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Lewis Carroll in Numberland: His Fantastical Mathematical Logical Life
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Lewis Carroll in Numberland: His Fantastical Mathematical Logical LifeLewis Carroll in Numberland: His Fantastical Mathematical Logical Life

A penetrating work that explores the amazing imagination and mathematical genius of the man who wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Just when we thought we knew everything about Lewis Carroll, here comes a highly original biography that will appeal to Alice fans everywhere. Fascinated by the inner life of Charles Lutwidge Dodson, Robin Wilson, a Carroll scholar and a noted mathematics professor, has produced this revelatory book
 
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Text World Theory: An Introduction
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Text World Theory: An IntroductionText World Theory: An Introduction

Text World Theory is a cognitive model of all human discourse processing.

 
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Their Eyes Were Watching God: Zora Neale Hurston (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)
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Their Eyes Were Watching God: Zora Neale Hurston (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)Their Eyes Were Watching God: Zora Neale Hurston (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)

Features essays that touch on subjects such as sight and vision, speech and dialect, and the ways the novel subverts traditional power structures, and more.
 
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Don Delillo's White Noise (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)
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Don Delillo's White Noise (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)Don Delillo's White Noise (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)

Winner of the National Book Award, White Noise was immediately hailed as Don DeLillo's "breakout novel" when it first appeared in 1985. The novel entertains a wide array of compelling topics and concerns with consummate agility. Study this spot-on satire of post-war America.

 
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Building Pathology: Principles and Practice
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Building Pathology: Principles and PracticeBuilding Pathology: Principles and Practice

Building pathology provides an interdisciplinary approach to the study of defects and performance in order to develop appropriate remedial and management solutions. It considers how the structure and materials of a building relate to its environment, its occupants and the way the building is used, so as to develop a better understanding of building failures.
 
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