Massimo Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Around the World in 80 Days: (Original Edition)
J. VerneThe 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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Squaring the Circle
B. K. BrainInspired 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
Frankenstein OR, THE MODERN PROMETHEUS.
Mary ShelleyFrankenstein 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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Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus
Mary ShelleyFrankenstein 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
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Abbott Edwin AbbottIn 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
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Edwin Abbott AbbottIn 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
"Unicode".: The Universal Telegraphic Phrase-Book. a Code of Cypher Words for Commercial, Domestic, and Familiar Phrases in Ordina
AnonymousThe 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
Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus
Mary ShelleyFrankenstein 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
Around the World in 80 Days
Jules VerneThe 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
The Mysterious Island
Jules VerneThis 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