Stephen Williams
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"An introduction to how cryptocurrencies like bitcoin are just one example of transformative applications that this relatively new technology makes possible. The author interprets the complexity into digestible anecdotes, metaphors, and straightforward descriptions for readers who don't know tech, and explains all of blockchain's most important aspects: why this so-called digital ledger is unhackable and unchangeable; how its distributed nature may...
Author
Publisher
Amistad
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Traces the life story of the Sudanese-born international supermodel, describing the civil-war-torn childhood that ill prepared her for her life in high fashion, her daring escape to London, and her discovery at a street fair at the age of nineteen.
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Jesse and Cody's ordinary life in middle school becomes something incredibly strange when a harmless looking doll comes to life. This doll has a nasty attitude and now, Jesse and Cody have to send this creepy creature with bad manners back to where it came from. Only the doll has evil plans of its own as they race to cancel a spell before the full moon rises.
Author
Publisher
HarperLuxe
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Bringing together some of the best profiles from his popular "What Would You Do?" news features, the award-winning ABC journalist introduces ordinary Americans from a diversity of backgrounds, ages, and walks of life whose small acts of courage, kindness, generosity, and decency have made the world a better place.
8) Ascension
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Follows a colony of humans halfway into a century-long secret space mission. When a young woman is murdered aboard the U.S. Orion-class spaceship, conflicts arise and the inhabitants question their purpose as the saviors of mankind." --