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About Time

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Craig M. Mullaney

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A Soldier's Education

One haunting afternoon on Losano Ridge in Afghanistan, US Army Captain Craig Mullaney and his infantry platoon were caught in a deadly battle with Al-Qaeda fighters when a message came over the radio - one of his soldiers had been killed by the enemy. Mullaney's education - the four years he spent at West Point, the harrowing test of Ranger School and his experience as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford - left him ready to be a combat leader, but despite his preparation he still had to come to terms with what it really means to be a man.

The Unforgiving Minute

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Jake Tapper

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

An Untold Story of American Valor

The basis of the film starring Orlando Bloom and Scott Eastwood, The Outpost is the heartbreaking and inspiring story of one of America's deadliest battles during the war in Afghanistan, acclaimed by critics everywhere as a classic.


At 5:58 AM on October 3rd, 2009, Combat Outpost Keating, located in frighteningly vulnerable terrain in Afghanistan just 14 miles from the Pakistani border, was viciously attacked. Though the 53 Americans there prevailed against nearly 400 Taliban fighters, their casualties made it the deadliest fight of the war for the U.S. that year. Four months after the battle, a Pentagon review revealed that there was no reason for the troops at Keating to have been there in the first place.

In The Outpost, Jake Tapper gives us the powerful saga of COP Keating, from its establishment to eventual destruction, introducing us to an unforgettable cast of soldiers and their families, and to a place and war that has remained profoundly distant to most Americans. A runaway bestseller, it makes a savage war real, and American courage manifest.


"The Outpost is a mind-boggling, all-too-true story of heroism, hubris, failed strategy, and heartbreaking sacrifice. If you want to understand how the war in Afghanistan went off the rails, you need to read this book." -- Jon Krakauer



The Outpost

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Business & Economics

A unified introduction to mathematical economics 

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Problems of the philosophy of religion 

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Manly Wade Wellman

Wade Wellman

H.G. Wells meets Sherlock Holmes in this thrilling historical mystery in which the famous detective seeks the culprit behind an alien invasion

Sherlock Holmes, Professor Challenger, and Dr. Watson meet their match when the streets of London are left decimated by a prolonged alien attack. Who could be responsible for such destruction? Sherlock Holmes is about to find out . . . 

Manly and Wade Wellman's novel takes H.G. Wells' classic story of Martian invasion and throws Holmes into the mix, with surprising and unexpected results.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's timeless creation returns in a new series of exciting detective stories. From the earliest days of Holmes' career to his astonishing encounters with Martian invaders, the Further Adventures series encapsulates the most varied and thrilling cases of the world's greatest detective.

The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: War of the Worlds

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

The education  of the unabomber and the  origins of modern terrorism 

A mind for murder 

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A story of the numbers  you can't  coun on

The irrationals

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Leonard Mlodinow

The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace

Through Euclid's Window Leonard Mlodinow brilliantly and delightfully leads us on a journey through five revolutions in geometry, from the Greek concept of parallel lines to the latest notions of hyperspace. Here is an altogether new, refreshing, alternative history of math revealing how simple questions anyone might ask about space -- in the living room or in some other galaxy -- have been the hidden engine of the highest achievements in science and technology. Based on Mlodinow's extensive historical research; his studies alongside colleagues such as Richard Feynman and Kip Thorne; and interviews with leading physicists and mathematicians such as Murray Gell-Mann, Edward Witten, and Brian Greene, Euclid's Window is an extraordinary blend of rigorous, authoritative investigation and accessible, good-humored storytelling that makes a stunningly original argument asserting the primacy of geometry. For those who have looked through Euclid's Window, no space, no thing, and no time will ever be quite the same.

Euclid's Window

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The flying circus of physics  with answers 

Math

Calculus  of vector functions

David L. Schulze

Blaine R. Roberts

Modern Mathematics and Economic Analysis

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The meaning  of the death of God 

Strategy and tactics  in chess 

Published  1968. Collection  of essays on philosophy  and religion. 

Philosophy

Some contemporary  perspectives 

Philosophy  and religion 

Published  1968.  Advanced  mathematical  treatment  of macroeconomics.  Assumes knowledge  of calculus.

A mathematical  treatment 

Macro-economic theory

Mysterious Press Editors

Celebrating 25 Years

Collects eighteen mystery and suspense stories chosen by The Mysterious Press, including works by Donald E. Westlake, Marcia Muller, Archer Mayor, and M.C. Beaton.

