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Euclid's Window: The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace
"How do you know where you are?" asks Leonard Mlodinow in his charming mathematical history, Euclid's Window. This question and others about space and time grew out of simple observations of the environment by a select group of thinkers whose lives and brains Mlodinow dissects. Starting with Euclid, geometry has flowed out over the centuries, describing the universe, and, Mlodinow argues, making modern civilization possible.

Typhoon Snorkel Mask
2-window low volume design for snug fit and easy clearing. Fits average faces. The double feather edged skirt of the mask is made to provide a snug, watertight fit while also delivering true comfort. Easy installation of corrective lenses.

Secrets of the Sommeliers: How to Think and Drink Like the World's Top Wine Professionals
“Parr & Jordan open a window onto the workings of a great sommeliers mind. . . .The result is part history lesson, part insider’s guide to the best producers and best buys, but, most of all, it’s a testament to all the hard work that goes into being a great sommelier.

Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone
Introduction Call it seven-thirty on a Wednesday night. No one else is home. A slight hunger hums in your body, so you wander into the kitchen. In front of the window a plant's stems wave like arms from their hanging basket. In the pantry bin, potatoes eye the onions slipping out of their skins.

The Fake Boyfriend Experiment
Rafe Turner has a tattoo running from his wrist to his shoulder. His hair is a little too long. He doesn't need to rebel, because owning his life is already in his blood. He's way out of her league, for sure, but when Lily Gardner accidentally face plants through the window of his band's practice room, a connection is formed between Rafe and Lily that can't be shaken.

What is the What
I.I have no reason not to answer the door so I answer the door. I have no tiny round window to inspect visitors so I open the door and before me is a tall, sturdily built African-American woman, a few years older than me, wearing a red nylon sweatsuit. She speaks to me loudly. "You have a phone, sir?"She looks familiar.

Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur
The Naming Come here my love, I have a song for you. Come here my love, I have a dream for you. I sing-whisper this lullaby to my boy, my tiny child, as I rock him to sleep in my arms. Outside the window of our cell-like apartment the London traf?c roars by. But here we are safe, he and I, this little sleepy miracle that I clutch to myself with a desperate joy in my heart.

Wild Roses
Starred Review. Grade 9 Up–Seventeen-year-old amateur astronomer Cassie Morgan wants a normal life, but that possibility flew out the window three years earlier when her musician mother, divorced five days, married famous violinist Dino Cavalli.

Dubliners
THE SISTERSThere was no hope for him this time: it was the third stroke. Night after night I had passed the house (it was vacation time) and studied the lighted square of window: and night after night I had found it lighted in the same way, faintly and evenly. If he was dead, I thought, I would see the reflection of candles on the darkened blind for I knew that two candles must be set at the head of a corpse.

Houses by the Sea: Mexico's Pacific Coast
Some of the world’s most beautiful houses grace the Pacific Coast of Mexico. Houses by the Sea is as colorful, creative, and inspiring as the homes themselves. The photography, by Rigoberto Moreno, is so vibrant and crisp that each page seems like a window onto these stunning homes and their lush surroundings.

Candid Science III: More Converstations With Famous Chemists
A wonderful bedside book that attractively opens up a gallery of people, and a window onto the development of science.