Travel Genius

Tag along on this New York Times bestselling “witty, entertaining romp” (The New York Times Book Review) as Eric Weiner travels the world, from Athens to Silicon Valley—and back through history, too—to show how creative genius flourishes in specific places at specific times. In this...

Everyone loves a road trip! One of the best ways to pass time on your adventure and keep the whole family entertained is to spark a little competition. Divide into teams or take these questions on one at a time, keep score, and turn your next road trip into an epic trivia match-up. You can play one chapter at a time and see who wins the most chapters, or you can go for the big win and see who wins the most questions total. It’s up to you! Have fun! Before you know it, you will be pulling into your destination, and this may turn out to be one of your favorite memories from the trip.

With the writers of the Golden Age as her guides—Pushkin, Tolstoy, Gogol, and Turgenev, among others—Sara Wheeler searches for a Russia not in the news, traveling from rinsed northwestern beet fields and the Far Eastern Arctic tundra to the cauldron of nation­alities, religions, and...

Max finally meets her hero, Albert Einstein, as she dashes across glaciers, visits the Great Barrier Reef, and flies a solar-powered jet in a race to stop Global Warming—before it’s too late for Planet Earth. World Champions . . . GET OUTDOORS From racing across glaciers in...

Twenty historical teenage geniuses have been captured to solve a riddle that may save the 23rd century from its own destruction. At the age of seventeen, Cindy Sanders writes the equation for the first operational time machine, earning her a spot on the genius list - a compilation of historical teenage science and military prodigies. Cindy's life is forever changed when Empress Zelda of the year 2242 activates the genius list in an effort to prevent a catastrophe that could impact the future of the Acendia Empire. Cindy is seized, removed from her own time, and placed in an experiment ...

An Adventure So Big, It Needs 500 Years To Fit Rocky Automan is just your average kid genius. When he’s not in school wrecking the grade curve for his classmates, he’s in his laboratory in his parent’s garage, making tapdancing cockroaches and laser guns. Rocky can make anything… …except a friend. So when Rocky hears about Leonardo Da Vinci, a genius inventor that captured the hearts and minds of the world for centuries, Rocky does the only sensible thing: he builds a time machine so he can meet his new role model: and hopefully, meet a new friend, too. But as smart as Rocky is, ...

Why do some people succeed against all odds while others fail despite abundant resources? How do some achieve the unthinkable and never settle for less? The difference lies in the mental structures and specific patterns that dictate success or failure in any field. ‘Discover The Genius Within’ explores these critical factors, offering readers a comprehensive guide to unlocking their full potential and achieving extraordinary results. This book explains the mindset of successful people, which is characterized by resilience, determination, and an unwavering belief in their abilities. It ...

Physics genius Bethany Raven must find her way back to her own reality with the help of her annoyingly attractive nemesis, in this warm, funny multiverse rom-com, for fans of IMPOSSIBLE by Sarah Lotz and THE HUSBANDS by Holly Gramazio. ……… Waking after a career-defining breakthrough...

A prodigy. A prison ship. A destiny rewritten among the stars. Jason King was once Earth’s brightest young mind, until he defied the United Earth Government and paid the price. Sentenced to life aboard the Equinox, a decommissioned mining ship turned orbiting prison, Jason awakens paralyzed inside his cryogenic pod. Alone. Forgotten, but aware. But Jason is no ordinary prisoner. Armed with a brilliant mind and mysterious new abilities, he escapes confinement and discovers the Equinox still holds power, and purpose. Assembling a crew from its frozen inmates, Jason dares to attempt the ...

Shakespeare in Cosmos is the second part of Ozar, the first book in the pentalogy The World in Nowhereness. Shakespeare serves as the guiding light for the mystical traveler embarking on a journey to the enigmatic planet Zena, where they will encounter children possessing intelligence levels surpassing Earth's geniuses. The ruler of this extraterrestrial world is a 10-year-old prodigy named Ozar, whose name is the same as the supreme God. Ozar holds countless mysteries of the Universe, safeguarded within a small, enigmatic box. The allure of this extraordinary encounter promises to unravel ...

Genius inventor Nikola Tesla starts off this epic Steampunk adventure (Victorian Science Fiction..) with a device that creates an alternate timeline andmakes Steampunk possible. In 1880 the captain and crew of a steam-powered British starship must battle a despicable villain, rescue the kidnapped Queen of England and thwart an alien invasion from outer space. Can Star Captain Demetrius Cogswell, Ship's Telepath Lady Elidora Thistle and the crew of the HMS Perseverance save England, Earth and the rest of the solar system? The story ends with Tesla finally getting the recognition he's due. ...

Packed with a wealth of information, this publication charts the evolution of garden design through a selection of some of our best-loved country house estates and historic gardens, including Hampton Court Palace, Chatsworth, Sissinghurst, and Kew. In addition, it also provides fascinating profiles on the geniuses who created some of our most inspirational gardens, including William Kent, Lancelot "Capability" Brown, Humphry Repton, Gertrude Jekyll, and Sir Joseph Paxton.