Year's Best SF 17 (2012)

Neil Gaiman's "And Weep Like Alexander" is a science fiction bar story. We meet Obediah Polkinghorn, an uninventor by profession. He has saved the world from countless innovations that just weren't good for us. He thinks he is finished, but jobs must still be undone.
 

Get actively engaged in your learning! Taking charge of your learning: a guide to college success shows you how. By leading you through group workshops and real life examples, this textbook helps you learn the study habits and test-taking secrets that have enabled countless others get better grades.

A Long Shadow

A LONG SHADOW finds Rutledge turned from hunter to prey when a mysterious stalker forces the Inspector to revisit painful memories from the war and confront unfinished business there.
Rutledge first encounters his unknown and unseen adversary after a dinner at the home of mutual friends on New Year’s Eve, 1919. Leaving before the other guests, he finds a brass machine gun cartridge casing on the doorstep. It’s like countless others he’s seen in the trenches—but what is it doing on a quiet London street, far from France? And this one has been engraved. Disturbed and intrigued, he pockets it.

Crust and Crumb: Master Formulas for Serious Bread Bakers

Discover the true heart and soul of bread in CRUST & CRUMB, from whole-wheat, sourdough, and rye to pita, focaccia, and naan. In this classic cookbook, expert baker Peter Reinhart shows how to produce phenomenal bread, explaining each step of the process in detail and giving you knowledge and confidence to create countless variations of your own.

The Little Book of Failure

Here is a compendium of also-rans and never-made-its. We're talking Betamax, the Sinclair C5, puffball skirts, sporks, the Millennium Dome... and countless other products that never quite cut it.