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  • Abstract Algebra and Famous Impossibilities

    Squaring the Circle, Doubling the Cube, Trisecting an Angle, and Solving Quintic Equations

    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This textbook develops the abstract algebra necessary to prove the impossibility of four famous mathematical feats: squaring the circle, trisecting the angle, doubling the cube, and solving quintic equations. All the relevant concepts about fields are introduced concretely, with the geometrical questions providing motivation for the algebraic concepts. By focusing on problems that are as easy to ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Know I Loved You Today

    Know I Loved You Today is a deeply personal collection of Kenneth Francis Pearson's haiku and free verse reflecting on loss and commemoration. The concise haiku find solace through images from the natural world - the cycles of seasons, fading flowers, the rising and setting sun. Brief glimpses resonate with memories and the endurance of love in the wake of tragedy.Longer verses expand on themes of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Anemias and Other Red Cell Disorders

    The first comprehensive, yet concise, clinical guide to the full spectrum of anemiasAnemias and Other Red Cell Disorders is the first resource to provide a practical diagnostic/treatment framework for identifying and successfully managing acute, congenital, and chronic anemias, and other red blood cell disorders. With its broad scope, easy-to-navigate format, and ready-to-apply diagnostic and ... Read more

    $102.99 USD

  • Prison Breaks: 13 Books of Prisoner-of-War Narratives

    Thirteen Prisoner-of-War Narratives of Escape, Endurance, Resistance, and Survival

    Prison Breaks gathers thirteen prisoner-of-war narratives into a capacious study of captivity, ingenuity, endurance, and the contested ethics of escape. Moving between memoir, adventure chronicle, military testimony, and reflective autobiography, the volume makes confinement a literary as well as political condition. Accounts of audacious flight, clandestine planning, and survival beyond prison ... Read more

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    Series series Classic Sensation
    Hannay is summoned to the Foreign Office by Sir Walter Bullivant, a senior intelligence man, whom Hannay met and assisted in The 39 Steps. Bullivant gives Hannay an outline of the political situation in the Middle East, and hints that the Germans and their Turkish allies are plotting to cause a great uprising throughout the Muslim world, that will throw the whole of the Middle East, India and ... Read more

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  • All the Math You Missed

    (But Need to Know for Graduate School)

    Beginning graduate students in mathematical sciences and related areas in physical and computer sciences and engineering are expected to be familiar with a daunting breadth of mathematics, but few have such a background. This bestselling book helps students fill in the gaps in their knowledge. Thomas A. Garrity explains the basic points and a few key results of all the most important undergraduate ... Read more

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  • Nothing of Importance

    by Bernard Adams ...
    Adams served as a lieutenant in the 1st Battalion of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers and was stationed on the Western Front, primarily in the trenches of the Somme. In this memoir, he documents the daily life of a soldier, focusing on the mundane routines, camaraderie, and the moments of terror faced by men living in the trenches. Through his detailed and often stark writing, Adams captures the contrast ... Read more

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  • War Is War

    by A. M. Burrage ...
    Alfred Burrages War is War is his sincere and successful attempt to record his experiences as a private soldier in France during the First World War, his reactions to abnormal conditions and his observations.Written in the 1920s he wanted the curious to know what war was really like. Burrage realized that nearly all such memoirs were written by ex-officers who inevitably saw the war from a ... Read more

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  • How Mathematicians Think

    Using Ambiguity, Contradiction, and Paradox to Create Mathematics

    by William Byers ...
    To many outsiders, mathematicians appear to think like computers, grimly grinding away with a strict formal logic and moving methodically--even algorithmically--from one black-and-white deduction to another. Yet mathematicians often describe their most important breakthroughs as creative, intuitive responses to ambiguity, contradiction, and paradox. A unique examination of this less-familiar ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Sevastopol Sketches (Sebastopol Sketches)

    by Leo Tolstoy ...
    "Sevastopol Sketches (Sebastopol Sketches)" is a collection of three works of historical fiction in which Tolstoy draws upon his real life experiences during the Siege of Sevastopol. The titular location draws its name from that of a city in Crimea and takes place during the Crimean war. The three tales in this collection are respectively titled "Sevastopol in December", "Sevastopol in May", and ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • All the Mathematics You Missed

    But Need to Know for Graduate School

    Beginning graduate students in mathematics and other quantitative subjects are expected to have a daunting breadth of mathematical knowledge. But few have such a background. This book will help students to see the broad outline of mathematics and to fill in the gaps in their knowledge. The author explains the basic points and a few key results of all the most important undergraduate topics in ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • A Passionate Prodigality

    Fragments of Autobiography

    by Guy Chapman ...
    This classic WWI memoir by a decorated infantryman and historian presents a vivid account of life in the trenches on the Western Front.During World War One, Major Guy Chapman, OBE MC, served in the Royal Fusiliers and was awarded the Military Cross for his bravery. Joining soon after war was declared, Chapman was stationed in France and fought in the Battle of Arras.When Chapman's memoir, A ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus