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The Perfect Theory

A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity

by Pedro G. Ferreira ...

"One of the best popular accounts of how Einstein and his followers have been trying to explain the universe for decades" ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).Physicists have been exploring, debating, and questioning the general theory of relativity ever since Albert Einstein first presented it in 1915. This has driven their work to unveil the universe's surprising secrets even further, and many ... Read more

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"One of the best popular accounts of how Einstein and his followers have been trying to explain the universe for decades" ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).Physicists have been exploring, debating, and questioning the general theory of relativity ever since Albert Einstein first presented it in 1915. This has driven their work to unveil the universe's surprising secrets even further, and many
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My Tender Matador

by Pedro Lemebel ...

Translated by Katherine Silver ...

As Chile descends into chaos, two disparate souls begin "an odd-couple romance, in the tradition of Kiss of the Spider Woman or The Crying Game" ( Kirkus Reviews).It is the spring of 1986, and Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is losing his grip on power. In one of Santiago's many poor neighborhoods, a man known as the Queen of the Corner embroiders linens for the wealthy. A hopeless and lonely ... Read more

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As Chile descends into chaos, two disparate souls begin "an odd-couple romance, in the tradition of Kiss of the Spider Woman or The Crying Game" ( Kirkus Reviews).It is the spring of 1986, and Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is losing his grip on power. In one of Santiago's many poor neighborhoods, a man known as the Queen of the Corner embroiders linens for the wealthy. A hopeless and lonely
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Learn French: French for Kids. Bilingual Book in English and French: Frog - Grenouille.

Learn French for Kids., #1

by Pedro Paramo ...

Series Book 1 - Learn French for Kids.
Basil, Rosemary and the Pansy sisters are lively, chatty little plants. They think they know some stuff, but when it comes to this animal, they know nothing. One wild assumption leads to another and gets them into big trouble.This illustrated story has been designed for bilingual children and others wishing to read a dual language text in French and English. This book is divided into four sections ... Read more

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Basil, Rosemary and the Pansy sisters are lively, chatty little plants. They think they know some stuff, but when it comes to this animal, they know nothing. One wild assumption leads to another and gets them into big trouble.This illustrated story has been designed for bilingual children and others wishing to read a dual language text in French and English. This book is divided into four sections
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Bilingual Book in English and Japanese with Kanji: Frog - カエル. Learn Japanese Series

Learn Japanese for Kids, #1

by Pedro Paramo ...

Series Book 1 - Learn Japanese for Kids
Can you imagine what it is like to live in a flowerpot and confuse one animal with another? Our chatty little plants Basil, Rosemary and the sisters know all too well the problems and fun it causes. This is for bilingual children and others wanting to read a dual language text in English and Japanese with illustrations.The bilingual story is presented twice. In the first part, the parallel ... Read more

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Can you imagine what it is like to live in a flowerpot and confuse one animal with another? Our chatty little plants Basil, Rosemary and the sisters know all too well the problems and fun it causes. This is for bilingual children and others wanting to read a dual language text in English and Japanese with illustrations.The bilingual story is presented twice. In the first part, the parallel
... Read more
Bilingual Book in English and Italian: Frog - Rana . Learn Italian Collection.

Learn Italian for Kids, #1

by Pedro Paramo ...

Series Book 1 - Learn Italian for Kids
This illustrated story has been designed for bilingual children and others wishing to read a parallel text in English and Italian. For ease of understanding, the languages are displayed together just one or two sentences at a time.The aim was to make translation as direct as possible but always using everyday language of native speakers.Excerpt from the story—The Pansy sisters lived in a blue ... Read more

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This illustrated story has been designed for bilingual children and others wishing to read a parallel text in English and Italian. For ease of understanding, the languages are displayed together just one or two sentences at a time.The aim was to make translation as direct as possible but always using everyday language of native speakers.Excerpt from the story—The Pansy sisters lived in a blue
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Learn Spanish: English Spanish - Danny Duck Tames the Lion - Danny Pato doma al León

Learn Spanish with Danny, #1

by Colin Hann, Pedro Paramo ...

