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This book is a brief and focused introduction to the reverse mathematics and computability theory of combinatorial principles, an area of research which has seen a particular surge of activity in the last few years. It provides an overview of some fundamental ideas and techniques, and enough context...

MR is a powerful modality. At its most advanced, it can be used not just to image anatomy and pathology, but to investigate organ function, to probe in vivo chemistry, and even to visualise the brain thinking. However, clinicians, technologists and scientists struggle with the study of the subject....

In 1898 Michael Townsend discovers an alien space-probe trapped under Canadian permafrost. Having never encountered a carbon-based being, the self-aware alien-probe believes Michael has suffered major injuries and “cures” Michael by raising him to the mental and physical limits possible for a...

Go West Young Man... George Alwood III, is a spoiled and rich young man who heads west to become a mountain man in 1825. Taken under wing by two experienced old mountain men, George Alwood the third becomes Bear Killer the mountain man. After a short visit with Shoshoni Indians, Bear Killer...

Roy Bean’s passion, as far back as his youth in Mason County, Kentucky, had been for gold. He tried his hand at being a merchant in Mexico, but then he killed a man in a gunfight and had to flee. A chance encounter with Jeff Kirker gives his life a new direction. Kirker masterminded the robbery...

Three different views about human reactions when the end of the human race is near. Or at least the end of your own life.  Seventh Sleeve of Tombaugh—Even the aliens left Pluto alone.  Master Judd’s Match—Overachieving can get you killed. Nine More—Would you give your life to save humanity?

Contents The Fiend -- The Dead Mother -- The Dead Witch -- The Treasure -- The Cross-Surety -- The Awful Drunkard -- The Bad Wife -- The Golovikha -- The Three Copecks -- The Miser -- The Fool and the Birch-Tree -- The Mizgir -- The Smith and the Demon -- Ivan Popyalof -- The Norka -- Marya...

Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation.  A History of English Philosophy is a fantastic overview of Hume, Locke, Berkeley, and more.

The present work has three principal objectives: (1) to fix the chronology of the development of the pre-Euclidean theory of incommensurable magnitudes beginning from the first discoveries by fifth-century Pythago­ reans, advancing through the achievements of Theodorus of Cyrene, Theaetetus, Archytas...

Now in full color, Contemporary Orthodontics, 5th Edition is a practical resource with a long tradition of excellence. Line drawings and more than 1,000 new color images illustrate concepts more clearly than ever. This book includes detailed information on diagnosis, treatment planning concepts, related...

William Ralph Inge was an English author, Anglican priest, professor of divinity at Cambridge, and Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, which provided the appellation by which he was widely known, "Dean Inge." In Inge's 'Personal Religion and the Life of Devotion' the author unveils his soul a little.

Sperrian agent, Oran, is sent to frontier planet H-27, claimed by the rival Hazitsy Empire. Why is H-27 kept so low-tech? Why have thousands of humans disappeared? While struggling to solve these puzzling mysteries, Oran befriends a native leader, Large Tooth. Oran soon suspects the natives arent...

Warning: a detailed plot synopsis (spoiler!) follows. Wally Bayer is a graduate student of physics at Adams College in upstate New York who, along with his professor Alan Earhart and several others, is working on a top-secret time travel project funded by the Pentagon. Lieutenant Colonel Adam Halstead,...

Voyages to the end of space place pressures on all involved. Even worse if deep space is actually the here and now.