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Scorched by Wajdi Mouawad
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTwin children Jeanne and Simon want to solve the mystery of their origins. In retracing the bitter history of their mother, who is about to die, other characters come into the story—witnesses or key players able to assist in the investigation. Carried aloft by poetic language, the inquiry pursued by Jeanne and Simon unfolds in a dreamlike atmosphere... -
![Selected Poems and Four Plays by W.B. Yeats, Macha Louis Rosenthal]()
Selected Poems and Four Plays by W.B. Yeats, Macha Louis Rosenthal
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSince its first appearance in 1962, M. L. Rosenthal's classic selection of Yeats's poems and plays has attracted hundreds of thousands of readers. This newly revised edition includes 211 poems and 4 plays... -
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alphabet by Inger Christensen
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAwarded the American-Scandinavian PEN Translation Prize by Michael Hamburger, Susanna Nied's translation of alphabet introduces Inger Christensen's poetry to US readers for the first time. Born in 1935, Inger Christensen is Denmark's best known poet... -
![Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera: A Reader's Guide by Thomas Fahy]()
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera: A Reader's Guide by Thomas Fahy
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years from The Remains of the Day to White Teeth... -
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![Altazor/Temblor del cielo by Vicente Huidobro]()
Altazor/Temblor del cielo by Vicente Huidobro
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAltazor y Temblor de cielo (1931), poemas en verso y prosa, respectivamente, son las abras clave del chileno Huidobro, uno de los importadores de las vanguardias a España. Altazor es una intensa abra metafísica, ademas de un ingenioso juego de palabras, culminación del creacionismo... -
![Viento del pueblo. II tomos by Miguel Hernández]()
Viento del pueblo. II tomos by Miguel Hernández
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"Los poetas somos viento del nacemos para pasar soplando a través de sus poros y conducir sus ojos y sus sentimientos hacia las cumbres más hermosas", confiesa Miguel Hernández en la dedicatoria de "Viento del pueblo" (1936-1937). Y así surgen los poemas de este libro con su nota dinámica, su tono épico y su febril entusiasmo... -
![Trilce by César Vallejo]()
Trilce by César Vallejo
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratings'Trilce' is one of the great monuments of 20th-Century Hispanic poetry, as important in Hispanic letters as 'The Wasteland' and 'The Cantos' in the anglophone world, and all the more amazing for having been composed in remote Peru... -
![Draupadi by Mahasweta Devi]()
Draupadi by Mahasweta Devi
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMahasweta Devi situates her story against the Naxalite movement (1967-71), the Bangladesh Liberation War (1971) of West Bengal and the ancient Hindu epic of Mahabharata, engaging with the complex politics of Bengali identity and Indian nationhood... -
![The Occasions by Eugenio Montale]()
The Occasions by Eugenio Montale
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEugenio Montale's second book of poetry was first published in 1939. This book is his most experimental work, but a work no less tradition-saturated than Eliot's... -
![I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud (Read Me a Poem: Classic Poetry for Modern Children) (Read Me a Poem: Classic Poetry for Modern Children) by William Wordsworth]()
I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud (Read Me a Poem: Classic Poetry for Modern Children) (Read Me a Poem: Classic Poetry for Modern Children) by William Wordsworth
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis spring, children will look at daffodils in a whole new way, thanks to this joyful, vibrant picture book! Lonely l ittle Robot doesn't have much to be happy about, working all day in the factory. One day, while sadly walking by himself, he follows a bird over a hill, and discovers a field of daffodils. After dancing with them, his spirit is filled with joy... -
![The Black Heralds by César Vallejo]()
The Black Heralds by César Vallejo
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOriginally published in Peru in 1919 before the poet fled to Europe to avoid incarceration, this collection of poems is the first from a man who would become a significant voice of Latin American poetry... -
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![The Bridge by Hart Crane, Waldo Frank]()
The Bridge by Hart Crane, Waldo Frank
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBegun in 1923 and published 1930, The Bridge is Crane's major work. "Very roughly," he wrote a friend, "it concerns a mystical synthesis of 'America' . . . The initial impulses of 'our people' will have to be gathered up toward the climax of the bridge, symbol of our constructive future, our unique identity... -
![Garbage by A.R. Ammons]()
Garbage by A.R. Ammons
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"A. R. Ammons's poem with the unforgettable title is a defense of meaning—'this,' the poet says, 'are awash in ideality.' Garbage is an epic of ideas: all life—not that of human beings alone, but every species—is shown to be part of an ultimate reality. Eternity is here and now... -
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![El árbol by María Luisa Bombal, Alejandra Acosta]()
El árbol by María Luisa Bombal, Alejandra Acosta
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLos protagonistas de esta historia son una joven mujer, su marido mayor y un gomero. Brígida vive con comodidad y lujos en su bella casa, pero pasa en soledad casi todos sus días. Luis, entre sus compromisos y su trabajo, no se percata de las súplicas silenciosas de su mujer... -
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Not I by Samuel Beckett
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsShort dramatic monologue written in 1972 (20 March to 1 April) by Samuel Beckett which was premiered at the "Samuel Beckett Festival" by the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center, New York (22 November 1972)... -
![Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley]()
Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe famous poem "Ode to the West Wind" by P.B... -
