In Retrospect: From the Pill to the Pen
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These are the reflections of a nonagenarian polymath describing the shift from a fifty-year-long...
Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero
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In 1938 Action Comics #1 introduced the world to Superman. In a matter of years, the skies of our...
The Invention of Numbers
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Numbers are at the heart of the existence of the universe and everything in it, and yet a lot of us...
To Infinity and Beyond: A Cultural History of the Infinite
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To Infinity and Beyond explores the idea of infinity in mathematics and art. Eli Maor examines the...
Chocolat: the Art of the Chocolatier: Les Marquis De Laduree
Serge Gleizes, Vincent Lemains and Julian Christophe
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Gourmands everywhere will be delighted by the publication of Les Marquis de Laduree a magic door...
Titanic and the Making of James Cameron: The inside Story of the Three-Year Adventure That Rewrote Motion Picture History
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The first film to gross over $1 billion worldwide, winner of eleven Academy Awards (for Best...
Islamic Architecture on the Move: Motion and Modernity
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Even a casual observer can spy traces of Islamic architecture and design on buildings all over the...
This is Gaudi
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Antoni Gaudi has a reputation as monastic, mad and hermetic. But the architect of many of the...
Adventures in Physics & Pueblo Pottery: Memoirs of a Los Alamos Scientist
Francis H. Harlow and Dwight P. Lanmon
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Francis H Harlow (1928-present) is a world class physicist, an expert on Pueblo Indian pottery and...
Beds and Problem Paintings: Urs Fischer
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Urs Fischer's work explores the genres of classical art history (still lifes, portraits, nudes,...