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Linear Algebra (Textbooks in Mathematics)

CRC Press, 2021

What you hold in your hand or—this is the 21st century—view on screen shouldn’t exist.

Let me explain. Mathematics is often taught by presenting students with a broad concept, like linear independence, and then a set of tools for identifying, using, or creating it. More rigorous courses might...

Photoshop Compositing Secrets: Unlocking the Key to Perfect Selections and Amazing Photoshop Effects for Totally Realistic Composites

Peachpit Press, 2011

Photoshop compositing has really blown up over the last few years. You see composites everywhere from magazine ads and covers, to movie posters, to athletic portraits, to, well, just about any kind of portrait. It really is everywhere. Clients and customers are very aware of Photoshop now and...

The Man Who Loved Only Numbers

Hyperion, 1999

An affectionate if impressionistic portrayal of one of the century's greatest and strangest mathematicians. Though little known among nonmathematicians, Erdos, who died in 1996 at age 83, was a legend among his colleagues. According to Hoffman (Archimedes' Revenge, 1988), the Hungarian was so devoted to mathematics that he went without...

Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty

Crown, 2021

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A deeply reported, searingly honest portrait of the death penalty in Texas—and what it tells us about crime and punishment in America

“If you’re one of those people who despair that nothing changes, and dream that something can, this is a story of...

America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present

Knopf, 2021

An important, urgently needed book--a hugely ambitious, illuminating portrait of the two-centuries-long entwined histories of Iran and America, and the first book to examine, in all its aspects, the rich and fraught relations between these two powers--once allies, now adversaries. By an admired historian and the author of Untapped:...

Photoshop CS Bible

John Wiley & Sons, 2004

"I’ve learned more from Deke’s Photoshop Bible than any Photoshop book, ever."
-- Scott Kelby, President, National Association of Photoshop Professionals

"When someone asks me something I don’t know about Photoshop, I tell them to go read the Photoshop Bible. It does something no other book does -- it...

Pain Killer: A Memoir of Big League Addiction

Viking Adult, 2021

#1 BESTSELLER

"This book is at times startling, yet very real and down to earth . . . I saw [Brantt] in all phases of his life and his career. I consider him a friend and an ally. Pain Killer sends a strong message." --Darryl Sutter, former NHL player, coach, and GM

From the only...

Philip Roth: The Biography

W W Norton, 2021

New York Times Bestseller

The renowned biographer’s definitive portrait of a literary titan.

Appointed by Philip Roth and granted independence and complete access, Blake Bailey spent years poring over Roth’s personal archive, interviewing his friends, lovers, and...

Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War

Oxford University Press, 2008

"Six-Legged Soldiers is an excellent account of the affect arthropod-borne diseases have had on warfare...This book will inspire readers to understand...threats and prepare new methods to combat them."--Nature, November 2008

"Both science and military history buffs will learn much from Lockwood, a self-described skeptic...

Eurydice and the Birth of Macedonian Power (Women in Antiquity)

Oxford University Press, 2019

Eurydice (c.410-340s BCE) played a significant part in the public life of ancient Macedonia, the first royal Macedonian woman known to have done so, though hardly the last. She was the wife of Amyntas III, the mother of Philip II (and two other short-lived kings of Macedonia), and grandmother of Alexander the Great. Her career marks a...

Days of Steel Rain: The Epic Story of a WWII Vengeance Ship in the Year of the Kamikaze

Hachette, 2021

An intimate true account of Americans at war, Days of Steel Rain is an epic drama about an unlikely group of men forced to work together in the face of an increasingly desperate enemy during the final year of World War II.

Sprawling across the Pacific, this untold story follows the crew of...

Luminescence and the Solid State, Second Edition (Studies in Inorganic Chemistry)

Elsevier Limited, 2004

Since the first date of publication of this book in 1991, the subject of phosphors and luminescence has assumed even more importance in the overall scheme of technological development. Many new types of displays have appeared which depend upon phosphors in their operation. Some of these were pure conjecture in 1991 but are a reality in 2004....

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