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Within The Whirlwind
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Edition: 1st english ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsA harrowing and deeply personal memoir, Within the Whirlwind chronicles the second volume of Soviet journalist and...
Into The Whirlwind
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodOne woman's defiance against the most terrifying machinery of oppression the modern world has ever produced — Stalin's Great Purge — is...
Sagittarius
'At long last she was playing the role she had alwaysdreamt about, that of a mother, full of anxious solicitude, preparing to confide her daughter into the handsof a young...
All Our Yesterdays
Anna, a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl in a small town in northern Italy, after a brief romance finds herself pregnant. To save her reputation, she marries an eccentric older family friend and...
The City and The House
Giuseppe is leaving his flat in the city of Rome, where he has lived for more than twenty years, to go and live with his brother in America. He must...
Happiness, As Such
'Dear Michele, she wrote, I'm writing principally to tell you that your father is sick. Go visit him. He says he hasn t seen you for days.' Michele is the...
The Dry Heart
The Dry Heart begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement: 'I shot him between the eyes.' As the tale - a plunge into the chilly waters of loneliness, desperation, and...
The Little Virtues
'As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones...' So begins the titular essay in Natalia...
Family and Borghesia
Architect Carmine and translator Ivana were once lovers. Their child died and their relationship ended but now, decades on, both with marriages and children of their own, they are friends....
Eugenia
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
Unequal: The Maths of When Things Do and Don't Add Up
Author: Eugenia Cheng Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 At first glance, the concept of equality in maths seems unambiguous. Denoted by two parallel lines, the equals sign looks elegant,...
Beyond Infinity
Author: Eugenia Cheng Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "[Cheng] does a great service by showing us non-mathematician schlubs how real mathematical creativity works." -- Wall Street Journal How big...
My Own Words
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Format:...
Beyond Infinity: An expedition to the outer limits of the mathematical
Even small children know there are infinitely many whole numbers - start counting and you'll never reach the end. But there are also infinitely many decimal numbers between zero and...
Unequal: The Maths of When Things Do and Don't Add Up
At first glance, the concept of equality in maths seems unambiguous. Denoted by two parallel lines, the equals sign looks elegant, simple and entirely black and white. But between those...
Eugenie Grandet
One of the earliest and finest of Balzac's works, exploring the tragedy that comes with obsession. In a gloomy house in provincial Saumur lives the miser Grandet with his wife...
Eugenie Grandet
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Honore De Balzac Format:...
The Art of Logic in an Illogical World
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Author: Eugenia Cheng Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 How both logical and emotional reasoning can help us live better in our post-truth world In a world where fake news...
Beyond Infinity
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"[Cheng] does a great service by showing us non-mathematician schlubs how real mathematical creativity works." -- Wall Street Journal How big is the universe? How many numbers are there? And...
Is Maths Real?: How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics' Deepest
A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023A NEW SCIENTIST BEST BOOK OF 2023WINNER OF THE LA TIMES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2023 BOOK PRIZE'A generous tour of mathematics for anyone whose instincts...
The Rebel Empresses: Elisabeth of Austria and Eugenie of France, Power
From the acclaimed author of In the Shadow of the Empress comes the thrilling chronicle of two of the most influential and glamorous women in nineteenth-century Europe-Elisabeth, empress of Austria,...
The Rebel Empresses: Elisabeth of Austria and Eugenie of France, Power
From the acclaimed author of In the Shadow of the Empress comes the thrilling chronicle of two of the most influential and glamorous women in nineteenth-century Europe-Elisabeth, empress of Austria,...
The Empress Eugénie
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A richly detailed biographical work, The Empress Eugénie chronicles...
Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse
A sparkling new translation of Pushkin's masterpiece Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s Russia, Pushkin's...
Introduction to Superconductivity: v. 1
Well known for its accessibility to graduate students and experimental physicists, this volume emphasizes physical arguments and minimizes theoretical formalism. The second edition of this classic text features revisions by...