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Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
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Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World

Автор: Rhodes Richard
Язык: английский
Год: 2011
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What do Hedy Lamarr, avant-garde composer George Antheil, and your cell phone have in common? The answer is spread-spectrum radio: a revolutionary inven­tion based on the rapid switching of communications sig­nals among a spread of different...
The White Album
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The White Album

Автор: Дидион Джоан
Язык: английский
Год: 1990
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First published in 1979, "The White Album "is a journalistic mosaic" "of American life in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. It includes, among other bizarre artifacts and personalities, reportage on the dark journeys and impulses of the...
A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter
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A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter

Автор: Deresiewicz William
Язык: английский
Год: 2011
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In A Jane Austen Education, Austen scholar William Deresiewicz turns to the author's novels to reveal the remarkable life lessons hidden within. With humor and candor, Deresiewicz employs his own experiences to demonstrate the enduring power of...