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Proud Tower - Barbara W. Tuchman
Product Description"The diplomatic origins, so-called, of the War are only the fever chart of the patient; they do not tell us what caused the fever. To probe for underlying causes... -
Proofiness - Charles Seife
The bestselling author of Zero shows how mathematical misinformation pervades-and shapes-our daily lives. According to MSNBC, having a child makes you stupid. You a... -
Programming Ruby_ The Pragmatic - David Thomas; Chad Fowler; Andr
Synopsis:Ruby is an increasingly popular, fully object-oriented dynamic programming language, hailed by many practitioners as the finest and most useful language available t... -
Premeditated Marriage - B. J. Daniels
FORBIDDEN LOVER? Charlotte "Charlie" Larkin believed she'd been cursed when it came to matters of the heart, especially since every man she'd ever been involved with had met with a... -
Prague pictures_ portraits of a - John Banville
FromHere is the latest installment in Bloomsbury's fascinating Writer in the City series, which matches well-known writers with cities with which they are intimately familiar. Banv... -
Practical Packet Analysis - Chris Sanders; Chris Sanders
Wireshark (formerly called Ethereal) is the world's most powerful "packet sniffer", allowing its users to uncover valuable information about computer networks (whether theirs or ot... -
Post Captain - Patrick O'Brian
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of... -
PopCo - Scarlett Thomas
PopCo tells the story of Alice Butler-a subversively smart girl in our commercial-soaked world who grows from recluse orphan to burgeoning vigilante, buttressed by mystery, codes, ... -
Ponzi's Scheme - Mitchell Zuckoff
You've heard of the scheme. Now comes the man behind it. In Mitchell Zuckoff's exhilarating book, the first nonfiction account of Charles Ponzi, we meet the charismatic rogue who l... -
Poirot's Early Cases - Agatha Christie
Still in the formative years of his career, Hercule Poirot faces a most taxing case: who killed Lord Cronshaw? Was Coco Courtenay's death on the same night a mere coincidence? And ...