Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief

Rick Riordan

Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school . . . again. No matter how hard he tries, he can't seem to stay out of trouble. But can he really be expected to stand by and watch while a bully picks on his scrawny best friend? Or not defend himself against his pre-algebra tea...

The War on Journalism

Andrew Fowler

Mass media is in Crisis. Newspapers and TV networks that once led the world are Failing. Yet they Co-wrote their own Epitaph - with Dirty Deeds and Power without principle. In The War on Journalism, former ABC Four Corners investigative journalist Andrew Fowler traces both the evolution of the fourth es...

Black Hole Survival Guide

Janna Levin

From the acclaimed author of Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space--an authoritative and accessible guide to the most alluring and challenging phenomena of contemporary science.Through her writing, astrophysicist Janna Levin has focused on making the science she studies not just comprehensib...

The Philosophy of an Explorer: 16 Life-lessons from Surviving the Extreme

Erling Kagge

'Erling Kagge transforms and consoles us' Alain de Botton____________________________Surviving extreme conditions can teach us to lead a fulfilled life. No one knows this better than Erling Kagge, who was the first man in history to reach all of the Earth's poles by foot - the North, the South, and the ...