1. How to Be a Man John Birmingham & Dirk Flinthart Hilarious work on the subject of all things male. Learn how to dress properly for business, how to buy, drive and maintain a car, and land a 747 jumbo jet.

    How to Be a Man

    John Birmingham & Dirk Flinthart

    Hilarious work on the subject of all things male. Learn how to dress properly for business, how to buy, drive and maintain a car, and land a 747 jumbo jet.
  2. Survivor: A Novel Chuck Palahniuk Tender Branson—last surviving member of the Creedish Death Cult—is dictating his life story into Flight 2039’s recorder. He is all alone in the airplane, which will crash shortly into the vast Australian outback. But before it does, he will unfold the tale of his journey from an obedient Creedish child to an ultra-buffed, steroid- and collagen-packed media messiah. Unpredictable and unforgettable,.

    Survivor: A Novel

    Chuck Palahniuk

    Tender Branson—last surviving member of the Creedish Death Cult—is dictating his life story into Flight 2039’s recorder. He is all alone in the airplane, which will crash shortly into the vast Australian outback. But before it does, he will unfold the tale of his journey from an obedient Creedish child to an ultra-buffed, steroid- and collagen-packed media messiah. Unpredictable and unforgettable,.
  3. Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century Hunter S. Thompson Brilliant, provocative, outrageous, and brazen, Hunter S. Thompson’s infamous rule breaking — in his journalism, in his life, and of the law — changed the shape of American letters and the face of American icons. Kingdom of Fear traces the course of Thompson’s life as a rebel — from a smart-mouthed Kentucky kid flouting all authority to a convention-defying journalist who came to personify a wild fusion of fact, fiction, and mind-altering substances. Call it the evolution of an outlaw. Here are the formative experiences that comprise Thompson’s legendary trajectory alongside the weird and the ugly. Whether detailing his exploits as a foreign correspondent in Rio, his job as night manager of the notorious O’Farrell Theatre in San Francisco, his epic run for sheriff of Aspen on the Freak Power ticket, or the sensational legal maneuvering that led to his full acquittal in the famous 99 Days trial, Thompson is at the peak of his narrative powers in Kingdom of Fear. And this boisterous, blistering ride illuminates as never before the professional and ideological risk taking of a literary genius and transgressive icon.

    Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

    Hunter S. Thompson

    Brilliant, provocative, outrageous, and brazen, Hunter S. Thompson’s infamous rule breaking — in his journalism, in his life, and of the law — changed the shape of American letters and the face of American icons. Kingdom of Fear traces the course of Thompson’s life as a rebel — from a smart-mouthed Kentucky kid flouting all authority to a convention-defying journalist who came to personify a wild fusion of fact, fiction, and mind-altering substances.

    Call it the evolution of an outlaw. Here are the formative experiences that comprise Thompson’s legendary trajectory alongside the weird and the ugly. Whether detailing his exploits as a foreign correspondent in Rio, his job as night manager of the notorious O’Farrell Theatre in San Francisco, his epic run for sheriff of Aspen on the Freak Power ticket, or the sensational legal maneuvering that led to his full acquittal in the famous 99 Days trial, Thompson is at the peak of his narrative powers in Kingdom of Fear. And this boisterous, blistering ride illuminates as never before the professional and ideological risk taking of a literary genius and transgressive icon.
  4. Birdy Naomi Wallace From the acclaimed 1978 novel by William Wharton, Birdy tells the story of a man undone by the horrors of World War II and the friend who tries to guide him back to earth. This stage adaptation, originally produced on the West End in London, is by MacArthur genius award winner Naomi Wallace.

    Birdy

    Naomi Wallace

    From the acclaimed 1978 novel by William Wharton, Birdy tells the story of a man undone by the horrors of World War II and the friend who tries to guide him back to earth. This stage adaptation, originally produced on the West End in London, is by MacArthur genius award winner Naomi Wallace.
  5. A Fraction of the Whole Steve Toltz Meet the Deans “The fact is, the whole of Australia despises my father more than any other man, just as they adore my uncle more than any other man. I might as well set the story straight about both of them …” Heroes or Criminals? Crackpots or Visionaries? Families or Enemies? “… Anyway, you know how it is. Every family has a story like this one.”

