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RARE 1986 FIRST EDITION PRE-PUBLISHING UNCORRECTED PROOF WRIGHT MORRIS COLLECTED STORIES 1948-1986 published by HARPER & ROW, 274 PAGES IN MINT CONDITION.

ISBN 0-06-015639-2.

RARE 1986 FIRST EDITION UNCORRECTED PROOF of DESCARTES' DREAM -- WORLD ACCORDING TO MATHEMATICS, written by PHILIP J. DAVIS and REUBEN HERSH, published by HARCOURT BRACE, JOVANOVICH, PUBLISHERS, San Diego, Boston, & New York -- 316 pages in near mint condition.

"In 1619 Rene Descartes dreamed of a world unified by mathematics. Today, generations later, mathematics through the power of computers pervades almost every aspect of our lives, Its steady, comprehensive, and often unconscious operation is causing irrevocable change to both our intellectual and emotional lives."

VERY INTERESTING TOPICS ARE BROACHED IN THIS BOOK, SUCH AS Are We Drowning in Digits?, Computer Graphics and the Possibility of High Art, The Computerization of Love, Megathinking as a Way of Life, The Whorfian Hypothesis: Ends and Means in Computer Languages, Are We Hooked?, Mathematics and the End of the World, Loss of Meaning through Intellectual Processes, and much more. THERE ARE MANY FASCINATING ILLUSTRATIONS, as well.

ISBN 0-15-125260-2

RARE 1990 FIRST EDITION UNCORRECTED PROOF of NIGHT AND FOG, written by ARNE BRUN LIE, with ROBBY ROBINSON, published by W. W. NORTON & COMPANY, New York and London --217 hand-numbered pages in good condition except for folds on corners.

"When the Nazis controlled his native Norway, Arne Brun Lie was arrested by the Gestapo for Resistance activity. He was sixteen years old. Imprisoned in a series of camps whee filth, silence, and torture were ever present, he watched while his friends weakened and died at the hands of the Nazis. Arne was one of the few to survive until the British came."

ISBN 0-393-02779-1

TOPICS COVERED: WORLD WAR II, NORWAY, PRISONERS OF WAR, PRISONS, NAZI GERMANY...

VERY RARE 1986 Corrected Bound Galleys of MODERN ROMANCES, STORIES BY JUDY LOPATIN published by FICTION COLECTIVE c/o DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, BROOKLYN COLLEGE, N.Y. ISBN 0-932-51102-3 or ISBN 0-932-51103-1. 256 pages in very good condition.

THIS VOLUME IS IN NEAR MINT CONDITION!

1979 PURSUIT OF ATTENTION by Charles Derber -- all about SOCIAL INTERACTION AND STATUS! -- paperback published by SCHENKMAN BOOKS, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 110 pages in near mint condition.

ISBN: 0-87073-885-2

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