The Anniversary Anthology

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Pierre Franey

Bryan Miller

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Now available in paperback for the first time, Cuisine Rapide is the respected "60-Minute Gourmet" columnist's breakthrough volume on making good food fast. Working with Bryan Miller, Pierre Franey devised more than 250 brilliant recipes combining the best of French country cooking with contemporary flavors and favorite American ingredients for marvelous meals that are easy to prepare, elegant, and healthful. All of the dishes in this superb cookbook -- from hot appetizers to cold souffles -- can be made in less than an hour. Provencal Seafood Stew, Peppered Salmon with Onion Compote, Duck Braised in Red Wine and Thyme, Pork Chops Basque Style, Corn and Pepper Fritters, Ziti with Prosciutto and Tomato Sauce, and Bittersweet Chocolate and Cherry Souffle are just a few examples of Franey's stylish and flavorful fare. With clear instructions, helpful sidebars, and sixty-five line drawings illustrating special cooking techniques such as boning a leg of lamb and trimming an artichoke, this groundbreaking book continues to set the standard for fast and delicious cooking. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Cuisine Rapide

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Albert-László Barabási

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The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do

A revolutionary new theory showing how we can predict human behavior-from a radical genius and bestselling author

Can we scientifically predict our future? Scientists and pseudo scientists have been pursuing this mystery for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years. But now, astonishing new research is revealing patterns in human behavior previously thought to be purely random. Precise, orderly, predictable patterns...

Albert Laszlo Barabasi, already the world's preeminent researcher on the science of networks, describes his work on this profound mystery in Bursts, a stunningly original investigation into human nature. His approach relies on the digital reality of our world, from mobile phones to the Internet and email, because it has turned society into a huge research laboratory. All those electronic trails of time stamped texts, voicemails, and internet searches add up to a previously unavailable massive data set of statistics that track our movements, our decisions, our lives. Analysis of these trails is offering deep insights into the rhythm of how we do everything. His finding? We work and fight and play in short flourishes of activity followed by next to nothing. The pattern isn't random, it's "bursty." Randomness does not rule our lives in the way scientists have assumed up until now.

Illustrating this revolutionary science, Barabasi artfully weaves together the story of a 16th century burst of human activity-a bloody medieval crusade launched in his homeland, Transylvania-with the modern tale of a contemporary artist hunted by the FBI through our post 9/11 surveillance society. These narratives illustrate how predicting human behavior has long been the obsession, sometimes the duty, of those in power. Barabási's astonishingly wide range of examples from seemingly unrelated areas include how dollar bills move around the U.S., the pattern everyone follows in writing email, the spread of epidemics, and even the flight patterns of albatross. In all these phenomena a virtually identical, mathematically described bursty pattern emerges.

Bursts reveals what this amazing new research is showing us about where individual spontaneity ends and predictability in human behavior begins. The way you think about your own potential to do something truly extraordinary will never be the same.



Bursts

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Simon Sebag Montefiore

Examines the turbulent early years of a man who would become the personification of twentieth-century evil, detailing his poverty-stricken youth, religious training, role as a fanatical revolutionary, many love affairs, and evolution into a murderous tyrant.

Young Stalin

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The Court of the Red Tsar

A comprehensive biography of the Soviet tyrant and the men and women who surrounded him focuses on the the foundation of human, psychological, and physical supports that encouraged the dictator through the early days of Communism, World War II, and the Great Terror, in a complex portrait of Stalin's inner and outer life. 75,000 first printing.

Stalin

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Tom Brokaw

The renowned television journalist focuses on a remarkable generation of Americans, born in the 1920s, who came of age during the Depression, fought in World War II, and came home to build a new America during the postwar era. TV tie-in. 200,000 first printing. Tour.

The Greatest Generation

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David Herbert Donald

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A masterful work by Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Herbert Donald, Lincoln is a stunning portrait of Abraham Lincoln's life and presidency.

Donald brilliantly depicts Lincoln's gradual ascent from humble beginnings in rural Kentucky to the ever-expanding political circles in Illinois, and finally to the presidency of a country divided by civil war. Donald goes beyond biography, illuminating the gradual development of Lincoln's character, chronicling his tremendous capacity for evolution and growth, thus illustrating what made it possible for a man so inexperienced and so unprepared for the presidency to become a great moral leader. In the most troubled of times, here was a man who led the country out of slavery and preserved a shattered Union--in short, one of the greatest presidents this country has ever seen.

Lincoln

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John George Kemeny

James Laurie Snell

Mathematical Models in the Social Sciences

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