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9788439707936 | Grijalbo Mondadori, January 1, 2001, cover price $31.95

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Product Description: When John Nash won the Nobel prize in economics in 1994, many people were surprised to learn that he was alive and well. Since then, Sylvia Nasar's celebrated biography A Beautiful Mind, the basis of a new major motion picture, has revealed the man...read more
By Harold W. Kuhn (editor) and Sylvia Nasar (editor)
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9780691096100 | Princeton Univ Pr, February 26, 2007, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: When John Nash won the Nobel prize in economics in 1994, many people were surprised to learn that he was alive and well.

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Product Description: In this powerful and dramatic biography, Sylvia Nasar vividly re-creates the life of a mathematical genius whose career was cut short by schizophrenia and who, after three decades of devastating mental illness, miraculously recovered and was honored with a Nobel Prize...read more
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9780743224574 | Reissue edition (Simon & Schuster, December 4, 2001), cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Relates how mathematical genius John Forbes Nash, Jr.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780786122158 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, June 1, 2002), cover price $49.95 | About this edition: In this powerful and dramatic biography, Sylvia Nasar vividly re-creates the life of a mathematical genius whose career was cut short by schizophrenia and who, after three decades of devastating mental illness, miraculously recovered and was honored with a Nobel Prize.
9780743509886 | Abridged edition (Simon & Schuster Audioworks, December 1, 2001), cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Relates how mathematical genius John Forbes Nash, Jr.

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An intriguing portrait of the Nobel Prize-winning economist and mathematician who for some thirty years suffered from the ravages of paranoid schizophrenia presents a collection of nine of his most influential papers, accompanied by a photo-essay chronicling Nash's career, his Nobel citation, and his personal memoirs. (Science & Mathematics) (view table of contents)
By Harold W. Kuhn (editor), Sylvia Nasar (editor) and John F. Nash
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9780691095271 | Princeton Univ Pr, November 19, 2001, cover price $58.00 | About this edition: Contains papers written by John Nash discussing mathematic and economic concepts such as game theory, bargaining, and linear and non-linear programming.

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9788497591805 | Debolsillo, January 1, 2002, cover price $17.95

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Product Description: In this powerful and dramatic biography Sylvia Nasar vividly re-creates the life of a mathematical genius whose career was cut short by schizophrenia and who, after three decades of devastating mental illness, miraculously recovered and was honored with a Nobel Prize...read more
By Anna Fields (narrator) and Sylvia Nasar
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9780786195817 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, April 1, 2000), cover price $128.00 | About this edition: In this powerful and dramatic biography Sylvia Nasar vividly re-creates the life of a mathematical genius whose career was cut short by schizophrenia and who, after three decades of devastating mental illness, miraculously recovered and was honored with a Nobel Prize.

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Relates how mathematical genius John Forbes Nash, Jr., suffered a breakdown at age thirty-one and was diagnosed with schizophrenia, but experienced a remission of his illness thirty years later.
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9780786242238 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, July 1, 2002), cover price $30.95 | About this edition: Relates how mathematical genius John Forbes Nash, Jr.
9780786242238 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, July 1, 2002), cover price $30.95 | About this edition: Relates how mathematical genius John Forbes Nash, Jr.

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9780743509893 | Abridged edition (Simon & Schuster Audioworks, December 1, 2001), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: A biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr.
9780786193516 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, April 1, 2000), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Amazon.

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9780786117444 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, April 1, 2000), cover price $85.95 | About this edition: At the age of 21, a brilliant and highly eccentric graduate student made a major contribution to game theory: John Nash had discovered an influential theory of rational human behaviour.
9780786117444 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, April 1, 2000), cover price $85.95 | About this edition: At the age of 21, a brilliant and highly eccentric graduate student made a major contribution to game theory: John Nash had discovered an influential theory of rational human behaviour.

Reinforced:

9780606242424, titled "Beautiful Mind" | Demco Media, November 1, 2002, cover price $25.69 | About this edition: Relates how mathematical genius John Forbes Nash, Jr.

Prebinding:

9781417740833, titled "Beautiful Mind" | Turtleback Books, January 1, 2002, cover price $28.25 | About this edition: Relates how mathematical genius John Forbes Nash, Jr.

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9788497934398 | Italian edition edition (Debolsillo, November 30, 2004), cover price $15.95

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Product Description: Community Mental Health is a significant interdisciplinary resource for students, practitioners, or policy planners, engaged in the evaluation and development of programs in the human services. Jessica and Sam Rosenberg have carefully pulled together a book containing twenty-two original chapters by leading scholars, consumers, and practitioners in the community mental health field...read more
By Sylvia Nasar (foreword by), Jessica Rosenberg (editor) and Samuel Rosenberg (editor)
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9780415950107 | Brunner-Routledge, January 9, 2006, cover price $99.95 | About this edition: Community Mental Health is a significant interdisciplinary resource for students, practitioners, or policy planners, engaged in the evaluation and development of programs in the human services.

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9780415950114 | Brunner-Routledge, January 9, 2006, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: Community Mental Health is a significant interdisciplinary resource for students, practitioners, or policy planners, engaged in the evaluation and development of programs in the human services.

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Relates how mathematical genius John Forbes Nash, jr., suffered a breakdown at age thirty-one and was diagnosed with schizophrenia, but experienced a remission of his illness thirty years later
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9780684819068, titled "A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994" | Simon & Schuster, June 1, 1998, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Relates how mathematical genius John Forbes Nash, jr.

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9780743226370 | Scribner, December 1, 2001, cover price $7.99
9780743226370 | Scribner, December 1, 2001, cover price $7.99
9780684853703, titled "A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994" | Simon & Schuster, May 1, 1999, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Relates how mathematical genius John Forbes Nash, jr.

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Product Description:  “HOW COULD YOU, A MATHEMATICIAN, BELIEVE THAT EXTRATERRESTRIALS WERE SENDING YOU MESSAGES?” the visitor from Harvard asked the West Virginian with the movie-star looks and Olympian manner. “Because the ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way my mathematical ideas did,” came the answer...read more
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9781451628425 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, July 12, 2011), cover price $18.00 | About this edition:  “HOW COULD YOU, A MATHEMATICIAN, BELIEVE THAT EXTRATERRESTRIALS WERE SENDING YOU MESSAGES?

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Miscellaneous:

9781439198612 | Simon & Schuster, May 10, 2011, cover price $16.99

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Product Description: An instant New York Times bestseller, in a sweeping narrative the author of the esteemed A Beautiful Mind takes us on a journey through modern history with the men and women who changed the lives of every single person on the planet...read more
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9780684872988 | Simon & Schuster, September 13, 2011, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: In a sweeping narrative, the author of the megabestseller A Beautiful Mind takes us on a journey through modern history with the men and women who changed the lives of every single person on the planet.

Paperback:

9780684872995 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, July 31, 2012), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: An instant New York Times bestseller, in a sweeping narrative the author of the esteemed A Beautiful Mind takes us on a journey through modern history with the men and women who changed the lives of every single person on the planet.

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9781442340145 | Unabridged edition (Simon & Schuster, September 13, 2011), cover price $49.99 | About this edition: In a sweeping narrative, the author of the mega-bestseller A Beautiful Mind takes us on a journey through modern history with the men and women who changed the lives of every single person on the planet.

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Miscellaneous:

9781439126493 | Simon & Schuster, December 31, 2012, cover price $17.99

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