Ti: 101 books

How can people ever come to agreement if we are so different?Not every person is born with the same set of natural talents. Just like an orchestra needs different musicians that together make the concert, humanity needs different types of people to create a harmonious whole.This easy...

Das Buch "Die neuen Ideen im Schachspiel" ist ein Klassiker der Schachliteratur. Der Autor Richard Réti war einer der führenden Schachspieler der Welt. Als einer der bekanntesten Vertreter der sogenannten "Hypermodernen Schachschule" modernisierte er die Schachlehre der alten Meister. In seinem Werk...

Quelques jours avant de subir une grave opération chirurgicale, mettant sa vie en danger, un poète qui a fait de la poésie sa raison d’être s’interroge sur ce choix qui a été le sien : pourquoi la poésie et qu’est-ce que le poème face à l’univers, à la quête du sens, à la langue,...

Peut-on dépeindre « l’amour d’une femme et celui d’un pays au point que l’un devienne le signe et le symbole de l’autre » autrement que par la poésie ? Assurément, non. C’est pourquoi François Xavier nous offre ces vers rafraîchissants pour clamer haut et fort cet amour binôme...

In the fall of 1941, as the situation for Jews worsens across Europe, Ibolya (Ibi) Grossman learns she is pregnant. She is scared and confused – a baby during wartime? But her husband, Zolti, assures her, “We need this baby, you will see.” When András (Andy) is born, Ibi realizes her husband...

A poignant memoir of life under Communism by one of China's established women writers. Not only did her heroic intellectualism suffer under the restrictions of a repressive regime, but both her passionate devotion to women's rights and her fervent adherence to the precepts of Marxism were tested under often heartbreaking conditions.

Notes from the Last Testament, by veteran reporter Michael Deibert, is a riveting narrative account of the events leading up to and including the overthrow of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. A fearless correspondent and a meticulous researcher, Deibert traces the rupturing of the social-democratic...

When did China make the decisive turn from tradition to modernity? For decades, the received wisdom would have pointed to the May Fourth movement, with its titanic battles between the champions of iconoclasm and the traditionalists, and its shift to more populist forms of politics. A growing body...

This book makes a significant inroad into the unexpectedly difficult question of existence of Fréchet derivatives of Lipschitz maps of Banach spaces into higher dimensional spaces. Because the question turns out to be closely related to porous sets in Banach spaces, it provides a bridge between descriptive...

Come aiutare un bambino a capire che deve lavarsi i denti, fare la doccia o smettere di mangiarsi le unghie? Come convincerlo che deve allacciare la cintura quando sale in auto? Come insegnargli l’utilità di mettere in ordine la propria stanza o di preparare la cartella? Le favole riusciranno a...

L’autrice, che da anni scrive e utilizza fiabe come strumento per dialogare con grandi e piccini, in questo volume propone una raccolta di fiabe: per i fratellini maggiori, per i futuri genitori e per lo stesso bambino che sta per nascere!

The quantity and composition of aroma and avour compounds in foods and food products exert a marked in uence on the consumer acceptance and, consequently, on the commercial value of the products. It has been established many times that one of the main properties employed for the evaluation of the...

In full generality, minimizing a polynomial function over a closed semi-algebraic set requires complex mathematical equations. This book explains recent developments from singularity theory and semi-algebraic geometry for studying polynomial optimization problems. Classes of generic problems are defined...

Organized stalking is carried out by an enthusiastic and structured group that has cruel intentions: stalk, harass, injure, financially ruin, and mentally crumple human prey until incapacitation occurs. What sets this crime apart is that innocents are picked off the street. There is no getting away from...