A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form
Paul Lockhart and Keith Devlin
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"One of the best critiques of current mathematics education I have ever seen."-Keith Devlin, math...
Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean
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Suddenly, comics are everywhere: a newly matured art form, filling bookshelves with brilliant,...
The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
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Collected here are Gogol's finest tales - from the demon-haunted 'St John's Eve' to the strange...
White Girls
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"White Girls," Hilton Als s first book since "The Women" fourteen years ago, finds one of "The New...
Revelation Space
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Nine hundred thousand years ago, something wiped out the Amarantin. For the human colonists now...
Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery
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Fred Van Lente s brilliant debut is both an homage to the Golden Age of Mystery and a thoroughly...
The Hound of the Baskervilles
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'Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!' The death, quite suddenly, of Sir...
The Lost Island
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
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Gideon Crew - brilliant scientist, master thief - is living on borrowed time. When his mysterious...
The Maintenance of Headway
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'It's a matter of procedure,' I explained. 'Strictly for the record. You don't get sacked from this...
The Misinterpretation of Tara Jupp
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Country girl Tara is whisked off to Sixties London to become a pop star; there she is dressed, she...