Lanark: A Life in Four Books Alasdair Gray
From its first publication in 1981, Lanark was hailed as a masterpiece and it has come to be widely regarded as the most remarkable and influential Scottish novel of the second half of the twentieth century. A work of extraordinary imagination and w...
The Laws of Human Nature Robert Greene
From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power comes the definitive new book on decoding the behavior of the people around youRobert Greene is a master guide for millions of readers, distilling ancient wisdom and philosophy int...
Learning Spark: Lightning-Fast Big Data Analysis Holden Karau and Matei Zaharia
Data in all domains is getting bigger. How can you work with it efficiently? Recently updated for Spark 1.3, this book introduces Apache Spark, the open source cluster computing system that makes data analytics fast to write and fast to run. With Sp...
Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories John Green and Lauren Myracle and Maureen Johnson
Three interconnected stories from three bestselling authors: John Green ( Paper Towns, The Fault in our Stars ), Maureen Johnson ( The Name of the Star ), and Lauren Myracle (The Internet Girls series.)
Major motion picture in the works!
A Christm...
Letters From a Stoic Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"It is philosophy that has the duty of protecting us...without it no one can lead a life free of fear or worry."
For several years of his turbulent life, Seneca was the guiding hand of the Roman Empire. His inspired reasoning derived mainly from th...
Letters From the Earth: Uncensored Writings Mark Twain
“The most impressive contribution to books by Mark Twain since The Mysterious Stranger of 1916...The attitude is that of Swift, the intellectual contempt is that of Voltaire, and the imagination is that of one of the great masters of American writin...
Leviathan Thomas Hobbes
By a deep and careful analysis of the text, enabling a new printing history of Leviathan to be constructed, this edition demonstrates that the traditional picture is substantially wrong. Both the Bear and Ornaments editions contain corrections and ch...
Liar's Poker Michael Lewis
The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar’s Poker.
Before there was Flash Boys and The Big Short , there was Liar's Poker. A knowing and unnervingly talented debut, this insider’s account of 1980s Wall Street excess...
The Little Typer Daniel P. Friedman , David Thrane Christiansen
An introduction to dependent types, demonstrating the most beautiful aspects, one step at a time. A program's type describes its behavior. Dependent types are a first-class part of a language, and are much more powerful than other kinds of types; us...
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is a dark and daring story of obsessive love and transgression. Humbert Humbert's lust for his pubescent step-daughter, Lolita, shocked readers when it was first published in the 1950s; yet the novel was also celebrated for ...
Looking for Alaska John Green
Winner of the Michael L. Printz AwardAn ALA Best Book for Young AdultsAn ALA Quick PickA Los Angeles Times 2005 Book Prize FinalistA New York Public Library Book for the Teen AgeA 2005 Booklist Editor’s ChoiceA 2005 School Library Journal Best Book o...
Lord of the Flies William Golding
14.5 Million copies sold to dateThe classic, startling, and perennially bestselling portrait of human nature-now available as a Premium Edition with a stunning new cover and re-set, easy-to-read text.
Lords of Finance Liaquat Ahamed
THIS HAS HAPPENED BEFORE. The current financial crisis has only one parallel: the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and subsequent Great Depression of the 1930s, which crippled the future of an entire generation and set the stage for the horrors of the Secon...
The Lottery Shirley Jackson
In a small American town, the local residents are abuzz with excitement and nervousness when they wake on the morning of the twenty-seventh of June. Everything has been prepared for the town’s annual tradition—a lottery in which every family must pa...
Love and Sex with Robots David Levy
Love, marriage, and sex with robots? Not in a million years? Maybe a whole lot sooner!A leading expert in artificial intelligence, David Levy argues that the entities we once deemed cold and mechanical will soon become the objects of real companionsh...