![Чернишка by Emilian Stanev, Емилиян Станев]()
Чернишка by Emilian Stanev, Емилиян Станев
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsИcтopията за малката лиcичка Чepнишка cpeща младитe читатeли cъc cуpoвия живoт в дивата гopа. Пoвecтта e залeгнала в пpoгpамата на бългаpcкитe училища... -
![The Solitudes by Luis de Góngora y Argote]()
The Solitudes by Luis de Góngora y Argote
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn epic masterpiece of world literature, in a magnificent new translation by one of the most acclaimed translators of our time. A towering figure of the Renaissance, Luis de Góngora pioneered poetic forms so radically different from the dominant aesthetic of his time that he was derided as "the Prince of Darkness... -
![Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann]()
Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann
Rated: 4.72 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsData is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues need to be figured out, such as scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability. In addition, we have an overwhelming variety of tools, including relational databases, NoSQL datastores, stream or batch processors, and message brokers... -
![Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow by Aurélien Géron]()
Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow by Aurélien Géron
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA series of Deep Learning breakthroughs have boosted the whole field of machine learning over the last decade. Now that machine learning is thriving, even programmers who know close to nothing about this technology can use simple, efficient tools to implement programs capable of learning from data. This practical book shows you how... -
![C Programming Language by Ritchie Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie]()
C Programming Language by Ritchie Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsClassic, bestselling introduction that teaches the language and illustrates useful algorithms, data structures and programming techniques... -
![Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold]()
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsWhat do flashlights, the British invasion, black cats, and seesaws have to do with computers? In CODE, they show us the ingenious ways we manipulate language and invent new means of communicating with each other. And through CODE, we see how this ingenuity and our very human compulsion to communicate have driven the technological innovations of the past two centuries... -
![R for Data Science: Import, Tidy, Transform, Visualize, and Model Data by Hadley Wickham, Garrett Grolemund]()
R for Data Science: Import, Tidy, Transform, Visualize, and Model Data by Hadley Wickham, Garrett Grolemund
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLearn how to use R to turn raw data into insight, knowledge, and understanding. This book introduces you to R, RStudio, and the tidyverse, a collection of R packages designed to work together to make data science fast, fluent, and fun. Suitable for readers with no previous programming experience, R for Data Science is designed to get you doing data science as quickly as possible... -
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![Deep Learning with Python by François Chollet]()
Deep Learning with Python by François Chollet
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDeep learning is applicable to a widening range of artificial intelligence problems, such as image classification, speech recognition, text classification, question answering, text-to-speech, and optical character recognition. It is the technology behind photo tagging systems at Facebook and Google, self-driving cars, speech recognition systems on your smartphone, and much more... -
![The Dream Machine: J. C. R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal by M. Mitchell Waldrop]()
The Dream Machine: J. C. R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal by M. Mitchell Waldrop
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn 1962, decades before "personal computers" and "Internet" became household words, the revolution that gave rise to both of them was set in motion from a small, nondescript office in the depths of the Pentagon. In an age when the word "computer" still meant a big, ominous mainframe mysteriously processing punch cards, the occupant of that office-an MIT psychologist named J.C.R... -
![The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte]()
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe classic book on statistical graphics, charts, tables. Theory and practice in the design of data graphics, 250 illustrations of the best (and a few of the worst) statistical graphics, with detailed analysis of how to display data for precise, effective, quick analysis. Design of the high-resolution displays, small multiples. Editing and improving graphics. The data-ink ratio... -
![Google必修的圖表簡報術 by 柯爾・諾瑟鮑姆・娜菲克]()
Google必修的圖表簡報術 by 柯爾・諾瑟鮑姆・娜菲克
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsDon't simply show your data--tell a story with it! "Storytelling with Data" teaches you the fundamentals of data visualization and how to communicate effectively with data. You'll discover the power of storytelling and the way to make data a pivotal point in your story... -
![A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher W. Alexander, Sara Ishikawa]()
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher W. Alexander, Sara Ishikawa
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAt the core of A Pattern Language is the philosophy that in designing their environments people always rely on certain ‘languages,’ which, like the languages we speak, allow them to articulate and communicate an infinite variety of designs within a formal system which gives them coherence.This book provides a language of this kind... -
![Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin]()
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsEven bad code can function. But if code isn't clean, it can bring a development organization to its knees. Every year, countless hours and significant resources are lost because of poorly written code. But it doesn't have to be that way. Noted software expert Robert C. Martin presents a revolutionary paradigm with Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship...
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