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Millennial nerds and Gen Z nerds don’t know how good they’ve got it, with more Star Wars and Star Trek movies and TV series than they can count. It wasn’t always this easy to be a nerd! This memoir from a decorated veteran details the glory days of nerd-dom, when all we had was bad TV sci-fi and only the occasional silver screen gem, just after...

Are you raising a nerd?

If so, this indispensible guide is just what you need! Bringing up a young nerd and preparing them for a nerd’s life in these complicated times is no small challenge - and Scott Robinson’s new book will equip you with everything you need to nurture your nerd kids in all the right ways!

A nerd, by definition, is...

This collection of essays on religion and spirituality are drawn from other, more general collections, in order to focus on a number of questions their author wrestled with during years in the Evangelical Christian church – as the son of a Fundamentalist pastor, as an inquisitive and curious thinker, and as a naturally progressive personality....

Isaac Asimov was a legend, both as a science fiction author and science writer. He wrote over 500 books and countless articles during his lifetime - famously contributing to every topical category in the Dewey Decimal System, from science and technology to history to literature and religion. He amassed a vast following that spanned generations;...

What’s it like, growing up in a Fundamentalist church, a Fundamentalist home, with a Fundamentalist preacher for a dad? It’s a worldview like no other, especially for a Seventies kid reaching for the stars. This warm and humorous memoir explains what it’s like to love the Beatles from afar; to experience Rapture Terror and a sex talk about Debby...

The Outlander novels and TV series have awakened tens of millions to the romance, magic, and darkness of Scotland, a land of mystery and adventure. This wondrous, sometimes ominous, and often eerie corner of the world is the source of endless legends and tales - stories of ghosts and hauntings, fairies and giants, dreadful creatures; magic light...

The Outlander books of Diana Gabaldon (and the TV series by Ron B. Moore) awakened tens of millions of readers and viewers to the alluring romantic and sexual mores of historical Scotland, both fascinating and titillating in their awkward truce between traditional social order and the lusty spirit of the Highlands. But the real stories are just...