Foreword by John Lynch xn + yn = zn, where n represents 3, 4, 5, ...no solution"I have discovered a …
xn + yn = zn, where n represents 3, 4, 5, ...no solution"I have discovered a truly marvelous demonstration of …
"""An impressive culmination of meticulous research into original sources, this definitive study constitutes the first full-length history of the Arithmetic …
The Mathematics of Secrets takes readers on a fascinating tour of the mathematics behind cryptography―the science of sending secret messages. …
The contributors to this volume suggest that the idea of a "pure" working class should be reconsidered and examine specific …
As Mary Ann Glendon writes in this fascinating new book, the relationship between politics and the academy has been fraught …
A runaway bestseller in hardcover and paperback, Son of the Morning Star will now bring the adventurous tale of General …
To modern sensibilities, nineteenth-century zoos often seem to be unnatural places where animals led miserable lives in cramped, wrought-iron cages. …
“Shootin’—Lynchin’—Hangin’,” announces the advertisement for Tombstone’s Helldorado Days festival. Dodge City’s Boot Hill Cemetery sports an “authentic hangman’s tree.” Not …
Perhaps the most sophisticated and complex of shows in HBO’s recent history, Deadwood has surprisingly little coverage in our current …
If there is one genre that has captured the imagination of people in all walks of life throughout the world, …
''Blood Meridian reads like a conflation of the Inferno, the Iliad, and Moby-Dick . . . an extraordinary, breathtaking achievement.'' …
At the start of the nineteenth century, Passenger Pigeons were perhaps the most abundant birds on the planet, numbering literally …
(Автор и издатель - мадридский транспортный консорциум.) 1993. 4 р. На англ. языке.Правила приняты декретом Мадридского органа власти № 115/1993 …
Crime, Policing and Punishment in England, 1660-1914 offers an overview of the changing nature of crime and its punishment from …
Now a major motion picture starring Rachel Weisz, Timothy Spall and Tom Wilkinson. “A compelling book: memoir and courtroom drama, …
Defying comprehension, the tragic history of the Holocaust has been alternately repressed and canonized in postmodern Western culture. Recently our …
A distinguishing feature of video games is their interactivity, and sound plays an important role in this: a player’s actions …
Angels are all around us. They flutter in stained glass windows, of course, and in cemeteries, but little ones shoot …
On two hundred and one days between May 1, 1245, and August 1, 1246, more than five thousand people from …
First published 2007 by Collins/HarperCollins Publishers, London as 'Unlocking the Masonic Code'; this new edition published 2009 by Collins.
For important background information on long-term ethnic, religious, political, territorial and economic conflicts between nations today, there isn't a more …
"It has served us well, this myth of Christ." —Pope Leo X, 16th Century In a hail of fire and …
A modern-day thriller centered on authentic historical letters encoded with Templar and Rosicrucian secrets • Includes the actual text of …
From Pong to PlayStation 3 and beyond, Understanding Video Games is the first general introduction to the exciting new field …
Game Studies is a rapidly growing area of contemporary scholarship, yet volumes in the area have tended to focus on …
Historian Edward Baptist reveals how the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution …
History’s Ingenious Covert Communications and Secret Symbols All civilizations have used code to hide their texts from unwelcome eyes or …
This book examines the figure of Joan of Arc as depicted in stage works of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, …
This book brings together for the first time the Kenneth May Lectures that were given at the annual meetings of …
To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history....Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient …
John Edward Bruce, a premier black journalist from the late 1800's until his death in 1924, was a vital force …
This year the United Nations celebrated the 'Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide', adopted in …
Literary Texts and the Roman Historian looks at literary texts from the Roman Empire which depict actual events. It examines …