James Stein: 29 books
The Right Decision : A Mathematician Reveals How the Secrets of Decision Theory: A Mathematician Reveals How the Secrets of Decision Theory
A Mathematician Reveals How the Secrets of Decision Theory
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
CAN YOU EVER BE SURE YOU'RE MAKING THE RIGHT DECISION?
Should you stay in a comfy job with little chance of advancement-or take a riskier one in which you could make lots of money but also wind up on the street?
Should you listen to a doctor who advises surgery-or trust another who tells...
The Paranormal Equation
A New Scientific Perspective on Remote Viewing, Clairvoyance, and Other Inexplicable Phenomena
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2012
Most of us think science is incapable of explaining supernatural phenomena. This would include everything from ghosts and communication with the dead to extrasensory perception (ESP), precognition, and telekinesis. Scientists are generally highly skeptical of the existence of such phenomena because...
The Bible of the 3Rd Millennium
Make What of It You Will... Book Three
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
It took me a while but Ive seen the light but as may you. How I got there with the rest of this book is hard to ascertain now (although Ive actually now managed to write about this concisely at the end, now that Im writing this right now in the future now sounds a bit ridiculous, I know, and far too...
The Bible of the 3Rd Millennium
Make What of It You Will... Book One
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
It took me a while but Ive seen the light but as may you. How I got there with the rest of this book is hard to ascertain now (although Ive actually now managed to write about this concisely at the end, now that Im writing this right now in the future now sounds a bit ridiculous, I know, and far too...
The Bible of the 3Rd Millennium
Make What of It You Will... Book Two
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
It took me a while but Ive seen the light but as may you. How I got there with the rest of this book is hard to ascertain now (although Ive actually now managed to write about this concisely at the end, now that Im writing this right now in the future now sounds a bit ridiculous, I know, and far too...
by James Baldwin, Sol Stein
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
James Baldwin was beginning to be recognized as the most brilliant black writer of his generation when his first book of essays, Notes of a Native Son,established his reputation in 1955. No one was more pleased by the book’s reception than Baldwin’s high school friend Sol Stein. A rising New York...
How Math Explains the World
A Guide to the Power of Numbers, from Car Repair to Modern Physics
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
In How Math Explains the World, mathematician Stein reveals how seemingly arcane mathematical investigations and discoveries have led to bigger, more world-shaking insights into the nature of our world. In the four main sections of the book, Stein tells the stories of the mathematical thinkers who...
by O. Henry, Twain, Hawthorne
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Indice dei Racconti
Le mogli dei morti
di Nathaniel Hawthorne
La sepoltura di Roger Malvin
di Nathaniel Hawthorne
Il duplice delitto della Rue Morgue
di Edgar Allan Poe
Bartleby
di Herman Melville
Storia della ghiandaia che scopri un buco
di Mark Twain
Il...
Cosmic Numbers
The Numbers That Define Our Universe
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Our fascination with numbers begins when we are children and continues throughout our lives. We start counting our fingers and toes and end up balancing checkbooks and calculating risk. So powerful is the appeal of numbers that many people ascribe to them a mystical significance. Other numbers go...
Santa's Christmas Library: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (Illustrated Edition)
The Gift of the Magi, A Christmas Carol, Silent Night, The Three Kings, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Heavenly Christmas Tree, Little Women, The Tale of Peter Rabbit…
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
This holiday, we are offering to you our own Christmas box - filled up to the top with the best Christmas novels, classics to read during holidays, magical Christmas tales, legends, most famous carols and the unique poetry of the giants of literature dedicated to this one and only holiday: The Gift...
Peace versus Justice
Negotiating Forward- and Backward-Looking Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2005
This book examines the costs and benefits of ending the fighting in a range of conflicts, and probes the reasons why negotiators provide, or fail to provide, resolutions that go beyond just 'stopping the shooting.' What is the desired and achievable mix between negotiation strategies that look backward...
Cocktales
Volume Three
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
Sizzling sexy short stories
Sex in the tropical palm house transports her to an erotic paradise …
Their new sex toy lets her dominate her husband in all the best ways …
When the cinema lights go down, that’s when the naughty fun begins …
These are just some of...
by Annie Roe Carr, Alice Duer Miller, Berthold Auerbach
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2018
This holiday, we proudly presents to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas classics: most beloved novels, tales, legends, poetry & carols - to warm up your heart and rekindle your holiday sparkle: Works by Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Beatrix Potter,...
Ideas: Brilliant Thinkers Speak Their Minds
Brilliant Thinkers Speak Their Minds
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
For four decades, Ideas has presented more than 400,000 CBC Radio listeners in Canada and the United States with the most challenging contemporary thought of the day. Now, to mark the program’s 40th anniversary, executive producer Bernie Lucht has selected the most striking interviews and lectures...