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9780805242096 | Schocken Books, May 9, 2006, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: A portrait of the renegade seventeenth-century Jewish philosopher examines the events of his life, his heretical writings and his excommunication by Amsterdam's Jewish community, and the cultural and religious context and influence of his ideas.
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9780805211597 | Schocken Books, August 11, 2009, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In 1656, Amsterdam’s Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza, and, at the age of twenty–three, he became the most famous heretic in Judaism.
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9781438922614 | Authorhouse, November 30, 2008, cover price $16.49 | About this edition: This book will help any High School Junior or Senior applying to colleges.
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9781400828180 | Princeton Univ Pr, September 2, 2008, cover price $22.95
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9780393051698 | W W Norton & Co Inc, February 1, 2005, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: 'An introduction to the life and thought of Kurt Godel, who transformed our conception of math forever'--Provided by publisher.
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9780393327601 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, February 1, 2006), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A portrait of the eminent twentieth-century mathematician discusses his theorem of incompleteness, relationships with such contemporaries as Albert Einstein, and untimely death as a result of mental instability and self-starvation.
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9780670835560 | Viking Pr, July 1, 1991, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: When an eccentric writer moves from New York City to New England to concentrate on writing a novel in the style of Henry James, the drama she plays out with her younger narcissistic sister mirrors the drama unfolding in her work
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9780299199944 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, March 1, 2004, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: If you like the fiction of Henry James, the psychology of his brother William, and have a taste for Gothic mysteries you will enjoy The Dark Sister.
9780140172478 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, March 1, 1993), cover price $19.00 | About this edition: The story of the relationship between two sisters--Hedda, an intelligent writer of angry feminist novels, and Stella, a woman who has married and divorced several times.
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9780670856480 | Viking Pr, October 1, 1995, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Explores the intermingling of chance and determinism in the lives of Sasha Saunders, a Polish-born avant-garde actress, her daughter Chloe, and pregnant granddaughter Phoebe, in a novel that expands upon the author's short story 'Strange Attractors'
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9780299181246 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, August 9, 2002, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Mazel means luck in Yiddish, and luck is the guiding force in this magical and mesmerizing novel that spans three generations.
9780140239058 | Penguin USA, September 1, 1996, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A novel of three generations of Jewish women begins with Sasha, the matriarch, who has learned of Mazel, the great confounder of order and predictability, from her experiences in pre-war Warsaw and her current life in New York, as she passes this knowledge onto her daughter and granddaughter.
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9780618154593 | Mariner Books, November 14, 2001, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: With Properties of Light, the award-winning author of The Mind-Body Problem gives us one of the magnificent performances in contemporary fiction, a fusion of the imagination and intellect .
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9781574534597 | Unabridged edition (Audio Literature, November 1, 2001), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Presents an anthology of Hanukkah stories written by renowned Jewish authors.
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The obsessions, betrayals, and passions of three physicists threaten their work to unlock some of the deepest mysteries of quantum mechanices, including the nature of light itself.
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9780395986592 | Houghton Mifflin, August 1, 2000, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: The obsessions, betrayals, and passions of three physicists threaten their work to unlock some of the deepest mysteries of quantum mechanices, including the nature of light itself.
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9780547561622 | Houghton Mifflin, August 29, 2000, cover price $15.95
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9780670846405 | Viking Pr, March 1, 1993, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: The hidden order that lies at the heart of life's apparent chaos shapes seven stories that explore the intertwining of heart, soul, and intellect and journey through the mysterious maze of consciousness and love
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9780140172461 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, February 1, 1994), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A collection of seven short stories that explore the labyrinths of consciousness, the fragile mysteries of love, and the forces that--like the mathematical notion of "strange attractors"--bring a secret order to the chaotic randomness of life.
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9780394524740 | Random House Inc, September 1, 1983, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: During her college years, Renee Feuer, the product of a strict Orthodox Jewish household, works at liberating herself from the prohibitions of her upbringing, seeking freedom of the body and mind, and eventually marries Noah Himmel, a mathematical genius
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9780140172454 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, March 1, 1993), cover price $16.00
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9780374184063 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 1, 1989, cover price $18.95
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9780679728238 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, April 1, 1990), cover price $8.95
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Renee Feuer Himmel falls in love with and marries a brilliant mathematician, only to learn he is only attracted to her physically, not emotionally
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9780440356516 | Laurel Leaf, March 1, 1985, cover price $4.50 | About this edition: Renee Feuer Himmel falls in love with and marries a brilliant mathematician, only to learn he is only attracted to her physically, not emotionally
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