When an unknown black poodle inexplicably explodes in philosophy professor Timothy Chesterton-Brown's back yard--paralyzing the professor and killing a guest--a group of visionary detectives search the most magical reaches of reason for the solution

Product Description: Hobson's Island (so called because Mr. Hobson bought it, or did Mr. Hobson buy it because it was so called?) enjoyed decades of isolation in the Atlantic Ocean. For years, the caretakers lived there peacefully, with only a cow for company and an empty house to care for...read more

A broad-based introduction to physics that provides coverage of the basic concepts using examples of common or everyday phenomena. The text takes a conceptual approach and has some simple mathematics.

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Product Description: This is the first U.S. publication of two riotous novels by the Polish-born British writer Stefan Themerson (1910-1988), who with his wife Franciszka ran the Gaberbocchus Press in London. Gaberbocchus published both Kurt Schwitters and Bertrand Russell--and these extremes unite in Themerson’s highly individual brand of philosophical Dadaism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Drawings by Franciszka Themerson. Originally published in England in 1953.