Paris: The Collected Traveler
10 best books like Paris: The Collected Traveler (Barrie Kerper): When the Rivers Run Dry: Water - The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century, Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution, NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children, Let the Great World Spin, Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia, The Read-Aloud Handbook, The Great Passage, Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms, Travels in a Thin Country: A Journey Through Chile
| Author | Fred Pearce |
| ISBN | 0807085731 |
In this groundbreaking book, veteran science correspondent Fred Pearce travels to more than thirty countries to examine the current state of crucial water sources. Deftly weaving together the complicated scientific, economic, and historic dimensions of the world water crisis, he provides our...
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!
| Author | Mo Willems |
| ISBN | 1844280136 |
When a bus driver takes a break from his route, a very unlikely volunteer springs up to take his place—a pigeon! But you've never met one like this before. As he pleads, wheedles, and begs his way through the book, children will love being able to answer back and decide his fate. In his hilarious picture...
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
The computer and the internet are among the most important innovations of our era, but few people know who created them. They were not conjured up in a garret or garage by solo inventors suitable to be singled out on magazine covers or put into a pantheon with Edison, Bell, and Morse. Instead, most of the...
NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children
| Author | Po Bronson |
| ISBN | 0446504122 |
In a world of modern, involved, caring parents, why are so many kids aggressive and cruel? Where is intelligence hidden in the brain, and why does that matter? Why do cross-racial friendships decrease in schools that are more integrated? If 98% of kids think lying is morally wrong, then why do...
| Author | Colum McCann |
| ISBN | 1400063736 |
In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974, and a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the towers, suspended a quarter mile above the ground. In the streets below,...
In 1996, Tom Bissell went to Uzbekistan as a naive Peace Corps volunteer. Though he lasted only a few months before illness and personal crisis forced him home, Bissell found himself entranced by this remote land. Five years later he returned to explore the shrinking Aral Sea, destroyed by Soviet irrigation...
| Author | Jim Trelease |
| ISBN | 0143037390 |
A New York Times and million copy bestseller, the classic handbook on reading aloud to children—revised and updated
Recommended by “Dear Abby”, The New York Times and The Washington Post, for three decades, millions of parents and educators have turned to Jim Trelease's...
| Author | Shion Miura |
| ISBN | 1477823077 |
A charmingly warm and hopeful story of love, friendship, and the power of human connection. Award-winning Japanese author Shion Miura’s novel is a reminder that a life dedicated to passion is a life well lived.
Inspired as a boy by the multiple meanings to be found for a single word in the dictionary,...
Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
| Author | Hannah Fry |
| ISBN | 0393357368 |
When it comes to artificial intelligence, we either hear of a paradise on earth or of our imminent extinction. It’s time we stand face-to-digital-face with the true powers and limitations of the algorithms that already automate important decisions in healthcare, transportation, crime, and commerce....
| Author | Sara Wheeler |
| ISBN | 0375753656 |
Squeezed between a vast ocean and the longest mountain range on earth, Chile is 2,600 miles long and never more than 110 miles wide--not a country that lends itself to maps, as Sara Wheeler discovered when she traveled alone from the top to the bottom, from the driest desert in the world to the sepulchral...
In the Town All Year 'Round: (Illustrated Classics for Kids, Illustrated Kids Books, Early Readers Book)
| Author | Rotraut Susanne Berner |
"In the Town All Year 'Round" was originally published in Germany by Gerstenberg Verlag in 2003. In 2008 it was translated from German to English and published by Rotraut Susanne Berner. This book for the most part is wordless except for the page before each season, this page explains a little bit about...