Series Book 1 - Learn Spanish with Danny
Danny is a very confident young Duck in search of adventure. In this story he finds work in a circus cleaning out the animal pens. Not the exciting adventure Danny is looking for, but when the lion tamer gets the flu Danny gets the chance of his Life! Will Danny tame Larry the lion or he will run back to the farm like a scared chicken? You will find out by reading this wonderfully illustrated ... Read more

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Danny is a very confident young Duck in search of adventure. In this story he finds work in a circus cleaning out the animal pens. Not the exciting adventure Danny is looking for, but when the lion tamer gets the flu Danny gets the chance of his Life! Will Danny tame Larry the lion or he will run back to the farm like a scared chicken? You will find out by reading this wonderfully illustrated
... Read more
Pedro

by Pedro Martinez, Michael Silverman ...

The New York Times–bestselling memoir from the legendary, former Boston Red Sox pitcher.Pedro Martinez entered the big leagues a scrawny power pitcher with a lightning arm who they said wasn't "durable" enough, who they said was a punk. Yet Martinez willed himself to become one of the most intimidating pitchers to have ever played the game, an eight-time All-Star, three-time Cy Young Award winner, ... Read more

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The New York Times–bestselling memoir from the legendary, former Boston Red Sox pitcher.Pedro Martinez entered the big leagues a scrawny power pitcher with a lightning arm who they said wasn't "durable" enough, who they said was a punk. Yet Martinez willed himself to become one of the most intimidating pitchers to have ever played the game, an eight-time All-Star, three-time Cy Young Award winner,
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Mexikid

(Newbery Honor Award Winner)

by Pedro Martín ...

Illustrated by Pedro Martín ...

NEWBERY HONOR AWARD WINNER • An unforgettable graphic memoir about a Mexican American boy’s family and their adventure-filled road trip to bring their abuelito back from Mexico“One of those books that kids will pass to their friends as soon as they have finished it.”—Victoria Jamieson, creator of the National Book Award finalist When Stars Are ScatteredWINNER OF THE PURA BELPRÉ AUTHOR AWARD AND ... Read more

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NEWBERY HONOR AWARD WINNER • An unforgettable graphic memoir about a Mexican American boy’s family and their adventure-filled road trip to bring their abuelito back from Mexico“One of those books that kids will pass to their friends as soon as they have finished it.”—Victoria Jamieson, creator of the National Book Award finalist When Stars Are ScatteredWINNER OF THE PURA BELPRÉ AUTHOR AWARD AND
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The Master Algorithm

How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World

by Pedro Domingos ...

**Recommended by Bill GatesA thought-provoking and wide-ranging exploration of machine learning and the race to build computer intelligences as flexible as our own**In the world's top research labs and universities, the race is on to invent the ultimate learning algorithm: one capable of discovering any knowledge from data, and doing anything we want, before we even ask. In The Master Algorithm, ... Read more

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**Recommended by Bill GatesA thought-provoking and wide-ranging exploration of machine learning and the race to build computer intelligences as flexible as our own**In the world's top research labs and universities, the race is on to invent the ultimate learning algorithm: one capable of discovering any knowledge from data, and doing anything we want, before we even ask. In The Master Algorithm,
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Big Book of Christmas Novels, Tales, Legends & Carols (Illustrated Edition)

450+ Titles in One Edition: A Christmas Carol, Little Women, Silent Night, The Gift of the Magi, The Three Kings…

