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Passage of Arms
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Passage of ArmsPassage of Arms

Eric Ambler - Passage of Arms

The idea of acting as front man for a Chinese pirate appeals to Nilsen's sense of humor. But what begins as a simple, if not entirely legal, matter of paper-shuffling ends up with Nilsen in an Indonesian jail. "Tops for its picture os Southeast Asia, in all its color and turmoil.

 
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Tags: Nilsen, Passage, paper-shuffling, legal, Indonesian, matter
The Universe in a Helium Droplet
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The Universe in a Helium DropletThe Universe in a Helium Droplet

The main goal of this book of to establish and define the connection of those two fields with condensed matter physics. The text presents a general overview of analogies between phenomena in condensed matter physics on one hand and quantum field theory and elementary particle physics on the other.
Physicists will find a wealth of powerful and entertaining ideas in this highly original work.
 
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Tags: physics, condensed, matter, powerful, wealth, Universe, Helium
Extra Lives - Why Videogames Matter
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Extra Lives - Why Videogames MatterExtra Lives - Why Videogames Matter

Tom Bissell is a prizewinning writer who published three widely acclaimed books before the age of thirty-four. He is also an obsessive gamer who has spent untold hours in front of his various video game consoles, playing titles such as Far Cry 2, Left 4 Dead, BioShock, and Oblivion for, literally, days. If you are reading this flap copy, the same thing can probably be said of you, or of someone you know.
 
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Tags: BioShock, Oblivion, literally, titles, playing, Extra, Videogames, Matter, Lives, consoles
Dark Matter (Audiobook)
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Dark Matter - Michelle Paver (Audiobook, MP3)Dark Matter - Michelle Paver (Audiobook, MP3)

'You have plenty of time to clear your TBR piles to make room for this book as it won't be published until October, but make room you should as Michelle Paver's Dark Matter is a ghost story of terrific menace written with consummate skill' CORNFLOWER BOOKS ' I was hooked right away and finished it in just a few days. Dark Matter is the kind of horror story that can chill just about anyone' LITERARY STEW 'Dark Matter is one of the spookiest stories I've read in recent years. 
 
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Tags: Matter, story, Michelle, Paver, chill, Audiobook
The Architecture of Matter: Galileo to Kant
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The Architecture of Matter: Galileo to KantThe Architecture of Matter: Galileo to Kant

Thomas Holden presents a fascinating study of theories of matter in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. These theories were plagued by a complex of interrelated problems concerning matter's divisibility, composition, and internal architecture. Is any material body infinitely divisible? Must we posit atoms or elemental minima from which bodies are ultimately composed? Are the parts of material bodies themselves material concreta? Or are they merely potentialities or possible existents? Questions such as these - and the press of subtler questions hidden in their amibiguities - deeply unsettled philosophers of the early modern period. 
 
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Tags: material, theories, bodies, matter, existents, Architecture