Paul Erdos was an amazing and prolific mathematician whose life as a world-wandering numerical nomad was legendary. He published almost 1500 scholarly papers before his death in 1996, and he probably thought more about math problems than anyone in history. Like a traveling salesman offering his thou[...]
Based on a National Magazine Award-winning article, this masterful biography of Hungarian-born Paul Erdos is both a vivid portrait of an eccentric genius and a layman's guide to some of this century's most startling mathematical discoveries.[...]
Listen. The Sanctuary of the Redeemers is named after a damned lie for there is no redemption that goes on there and less sanctuary.
The Sanctuary of the Redeemers: vast, desolate, hopeless. Where children endure brutal cruelty and violence in the name of the One True Faith.
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"The Last Four Things" is the second in Paul Hoffman's remarkable series. Death, Judgement, Heaven and Hell. These are the "Last Four Things". Now there are Five Meet Thomas Cale Returning to the Sanctuary of the Redeemers, Thomas Cale is told by the Lord Militant that the destruction of mankind is [...]
Offers the third and final instalment in the epic Paul Hoffman trilogy following Cale and the Sanctuary of the Redeemers. Following The Left Hand of God and The Last Four Things, this title reveals the fate of the angel of death.[...]
'Listen. The Sanctuary of the Redeemers is named after a damned lie for there is no redemption that goes on there and less sanctuary'. The Sanctuary of the Redeemers: vast, desolate, hopeless. Where children endure brutal cruelty and violence in the name of the One True Faith. Lost in the Sanctuary'[...]
The epic story of Thomas Cale-introduced so memorably in "The Left Hand of God"--continues as the Redeemers use his prodigious gifts to further their sacred goal: the extinction of humankind and the end of the world.
To the warrior-monks known as the Redeemers, who rule over massive armies of c[...]
"Writers like Hoffman are too rare. This wonderful book gripped me from the first chapter and dropped me days later, dazed and grinning to myself." -Conn Iggulden, "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Dangerous Book for Boys"
Raised from early childhood in the Redeemer Sanctuary, the str[...]
"The epic story of Thomas Cale--introduced so memorably in The Left Hand of God--continues as the Redeemers use his prodigious gifts to further their sacred goal: the extinction of humankind and the end of the world."..
To the warrior-monks known as the Redeemers, "the last four things" represe[...]
Following the bestselling novels "The Left Hand of God "and "The Last Four Things "comes the final installment of Paul Hoffman's stark, epic trilogy.
"Thomas Cale has been running from the truth...."
Since discovering that his brutal military training has been for one purpose--to destroy Go[...]
When Steven Grlscz saves a young woman from throwing herself in front of a train he finds himself consumed by a love affair which transforms her into a happy and beautiful young woman. Then she vanishes without trace. George Winnicott, wakes from a nightmare screaming that he knows the meaning of li[...]
The Beating of his Wings by Paul Hoffman is the final instalment in his epic Cale and the Sanctuary of Redeemers series. Thomas Cale has been running from the truth. Since discovering that his brutal military training has been for one purpose - to destroy God's greatest mistake, mankind itself - Cal[...]
In the days before personal computers, BASIC was the easy programming language to learn, and serious programmers learned FORTRAN or COBOL to do "real work." Today, many people have discovered that Perl is both a great beginning programming language and one that enables them to write powerful program[...]
The biography of a mathematical genius. Paul Erdos was the most prolific pure mathematician in history and, arguably, the strangest too.[...]
Hans navn er Cale. De sa han kunne ødelegge verden. Kanskje han gjør det! "Sanktuariet, Befriernes hellige kloster, er et illeluktende og isolert sted. Bare Befrierne drar dit frivillig. En av guttene i klosteret kalles Cale. Han er kanskje fjorten eller femten år gammel. Selv vet han ikke, og de[...]
Tilbake i Sanktuariet blir Cale fortaltav Den hellige militante, Befrier Bosco, at menneskeheten må utryddes. Bare på den måten kan Guds største feiltak bli omgjort. Tilsynelatende godtar Cale sin rolle iutslettelsen, at skjebnen har bestemt at han skal være Guds venstre hånd, Dødens engel.[...]
Andre bind i trilogien om Thomas Cale. Møt Thomas Cale i en fantastisk verden hvor eventyr og grusomhet forenes. Thomas Cale er tatt til fange og må på nytt returnere til De hellige befrieres kloster. Her blir Cale fortalt at det er nødvendig at menneskeheten uskadeliggjøres. Den totale makt so[...]
Københavns Befæstning fortæller historien om et af Danmarkshistoriens største og mest omstridte forsvarsværker. Københavns Befæstning, der blev opført fra 1885-1894, var ikke mindst et svar på de nye sikkerhedspolitiske udfordringer, der meldte sig efter det traumatiske ne[...]
Florida has had many frontiers. Imagination, greed, missionary zeal, disease, war, and diplomacy have shaped its historical boundaries. Bodies of water, soils and their associated floral and faunal ecology, the patterns of Native American occupation, and ways of colonising have defined where the var[...]
An Introduction to Political Theory is a focused, student-friendly and sophisticated introduction to the most complex and most contested area of the Politics curriculum.
This comprehensive introduction to the world of political theory brings together classic and contemporary concepts and ideologi[...]