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  • Wayland's Principia

    by Richard Garfinkle ...
    Alien: Unlike in appearance, history, and thought.Alien: Distant, too distant to reach, too far to travel in a universe bound by the speed of light.Alien: They did not come, but they sent word, words so strange that humans would have to devote their lives to mimicking alien appearance, taking in alien history, and following alien thought in order to understand them.No longer so human, generation ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Exaltations

    by Richard Garfinkle ...
    Peter Refton is a hunter of human lives. Across a score and more of Earths he has caught and captured the most fascinating and pivotal people. The knight who reformed Charlemagne's army. The bureaucrat who oversaw China's expansion and control. The inspirer of wisdom in a million seekers of understanding.Peter Refton is that most dangerous of hunters: the biographer. He has made trophy-stories of ... Read more

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  • Diverticulitis

    A Comprehensive, Evidence-Based Guide to Diagnosis and Management

    Edited by Marylise Boutros, Richard Garfinkle, Sameh Emile, Patricia Sylla ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Colonic diverticulitis remains among the most common surgical diseases encountered by general and colorectal surgeons. As the incidence of diverticulitis rises worldwide, so does our knowledge regarding its pathophysiology and treatment. Over the past several decades, there have been many new advancements and trends in the management of diverticulitis, with many more to come in the near future ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • The Muse of Coding

    Computer Programming as Art

    by Richard Garfinkle ...
    This book gives students and experienced programmers a way to see coding as an art and themselves as artists whose personal views, experiences, and ways of thinking can make their programs better for themselves and their users.This book shows in a good-humored and sympathetic way how the artistic and practical sides of programming are the same, delving into the methods of coding, the history of ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • X Marks the Spot

    The Lost Inheritance of Mathematics

    by Richard Garfinkle, David Garfinkle ...
    Series series AK Peters/CRC Recreational Mathematics Series
    X Marks the Spot is written from the point of view of the users of mathematics. Since the beginning, mathematical concepts and techniques (such as arithmetic and geometry) were created as tools with a particular purpose like counting sheep and measuring land areas.Understanding those purposes leads to a greater understanding of why mathematics developed as it did. Later mathematical concepts came ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • ANTHEM

    by Ayn Rand ...
    Anthem is a dystopian fiction novella by Russian-American writer Ayn Rand, written in 1937 and first published in 1938. The story takes place at an unspecified future date when mankind has entered another Dark Age. Technological advancement is now carefully planned and the concept of individuality has been eliminated. A young man known as Equality 7-2521 rebels by doing secret scientific research. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

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  • Build a Mathematical Mind - Even If You Think You Can't Have One

    by Albert Rutherford ...
    Would you like to be a proficient mathematician… without using numbers?There is so much more to math than geometry and calculus! It is present in almost every life aspect, from improving your communication skills to how to fit your luggage into your car.Did you always hate math because you couldn't understand complex formulas?Don't let a few equations or a bad teacher deter you from building a ... Read more

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  • Math Formulas And Tables: Algebra, Trigonometry, Geometry, Linear Algebra, Calculus, Statistics. Tables Of Integrals, Identities, Transforms & More (Mobi Study Guides)

    by MobileReference ...
    Students and research workers in mathematics, physics, engineering and other sciences will find this compilation of more than 4,000 mathematical formulas and tables invaluable. All the information included is practical, rarely used results are excluded. Topics range from elementary to advanced - from algebra, trigonometry and calculus to linear algebra and statistics. Great care has been taken to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction

    A Century of Science Fiction

    by Robert A. Heinlein, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Samuel Butler, Jules Verne, John W. Campbell, Jr., E.E. Doc Smith, Philip Franics Nowlan, L. Sprague de Camp, Frederik Pohl, Clifford D. Simak0, A. E. van Vogt1, Jack Williamson2, Tom Easton3, Avram Davidson4, Philip Jose Farmer5, C. M. Kornbluth6, Zenna Henderson7, Richard Matheson8, Jack Vance9, Robert Silverberg0, Brian W. Aldiss1, Isaac Asimov2, Ben Bova3, Joe Haldeman4, Ann McCaffrey5, R. A. Lafferty6, Octavia E. Butler7, Jack Dann8, Larry Niven9, Kitt Reed0, Vonda N. MacIntyre1, Joanna Russ2, Keith Roberts3, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.4, Gregory Benford5, H. P. Lovecraft6, Alan Dean Foster7, David Drake8, Pat Cadigan9, Lisa Goldstein0, James Morrow1, James Morrow2, Terry Pratchett3, Lucius Shepard4, Bruce Sterling5, Charles Stross6, Howard Waldrop7, Connie Willis8, Cory Doctorow9 ...
    A survey of the last 100 years of science fiction, with representative stories and illuminating essays by the top writers, poets, and scholars, from Edgar Rice Burroughs and Samuel Butler to Robert A. Heinlein and and Jack Vance, from E.E. "Doc" Smith and Clifford D. Simak to Ted Chiang and Charles Stross-- and everyone in between. More than one million words of classic fiction and essays! ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Way of the Samurai

    The Book of Five Rings, The Hagakure, Bushido: The Soul of Japan

    by Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Miyamoto Musashi, Inazo Nitobe ...
    Series series The Big Ideas
    Presented here in one volume are three of the seminal texts relating to the Japanese 'Way of the Samurai', essential reading for anyone interested in the Samurai culture of Japan. 'Go Rin No Sho', or 'The Book of Five Rings' is a famous text written by the swordsman Miyamoto Musashi in 1645, concerning Martial Arts, in particular Kenjitsu and the art of Zen.
 Miyamoto Musashi uses language that is ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • My Big TOE - Inner Workings H

    Book 3 of a Trilogy Unifying Philosophy, Physics, and Metaphysics

    by Thomas Campbell ...
    Series Book 3 - My Big TOE
    Book 3 of the MY Big TOE trilogy. My Big TOE, written by a nuclear physicist in the language contemporary culture, unifies science and philosophy, physics and metaphysics, mind and matter, purpose and meaning, the normal and the paranormal. The entirety of human experience (mind, body, and spirit) including both our objective and subjective worlds is brought together under one seamless scientific ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Manifold: Space

    by Stephen Baxter ...
    Series Book 2 - Manifold
    “As always, [Stephen] Baxter plays with space and time with consummate skill. . . . He continues to be one of the leading writers of hard science fiction, and one of the most thought-provoking as well.”—Science Fiction ChronicleThe year is 2020. Fueled by an insatiable curiosity, Reid Malenfant ventures to the far edge of the solar system, where he discovers a strange artifact left behind by an ... Read more

    $5.99 USD