Eric Cohen

Will Chambers, an easygoing Brooklyn librarian who loves cartoons and punk rock music, isn't so happy-go-lucky after eight months out of work. If he doesn't find another job soon, he's going to be living in a box somewhere in the New York City subway system! His back pressed firmly to the wall, Will applies for a job in trendy Williamsburg promising "lots of fresh air and unbeatable benefits." Will's unforeseen new career is an adventurous one, as he is quickly confronted with a neighborhood of hipsters, a perky orange-haired baker named Coriander, and his feelings for his former co-worker and best friend, Beth, who is definitely not your textbook children's librarian.

Good Hipster Man

Are you a busy runner who wants to run a marathon, but doesn't have time to read the usual 300-page marathon book written by an intimidatingly intense professional? How does 26.2 pages sound instead? Eric Cohen, a runner who is about as average as they come, boils down the insanity that is marathon running into just four simple principles: (1) Respect the distance. (2) Every body is different. (3) On some days, you're the unstoppable express train, and on some days, you're the bus. (4) And if Daniel Murphy can play second base for the New York Mets, you can run a marathon.

26.2 Pages to 26.2 Miles

Megan Stine

Life is anything but boring for 14-year-old sisters, Riley and Chloe Carlson. Their parents are separated and the girls split their time between their mum's swanky beachfront pad and their dad's cosy, cluttered trailer. There are boys, clothes and rock star mates for a start!

Girl Talk

Stephen A. Kliment

Bradford Perkins

J. David Hoglund

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Douglas King

Building Type Basics for Senior Living

We live in an age of unprecedented human mastery -- over birth and death, body and mind, nature and human nature. In every realm of life, science and technology have brought remarkable advances and improvements: we are healthier, wealthier, and more comfortable than ever before. But our gratitude for the benefits of progress increasingly mixes with concern about the meaning and consequences of our newfound powers. If we can dream about a new age of genetic medicine, we can also shudder at a new age of weapons of mass destruction. As we welcome longer lives, we wonder if we will still value human life as we should. In the Shadow of Progress: Being Human in the Age of Technology is a deep and lively reflection on the moral challenges of the technological age. Eric Cohen, a leading voice in America's bioethics debates, offers a tour of the complex dilemmas at the intersection of science and morality, moving seamlessly from contemporary subjects like stem cells and evolution to classic texts like the Hebrew Bible and Francis Bacon's "New Atlantis." Why are the wealthiest people in human history the least likely to want children? What kind of civilization will we become if we seek cures for the sick by destroying human embryos? What is lost when we relieve human sadness by altering the chemical balance of the brain, or enhance human performance by altering the biological workings of the body? In this age of scientific wonders, have we forgotten what sets human beings apart from everything else in the natural world? Can the fruits of modern science ever satisfy our deepest longings -- for love, for virtue, and for transcendence? In the end, Cohen argues, there are no easy answers. Our challenge is to live simultaneously with gratitude and fear, pride and shame, sobriety and hope, in this new age of technology.

Eric Cohen

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