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A space cruiser, in search of its sister ship, encounters beings descended from self-replicating machines.In the grand tradition of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, Stanisław Lem's The Invincible tells...

A fantastic book. Steven Soderbergh When psychologist Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface, he finds himself confronting a painful memory embodied in...

"Lem had several characters that he retuned to through several novels and many short stories. Ijon Tichy, the narrator and space traveler in this collection of stories, also appears in The Star...

"His Master's Voice is one of Lem's most polished and fully realized novels. It is told in the voice of Peter Hogarth, an eminent mathematician, who admits in the initial chapter that "the...

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" Le 28 septembre 1865, débarque en baie de New York en provenance de Liverpool un jeune médecin français de vingt-quatre ans, Georges Clemenceau, sans objectif précis. Il restera finalement quatre...

The eminent Jewish scholar recalls the chief events and people of his Berlin childhood, the circumstances leading to his migration to Palestine, and his initial responses to his new homeland

In seinem Buch über Walter Benjamin er wähnte Gershom Scholem eine "Quelle ersten Ranges", die ihm jahrelang ver- schlossen war: seine eigenen Briefe an Walter Benjamin. Durch eine erfreuliche...

Ptolemy's Almagest is one of the most influential scientific works in history. A masterpiece of technical exposition, it was the basic textbook of astronomy for more than a thousand years, and still...

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This is at once a chapter in the history of ideas and, by reason of its focus on the Weimar Republic, a case study. The author first offers a stimulating approach to a definition of that much abused...

One of the most eloquent and moving correspondences of the twentieth century, the letters that passed between Shiela Grant Duff and Adam von Trott zu Solz tell of a friendship--tender, strained, and...