A gifted fortune-teller from a humble background, Jenny can make even the most sophisticated skeptic believe her predictions simply by batting her smoky eyelashes. Until she meets her match in Gareth Carhart, the Marquess of Blakely, a sworn bachelor & scientist. ...

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. ...