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  • Science and the Founding Fathers

    by I. Bernard Cohen ...
    General readers, students of American history, and professional historians alike will profit from reading this engaging presentation of an aspect of American history conspicuously absent from the usual textbooks and popular presentations of the political thought of early America.Thomas Jefferson was the only president who could read and understand Newton's Principia. Benjamin Franklin is credited ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • When I Saw the Animal

    by Bernard Cohen ...
    Series series UQP Short Fiction
    A brilliant short story collection by awarded novelist and former Vogel winner Bernard Cohen. Parked in by furious rich people, mid-divorce, a man misses his lunchtime gambling session. All the girls named Ella form a diagonal across the teacher's new classroom. Diseased cattle burn in fields around the country – it is a cameraman's role to frame the images for TV. A swagman jumps into a billabong ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Geopolitics

    The Geography of International Relations

    by Saul Bernard Cohen ...
    Written by one of the world's leading political geographers, this fully revised and updated textbook examines the dramatic changes wrought by ideological, economic, socio-cultural and demographic changes unleashed since the end of the Cold War. Saul Cohen considers these forces in the context of their human and physical settings, and explores their geographical influence on foreign policy and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Triumph of Numbers

    How Counting Shaped Modern Life

    by I. Bernard Cohen ...
    From the pyramids to mortality tables, Galileo to Florence Nightingale, a vibrant history of numbers and the birth of statistics.The great historian of science I. B. Cohen explores how numbers have come to assume a leading role in science, in the operations and structure of government, in marketing, and in many other aspects of daily life. Consulting and collecting numbers has been a feature of ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • The Recognition of Nathaniel Hawthorne

    Selected Criticism Since 1828

    Edited by B. Bernard Cohen, Bernerd Cohen ...
    What is Hawthorne's eminent literary reputation — "enduring" or "hypertrophied"? Both views are represented in this basic collection of seminal 19th- and 20th-century evaluations. Hawthorne's reputation appears secure, yet his work is still the subject of significant critical controversy.Reviews by Hawthorne's contemporaries take up the first section of The Recognition of Nathaniel Hawthorne ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Tourism

    by Bernard Cohen ...
    A post-modern tour de force, a new kind of novel, and a fractured tourist’s guide to Australia—Tourism is the finest gazebo or stirrup pump you’ll read all year. Adelaide has no curiosity value. Armidale is a dirtydoubledealing knifeintheback town. The three corners of Toowoomba represent bones, flesh, and the unconscious. Sydney is a city with no population whatsoever. The principal mode of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Newton

    Edited by I. Bernard Cohen, George E. Smith ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727) was one of the greatest scientists of all time, a thinker of extraordinary range and creativity who has left enduring legacies in mathematics and the natural sciences. In this volume a team of distinguished contributors examine all the main aspects of Newton's thought, including not only his approach to space, time, mechanics, and universal gravity in his Principia, ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • The Blindman's Hat

    by Bernard Cohen ...
    The multiple award-winning The Blindman's Hat is Paul Auster with added exuberant silliness, Sara Paretsky stuffed full of red herrings, and Hergé overcome by lust. Vernon is an expatriate Australian journalist working in Manhattan for a quality New York daily and Dida is a freelance mobile telephone technician. Muffy is Vernon’s little white dog – and the world’s cutest urban philosopher. When ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Cryptic: The Best Short Fiction of Jack McDevitt

    by Jack McDevitt ...
    Subterranean Press is proud to announce a mammoth (38 stories, over 200,000 words) Best of Volume by SF Best-Seller Jack McDevitt.Jack McDevitt loves a good mystery. And he enjoys baffling his readers with enigmas like why, after so many years of listening with no results, would a SETI director hear an artificial signal and keep it quiet? Why might an astronomer at a space station, facing imminent ... Read more

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  • Robert Heinlein’s Expanded Universe: Volume Two

    by Robert A. Heinlein ...
    "The single most important and valuable Heinlein book ever published."—Spider RobinsonRobert A. Heinlein has been hailed as one of the most forward-thinking science fiction writers of all time, and Expanded Universe (presented in two volumes) offers the perfect collection of his works to provide readers with true insights into his uniquely creative mind.Heinlein personally selected each story or ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Red Tide

    by Larry Niven, Brad R. Torgersen, Matthew J. Harrington ...
    Loosely based on Larry Niven's 1973 novella "Flash Crowd," Red Tide continues to examine the social consequences of the impact of having instantaneous teleportation, where humans can instantly travel long distances in milliseconds.This is a theme that has fascinated the author throughout his career and appeared in his seminal work Ringworld, where the central character celebrates his birthday by ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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