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  • Duke of Deception

    by Geoffrey Wolff ...
    Duke Wolff was a flawless specimen of the American clubman -- a product of Yale and the OSS, a one-time fighter pilot turned aviation engineer. Duke Wolff was a failure who flunked out of a series of undistinguished schools, was passed up for military service, and supported himself with desperately improvised scams, exploiting employers, wives, and, finally, his own son.In The Duke of Deception, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Providence

    by Geoffrey Wolff, Ian Maxtone-Graham ...
    Series Book 17 - Nonpareil Books
    Attorney Adam Dwyer has six months to live. Carla Dwyer has to try and relax. Lieutenant Tom Cocoran has twenty years on the force. Baby and Skippy have a couple of hours to kill. All five of these people will never be the same after a series of violent events, hilarious as they are tragic, upset the equilibrium of life in a small, strange city.Between Boston and New York City lies Providence, ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • A Day at the Beach

    Recollections

    by Geoffrey Wolff ...
    With these interwoven autobiographical essays, Geoffrey Wolff, author of the acclaimed The Duke of Deception, recounts the moral (and immoral) education of a writer, friend, husband, and father, as he offers his spirited, elegant, and deeply felt observations on an extraordinary life: from wildly dysfunctional childhood Christmases to a concupiscent career teaching literature in Istanbul; from a ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Hard Way Around

    The Passages of Joshua Slocum

    by Geoffrey Wolff ...
    Series series Vintage Departures
    A masterful biographer now offers a thrilling, definitive portrait of one of history’s most legendary icons of adventure.In 1860, sixteen-year-old Joshua Slocum escaped a hardscrabble childhood in Nova Scotia by signing on as an ordinary seaman to a merchant ship bound for Dublin. Despite having only a third-grade education, Slocum rose through the nautical ranks at a mercurial pace; just a decade ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Black Sun

    The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby

    by Geoffrey Wolff, Geoffrey Wolff ...
    Includes an afterword by the author.Harry Crosby was the godson of J. P. Morgan and a friend of Ernest Hemingway. Living in Paris in the twenties and directing the Black Sun Press, which published James Joyce among others, Crosby was at the center of the wild life of the lost generation. Drugs, drink, sex, gambling, the deliberate derangement of the senses in the pursuit of transcendent revelation ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Developments and Retrospectives in Lie Theory

    Geometric and Analytic Methods

    Edited by Geoffrey Mason, Ivan Penkov, Joseph A. Wolf ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    The Lie Theory Workshop, founded by Joe Wolf (UC, Berkeley), has been running for over two decades. At the beginning, the top universities in California and Utah hosted the meetings, which continue to run on a quarterly basis. Experts in representation theory/Lie theory from various parts of the US, Europe, Asia (China, Japan, Singapore, Russia), Canada, and South and Central America were ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Developments and Retrospectives in Lie Theory

    Algebraic Methods

    Edited by Geoffrey Mason, Ivan Penkov, Joseph A. Wolf ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    The Lie Theory Workshop, founded by Joe Wolf (UC, Berkeley), has been running for over two decades. These workshops have been sponsored by the NSF, noting the talks have been seminal in describing new perspectives in the field covering broad areas of current research. At the beginning, the top universities in California and Utah hosted the meetings which continue to run on a quarterly basis. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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