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The Cabinet of Curiosities
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The Cabinet of Curiosities

Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child - The Cabinet of Curiosities

FBI agent Pendergast, journalist Bill Smithback, and archaeologist Nora Kelly join forces to stop a vicious murderer when the discovery of an underground charnel house in downtown Manhattan reveals information about a serial killer who stalked the neighborhood in the 1880s.

 
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Tags: Cabinet, Curiosities, reveals, Manhattan, downtown
A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the World's Greatest Empire
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A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the World's Greatest EmpireA Cabinet of Roman Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the World's Greatest Empire

Here is a whimsical and captivating collection of odd facts, strange beliefs, outlandish opinions, and other highly amusing trivia of the ancient Romans. We tend to think of the Romans as a pragmatic people with a ruthlessly efficient army, an exemplary legal system, and a precise and elegant language. A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities shows that the Romans were equally capable of bizarre superstitions, logic-defying customs, and often hilariously derisive views of their fellow Romans and non-Romans.
 
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Tags: Romans, Curiosities, Cabinet, Roman, defying, Greatest
Building Cabinet Doors & Drawers
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Building Cabinet Doors & DrawersBuilding Cabinet Doors & Drawers

Here is a virtual encyclopedia of cabinet door and drawer styles and instruction for designing, constructing, and installing them. Slab, MDF, simulated and true raised panel, frame and panel, arched frame and panel, mitered panel, cope and stick, glass, and tambour: all of these types of cabinet doors—and the drawers to match—are illustrated and explained with step-by-step construction notes and measurements.
 
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Tags: panel, mdash, explained, illustrated, frame, Building, cabinet
Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities
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Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical CuriositiesKnowing that the most exciting math is not taught in school, Professor Ian Stewart has spent years filling his cabinet with intriguing mathematical games, puzzles, stories, and factoids intended for the adventurous mind. This book reveals the most exhilarating oddities from Professor Stewart’s legendary cabinet.

Inside, you will find hidden gems of logic, geometry, and probability—like how to extract a cherry from a cocktail glass (harder than you think), a pop-up dodecahedron, and the real reason why you can’t divide anything by zero. Scattered among these are keys to Fermat’s last theorem, the Poincaré conjecture, chaos theory, and the P=NP problem (you’ll win a million dollars if you solve it). You never know what enigmas you’ll find in the Stewart cabinet, but they’re sure to be clever, mind-expanding, and delightfully fun.

 
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Tags: Stewart, yoursquoll, Professor, cabinet, Poincaré