by Mark Twain, Beatrix Potter, Louisa May Alcott, Charles Dickens, O. Henry, William Shakespeare, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emily Dickinson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Hans Christian Andersen, Selma Lagerlöf, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Martin Luther, Walter Scott, J. M. Barrie, Anthony Trollope, Brothers Grimm, L. Frank Baum, Lucy Maud Montgomery, George Macdonald, Leo Tolstoy, Henry Van Dyke, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Clement Moore, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Butler Yeats, Eleanor H. Porter, Jacob A. Riis, Susan Anne Livingston, Ridley Sedgwick, Sophie May, Lucas Malet, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Alice Hale Burnett, Ernest Ingersoll, Annie F. Johnston, Amanda M. Douglas, Amy Ella Blanchard, Carolyn Wells, Walter Crane, Thomas Nelson Page, Florence L. Barclay, A. S. Boyd, Edward A. Rand, Max Brand, William John Locke, Nora A. Smith, Phebe A. Curtiss, Nellie C. King, Booker T. Washington, Lucy Wheelock, Aunt Hede, Frederick E. Dewhurst, Maud Lindsay, Marjorie L. C. Pickthall, Jay T. Stocking, Anna Robinson, Florence M. Kingsley, Olive Thorne Miller, M. A. L. Lane, Elizabeth Harkison, Raymond Mcalden, F. E. Mann, Winifred M. Kirkland, François Coppée, Katherine Pyle, Grace Margaret Gallaher, Elia W. Peattie, F. Arnstein, James Weber Linn, Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, Elbridge S. Brooks, Isabel Cecilia Williams, Anton Chekhov, Armando Palacio Valdés, André Theuriet, Alphonse Daudet, Benito Pérez Galdós, Antonio Maré, Pedro A. De Alarcón, Jules Simon, Marcel Prévost, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Maxime Du Camp, Mary Hartwell Catherwood, F. L. Stealey, Kate Upson Clark, Marion Clifford, E. E. Hale, Willis Boyd Allen, Edgar Wallace, Georg Schuster, Harrison S. Morris, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Matilda Betham Edwards, Angelo J. Lewis, Vernon Lee, Guy De Maupassant, Saki, Bret Harte, Robert E. Howard, William Francis Dawson, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Christopher North, Susan Coolidge, Oliver Bell Bunce, Phillips Brooks, William Drummond, James Russell Lowell, Alfred Domett, Reginald Heber, Dinah Maria Mulock, Margaret Deland, John Addington Symonds, Edward Thring, Cecil Frances Alexander, Mary Austin, James S. Park, Isaac Watts, Robert Herrick, Edmund Hamilton Sears, Ben Jonson, Edmund Bolton, Robert Southwell, C.s. Stone, James Whitcomb Riley, Frances Ridley Havergal, William Morris, Charles Mackay, Harriet F. Blodgett, Eliza Cook, George Wither, John G. Whittier, Richard Watson Gilder, Tudor Jenks, William Makepeace Thackeray, Henry Vaughan, Christian Burke, Andrew Lang, Emily Huntington Miller, Cyril Winterbotham, Enoch Arnold Bennett, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Meredith Nicholson, A. M. Williamson, C. N. Williamson, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, James Selwin Tait, Booth Tarkington, Evaleen Stein, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Frank Samuel Child, Samuel McChord Crothers, Sarah Orne Jewett, Georgianna M. Bishop, Sarah P. Doughty, John Punnett Peters, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Margaret Sidney, Nell Speed, Laura Elizabeth Richards, Arthur Conan Doyle, Willa Cather, Ralph Henry Barbour, Cyrus Townsend Brady, Mary Stewart Cutting, William Douglas O'Connor, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ruth McEnery Stuart, S. Weir Mitchell, John Leighton, W. H. H. Murray, Alice Duer Miller, Ellis Parker Butler, Washington Irving ...

e-artnow presents to you the greatest Christmas novels, 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 of the Magi (O. Henry) The Holy Night (Selma Lagerlöf) A Merry Christmas & Other Christmas Stories (Louisa May Alcott) A Letter from Santa Claus (Mark Twain) Silent Night The Night After ... Read more

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e-artnow presents to you the greatest Christmas novels, 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 of the Magi (O. Henry) The Holy Night (Selma Lagerlöf) A Merry Christmas & Other Christmas Stories (Louisa May Alcott) A Letter from Santa Claus (Mark Twain) Silent Night The Night After
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The Last Dream

by Pedro Almodóvar ...

Translated by Frank Wynne ...

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2024Also available in audio featuring narration by Colman Domingo, Rachel Weisz, and Michael Cera.“Instantly fascinating, brimming with twisting narratives and unforgettable endings… The Last Dream stands alone as a major literary talent’s virtuosic debut.” —Kaveh Akbar, New York Times bestselling author of Martyr!“[A] real page t... ... Read more

$16.99 CAD

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A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2024Also available in audio featuring narration by Colman Domingo, Rachel Weisz, and Michael Cera.“Instantly fascinating, brimming with twisting narratives and unforgettable endings… The Last Dream stands alone as a major literary talent’s virtuosic debut.” —Kaveh Akbar, New York Times bestselling author of Martyr!“[A] real page t...
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The Erotic Conquest Of Mexico

by Malomano,Pedro ...

Academicians the world over are beginning to frown, and rightly so, upon lengthy introductions to scholarly books. However, the historical document presented in the following pages is so unique that a full explanation of its discovery and significance is certainly in order. History, and especially the bloody tale of Hernando Cortez and his conquest of Mexico, was far from my mind when I left my ... Read more

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Academicians the world over are beginning to frown, and rightly so, upon lengthy introductions to scholarly books. However, the historical document presented in the following pages is so unique that a full explanation of its discovery and significance is certainly in order. History, and especially the bloody tale of Hernando Cortez and his conquest of Mexico, was far from my mind when I left my
... Read more

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