Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 76 results for “stephen m hall”
Skip side bar filters

  • Audiobook

    Symphony Under Siege

    by Stephen Hall ...
    Narrated by Stephen Hall ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 51 min

    512 years in the future.Not your typical Thursday morning.Five centuries from now, ex-navy officer Diana Singh commands the monumental luxury spaceliner the 'Symphony of the Stars'. None of her crew knows their ship is smuggling a treasure worth millions. None of them knows which one of them is the serial killer. As Captain Singh pilots the mighty cruise ship back to base, she races to unmask the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Slither

    How Nature's Most Maligned Creatures Illuminate Our World

    by Stephen S. Hall ...
    In this "wise and wondrous" (David Quammen) exploration, a science writer reintroduces readers to The Snake, encouraging our initial reaction to the slithery creature to be one of awe rather than disgust.**For millennia, depictions of snakes as alternatively beautiful and menacing creatures have appeared in religious texts, mythology, poetry, and beyond. From the foundational deities of ancient ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Size Matters

    How Height Affects the Health, Happiness, and Success of Boys—and the Men They Become

    by Stephen S. Hall ...
    An award-winning journalist tackles the hot topic of male body image and shows how physical size during childhood affects our psychology, social status, relationships, and income as adults.With a mix of fresh research, incisive reportage, and bracing candor, Size Matters traces the surprising history of society's bias against shortness and reveals how short people can and do thrive in spite of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Poetry of the Moon & Stars, The

    Gaze up in wonder of the night sky

    by A. E. Housman, Christina Georgina Rossetti, Gerard Manley Hopkins, James Weldon Johnson, John Keats, Kabir, Lord Byron, Radclyffe Hall, Stephen Crane, Tagore, Thomas Hardy ...
    Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe, Gideon Wagner ...

    Unabridged

    44 min

    The sun has descended below the far horizon. The inky blackness of night begins to envelop the land. Day has gone and the nocturnal times reveal themselves. But above the dark blanket the moon, whether waxing or waning, stands sentry and around it vast clouds and swirls of stars regiment themselves. We look up in awe and wonder, frail beneath their vista.Our gloried poets are on hand though to ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Slither

    How Nature's Most Maligned Creatures Illuminate Our World

    by Stephen S. Hall ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 30 min

    In this "wise and wondrous" (David Quammen) exploration, a science writer reintroduces readers to The Snake, encouraging our initial reaction to the slithery creature to be one of awe rather than disgust.**For millennia, depictions of snakes as alternatively beautiful and menacing creatures have appeared in religious texts, mythology, poetry, and beyond. From the foundational deities of ancient ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Merchants of Immortality

    Chasing the Dream of Human Life Extension

    by Stephen S. Hall ...
    A Discover Best Science Book of the Year: "A fascinating, accurate and accessible account of some of [the] contemporary efforts to combat aging" ( The New York Times).Los Angeles Times Book Prize FinalistNamed a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, San Jose Mercury News, and Library JournalAn award-winning writer explores science's boldest frontier—extension of the human life span ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wisdom

    by Stephen S. Hall ...
    We all recognize wisdom, but defining it is more elusive. In this fascinating journey from philosophy to science, Stephen S. Hall gives us a penetrating history of wisdom, from its sudden emergence in the fifth century B.C. to its modern manifestations in education, politics, and the workplace. Hall’s bracing exploration of the science of wisdom allows us to see this ancient virtue with fresh eyes ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Diary of a U-Boat Commander

    by Stephen King-Hall, Sheba Blake ...
    Captain Karl von Schenk of the Kaiser's Navy is a stereotypical German nobleman - supremely self-confident, touchy about the divisions of class and any infringement on his place. He thinks he is handsome, has a suitably manly physique, an excellent singing voice, and a facility with writing. His wartime service related in his diary is a series of triumphs over harrowing circumstances, bringing his ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Shepherd’S Son

    Illustrated by Blake Gardner ...
    by Stephen M. Hall ...
    A little boy has been very naughty. After he is caught throwing a stone at a camel, the shepherds son runs into the innkeepers stable and falls crying into the straw. But when he hears the footsteps of the innkeeper approaching, the boy hides behind a mound of hay.The innkeeper leads a man and his pregnant wife into the stable and leaves the couple aloneor so he thinks. But it is not long before ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Advanced Signal Integrity for High-Speed Digital Designs

    by Stephen H. Hall, Howard L. Heck ...
    Series series IEEE Press
    A synergistic approach to signal integrity for high-speed digital designThis book is designed to provide contemporary readers with an understanding of the emerging high-speed signal integrity issues that are creating roadblocks in digital design. Written by the foremost experts on the subject, it leverages concepts and techniques from non-related fields such as applied physics and microwave ... Read more

    $145.00 USD

  • Manglish

    Malaysian English at its Wackiest (New Edition)

    by Su Kim Lee, Stephen J Hall ...
    The bestseller Manglish: Malaysian English at its Wackiest is back, with more new words, hilarious expressions and idioms. Packed with humour, irreverence and fun, as well as cultural idiosyncrasies, it bids us all to lighten up, laugh at ourselves and enjoy our multicultural way of life. This book is an entertaining, funny and witty compilation of commonly used Malaysian English words and ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Rules of Thumb for Chemical Engineers

    by Stephen M Hall ...
    Rules of Thumb for Chemical Engineers, Fifth Edition, provides solutions, common sense techniques, shortcuts, and calculations to help chemical and process engineers deal with practical on-the-job problems. It discusses physical properties for proprietary materials, pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical sector heuristics, and process design, along with closed-loop heat transfer systems, heat ... Read more

    $107.99 USD