Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story, Paperback

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Reducere. Angelo Perino lives life on the bleeding edge of speed and success--a race car driver of humble origins who dominates on and off the track. Loren H...

Reducere. From the author of The New York Times #1 bestselling novel The Carpetbaggers comes the gutwrenching story of one woman's battle to break free of th...

DescriptionSpace has become increasingly crowded since the end of the Cold War, with new countries, companies, and even private citizens operating ...

Reducere. From the author of The New York Times #1 bestselling novel The Carpetbaggers comes a powerful yarn exposing the money, fame, sex, politics, and pow...

Reducere. Angelo Perino lives life on the bleeding edge of speed and success--a race car driver of humble origins who dominates on and off the track. Loren H...

Reducere. DescriptionAs a young boy, Diogenes Alejandro Xenos --"Dax"--witnesses the brutal rape and murder of his mother and sister by government troops--ex...

DescriptionFrom the author of The New York Times number one bestseller The Carpetbaggers comes a novel of passion, intrigue, power, and money. With...

This book brings transnational feminist theory and criticism together with women's art practices to discuss the connections between aesthetics, gen...

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Publisher: Editions FlammarionAuthor(s): Marika GentyIllustration(s): Hardback with French-fold jacketNumber of pages: 280Collection: ObsessionPubl...

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Uncovering the secrets behind England's best-known country houses and their unusual inhabitantsPublisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): David Lon...

A new edition of the irreverent guide to one of England's most eccentric cities offering the inside story on the pubs, places to eat, traditions an...

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Reducere. From the author of The New York Times #1 bestselling novel The Carpetbaggers comes a story inspired by the real-life murder of Johnny Stompanato, a...

Reducere. In 1955, New York Times bestselling novelist Harold Robbins shocked the world by pulling back the bedroom curtain to expose America's complicated a...

This newly rediscovered gem of a novel by one of Russia's finest writers explores some of the thorniest issues of the early twentieth century. And ...

DescriptionEver since the Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton introduced quaternions in the nineteenth century--a feat he celebrated by carv...

The definitive biography of Edward Gorey, the eccentric master of macabre nonsense. 'A genius book about a bookish genius' Daniel Handler, author o...

Reducere. Clark Ashton Smith came in touch with August Derleth in 1930, when, following H. P. Lovecraft's instruction, Smith forwarded to Derleth the manuscr...

A heartwarming memoir full of unforgettable moments in Lancashire and the Lake District: A little girl meets her father for the first time when he ...

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DescriptionLeonard Wolf, a retired professor now in his early eighties, is the kind of person who likes to use a medieval astrolabe, dress in Basqu...

Reducere. Never has the term mad scientist been more fascinatingly explored than in internationally recognized popular science author Clifford Pickover's ric...

Discover the lives of some of the most fascinating and unconventional characters of recent times, with 80 obituaries carefully curated from The Tim...