This book got off to a slow start, but picked up speed throughout the book. I found myself somewhat bored and uninterested with the first couple of chapters in this book, but I stuck with it and by the middle of the book I was sucked into the lobster science.Prior to reading this book I hadn't th...
Everything you never knew about sushi—its surprising origins, the colorful lives of its chefs, the bizarre behavior of the creatures that compose it—is revealed in this entertaining documentary account by the author of the highly acclaimed The Secret Life of Lobsters. When a twenty-year-old...
Traveling at seven thousand feet per second, it was thirty-eight miles up when the rocket’s first stage fell away in a burst of flame. The second stage ignited, blasting the payload even higher, and then seven minutes into the flight it detached. For decades the missile had been tipped with a 9.6...
It was as if she had not gotten past day two, when Zoran yelled in front of the whole class, ‘Kate, your knives are terrible!’ The worst part of it was, it was her own fault. She arrived at school early the next morning and helped wash and cook rice. She moved briskly around the cypress tub, mixi...