    A Fraction of the Whole

    Steve Toltz

    Meet the Deans

    “The fact is, the whole of Australia despises my father more than any other man, just as they adore my uncle more than any other man. I might as well set the story straight about both of them …”

    Heroes or Criminals?
    Crackpots or Visionaries?
    Families or Enemies?

    “… Anyway, you know how it is. Every family has a story like this one.”
  6. A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson Bill Bryson confronts his greatest challenge: to understand — and, if possible, answer — the oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. Taking as territory everything from the Big Bang to the rise of civilisation, Bryson seeks to understand how we got from there being nothing at all to there being us. A Short History of Nearly Everything is sometimes profound, sometimes funny, and always supremely clear and entertaining adventure in the realms of human knowledge, as only Bill Bryson can render it. Science has never been more involving or entertaining.

    A Short History of Nearly Everything

    Bill Bryson

    Bill Bryson confronts his greatest challenge: to understand — and, if possible, answer — the oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. Taking as territory everything from the Big Bang to the rise of civilisation, Bryson seeks to understand how we got from there being nothing at all to there being us.

    A Short History of Nearly Everything is sometimes profound, sometimes funny, and always supremely clear and entertaining adventure in the realms of human knowledge, as only Bill Bryson can render it. Science has never been more involving or entertaining.
  7. Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability Steve Krug Five years and more than 100,000 copies after it was first published, it’s hard to imagine anyone working in Web design who hasn’t read Steve Krug’s “instant classic” on Web usability, but people are still discovering it every day.  In this second edition, Steve adds three new chapters in the same style as the original: wry and entertaining, yet loaded with insights and practical advice for novice and veteran alike.  Don’t be surprised if it completely changes the way you think about Web design.

    Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

    Steve Krug

    Five years and more than 100,000 copies after it was first published, it’s hard to imagine anyone working in Web design who hasn’t read Steve Krug’s “instant classic” on Web usability, but people are still discovering it every day.  In this second edition, Steve adds three new chapters in the same style as the original: wry and entertaining, yet loaded with insights and practical advice for novice and veteran alike.  Don’t be surprised if it completely changes the way you think about Web design.
  8. Eloquent Ruby Russ Olsen It’s easy to write correct Ruby code, but to gain the fluency needed to write great Ruby code, you must go beyond syntax and absorb the “Ruby way” of thinking and problem solving. In Eloquent Ruby, Russ Olsen helps you write Ruby like true Rubyists do–so you can leverage its immense, surprising power.

    Eloquent Ruby

    Russ Olsen

    It’s easy to write correct Ruby code, but to gain the fluency needed to write great Ruby code, you must go beyond syntax and absorb the “Ruby way” of thinking and problem solving. In Eloquent Ruby, Russ Olsen helps you write Ruby like true Rubyists do–so you can leverage its immense, surprising power.
  9. Stylin’ with CSS: A Designer’s Guide Charles Wyke-Smith Cascading Style Sheets enable you to rapidly create web designs that can be shared by hundreds or even thousands of web pages. It accelerates development cycles by centralizing text and layout information for easy editing and updates. This book teaches you everything you need to know to start using CSS in your web development work, from the basics of marking up your content and styling text, through the creation of multi-column page layouts without the use of tables.

    Stylin’ with CSS: A Designer’s Guide

    Charles Wyke-Smith

    Cascading Style Sheets enable you to rapidly create web designs that can be shared by hundreds or even thousands of web pages. It accelerates development cycles by centralizing text and layout information for easy editing and updates. This book teaches you everything you need to know to start using CSS in your web development work, from the basics of marking up your content and styling text, through the creation of multi-column page layouts without the use of tables.
  10. Snow Crash Neal Stephenson In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo’s CosoNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he’s a warrior prince. Plunging headlong into the enigma of a new computer virus that’s striking down hackers everywhere, he races along the neon-lit streets on a search-and-destroy mission for the shadowy virtual villain threatening to bring about infocalypse. Snow Crash is a mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous…you’ll recognize it immediately.

    Snow Crash

    Neal Stephenson

    In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo’s CosoNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he’s a warrior prince. Plunging headlong into the enigma of a new computer virus that’s striking down hackers everywhere, he races along the neon-lit streets on a search-and-destroy mission for the shadowy virtual villain threatening to bring about infocalypse. Snow Crash is a mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous…you’ll recognize it immediately.

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