God's Equation: Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding ...
 From Amazon.com: Who would have thought a mathematical constant would make such an engaging character? God's Equation: Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe, mathematician Amir Aczel's tale of the search for a scientific explanation of the [... more]
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Promised the Moon: The Untold Story of the First Women ...
Amazon.ca: It's hard not to feel indignation reading Globe and Mail reporter Stephanie Nolen's detailed account of 13 fearless, extraordinary '60s-era women known as the Fellow Lady Astronaut Trainees, or FLATs. That's saying something, considering the [... more]
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Fermat's Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an ...
From Amazon.com: Born in 1601, Pierre de Fermat lived a quiet life as a civil servant in Toulouse, France. In his spare time, however, Fermat dabbled in mathematics, and somehow managed to become one of the great mathematical theorists of his century. [... more]
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Slaughtermatic
From Amazon.com: Steve Aylett's Slaughtermatic is enacted in a parodic, cyberpunk world in which crime has become an individualistic and self-evolutionary art. Dante, the protagonist, plans to rob a bank with the help of Download Jones, a human meat [... more]
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The Jaguar Hunter
Never read anything so consistently wistful.: This book is introspective without being maudlin, and I find myself struggling for a better word than "wistful", but alas, no cross-referenced OED at my fingertips. Therefore: I can promise you this, [... more]
CDN$17.00
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The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and ...
From Amazon.co.uk: The search for infinity, that sublime and barely comprehensible mystery, has exercised both mathematicians and theologians over many generations: Jewish mystics in particular laboured with elaborate numerological schema to imagine the [... more]
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The Woman Chaser
One of my favorite noir books: I love this book. The ending is so damn brilliant, so startling. Any one who loves noir needs to read this book. Dave Zeltserman, author of In His Shadow Great American Noir: Charles Willeford wrote psychopaths better than [... more]
CDN$19.50
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Genesis (Cl,4 Walls 8 Windows)
Space history at its best!: In Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8: The First Manned Flight to Another World by Robert Zimmerman, the reader comes to understand the comprehensive and far ranging significance, importance, value, and necessity of space [... more]
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On Equilibrium: Six Qualities of the New Humanism
Unnecessarily obscure: Saul presents some intriguing and pertinent ideas in Equilibrium. Moreover, they are understandable ideas. At least they would have been understandable if he had taken the time to write a book that didn't have to be deciphered. [... more]
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Illuminated Poems (Tr)
illustrated poems: an excellent illustrated book of gonsberg's poems a beautiful book: This a beautiful book, that not only shares ginsbergs work but works with the images created by eric drooker to communicate the poems and songs vividly, providing [... more]
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Rats in the Grain: The Dirty Tricks and Trials of Archer ...
From Amazon.com: Archer Daniels Midland--popularly known as ADM, the "Supermarket to the World"--spends millions on ads during Sunday morning TV talk shows and on public radio to burnish its popular image. But behind the façade lies a [... more]
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Cities: The Very Best of Fantasy Comes to Town
Tells of a London overrun and destroyed: Compiled and edited by Peter Crowther, Cities consists of four fantasy novellas by China Mieville, Michael Moorcock, Paul DiFilippo and Geoff Ryman provide different scenarios of man's future. Mieville tells of a [... more]
CDN$18.50
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