This revised edition of Feynman’s legendary lectures includes extensive corrections Feynman and his colleagues received and Caltech approved. This boxed set provides Volumes 1-3 together with Feynman’s Tips on Physics making this the complete and definitive set of The Feynman Lectures on Physics. For all readers interested in physics.
In this landmark work of history, the National Book Award—winning author of American Sphinx explores how a group of greatly gifted but deeply flawed individuals–Hamilton, Burr, Jefferson, Franklin, Washington, Adams, and Madison–confronted the overwhelming challenges before them to set the course for our nation.The United States was more a fr...more
Perhaps the last Washington secret is how the Federal Reserve and its enigmatic chairman, Alan Greenspan, operate. In Maestro, Bob Woodward uses his proven interviewing and research techniques to take you inside the Fed and Greenspan's thinking. Woodward presents the Greenspan years as a gripping narrative, a remarkable portrait of a man who has be...more
Probes the soul and the early years of the passionate Picasso, revealing the artistic genius, rogue, insatiable lover, and determined fighter always ready for new challenges, accompanied by 250 illustrations, in an original and unforgettable portrait of a revolutionary creator. Reprint. PW.
Alfredo Bryce Echenique is one of the most widely-read and most widely translated Latin American authors of recent decades, yet this is the first critical edition that makes his work available to students of Hispanic literatures in the English-speaking world. Combining humor and informal language to explore adolescence in middle-class Peru, this ed...more
Bajo el influjo de Hemingway, Martin Romaña deja el Peru rumbo a Paris, pero alli nada es como en los libros del norteamericano. Martin se topa con un mundo plagado de porteras y perros perversos, se casa con una militante de extrema izquierda e intenta, sin demasiada suerte, convertirse en un revolucionario modelico, mientras con humor va escri...more
Siempre oí decir que los temas a los que he recurrido desde que empecé a escribir libros de ficción eran el amor, la soledad, la enfermedad y la felicidad. Son temas de todos los tiempos, creo yo, aunque reconozco que la depresión es el más concretamente contemporáneo y que a menudo está muy ligada al humor, o más bien a la ironía, un inve...more
A guide to reading "Jane Eyre" with a critical and appreciative mind. Includes background on the author's life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list.
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