Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity (Wallace David Foster)(Paperback)

Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity (Wallace David Foster)(Paperback)

Part history, part philosophy, part love letter to the study of mathematics, Everything and More is an illuminating tour of infinity. With his infectious curiosity and trademark verbal pyrotechnics, David Foster Wallace takes us from Aristotle to Newton, Leibniz, Karl Weierstrass, and finally Georg

David Foster Wallace: Fiction and Form (Hering David)(Paperback)

In David Foster Wallace: Fiction and Form, David Hering analyses the structures of David Foster Wallace's fiction, from his debut The Broom of the System to his final unfinished novel The Pale King. Incorporating extensive analysis of Wallace's drafts, notes and letters, and taking account of the

Infinite Jest (Foster Wallace David)(Paperback / softback)

Somewhere in the not-so-distant future the residents of Ennet House, a Boston halfway house for recovering addicts, and students at the nearby Enfield Tennis Academy are ensnared in the search for the master copy of INFINITE JEST, a movie said to be so dangerously entertaining its viewers become

Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (Wallace David Foster)(Paperback)

This celebrated collection of essays from the author of Infinite Jest is 'brilliantly entertaining...Consider the Lobster proves once more why Wallace should be regarded as this generation's best comic writer' (Cleveland Plain Dealer). Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone?

String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis: A Library of America Special Publication (Wallace David Foster)(Pevná vazba)

Infinite Jest (Wallace David Foster)(Paperback)

A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why

David Foster Wallace Reader (Foster Wallace David)(Paperback / softback)

This volume presents his most dazzling, funniest, and most heartbreaking work — essays like his famous cruise-ship piece, 'A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again,' excerpts from his novels The Broom of the System, Infinite Jest, and The Pale King, and legendary stories like 'The Depressed

Brief Interviews With Hideous Men (Foster Wallace David)(Paperback / softback)

* 'A book of formidable creative intelligence, and real moral purpose'

The Broom of the System (Wallace David Foster)(Paperback)

Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books 50 Covers competition For the seventieth anniversary of

Pale King (Foster Wallace David)(Paperback / softback)

The Pale King is David Foster Wallace's final novel - a testament to his enduring brilliance The Internal Revenue Service Regional Examination Centre in Peoria, Illinois, 1985. Here the minutaie of a million daily lives are totted up, audited and accounted for. Here the workers fight a never-ending

Infinite Jest (Wallace David Foster)(Pevná vazba)

A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it

Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (Wallace David Foster)(Paperback / softback)

*Razor-sharp cultural commentary and hilarious social observation from the bestselling author of INFINITE

Oblivion: Stories (Foster Wallace David)(Paperback / softback)

* A brand new short story collection from 'the most significant writer of his generation'

Both Flesh And Not (Foster Wallace David)(Paperback / softback)

Combines the author's essays with work published in the UK. This title collects fifteen

History of Pictures - From the Cave to the Computer Screen (Hockney David)(Paperback / softback)

A new, compact edition of David Hockney and Martin Gayford's brilliantly original book, with a revised final chapter and three entirely new Hockney

Origin Story: A Big History of Everything (Christian David)(Paperback)

This New York Times bestseller 'elegantly weaves evidence and insights...into a single, accessible historical narrative' (Bill Gates) and presents a captivating history of the universe -- from the Big Bang to dinosaurs to mass globalization and beyond. Most historians study the smallest slivers of

David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society (Hume David)(Paperback)

A compact and accessible edition of Hume's political and moral writings with essays by a distinguished set of contributors A key figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, David Hume was a major influence on thinkers ranging from Kant and Schopenhauer to Einstein and Popper, and his writings continue to

Computing: A Concise History (Ceruzzi Paul E.)(Paperback)

A compact and accessible history of computing--from punch cards and calculators to UNIVAC and ENIAC, the personal computer, Silicon Valley, and the Internet--for experts and non-experts alike In an accessible style, computer historian Paul Ceruzzi offers a broad though detailed history of

Uninhabitable Earth - A Story of the Future (Wallace-Wells David)(Paperback / softback)

William Wallace (Fisher Andrew)(Paperback)

William Wallace has always been one of the great heroes of Scottish history. By no means prepared by birth, education or training for leadership, Wallace nevertheless rose to prominence during the Wars of Independence, leading forces which broke the sequence of English victories and inspiring his

The Best American Essays (Wallace David Foster)(Paperback)

The twenty-two essays in this powerful collection -- perhaps the most diverse in the entire series -- come from a wide variety of periodicals, ranging from n + 1 and PMS to the New Republic and The New Yorker, and showcase a remarkable range of forms. Read on for narrative -- in first and third

Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Graeber David)(Paperback)

From David Graeber, the bestselling author of The Dawn of Everything and Debt--'a master of opening up thought and stimulating debate' (Slate)--a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs...and their consequences. Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world?

Black and British - A Forgotten History (Olusoga David)(Paperback / softback)

'[A] comprehensive and important history of black Britain . . . Written with a wonderful clarity of style and with great force and passion.' - Kwasi Kwarteng, Sunday Times In this vital re-examination of a shared history, historian and broadcaster David Olusoga tells the rich and revealing story of

Angle of Repose (Stegner Wallace)(Paperback / softback)

Tells the story of Lyman Ward, a retired professor of history and author of books about the Western frontier, who returns to his ancestral home in the Sierra Nevada. Wheelchair-bound with a crippling bone disease, Ward embarks on a search to rediscover his grandmother, who made her own journey to