Title: Kabul

Author: M.E. Hirsh

Language: English

ISBN: 0-413-15370-3

Publisher: Methuen

Number of pages: 445

Dimensions: 178*110*30 mm

Half-Afghan, half-Western, the Anwari family stands at the centre of the turbulent and tragic events of recent history. Omar, American-educated and married to a Bostonian, is a cabinet member and an internationally respected diplomat. His children, caught between their sophisticated foreign schooling and their deep involvement with semi-feudal, Islamic Afghanistan, reflect the impossible tensions of a country trapped between cinflicting pressures. Mangal, the revolutionary; Saira, shamed and jilted by her American lover; Tor, passionate and thwarted, who turns from crime to fanaticism. This extrordinary novel reveals the savage trurths  of a family and a counntry torn apart. 

Titel: His 'n' Hers 

Author: Mike Gayle

Language: English

ISBN: 978-0-340-82538-9

Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton

Year of publishing: 2005

Number of pages: 352

Dimensions: 197*127*21 mm

From their first meeting at the student union over a decade ago, Jim and Alison succesfully navigated their way through first dates, meeting parents, moving in together and more...Then they split up and divided their wordly goods (including a sofa, a cat and their flat) into his 'n' hers. Now, three years on and with new lives and new loves, they couldn't be happier. Unitl a chance encounter throws them back together, and causes them to embark on a journey through their past to ask themsev the big question: where did it all go wrong, and is it too late to put it all right?

The Zoo Quest Expeditions by David Attenborough

Title: The Zoo Quest Expeditions

Author: David Attenborough

ISBN 10: 014005765X

ISBN 13: 9780140057652

Language: English

Publisher: Penguin

Genre/Subject: Nonfiction / Outdoors Nature

Place of publication: UK

Year Published: 1983

Binding: Paperback

Number of Pages: 355

Dimensions (mm): 180 x 110 x 20 mm

Shipping Weight (g): 300 g

Description:

Three of David Attenborough's early adventures are collected in this book. David Attenborough's books have opened up the incredible world of natural history to millions of viewers and listeners. Zoo Quest for a Dragon takes us back to one of his earliest projects, when the BBC and London Zoo joined forces on several animal-collecting expeditions. Quest in Paradise follows his next animal collecting and filming trip to New Guinea, home of the exotic Birds of Paradise. Quest Under Capricorn details Attenborough’s expedition to Australia in 1963 in search of more rare species. There he meets Aborigines, goes walkabout in the bush, and learns the secret craft of the artists of Arnhem Land.
David Attenborough first established his current reputation on television with his Zoo Quest series, and these original accounts of his travels proved him to be an excellent writer and a gifted and amusing story teller. This edition brings together, slightly abridged, his descriptions of three journeys - to Guyana where he explored the broad savannahs of the Rupununi, the creeks and swamps of the coast, and the remote forest reserve of the Amerindians; to Indonesia in search of the Komodo dragon; and to Paraguay to seek, among other animals, the elusive giant armadillo.
The book abounds with superb vignettes of bizarre characters - Mistah King, the mermaid fisherman; the shanty singers Lord Lucifer and the Great Smasher; Comelli, the wandering jaguar hunter; and the fat, jolly Gertie who claimed she has a 'highly nervous psychological disposition'. The author also tells, disarmingly, of the hardships of the journey by launch and canoes up the rivers of South America, of his travel by horseback through the parched, inhospitable Chac of Paraguay, sometimes swamp and sometimes desert, and of a hazardous voyage by prau under the captaincy of a gun-smuggler.
At all times the author shows his acute powers of observation, his irrepressible sense of the ridiculous, and his gift as a brilliant raconteur. No one has written more entertaining travel books, and this collected edition, superbly illustrated by photographs, will be hugely enjoyed for its evocative descriptions of animals, people and places.

About the Author:

Sir David Frederick Attenborough is a naturalist and broadcaster, who is most well-known for writing and presenting the nine "Life" series, produced in conjunction with BBC's Natural History Unit. The series includes Life on Earth (1979), The Living Planet (1984), The Trials of Life (1990), Life in the Freezer (about Antarctica; 1993), The Private Life of Plants (1995), The Life of Birds (1998), The Life of Mammals (2002), Life in the Undergrowth (2005) and Life in Cold Blood (2008).

He is the younger brother of director and actor Richard Attenborough.

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Elementary Linear Algebra by Richard O. Hill, Jr. (Text Book and Instructor’s Manual)

Elementary Linear Algebra reviews the elementary foundations of linear algebra in a student-oriented, highly readable way. The many examples and large number and variety of exercises in each section help the student learn and understand the material. The instructor is also given flexibility by allowing the presentation of a traditional introductory linear algebra course with varying emphasis on applications or numerical considerations. In addition, the instructor can tailor coverage of several topics.

Comprised of six chapters, this book first discusses Gaussian elimination and the algebra of matrices. Applications are interspersed throughout, and the problem of solving AX = B, where A is square and invertible, is tackled. The reader is then introduced to vector spaces and subspaces, linear independences, and dimension, along with rank, determinants, and the concept of inner product spaces. The final chapter deals with various topics that highlight the interaction between linear algebra and all the other branches of mathematics, including function theory, analysis, and the singular value decomposition and generalized inverses.

This monograph will be a useful resource for practitioners, instructors, and students taking elementary linear algebra.

Product details:

Print Length: 404 pages

Publisher: Academic Press (1986)

Language: English

ISBN: 0-12-348462-6

Wight: 800 gr