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Curiosity has been seen through the ages as the impulse that drives our knowledge forward and the temptation that leads us toward dangerous and forbidden waters. The question …

An original look at how literary characters can transcend their books to guide our lives, by one of the world's most eminent bibliophilesAlberto Manguel, in a style both charming …

As far as one can tell, human beings are the only species for which the world seems made up of stories, Alberto Manguel writes. We read the book of the world in many guises: we may …

A leading European intellectual reflects on the changing concept of melancholy throughout history Alberto Manguel praises the Hungarian writer László Földényi as “one of the most …

Nineteen-year-old Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her father, who journeyed to the US when she was young. Recently, it has dawned on her that he …

Boken består av tre delar: publicerade texter, anteckningar samt samtal. De tidigare opublicerade anteckningarna kommer till största delen från anteckningsböcker och häften som …

This book is an up-to-date documentation of the state of the art in combinatorial optimization, presenting approximate solutions of virtually all relevant classes of NP-hard …