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Book Cover for: Around the World in 80 Days: (Original Edition), J. Verne

Around the World in 80 Days: (Original Edition)

J. Verne
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The story of Elizabeth Jane Cochrane (aka Nellie Bly), the journalist that wanted to recreate in real life the famous novel "Around the world in 80 days". She succeded with eight days to spare and met Jules Verne to interview him [read more: https://t.co/vqanBQXOBK] https://t.co/p2GULcsOLC

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Book Cover for: Squaring the Circle, B. K. Brain

Squaring the Circle

B. K. Brain
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Inspired by Edwin Abbott’s satirical novel ‘Flatland’, ‘Squaring the Circle’ is the first in Troika’s series of perspective sculpture that is perceived in correlation to the position of the observer [read more, 2013: https://t.co/eyntFEDFV5] https://t.co/fuGsTAxmqz

Paperback, 2019

$15.00Member price:$7.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Frankenstein OR, THE MODERN PROMETHEUS., Mary Shelley

Frankenstein OR, THE MODERN PROMETHEUS.

Mary Shelley
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Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus was first published 204 years ago #Today. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Godwin was 20. The first edition was published anonymously, with Shelley credited as the author in the second edition in 1823 https://t.co/4Wj6LZU0a4 https://t.co/UMKzTXhIkN

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Book Cover for: Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, Mary Shelley

Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

Mary Shelley
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Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus was first published 204 years ago #Today. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Godwin was 20. The first edition was published anonymously, with Shelley credited as the author in the second edition in 1823 https://t.co/4Wj6LZU0a4 https://t.co/UMKzTXhIkN

Paperback, 2014

$5.99Member price:$2.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, Abbott Edwin Abbott

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

Abbott Edwin Abbott
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In this famous clip from his even more famous TV program Cosmos, Carl Sagan explains the fourth dimension of space-time, starting with another popular science story: Edwin A. Abbott’s Flatland [full video: https://t.co/wABY4Dn6og] https://t.co/wLRcm8faHJ

Paperback, 2017

$7.38Member price:$3.69 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, Edwin Abbott Abbott

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

Edwin Abbott Abbott
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In this famous clip from his even more famous TV program Cosmos, Carl Sagan explains the fourth dimension of space-time, starting with another popular science story: Edwin A. Abbott’s Flatland [full video: https://t.co/wABY4Dn6og] https://t.co/wLRcm8faHJ

Paperback, 2015

$14.95Member price:$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: "Unicode".: The Universal Telegraphic Phrase-Book. a Code of Cypher Words for Commercial, Domestic, and Familiar Phrases in Ordina, Anonymous

"Unicode".: The Universal Telegraphic Phrase-Book. a Code of Cypher Words for Commercial, Domestic, and Familiar Phrases in Ordina

Anonymous
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The most difficult Chinese character in the world means 'biáng', a Chinese noodle dish. It's made up of 58 strokes in its traditional form and it was encoded in Unicode in 2020 only [read more: https://buff.ly/2Tu65G5] [source, HD: https://buff.ly/3MYOgtC] https://t.co/Al06oDjX3o

Hardcover, 2023

$30.95Member price:$27.85 + Free shipping10% off
Book Cover for: Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus, Mary Shelley

Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus

Mary Shelley
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Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus was first published 204 years ago #Today. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Godwin was 20. The first edition was published anonymously, with Shelley credited as the author in the second edition in 1823 https://t.co/4Wj6LZU0a4 https://t.co/UMKzTXhIkN

Paperback, 1999

$10.00Member price:$5.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Around the World in 80 Days, Jules Verne

Around the World in 80 Days

Jules Verne
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The story of Elizabeth Jane Cochrane (aka Nellie Bly), the journalist that wanted to recreate in real life the famous novel "Around the world in 80 days". She succeded with eight days to spare and met Jules Verne to interview him [read more: https://t.co/vqanBQXOBK] https://t.co/LMjRmeEqqg

Paperback, 2013

$10.49Member price:$9.44 + Free shipping10% off
Book Cover for: The Mysterious Island, Jules Verne

The Mysterious Island

Jules Verne
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This famous image by István Orosz features a scene from the classic novel The Mysterious Island. When a mirrored cylinder is placed on the Moon, it reveals by anamorphosis a portrait of the writer, Jules Verne [source: https://t.co/CKx70N2pyz] https://t.co/27d9aclhGM

Paperback, 2024

$7.99Member price:$3.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book