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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...

"Brings together the cognitive, the cultural, and the neurological in an elegant, compelling narrative. A revelatory work."--Oliver Sacks, M.D.The act of reading is so easily taken for granted that...

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...

Our understanding of how the human brain performs mathematical calculations is far from complete, but in recent years there have been many exciting breakthroughs by scientists all over the world...

Scientists must decode a message from intelligent beings in outer space in this classic science fiction tale by the legendary author of Solaris.“The universe is still struggling to catch up with the...

Meet Ijon Tichy—a space age adventurer who encounters faulty time machines, intelligent washing machines, and other puzzling phenomena—in this collection from a science fiction legend.Memoirs of a...

Fabián Casas.

Zionism is the nationalist movement affirming Jewish people's right to self-determination through the establishment of a Jewish national state in its ancient homeland. It is one of the most...

Carlo Rosselli (1899-1937) was one of the most charismatic and influential of European antifascist intellectuals. Born into a wealthy Jewish family, and abandoning a promising career as a professor...

The author of such global bestsellers as Lolita and Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) is also one of the most controversial literary translators and translation theorists of modern time. In...

" 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

"Debbie Fleming Caffery’s (born 1948) images can be seen as articles of faith. The relentless insistence of subject and symbol in these images is assuredly their greatest strength. This vigor results...