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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.
The Armour of Light is a historical fiction novel by Welsh author Ken Follett. [1] [2] It is the fifth book in the Kingsbridge Series, and is the sequel to A Column of Fire.The Armour of Light takes place in the years 1792–1824 in Kingsbridge, the same fictional English town in The Pillars of the Earth.
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future is a 2014 book by the American entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel co-written with Blake Masters.It is a condensed and updated version of a highly popular set of online notes taken by Masters for the CS183 class on startups, as taught by Thiel at Stanford University in Spring 2012.
His first and best-known published book is Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (Viking, 2000). [3] Another well-known book from Seife is Proofiness: How You're Being Fooled By the Numbers (Penguin, 2010). [4] Here, Seife focuses on how much propaganda uses numbers worded in such a way that they confuse people and can be misinterpreted. [5]
Joe Ledger is the name of an ongoing series of bio-terrorism thriller books written by Jonathan Maberry, beginning with the 2009 Patient Zero.The series also includes several short stories, audio originals and novellas.
Michael Kennedy Joseph (9 July 1914 – 4 October 1981) was a British-born New Zealand poet and novelist in several genres. He studied at Sacred Heart College, Auckland, and at Merton College, Oxford, from 1936 to 1939. [1]