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by Raymond M. Smullyan
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
Forever Undecided is the most challenging yet of Raymond Smullyan’s puzzle collections. It is, at the same time, an introduction—ingenious, instructive, entertaining—to Gödel’s famous theorems.
With all the wit and charm that have delighted readers of his previous books, Smullyan transports...
Older, but Better, but Older
From the Authors of How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2019
From the bestselling authors of How to be Parisian, what smart, savvy, fabulous French women think, feel and advise as they hit forty on life, love, and everything else
Older, but Better, but Older has the playful wit, self deprecation and worldly advice we have come to expect from these bestselling...
by David Schoenbaum
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
The author attempts to analyze Hitler's appeal to German farmers, workers, businessmen, industrialists, women and youth. Beginning with Germany's social situation after World War I, he demonstrates how Hitler improvised a programme that claimed to offer a classless society.
by Frances Anne Kemble
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Fanny Kemble was one of the leading lights of the English theater in the nineteenth century. During a triumphant tour of America, she met and married a wealthy Philadelphian, Pierce Butler, part of whose fortune derived from his family’s vast cotton and rice plantation on the Sea Islands of Georgia....
William Diamond'S Drum
The Beginning of the War of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
William Diamond's drum roll in 1775 was the call to arms for the farmers and villagers in Massachusetts that began the American revolution. The book is a well researched history of the war and various battles therein. It is written in a manner to make for an exciting retelling of history.
The Outlaw Ocean
Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2019
**"A riveting, terrifying, thrilling story of a netherworld that few people know about, and fewer will ever see.... The soul of this book is as wild as the ocean itself."
--Susan Casey, best-selling author of The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean
A riveting, adrenaline-fueled...
It Ain't Sauce, It's Gravy
Macaroni, Homestyle Cheesesteaks, the Best Meatballs in the World, and How Food Saved My Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Has cooking ever saved a life? It definitely rescued Steve Martorano from the streets of South Philadelphia, and an almost certain end in jail … or worse. Raised on Gram’s meatballs and Mom’s macaroni, Martorano learned at an early age that full-flavored food made with loving hands was the only...
Sunday Suppers at Lucques
Seasonal Recipes from Market to Table
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
Few chefs in America have won more acclaim than Suzanne Goin, owner of Lucques restaurant. A chef of impeccable pedigree, she got her start cooking at some of the best restaurants in the world–L’Arpège. Olives, and Chez Panisse, to name a few–places where she acquired top-notch skills to match...
by David F Noble
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Focusing on the design and implementation of an important new production technology—computer-based automatic machine tools—David F. Noble challenges the idea that technology has a life of its own which proceeds along a singular path. Such as seen, technology has been both a convenient scapegoat...
by Heidi Julavits
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
From the acclaimed novelist and The Believer editor HEIDI JULAVITS, a wildly imaginative and emotionally intense novel about mothers, daughters, and the psychic damage women can inflict on one another.
Is the bond between mother and daughter unbreakable, even by death?
Julia Severn is...
Vision
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2021
An intimate self-portrait encompassing the life, times, and career of one of the most transformative individuals--let alone athletes--of recent times.
Journeying from a blue-collar childhood to shatter tennis's exclusive country-club culture, Billie Jean King paved the way for a more open,...
by George Minot
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
From George Minot, author of The Blue Bowl (“Inexpressibly moving. It’s thrilling to find a writer this good.”—Amy Hempel), a new novel, moving, sensual, athletic (and aesthetic), set in the downtown New York yoga world at the turn of the millennium, a love story about a once-trendy artist...
by Thomas Reeves
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Freedom and the Foundation is a study in depth of the first and most controversial of the tax-exempt foundations dedicated to research and public education in the field of civil liberties and civil rights: The Fund for the Republic.
The story of its struggle for survival, as Mr. Reeves demonstrates,...
Green Metropolis
The Extraordinary Landscapes of New York City as Nature, History, and Design
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, the woman who launched the restoration of Central Park in the 1980s, now introduces us to seven remarkable green spaces in and around New York City, giving us the history—both natural and human—of how they have been transformed over time.
Here we find: The greenbelt...