ones that are brand new, and then brings her research to life in the homes of ordinary parents around the country. The result is an unforgettable series of family portraits, starting with parents of young children and progressing to parents of teens. Through lively and accessible storytelling, Senior follows these mothers and fathers as they wrestle with some of parenthood's deepest vexations—and luxuriate in some of its finest rewards.
Meticulously researched yet imbued with emotional intelligence, All Joy and No Fun makes us reconsider some of our culture's most basic beliefs about parenthood, all while illuminating the profound ways children deepen and add purpose to our lives. By focusing on parenthood, rather than parenting, the book is original and essential reading for mothers and fathers of today—and tomorrow.
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