Compelling drama about an enigmatic young woman haunted by her father's past & the shadow of her own future. On the eve of her 27th birthday, Catherine (Gwyneth Paltrow), a young woman who has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, a mathematical genius named Robert (Anthony Hopkins), must deal not only with the arrival of her estranged sister, Claire (Hope Davis), but also with the attentions of Hal (Jake Gyllenhaal), a former student of her father's who hopes to find valuable work in the 103 notebooks of Robert's. ...

Neil Powell's seventh Carcanet collection explores the deep roots of identity: family histories we inherit, memories we carry, the casual decisions & wrong turnings that add up to make us who we are. Meditative, wry, melancholy & celebratory, this is Neil Powell is at his most versatile & memorable. ...

Peter Bowman (David Morse) is an American engineer kidnapped by guerillas while working in Latin America. His wife Alice (Meg Ryan) is unable to raise the requested $5m in ransom money & turns to hostage retrieval expert Terry Thorne (Russell Crowe) for help. Terry tries to negotiate a lower price with the guerrillas, but also finds himself falling for Alice; then, when information about Peter's location filters through, Terry decides it is time to mount an armed rescue mission.A. Confidential'. ...

Avoiding the cryptic terminology of proof as far as possible, this book starts at an elementary level & displays the connections between infinitary proof theory & generalized recursion theory, especially the theory of inductive definitions. It provides an introduction to ordinal arithmetic & to the Veblen hierarchy. ...