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Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Little, Brown and Company 2012; US$ 9.99Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply, Mom. Then Bernadette disappears. It began when Bee aced her report card and claimed... more...
The Seamstress
Penguin Books Ltd 2012; Not AvailableMar?a Due?as's million copy best-selling tale of adventure, tragedy, love and war, The Seamstress, a Richard and Judy 2012 book club pick. Spain, 1936 and the brink of civil war. Aged twelve, Sira Quiroga was apprenticed to a Madrid dressmaker. As she masters the seamstress's art, her life seems to be clearly mapped out - until she... more...
Scent of Magic
Harlequin (UK) Limited 2013; US$ 10.99The army of the dead are coming Avry of Kazan, the last Healer of the mystical Fifteen Realms, has a power that cant be matched. But in the minds of her friends and foe alike, Avry no longer exists. Now, as the psychotic King Tohon builds an army mightier than any that has been seen beforea league of undead soldiersAvry must... more...
Mastermind
Canongate Books 2013; US$ 15.82Holmes's concept of the 'brain attic' - a metaphor for the information we choose to store in the mind and how we organise our knowledge, Konnikova unpacks the mental strategies that lead to clearer thinking and deeper insights. Moving through principles of logic and deduction, creativity and imagination, Mastermind puts 21st century neuroscience and... more...
The Routledge Portuguese Bilingual Dictionary
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 71.95This compact and up-to-date two-way dictionary provides a comprehensive and modern vocabulary. It is the ideal reference for all users of Portuguese. The dictionary includes an extensive coverage of practical terminology from a diversity of fields including; business and economics, law, medicine and information technology as well as common abbreviations,... more...
Multiagent Systems and Applications
Springer 2012; US$ 99.99The focus of the book is on completed implementations of agent-based software systems. Here, agent technology is considered broadly, starting from development of agent platforms, all the way through systems actually implemented. The covered topics also include lessons learned during implementation of agent platforms and the reflection on the process... more...
Comfort Woman
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 1999; US$ 17.95In April 1943, fifteen-year-old Maria Rosa Henson was taken by Japanese soldiers occupying the Philippines and forced into prostitution as a comfort woman. In this simply told yet powerfully moving autobiography, Rosa recalls her childhood as the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy landowner, her work for Huk guerillas, her wartime ordeal, and her marriage... more...
Determinantal Ideals
Springer 2007; US$ 54.99Determinantal ideals are a central topic in both commutative algebra and algebraic geometry. This book addresses three problems: CI-liaison class and G-liaison class of standard determinantal ideals; the multiplicity conjecture for standard determinantal ideals; and, unobstructedness and dimension of families of standard determinantal ideals. more...
Tigri e teoremi: Scrivere teatro e scienza (I blu) (Italian Edition)
Springer 2007; US$ 7.99Il libro tratta di Scienza, per il Teatro, e insegna a scrivere testi teatrali scientifici. Si comincia a definire quel che s?intende per Scienza, e si cerca uno strumento forte come il Teatro per comunicarla. Questo viene fatto in specie per le cosiddette "scienze dure". Scienza e conoscenza, dice il drammaturgo e matematico Denis Guedj, possono fornire... more...
The History of Consumer Credit
Palgrave Macmillan 2000; US$ 155.00From the early forms of loans to farmers to present day credit cards, consumer credit has always been part of human life and economics. However, ever since the Bible, controversy has reigned as to its legitimacy. It is the history of this controversy that is presented here by the authors. more...









