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- The 9/11 Commission Report
- Final Report Of The National Commission On Terrorist Attacks Upon The United States
- By National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
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- Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track
- By Timothy Ferriss, Timothy (FRW), Richard P. Feynman, …
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- J.R.R. Tolkien Boxed Set (10)
- (The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings)
- By J.R.R. Tolkien
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- The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey (1)
- By Kenneth H. Blanchard, William Oncken, Hal Burrows
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- The One Minute Manager Anniversary Ed (14)
- The World's Most Popular Management Method
- By Kenneth H. Blanchard, Spencer Johnson
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- Prelude to Foundation (29)
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- By Isaac Asimov
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- Who Moved My Cheese? (29)
- An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life
- By Kenneth H. Blanchard, Spencer Johnson
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- Ghost In The Shell Volume 2 (1)
- Man-Machine Interface (Ghost in the Shell)
- By Masamune Shirow
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Finished in 2004
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Brutta giapponesata
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Ho comprato questo volume perche` "Ghost in the Shell" e` in assoluto uno dei miei manga preferiti.
Una vera delusione, nient'altro che dialoghi e immagini sconclusionate, condite da inquadrature di dal basso per mostrare la biancheria intima della protagonista.
Pessimo - — Jun 14, 2008 | Add your feedback
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- Wolverine by Claremont & Miller (1)
- (Marvel Premiere Classic)
- By Chris Claremont, Frank Miller
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Finished in 1989
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- When the Wind Blows
- By Raymond Briggs
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Finished in 1986
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- The Andromeda Strain (46)
- By Michael Crichton
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- Frankenstein (117)
- Or, the Modern Prometheus (World's Classics)
- By Mary Shelley
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Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track
Take a bunch of Physics students and ask them who is their favourite scientist.
Among many famous names you'll be surprised to find that the winner will be probably Feynman, a name who is basically unknown for the common people.
Indeed, many known him most for his bongo playing and nude s ... (continue)
Take a bunch of Physics students and ask them who is their favourite scientist.
Among many famous names you'll be surprised to find that the winner will be probably Feynman, a name who is basically unknown for the common people.
Indeed, many known him most for his bongo playing and nude sketching rather than his research in modern physics (topics so complex and strange that even Feynman said many times he was not understanding by himself).
I generally don't like to read someone else correspondence, but in this case I made an exception.
When I picked up the book at the library I randomly opened it and found the letter of a Venezuelan high school teacher in trouble to explain energy conservation principle to his students. He wrote to a Nobel prize winner, and the response was simply lovely.
More in general the big message in this book is contained in the title, which is a sentence in a letter regarding a selection of maths books for elementary school.
People should do what they enjoy to do, spending all their energy and without fear of trying different approach to solve a problem, even making deviations from the beaten track.
That is also what a student experiences when approaches Feynman's work, for sure one of the most enthusiast scientist in the world.
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