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How Mathematicians Think: Using Ambiguity, Contradiction, and Paradox
To many outsiders, mathematicians appear to think like computers, grimly grinding away with a strict formal logic and moving methodically--even algorithmically--from one black-and-white deduction to another. Yet mathematicians often describe...
The Importance of Being Fuzzy: And Other Insights from the Border
How has computer science changed mathematical thinking? In this first ever comprehensive survey of the subject for popular science readers, Arturo Sangalli explains how computers have brought a new practicality...
Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany
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A great deal of Holocaust survival stories revolve around disguise--many Jews were forced into impersonation by the desperateness of their plight. Imagine if a person, by the accident of birth,...
Nureyev, His Life
"Nureyev: His Life," the first full-scale biography of the legendary Russian dancer, traces Nureyev's remarkable climb out of poverty in the war-torn Soviet Union to become one of our century's...
The Neandertal Enigma: Solving the Mystery of Modern Human Origins
Challenges the belief that the Neandertal was the first true human species, revealing the existence of humans fifty thousand years earlier, and considering why the Neandertal species died out.
Yesterday, I Cried: Celebrating the Lessons of Living and Loving
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This self-help resource demonstrates how some of life's most important and joyous lessons can come from life's hardest knocks.
The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the
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Longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award The astonishing story of aunique missionary project and the America it embodied from award-winning historian John Demos. Near the start of the nineteenth...
Primitive Passions: Men, Women and the Quest for Ecstasy
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In this provocative and illuminating book, Marianna Torgovnick explores the psychology of our profound attraction to cultures we call "primitive." Whether located in Africa, the South Pacific, or the American...
Inside the KGB
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A former KGB major who defected to the West after a meteoric rise in the Soviet secret service, Vladimir Kuzichkin breaks all the rules of secrecy in a book that...
Star Trek - the Next Generation: Dark Mirror
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This adventure reveals the crew members of the Starship Enterprise in mortal combat against the most savage enemy they have ever encountered - themselves. Set in the 24th century, a...
The Valiant
Three hundred years ago, the "S.S. Valiant" was destroyed during an ill-fated attempt to cross the legendary Galactic Barrier. Starfleet had always assumed that the "Valiant" had perished with all...
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
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From the perilous ocean crossing to the shared bounty of the first Thanksgiving, the Pilgrim settlement of New England has become enshrined as our most sacred national myth. Yet, as...
Discovery
An awe inspiring collection of stories and writings that recount the historic events that have helped shape the world we live in today. Included are Darwins observation of natural selection,...
I Don't Want to be a Big Sister!
It's a baby! It's very small. And it looks pretty harmless. The problem is I don't want to keep it! These hilarious stories, brilliantly brought to life by Heath McKenzie,...
Nightingale and the Rose
$150.00 AUD
This spectacular new series of artworks by Del Kathryn Barton is inspired by Oscar Wilde's classic story 'The Nightingale and the Rose'. The book contains 20 new paintings and drawings...
Masterpieces from Paris: Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne and Beyond
Featuring 112 works by some of the best-known Post-Impressionists, this stunning book includes works by Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Paul Cezanne, Georges Seurat, Pierre Bonnard, Claude Monet, Maurice Denis,...
Hades, Argentina
A decade after fleeing for his life, a man is pulled back to Argentina by an undying love. It was the most obvious thing in the world that I'dfollow her...
Malice
At seventeen, on the night of her mother's funeral, Grace Adams is attacked. A young woman with secrets too horrible to tell, with hurts so deep they may never heal,...
The City Always Wins
We've been doing the same thing for hundreds of years. Marching, fighting, chanting, dying, changing, winning, losing, marching, fighting, chanting, dying, marching, chanting, planning, failing, fighting, marching, marching, fighting, fighting...
From the Corner of His Eye
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Dean Koontz has been called "America's most popular suspense novelist,"* but that only begins to describe the rich variety and endless invention that characterize his work. Critics hail his impeccable...
Tiger: Biography
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From a writer with unparalleled access to Tiger Woods and his family, theonly book that provides the "story behind the story" of Tiger's life andworld. How does a kid from...
The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick
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"A great and calamitous sequence of arguments with the universe: poignant, terrifying, ludicrous, and brilliant. The Exegesis is the sort of book associated with legends and madmen, but Dick wasn't...
The Hunt Club
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When a federal judge is murdered alongside his mistress it looks like a simple case of jealous rage. Until Wyatt Hunt stumbles on a strange connection between the judge &...
The Most Beautiful Country Towns of Provence
The two "Alpes" departements, Haute-Provence and Maritimes, which sweep the north of the province and finally descend to the sea in the east, embrace the varied gems of mountainous Saint-Martin-Vesubie,...
Five More Golden Rules: Knots, Codes, Choas and Other Great Theories
"Casti is one of the great science writers." -San Francisco Examiner "Casti's gift is to be able to let the nonmathematical reader share in his understanding of the beauty of...
Innocent
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The sequel to the genre-defining, landmark bestseller Presumed Innocent , INNOCENT continues the story of Rusty Sabich and Tommy Molto who are, once again, twenty years later, pitted against each...
Do You Know?: Polar Animals and Other Cold-Climate Creatures
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What type of animals live in the cold regions? How do they survive in extreme temperatures? The Do You Know?TM series provides in-depth looks at a wide range of popular...
On The Roof: A Thatcher's Journey
The reed goes on, the reed comes off. The reed rots and returns to the earth. The houses we work on outlast us. The thatch we use has never stood...
The Velvet Messenger: Young Queens #2
From the creator of the bestselling Claris series comes this astonishing new fairytale about the daughter of a locksmith, who finds a strange key belonging to the queen. Young Violet...
All the Little Liars
What REALLY happened at Turtle Lake? You think you know. Think again. California, 2003 A thirteen-year-old girl disappears from a party at Carlsbad's Turtle Lake. Discovered on the trunk of...
Breaking Hel: The Age of Bronze: Book 3
Before iron helmets and steel swords, when dragons roamed the world, was an age of bronze and stone, when the Gods walked the earth, and people lived in terror. In...
Legion: Lies of the Beholder
Stephen Leeds, also known as 'Legion', has a unique mental condition. He can become an expert on any subject in hours . . . and with every new area of...
Esther Simpson: The True Story of her Mission to Save Scholars from
Many of the academic refugees Esther Simpson helped rescue are well remembered. But who was she and why has history forgotten her? This is the story of Esther Simpson, a...
The Rumor Game: The superb World War II-set US thriller from the
'Terrific entertainment' -- STEPHEN KING on Thomas Mullen's Darktown A determined reporter and a reluctant FBI agent face off against fascist elements in this gripping historical thriller set in World...
The House at Watch Hill
YOUR FAVOURITE AUTHOR'S FAVOURITE AUTHOR: KAREN MARIE MONING IS BACK WITH A SEDUCTIVE NEW SERIES... 'Moning's world building is extensive and inspired' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW **** THE HOUSE...
