Stanislaw Martin Ulam. Adventures of a Mathematician. Preface to the 1991 Edition by William G. Mathews and Daniel O. Hirsch. Note on S. M. Ulam's Mathematics by Jan Mycielski. Postscript by Françoise Ulam.
University of California Press....
Gerald Durrell was born in India in 1925. His family settled on Corfu when he was a boy and he spent his time studying its wildlife. He relates these experiences in the trilogy beginning with My Family and Other Animals, and continuing with...
When this true-crime story first appeared in 1980, it made the New York Times bestseller list within weeks. Two decades later, it's being rereleased in conjunction with a film version produced by DreamWorks. In the space of five years, Frank...
According to Mark Phillips and Cathy O'Brien, the United States is run by an elite group of New World Order fanatics who are involved in the abduction of sexually abused children. These children are brainwashed and turned into slaves by the US...
According to Mark Phillips and Cathy O'Brien, the United States is run by an elite group of New World Order fanatics who are involved in the abduction of sexually abused children. These children are brainwashed and turned into slaves by the US...
In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor-in-chief of French Elle, the father of two young children, a 44-year-old man known and loved for his wit, his style, and his impassioned approach to life. By the end of the year he was also the victim of...
A HANDFUL OF
DUST is Evelyn Waugh's
scathing commentary on the well-mannered death struggles of
the upper classes--an irrepressibly amusing picture of society
politely blowing its own brains out, with a defiant smile.It tells of...
Author's Note: This book is written in the style of an oral history, a form which requires interviewing a wide variety of witnesses and compiling their testimony. Anytime multiple sources are questioned about a shared experience, it's inevitable...