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Alex Preston of The Observer went further, calling the book "beautiful and profound, certainly DeLillo's best since Underworld. [ 13 ] Joshua Ferris of The New York Times was effusive in his praise, declaring "sentence by sentence, DeLillo magically slips the knot of criticism and gives his readers what Nabokov maintained was all that mattered ...
The book offers a comprehensive look at number 0 and its controverting role as one of the great paradoxes of human thought and history since its invention by the ancient Babylonians or the Indian people. Even though zero is a fundamental idea for the modern science, initially the notion of a complete absence got a largely negative, sometimes ...
Cosmopolis is the story of Eric Packer, a 28-year-old multi-billionaire and asset manager who makes an odyssey across midtown Manhattan to get a haircut. He drives around in a stretch limo, which is richly described as luxurious, spacious and highly technical, filled with television screens and computer monitors, bulletproofed and floored with Carrara marble.
Grimoire of Zero (Japanese: ゼロから始める魔法の書, Hepburn: Zero kara Hajimeru Mahō no Sho, lit. "Starting the Magical Book from Zero") is a Japanese light novel series written by Kakeru Kobashiri and illustrated by Yoshinori Shizuma. [2] The light novel won the Grand Prize at the 20th annual Dengeki Novel Awards. [3]
Towards Zero is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in June 1944, and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in July of the same year. [1] The first US edition of the novel retailed at $2.00 [ 2 ] and the UK edition at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6).
From Zero to Infinity: What Makes Numbers Interesting is a book in popular mathematics and number theory by Constance Reid. It was originally published in 1955 by the Thomas Y. Crowell Company. [ 1 ] The fourth edition was published in 1992 by the Mathematical Association of America in their MAA Spectrum series.
Kentucky Route Zero is a point-and-click adventure interactive fiction game developed by Cardboard Computer and published by Annapurna Interactive. [1] [2] The game follows the narrative of a truck driver named Conway and the strange people he meets as he tries to cross the mysterious Route Zero in Kentucky to make a final delivery for the antiques company for which he works.
The principal argument of Nonzero is to demonstrate that natural selection results in increasing complexity within the world and greater rewards for cooperation. Since, as Wright puts it, the realization of such prospects is dependent upon increased levels of globalization, communication, cooperation, and trust, what is thought of as human intelligence is really just a long step in an ...