George-Paul Crețu

The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts is the first book in The Great Mental Models series designed to upgrade your thinking with the best, most useful and powerful tools so you always have the right one on hand.

Straight from the programming trenches, The Pragmatic Programmer cuts through the increasing specialization and technicalities of modern software development to examine the core process--taking a requirement and producing working, maintainable code that d…

Here is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside.

Mutually assured destruction has led to decades of peace between humanity and the Trisolarans, but a new force is awakening and this delicate balance can no longer hold...

In The Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion-in just four centuries' time.

Ireversibil este o carte de proză scurtă, concepută și pliată pe propria copilărie și pe persoanele care mi-au marcat această parte a devenirii mele.

Experience Cixin Liu's award-winning and bestselling masterpiece, The Three Body Problem.

The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood.

When an army of invading Martians lands in England, panic and terror seize the population.

Ranked among the classic novels of the English language and the inspiration for several unforgettable movies, this early work of H.

When the Time Traveller courageously stepped out of his machine for the first time, he found himself in the year 802,700—and everything had changed.

It's America in 1962.

Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished.

Written in Greek by an intellectual Roman emperor without any intention of publication, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius offer a wide range of fascinating spiritual reflections and exercises developed as the leader struggled to understand himself and ma…

Minimalism is the art of knowing how much is just enough.

Far in the future, Earth's oceans have evaporated and humanity has all but vanished.

The Roman statesman and philosopher Seneca (4 BCE–65 CE) recorded his moral philosophy and reflections on life as a highly original kind of correspondence.

Over the centuries Ireland has preserved a magical, mystical aura that lends itself to tales of the supernatural-from leprechauns and fairies to ghosts and hauntings.

When his father Montrose goes missing, 22-year-old Army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him, accompanied by his Uncle George—publisher of The Safe Negro Travel Guide—and his childhood friend Letitia.

Nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories—two published for the very first time—all from the mind of the incomparable author of Stories of Your Life and Others Ted Chiang tackles some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandar…

A quest for the ultimate prize.

The Path of Water.

It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill.

Zoichi Kanoe plunges into the depths of 9JO--an island city in the middle of the Pacific Ocean--in search of Eon Green, a girl with the power to transmute the N5S virus.

It is the end of history and all is known, or will be soon.

This title shows the process of cleaning code.

The Life Impossible, available now Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality.

Sword Demon.

To Live by the Sword.

Onslaught.

Confrontation.

The Distant Ocean.

Battlefield.

Glimmering Waves.

Infinite Universe.

One with Heaven and Earth Musashi suffers a humiliating defeat against Inshun, the second-generation master of Hôzôin Temple.

The Travelling Cat Chronicles is a life-affirming anthem to kindness and self-sacrifice that shows how the smallest things can provide the greatest joy—the perfect gift for cat lovers and travellers!

Enlightenment.

Invincible Under the Sun.

Coveted across the known universe, melange is a prize worth killing for...

The author shares his personal techniques, insights and experiences regarding saving money and investing, drawn from his blog posts as well as a series of letters to his teenage daughter, both dealing with money management.

Jack Torrance's new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start.

In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin.

"The book is a revelation and should be accepted as such.

If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science.

Human beings naturally desire knowledge.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler’s Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father’s story.

The ultimate guide to human-centered design Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether to push, pull, or slide a door.

First published in 1967 and re-issued in 1983, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream contains seven stories with copyrights ranging from 1958 through 1967.

Witty, commonsensical, and eminently practical, it's one of the best-loved and most recommended books on the subject.