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. ...

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'. ...

A collection of essays in which the author writes of her own upbringing, her human & literary antecedents, & also dwells on lives & poems. The book

Includes:: writings on T.S. Eliot, George Oppen, Sylvia Plath, Robinson Jeffers, Wallace Stevens, & John Berryman.

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As well as the original material, this revised & enlarged fourth edition has new chapters on treat classical results such as the " Fundamental Theorem of Algebra" & tilings problems, but also recent proofs, such as the Kneser conjecture in graph theory. ...

This 'excursion' through the evolution of research mathematics takes in some 40 papers, published up to the 1970s, on proofs of the Cantor-Bernstein theorem. It provides a detailed example of proof-processing in the derivation of Bernstein's division theorem. ...