"Audin plays with codes, numbers and dates to create a fascinating and unsettling story."—Le Temps This debut novel by mathematician and Oulipo member Michèle Audin retraces the lives of French mathematicians over several generations ...

Offering insight with verve and wit, this book is replete with facts and practical tips for assimilating the best of what France has to offer.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.

The St. James Encyclopedia Of Popular Culture, 2nd ed., updates and augments the over ten-year-old first edition.

Tales of Wonder and Magic A woman, sent to a far off duchy, finds a mysterious wolf haunting the forest, and learns there are secrets no one even suspects.

The book reminds the readers that the Africans of old kept their pride and still enjoyed their own lives.

A novel about the chaos that results when there's a rule for everything.

His nurse, charged with the twenty-four-hour care of his patient, is blissfully unaware that his colleagues are using their various positions to skim money, in extraordinarily creative ways, from the top of their employer’s seemingly ...