A short introduction to the number world, looking at different types of numbers and how they behave
Reveals the astonishing richness and variety of numbers, including primes, imaginary and comple ... Read more
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Philosophy is written in this great book which is continually open before our eyes - I mean the universe...'
Galileo's astronomical discoveries changed the way we look at the world, and our place i ... Read more
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A concise look at how the economic approach to the environment fits together
Ideal for readers interested in the world in which we live and the relationship between economic activity and the envi ... Read more
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It is no good any longer having any opinion upon anything'
After the death of his wife, the handsome politician Phineas Finn returns from Ireland to the parliamentary fray. In his absence the pol ... Read more
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Selected by the man whom the Sunday Timescalled 'the greatest explorer of the past twenty years', a comprehensive and enthralling anthology of the writings of explorers through the ages
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Includes two Nobel-prize winners: Oe and Kawabata and the acclaimed writers Tanizaki, Mishima, and Murakami
Captures the exoticism and appeal of Japanese culture
Includes many new, previously u ... Read more
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Represents 200 years of the French literary tradition
Includes well-known stories by writers such as Balzac, Maupassant, Sartre, and Camus
Features work by Francophone writers from Quebec, Afri ... Read more
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Edited by William Trevor, a distinguished writer of novels and short stories
Excellent and widespread review coverage
45 stories, 35 authors, seven early folk tales
Includes Ireland's finest ... Read more
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A personal collection by a distinguished writer of short stories, novels, and travel books
An impressive list of authors including Sir Walter Scott, Mark Twain, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, H. E ... Read more
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I have so much and my feeling for her devours everything, I have so much and without her everything is nothing.'
The Sorrows of Young Werther propelled Goethe to instant fame when it first appeare ... Read more
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