Results for "Smith, Vernon"

A whole planet’s population is missing—and it’s up to Captain Freeman, Tendi, Boimler, Mariner, Rutherford, and crew to recover them while fending off the alien invaders who wish them deader than dead.

It’s time for a long-overdue second contact with the species with whom the U.S.S. Cerritos made its...

In this hilarious comic book series, the Lower Deckers of the U.S.S. Cerritos face intergalactic hijinks, infighting, and even morality!

Everything is topsy-turvy on the Lower Decks. Intergalactic bungles, gambling, horrifying hijinks, and even good behavior?  

Out of the blue, the now-perfect...

This book provides an intimate history of Nobel Laureate Vernon Smith's early life, combining elements of biography, history, economics and philosophy to show how crucial incidents early in his life provided the necessary framework for his research into experimental economics. Smith takes the reader...

This sequel to A Life of Experimental Economics, Volume I, continues the intimate history of Vernon Smith's personal and professional maturation after a dozen years at Purdue. The scene now shifts to twenty-six transformative years at the University of Arizona, then to George Mason University, and...

Religious and non-religious people alike commonly assert that religion and science occupy two entirely separate and distinct realms. There can be, it is said, neither conflict nor concourse between them. But what if science and religion share something deeply mysterious in common? What if that...

It's 1991, and graduation day is here For Nathan, Eric, Jonathan, and Shawn it's the last summer before college...for most of them. Two years ago, Nathan was almost murdered by disgraced science-fiction writer Tad Caldwell and his half-alien son, Roger. Now, he lives alone in a trailer, where he...

In My Happy Place is a deeply personal and compelling memoir that traces Vern Smith's extraordinary journey from a young boy captivated by steam locomotives to becoming a professional driver of some of Britain's most iconic trains, including the world-famous Hogwarts Express.

Set against the backdrop...

In My Happy Place is a deeply personal and compelling memoir that traces Vern Smith's extraordinary journey from a young boy captivated by steam locomotives to becoming a professional driver of some of Britain's most iconic trains, including the world-famous Hogwarts Express.

Set against the backdrop...

Celebrate your differences and be the best "you" possible

Charlie is a maintenance streetcar. He is small and clunky and definitely not as shiny as the other cars. He spends his days laying sand on the rail lines or repairing the more popular streetcars. He doesn't feel valued or liked by the other...

"No, mon ami You can't catch me "

When an old Creole woman bakes dessert on King's Day, she has no idea what shenanigans will ensue. In this New Orleans adaptation of The Gingerbread Man, a mischievous king cake baby escapes his cake He outruns a praline lady and a waiter at Caf du Monde, but...