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- Einstein
Einstein
Much has been written about Albert Einstein, technical and biographical, but very little remains as valuable as this unique hybrid of a book written by Einstein's colleague and...
- I Am the Blues: The Willie Dixon Story Dixon WilliePaperback
I Am the Blues: The Willie Dixon Story Dixon WilliePaperback
These are just a few of Willie Dixon's contributions to blues, R&B, and rock'n'roll--songs performed by artists as varied as the Rolling Stones, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, ZZ...
- The Complete Fawlty Towers Cleese JohnPaperback
The Complete Fawlty Towers Cleese JohnPaperback
What did Basil Fawlty fail to avoid mentioning? Why did Sybil keep snagging her cardies? Where was Polly on the night of the great wedding anniversary disaster? And what is the...
- Panzer Leader Guderian HeinzPaperback
Panzer Leader Guderian HeinzPaperback
General Heinz Guderian's revolutionary strategic vision and his skill in armored combat brough Germany its initial victories during World War II. Combining Guderian's land...
- Scipio Africanus: Greater Than Napoleon Hart B. H. LiddellPaperback
Scipio Africanus: Greater Than Napoleon Hart B. H. LiddellPaperback
Scipio Africanus (236-183 B.C.) was one of the most exciting and dynamic leaders in history. As commander he never lost a battle. Yet it is his adversary, Hannibal, who has...
- Burt Lancaster: An American Life Buford KatePaperback
Burt Lancaster: An American Life Buford KatePaperback
Now in paperback, here is the critically acclaimed, best-selling biography of one of Hollywood's legendary stars. Burt Lancaster is known to audiences around the world as the...
- About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made Yagoda BenPaperback
About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made Yagoda BenPaperback
For more than seven decades, the New Yorker has been the embodiment of urban sophistication and literary accomplishment, the magazine where the best work of virtually every...
- The Secret Pulse of Time: Making Sense of Life's Scarcest Commodity Klein StefanPaperback
The Secret Pulse of Time: Making Sense of Life's Scarcest Commodity Klein StefanPaperback
- Stefan Klein
- anglické
- 368
Popular science at its very best, The Secret Pulse of Time awakens us to and empowers us with the idea that time is far more at our disposal than we have previously realized....
- Apocalypse Now Book
Apocalypse Now Book
The movie took years to be filmed and edited, and was the subject of endless stories, rumors, and speculation. At a screening at Cannes in May 1979, Francis Ford Coppola said...
- Stones of Venice
Stones of Venice
"It is in Venice, and in Venice only, that effectual blows can be struck at this pestilent art of the Renaissance. Destroy its claims to admiration there, and it can assert...
- Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton
Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton
- Rice, E.
- 688
- 2001
A New York Times best-seller when it was first published, Rice's biography is the gripping story of a fierce, magnetic, and brilliant man whose real-life accomplishments are...
- Winston Churchill Reporting
Winston Churchill Reporting
Long before his finest hour as Britain's wartime leader, Winston Churchill emerged on the world stage as a brazen foreign correspondent, covering wars of empire in Cuba, India,...
- Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir
This classic in the literature of cinema represents the convergence of the three leading figures of French film: Jean Renoir, universally considered the greatest French...
- Maria Montessori
Maria Montessori
Maria Montessori (1870--1952) brought about a revolution in the classroom. She developed a method of teaching small children and inspired a movement that carried that method...
- Lightning Man
Lightning Man
This brilliantly conceived biography is the very American tale of a quiet man, raised by religious zealots, who became a gifted and prolific painter (more than three hundred...
- Jack and LEM
Jack and LEM
I'm not that kind of boy," Jack angrily wrote to Lem after his friend made a sexual advance. But Jack didn't end the relationship. From the time John F. Kennedy and Kirk LeMoyne...
- A Year in the Maine Woods Heinrich Bernd Paperback
A Year in the Maine Woods Heinrich Bernd Paperback
- Bernd Heinrich
- anglické
- 272
Escapist fantasies usually involve the open road, but Bernd Heinrich's dream was to focus on the riches of one small place--a few green acres along Alder Brook just east of the...
- Battle of Hurtgen Forest Whiting Charles Pevná vazba
Battle of Hurtgen Forest Whiting Charles Pevná vazba
The U.S. Army regards the Hurtgen Forest as one of the most desperate battles it has ever fought. Flanking the key German city of Aachen, the forest was one of the formidable...
- Psychic Discoveries Ostrander &. SchroederPaperback
Psychic Discoveries Ostrander &. SchroederPaperback
The Soviet bloc got there first. And set off a titanic struggle between good and evil to control and use psychic powers. Read about decades-long scientific work with PK - mind...
- The Salem Witch Trials Readers Hill FrancesPaperback
The Salem Witch Trials Readers Hill FrancesPaperback
- Hill, Frances
- anglické
- 440
- 2000
Against the backdrop of a Puritan theocracy threatened by change, in a population terrified not only of eternal damnation but of the earthly dangers of Indian massacres and...
- Synchronicity: Through the Eyes of Science, Myth, and the Trickster Combs AllanPaperback
Synchronicity: Through the Eyes of Science, Myth, and the Trickster Combs AllanPaperback
Carl Jung coined the term "synchronicity" to describe meaningful coincidences that conventional notions of time and causality cannot explain. Working with the great quantum...
- Healthy Pleasures Ornstein Robert E.Paperback
Healthy Pleasures Ornstein Robert E.Paperback
- Robert E. Ornstein, David Sobel
- anglické
- Da Capo Press Inc
- 320
Imagine a medical treatment that can decrease heart disease, boost immune function, relieve depression, and block pain--whose only side effect is that it makes you feel good....
- Marie Curie
Marie Curie
One hundred years ago, Marie Curie discovered radioactivity, for which she won the Nobel Prize in physics. In 1911 she won an unprecedented second Nobel Prize, this time in...
- The Mensa Genius Quiz Book Grosswirth MarvinPaperback
The Mensa Genius Quiz Book Grosswirth MarvinPaperback
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Are You a Genius? Let the Mensa Genius Quiz Book help you find out. This collection of quizzes, puzzles, games, and strategies is guaranteed to tax your intelligence, provide...