He is a brilliant maths professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury seventeen years ago, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory.

Available at a lower price from other sellers that may not offer free Prime shipping.A graduate-course text, written for readers familiar with measure-theoretic probability and discrete-time processes, wishing to explore stochastic processes in continuous time. The vehicle chosen for this exposition is Brownian motion, which is presented as the canonical example of both a martingale and a...

„Polska nie ma gór wysokich i majestatycznych jak Alpy, ale Tatry — choć znacznie niższe — nie ustępują im groźnym urokiem skalnych turni. Polska nie ma ciepłego morza, jak kraje śródziemnomorskie, ale tak pięknych, piaszczystych plaż z trudem szukać. Puszcz na pewno na Syberii więcej, ale Puszcza Białowieska jest ze wszystkich najdziksza — bo czy gdzieś jeszcze można się spotkać oko w oko z...

Polska to fascynująca mozaika tradycji i nowoczesności, wielowiekowych zabytków i nowatorskich rozwiązań architektonicznych. Elegancki album Polska. 1000 lat w sercu Europy zabierze w podróż po tym różnorodnym kraju. Niemal 400 kolorowych fotografii ukazuje kalejdoskop pejzaży: od wydm na wybrzeżu Morza Bałtyckiego, przez równiny centralnej Polski, aż po szczyty Sudetów i Karpat....

RHCSA & RHCE Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: Training and Exam Preparation Guide (EX200 and EX300), Third Edition. Highlights: - Updated to the latest version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 - Upated to cover ALL official exam objectives for the RHCSA and RHCE exams based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 -  Equally good for self-study...

Dr Suzanne Goh is a renowned paediatric neurologist who has spent decades working with autistic children. In this ground-breaking book, Goh combines her extensive experience with original research to give you a clear understanding of what autism is and how to create a holistic treatment roadmap for your child. Based on Goh’s revolutionary ‘whole child approach,’ you’ll discover how to: -...

Under USSR rule, the subject matter and style of literary expression in Ukraine was strictly controlled and censored. But once Ukraine gained independence in 1991 its literary scene flourished, as the moving and delightful poems, essays and extracts collected here show. There are fifteen authors included in this book, both established and emerging, and in this anthology we see them grappling...

An intensely moving novel about three friends living in political exile and the emotional homeland that deep friendships can provide - from the Booker-shortlisted, Pulitzer prize-winning author of THE RETURNKhaled and Mustafa meet at university in Edinburgh: two Libyan eighteen-year-olds expecting to return home after their studies. In a moment of recklessness and courage, they travel to...

‘Reassuring, wise, compassionate and funny’ - THE TIMES What does it really take to create lasting sexual connections in long-term relationships? Most couples struggle at some point to maintain their sexual connection. But a lot of the advice we are given on sex is either not very good or steeped in cultural assumptions and expectations that can end up hurting us. In Come Together, leading...

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of my tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter Lolita, he'll do anything to possess her. Unable and unwilling to stop himself, he is prepared...

Vanessa Wye was fifteen-years-old when she first had sex with her English teacher. She is now thirty-two and in the storm of allegations against powerful men in 2017, the teacher, Jacob Strane, has just been accused of sexual abuse by another former student. Vanessa is horrified by this news, because she is quite certain that the relationship she had with Strane wasn't abuse. It was love....

First published over sixty years ago, Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl has reached millions of young people throughout the world. In July 1942, thirteen-year-old Anne Frank and her family, fleeing the occupation, went into hiding in an Amsterdam warehouse. Over the next two years Anne vividly describes in her diary the frustrations of living in such close quarters, and her thoughts,...

Discover a world where Ariel never defeated Ursula in this twist on a classic tale, perfect for fans of The Little Mermaid

The unforgettable novel of love, loss and family that launched Maggie O'Farrell on her extraordinary literary career. A distraught young woman boards a train at King's Cross to return to her family in Scotland. Six hours later, she catches sight of something so terrible in a mirror at Waverley Station that she gets on the next train back to London. After You'd Gone follows Alice's mental...

Now a major BBC drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch 'Only Ian McEwan could write about loss with such telling honesty' Benedict Cumberbatch On a routine trip to the supermarket with his daughter one Saturday morning, Stephen Lewis, a well-known writer of children's books, turns his back momentarily. When he looks around again, his child is gone. In a single moment, everything is changed. The...

Breslau ist eine Stadt, die gerade heute – im Zuge der europäischen Osterweiterung – wieder in den Mittelpunkt des Interesses rückt. Dieser Führer zu den heute noch bestehenden Bauwerken des Neuen Bauens der Stadt und ihrer Umgebung sowie ihrer Vorläuferbauten bietet die Möglichkeit, Altes vor Ort neu und auf den Wegen des Alten auch Neues zu entdecken. Wichtige, weit über die Grenzen des...

Seria wydawnicza „czytamy w oryginale” zawiera adaptacje największych dzieł literatury światowej w wersji dwujęzycznej, przeznaczonej dla uczących się języka angielskiego. Śledząc losy bohaterów, możemy na bieżąco porównywać tekst angielski i polski. Anne of Green Gables. Ania z Zielonego Wzgórza Lucy Maud Montgomery i Pollyanna Eleanor H. Porter to dwie ponadczasowe powieści o niezwykłej...

Is flying dangerous? How much do the world's cows weigh? And what makes people happy? From Earth's nations and inhabitants, through the fuels and foods that energize them, to the transportation and inventions of our modern world - and how all of this affects the planet itself - in Numbers Don't Lie, Professor Vaclav Smil takes us on a fact-finding adventure, using surprising statistics and...

A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex Jane has high hopes her life is about to turn around. After years of living precariously, she; her painter husband, Lenny; and their two kids have landed a stint as house sitters in a friend’s luxurious home in the hills above Los Angeles, a gig that coincides magically with...

The epic conclusion to the Hussite Trilogy by the bestselling author of The Witcher finds Reynevan - infamous magician and disgraced scoundrel - on the run after being sentenced to death by the Catholic Church. Reynevan is besieged on all sides and faces torture and execution if he makes any mistake in his quest to find his beloved, Jutta of Apolda. Aided by his companions - the...