Set against the horrors of the Holocaust and told with a fairytale-like lyricism, The Most Precious of Cargoes is a fable about family and redemption which reminds us that humanity can be found in the most inhumane of places.
Classic of world drama concerns passing of semifeudal order in turn-of-the-century Russia, symbolized in the sale of the cherry orchard owned by Madame Ranevskaya. Showcases Chekhov's rich sensitivities as an observer of human nature.
Running away with the unhappy heir to the galaxy’s biggest fortune, even if it’s because he wants it, is bound to cause some problems.
It raises many important prob lems. One of them - motion planning - is the central theme of this book.
Izzo's Marseille is explosive, tragic, breathtakingly beautiful and deadly - the first volume in Jean-Claude Izzo's acclaimed Marseille trilogy.
The book is coherently focused on fundamentals, and is aimed to stimulate intuition about present and future applications, while unveiling the halo of myths around lasers.
Written with undergraduate students in mind, this book gives a fascinating survey of astronomical thinking.
This guide is intended to facilitate improved implementation of the values and principles of plurilingual and intercultural education in the teaching of all languages – foreign, regional or minority, classical and language(s) of schooling ...
Presented from the viewpoint of the history of mathematics, this book explores both epistemological aspects of Chinese traditional mathematical astronomy and lunisolar calendrical calculations.
Detective Fabio Montale vows to find the killer of Ugo and Manu, his two friends from childhood, who met their deaths after being drawn into Marseilles's violent criminal underworld.