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"The Demon in the Machine" book cover


The Demon in the Machine
How Hidden Webs of Information are Solving the Mystery of Life
Paul Davies

How does life create order from chaos? And just what is life, anyway? Leading physicist Paul Davies argues that to find the answers, we must ...


Cover of Emotion in Multilingual Interaction edited by Matthew Prior and Gabriele Kasper


Emotion in Multilingual Interaction
Edited by Matthew T. Prior, Gabriele Kasper

This volume brings together for the first time a collection of studies that investigates how multilingual speakers construct emotions in their ...


Cover of Of This New World by Allegra Hyde


Of This New World
Allegra Hyde

Winner of the 2016 John Simmons Short Fiction Award, "Of This New World" offers a menagerie of utopias: real, imagined, and lost. Starting ...


Cover of Standish O'Grady's Cuculain edited by Gregory Castle and Patrick Bixby


Standish O’Grady’s Cuculain
A Critical Edition
Edited by Gregory Castle, Patrick Bixby

Between 1878 and 1881, Standish O’Grady published a three-volume "History of Ireland" that simultaneously recounted the heroic ancient past of the ...


Cover of A Storm to Close the Door by Josh Rathkamp


A Storm to Close the Door
Josh Rathkamp

Terrance Hayes says about this book of poetry: "The poems are often quick- witted and charming, but they never shy from their meditations and ...


And We Were All Alive by Olvido Garcia Valdes, translated by Catherine Hammond


And We Were All Alive
Olvido García Valdés
Translated by Catherine Hammond

Winner of Spain's National Poetry Prize. "We've been waiting so long, so expectantly for the poetry of Olvido García Valdés to appear in English ...


Cover of Lost Stars by Lisa Selin Davis


Lost Stars
Lisa Selin Davis

"Eleanor & Park" meets "Perks of Being a Wallflower" in this bittersweet 1980’s story about love, loss, and a comet that only comes around ...


Advanced and Multivariate Statistical Methods, 6th Ed, Mertler


Advanced and Multivariate Statistical Methods
Practical Application and Interpretation, Sixth Edition
Craig A. Mertler and Rachel Vannatta Reinhart

Ideal for non-math majors, "Advanced and Multivariate Statistical Methods" teaches students to interpret, present and write up results for each ...

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