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Zero - Charles Seife
Praise for Zero
“Mathematicians, contrary to popular misconception, are often the most lucid of writers (Bertrand Russell won a Nobel Prize not in mathematics but in literature), and Seife is a welco ...
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Sun in a Bottle - Charles Seife
Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Introduction
CHAPTER 1 - THE SWORD OF MICHAEL
CHAPTER 2 - THE VALLEY OF IRON
CHAPTER 3 - PROJECT PLOWSHARE AND THE SUNSHINE UNITS
CHAPTER 4 - KIN ...
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Proofiness - Charles Seife
Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Phony Facts, Phony Figures
Chapter 2 - Rorschach’s Demon
Chapter 3 - Risky Business
Chapter 4 - Poll Cats
Chapter 5 - E ...
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Cockfighter - Charles Ray Willeford
Cockfighter
by Orrie Hitt
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First, I closed the windows and bolted the flimsy aluminum door. Then I flicked on the overhead light and snapped the Venetian blinds shut. Without the cross venti ...
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Dyson Sphere - Charles R. Pellegrino
The Shape of Heaven
Tonight CAPTAIN Picard came back again to his mother’s old admonition: “Be careful what you wish for, Jean-Luc. You may get it.”
Sitting in his ready room, he again played the re ...