Rebecca_Kohn
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Palo Alto City Library
Librarian for life! Wayward English major....Read More
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Intellectually engaging and deliciously readable, a stereotype-defying history of how one of the most recognisable symbols of Italian cuisine and national identity is the product of centuries of encounters, dialogue, and exchange. Is it possible...
When We Cease to Understand the World is a book about the complicated links between scientific and mathematical discovery, madness, and destruction. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger-these are some of the...
"Charming alphabet book. A parade as the setting for a story is a clever narrative arc, and the scenes are full of interesting detail. The illustrations match the cheerful tone of the story."
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In eighteenth-century Germany, the impetuous student of philosophy who will later gain fame as the Romantic poet Novalis seeks his father's permission to wed his true philosophy -- a plain, simple child named Sophie. The attachment shocks his...
