"Buckle up for Two Degrees, a Hollywood thriller of a book." - The New York Times A new book from Alan Gratz is a major publishing moment! The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Refugee and Ground Zero now takes a meaningful look at the attack on Pearl Harbor. December 6, 1941: Best friends Frank and Stanley pretty much live in paradise. Their dads are Navy officers stationed at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, and the boys have a front-row view of the huge battleships and the sparkling water.But on December 7th, 1941, everything explodes. Over the course of the day, as the boys fight to make their way home, it's clear that everything has changed. Stanley's mother is Japanese American and he is suddenly facing a terrible prejudice that he's never known before - and Frank, who's white, cannot begin to understand. Can their friendship survive this watershed moment? From the bestselling author of Refugee, Allies, Grenade , Ground Zero and Two Degrees Sheds a light on the increasingly urgent
When Josh learn that a special artifact, the Bracelet of Itzamna, is the key to both his father's death and the mystery of the codex, he returns to the hidden city of Ek Naab--alone this time--because
An extraordinary international thriller, by the former deputy assistant secretary of state and author of the national bestsellerThe Golden Hour. In the life of every country, at a moment of extre
An extraordinary international thriller by the former deputy assistant secretary of state and author of the national bestsellerThe Golden Hour.In the life of every country, at a moment of extreme nati
EVERY MOMENT IN BUSINESS HAPPENS ONLY ONCE.The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t cre
EVERY MOMENT IN BUSINESS HAPPENS ONLY ONCE.The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t cre
Comprehensive and coherent, this text covers exponential integrals and sums, 4th power moment, zero-free region, mean value estimates over short intervals, higher power moments, omega results, zeros
Supreme FeelingKazimir Malevich, pioneer of abstractionAfter flirtations with Realism, Impressionism, and Symbolism, Kiev-born Kazimir Malevich (1878–1935) found his métier in dissolving literal, representational figures and landscapes into pure emotionally-charged abstraction. In 1915, he created what is widely lauded as the first and ultimate abstract artwork: Black Square, a black rectangle on a white background, hailed as the “zero point of painting,” a seminal moment for modern and abstract practice.In this book, we follow Malevich’s key innovations and ideas and place his groundbreaking achievements within the context of both the Russian and global avant-garde. Through rich illustrations of his work, we explore the artist’s theory of Suprematism, based on severe geometric abstraction and “the supremacy of pure feeling in creative art”; his leading role in the development of Constructivism; as well as his interests in philosophy, literature, Russian folk art, and the fourth dimens
