Hey /book/,

Do you guys prefer small single books or an epic series of large books?

currently im reading a song of ice and fire. im on a dance of dragons page 179. today i bought the hobbit and world war z. both are new and i never read. what book should i read today

'sup /Books/

College Student here, I've been looking for two ebooks but I can't find them anywhere for free, I don't want to pay plus 300$

please help a brother out;


Principles of Auditing & Other Assurance Services, 19th Edition
ISBN-13:  9780078025617

Advanced Accounting, 11th Edition
ISBN13: 978-0-538-48028-4

Many thanks in advance

Dear Friends

Can any one please help me get this book?
Office-Based Anesthesia: Considerations in Setting Up and Maintaining a Safe Office Anesthesia Environment 2nd ed

Ive tried libgen, bibliotik, and many other sources,

I am a student so i am in real need of your help

Discovery and innovation is far from dead

By MARK BUCHANA

IS THE process of discovery hitting a dead end? Are there ever fewer paradigm-shifting revelations to be had? These questions speak more to the poverty of our imagination than to our grasp of reality.

   Lately, practitioners of various disciplines have suggested that most of the truly great things have been discovered or invented. Some economists say we have already reaped the "low-hanging fruit" in technological innovation - in sanitation, transport and education, for example - and that future progress would not be as easy or productive. Some physicists argue that humanity is pushing up against the limits of what can be known.

   One need not look far for evidence that such thinking is wrong - that the pessimism merely reflects our inability to fathom just how surprising our future discoveries may be. Consider a couple of findings announced just in the final
two months of last year.

   The first challenges a fundamental tenet of biology: that all living things are somehow programmed to age and die. Most scientists believe that, in general, as organisms pass maturity and get progressively older, their fitness and capabilities erode, and they become more likely to expire.

   A new study finds that this pattern does not hold across all species. True, a 100-year-old human is about 20 times as likely to die in the next year -as a human of average age. But there is also a tiny-tubular creature found in freshwater lakes and ponds - known as a hydra - that shows no signs of ageing at all, according to the best available evidence. Keep one alive for 100 years, and you will find no physical difference to one just a few months old.

   The hydra is not even the most extreme example. The desert tortoise seems to become more fit with age. Mangrove trees do, too. What we humans take as the norm is not at all the norm for other organisms.

   The research opens a whole new world of questions and possibilities. If a hydra truly is "immortal", might it be possible to engineer the same genetic or molecular mechanisms into other organisms, including humans? Speculation that there could be a "final generation" of humans, once we have learnt to overcome ageing, might not be as crazy as many people think.

   The second discovery has more cosmic implications: Astronomers using Nasa's Kepler space telescope found last year the closest thing yet to a planet similar to Earth in size and composition. Temperatures on Kepler-78b, as the planet is known, get far too hot for life as we know it. But its existence demonstrates that it is only a matter of time before we find a planet that could support Earth-like life.

   In the past two decades, astronomers have discovered about 1,000 planets in orbit around other stars, and their techniques get 10 times more powerful every few years. Current estimates suggest that there should be roughly five billion Earth - like planets in our galaxy alone. Mr Michel Mayor, leader of the team that detected Kepler-78b, predicts that within five years, we will find an Earth-like planet cool enough to have liquid water - and potentially life of some kind. We are, in a sense, just beginning to turn on the lights in our universe. It is well within the realm of possibility that, in a decade or two, having discovered hundreds or thousands of Earth -like planets and monitored them with ever more sensitive instruments, we might discover another human-like intelligence in our universe. It is difficult to imagine the world-changing shock to human thinking that would come from making such contact.

   I have chosen my examples quickly and only from the last two months. There are comparably shocking discoveries in areas such as neuroscience, where recent research has shown how sleep helps to restore and repair the brain, or technology, where physicists have made some significant steps in learning how to make ordinary objects effectively invisible. How about using plant xylem, ordinary tissues present in plants everywhere, to filter water for human consumption? The pace of discovery suggests that there are more innovations to come just as profound and far-reaching as the Internet.

   None Of this is to say that innovation will solve all our problems or save humanity from its own environment of economic mismanagement. But discovery is certainly not dead - or even dying.

BLOOMBERG

The writer, a physicist and the author of Forecast What Physics, Meteorology And The Natural Sciences Can Teach Us About Economies, is a Bloomberg View columnist.

I'm looking for info on books with false covers. Lists of books that have had them, if they generally have only a false cover or if they use false pages in the front, ect.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

You get to pick one living person as your personal guru.

I pick either Daniel Kahneman, Daniel Dennett or Saul Kripke...

inb4 Chomsky....

I was thinking of reading In Search of Lost Time, the 3000+ page book by Marcel Proust. But first I want to be sure it's worth it. Anyone here ever read it before?

Sparkman said, "Razenoid Destroyer, he hasn't been released into stores" Razenoid said "I like to get things earlier. The first thing is always the best" Then Gallotmon said "We don't care if you're human sized, you're going down Razonoid Destroyer". They all realized he was right, and were getting ready to fight him. Then, they saw a meteor falling down to earth, specifically towards the oil rig. They tried to move, but the meteor fell making a giant hole in the oil rig. Then the entire Earth stopped moving. Time was frozen still. The Minifigures then saw Mechtavious Destroyer trapped in chains. Then he said "Minifigures, the meteor has allowed us to stop time, so I can bring something to you." Then Ingram said "What is the prize?" Then Mechtavious showed his left hand. The Neo spacian flare scarab, who gave his life to save his fellow teammates.
Then, as they were all happy and cheering. Scarab said "listen to Mechtavious. No matter what happens to me, you must destroy Razonoid Destroyer." Then he was starting to fade because the cosmic time holder was fading., then Scarab said "everyone take someones hand and unite together." Then they each got someones hand, then Scarab used some cosmic power to fuse them, with the assistance of the Toy Boy bond to evolve ToyBoy further. Then, the time hold had worn off, Razonoid saw a bright light, saw ToyBoy evolve into Cosmic ToyBoy (brighter than regular ToyBoy) saying with a fused voice "Let's finish this Razonoid Destroyer, for humans for minifigures, and for everyone you have tried to hurt, this is the end of you Razonoid!" Then the two forces charged to destroy eachother

Someone knows where can I find this book?