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Why does one smoker die of lung cancer but another live to 100? The answer is "The Hidden Half" - those random, unknowable variables that mess up our attempts to comprehend the world.

A riveting exploration of how microbes are transforming the way we see nature and ourselves - and could revolutionize agriculture and medicine. Prepare to set aside what you think you know about yourself and microbes. Good health - for people and for plants - depends on Earth's smallest creatures. The Hidden Half of Nature tells the story of our tangled relationship with microbes and their potential to revolutionize agriculture and medicine, from garden to gut.

Why does one smoker die of lung cancer but another live to 100? The answer is 'The Hidden Half' - those random, unknowable variables that mess up our attempts to comprehend the world. We humans are very clever creatures - but we're idiots about how clever we really are. In this entertaining and ingenious book, Blastland reveals how in our quest to make the world more understandable, we lose sight of how unexplainable it often is. The result - from GDP figures to medicine - is that experts know a lot less than they think.

It's a whole new school year, and Joey Pigza is determined to leave his wired ways in the past and be the paying attention, focused, straight-A student he believes he can be. But seated next to him is Bean, a new girl who is in foster care and who happens to have many of the same attention issues Joey has. From day one, Joey can see all the parallels in their behavior, and he's worried that her hyperactive secret sauce is going to tarnish his year.

July 1940, and Holly learns that her fiancé, Martin, has been killed at Dunkirk. Working as a nurse on Nazi-occupied Jersey, and forced to work alongside the race responsible for Martin’s death, she struggles to cope with her grief. Peter, a German doctor, befriends her as they work in the hospital’s operating theatre, and as friendship turns to love, Holly wrestles with her loyalty to Martin’s memory.

THE ART OF FOLLOWERSHIP, THE HIDDEN HALF OF LEADERSHIP — REVISED & UPDATED EDITION. Want to consistently produce excellent results by adding greater value to those who contributed to your success, especially your boss. This book shows you how. For over 50 years, we’ve studied how people consistently produce excellent results in the real world, not in theory, but in action. Here, you’ll learn how to use the most actionable tactics, techniques, and tools to master the Art of FOLLOWERSHIP. Followers are the engines that power progress, the ones with boots on the ground that turn ideas ...

He was sent to debunk me. I accidentally fell in love with him instead. I tried to stay hidden—half-human, half-alien freak with a talking fox and a talent for solving magical crimes. Then Cade showed up. Grumpy, skeptical, maddeningly hot Cade. A human cop sent to investigate a murder in my forest. He doesn’t believe in magic. He definitely doesn’t believe in me. Until we’re forced to work together. Until I save his life. Until we kiss—once, recklessly—and I can’t stop thinking about him after. He sees the girl I hide from everyone. The one I’ve buried beneath secrets, ...

Untold ages ago the race of Elves were cast to the four winds, forced to dwell in the underworld within the veil of the Evermore to protect the Tree of Life. Split into separate clans, their dying race withdrew to the far reaches of the world. Among them existed a darker faction of Elves who had burrowed deep into the depths of the earth, evolving into the seven houses of the Drow. From the seed of the Elders came the children of the Faerie with a dire legacy to fulfill; a generation of Elvenborn whose destiny was to save the Faerylands. Almost forgotten among the Fey were the whispered ...

From actor, author, and comedian Ben Miller comes an illustrated middle grade fantasy adventure that’s “entertaining fairy-tale fun” (Kirkus Reviews) following a brother and sister who stumble into a magical new world—perfect for fans of Half Upon a Time and Land of Stories! Lana loves...

Vanishing time, stolen futures, and a half-life girl's courage to defy her fate. Elektra is no ordinary girl. She has a clock ticking inside her, counting down the days. As her life ebbs away, she finds herself at the heart of a titanic struggle—and the key to saving the cosmos may lie within her fractured soul. The band of magical misfits who reached the Vault of Heaven at the close of ‘Beyond The Shining Portals’ has been scattered. All are in danger. Somehow, they must find one another and meet at the Rendezvous. In a universe of crumbling empires, ghostly simulacrums, and ...

One secret. One choice. Two worlds at stake. Seventeen-year-old Maya Chen has always felt like an outsider—quiet, artistic, and forever sketching things no one else seems to notice. But when a mysterious girl with silver eyes literally falls out of the sky, Maya’s life flips upside down. Kira isn’t just mysterious—she’s Fae, from a hidden magical realm, and she’s here for Maya. As Maya’s dormant powers begin to awaken, she’s thrust into a dangerous game of magical politics. Two powerful Fae courts are demanding her allegiance, and a group of rogue Guardians insist she’s ...

A small town with dark secrets. A boy caught between two worlds. Christian lives hidden on an island off the coast of Skerries, Ireland—homeschooled, isolated, and bound by rules he doesn’t fully understand. His father, Martin, is a powerful vampire tasked with protecting the town’s ancient secret. Christian, however, is something different… something in between. When a chance encounter with a girl named Sinead draws him into the orbit of his peers, Christian longs for normal life. But beneath Skerries’ picturesque surface lies a web of control, corruption, and centuries-old pacts...

In every story there is a hero and a monster. It should have been the perfect summer. Sent to stay with her late mother's eccentric family in London, sixteen-year-old Joan is determined to enjoy herself. She loves her nerdy job at the historic Holland House, and when her super cute co-worker...

A small town with dark secrets. A boy caught between two worlds. Christian lives hidden on an island off the coast of Skerries, Ireland—homeschooled, isolated, and bound by rules he doesn’t fully understand. His father, Martin, is a powerful vampire tasked with protecting the town’s ancient secret. Christian, however, is something different… something in between. When a chance encounter with a girl named Sinead draws him into the orbit of his peers, Christian longs for normal life. But beneath Skerries’ picturesque surface lies a web of control, corruption, and centuries-old pacts...