The weird and wonderful quest for unfathomably large numbers From cells in our bodies to measuring the universe, big numbers are everywhere We all know that numbers go on forever, that you could spend your life counting and never reach the end of the line, so there can’t be such a thing as a ‘biggest number’. Or can there? To find out, David Darling and Agnijo Banerjee embark o...(展开全部)

A writer finds solitude and salvation tracing the lives and deaths of three of her literary lights in a haunted and lyrical travelogue from NBCC Award-winner Tezer Özlü. An unnamed writer embarks on an obsessive journey through Europe, drawn to the gravesites of her literary idols—Cesare Pavese, Italo Svevo, Franz Kafka—putting her life, her writing, and her politics in convers...(展开全部)

In this extraordinary work of narrative reportage, Kapka Kassabova returns to Bulgaria, from where she emigrated as a girl twenty-five y ears previously, to explore the border it shares with Turkey and Greece. When she was a child, the border zone was rumored to be an easier crossing point into the West than the Berlin Wall, and it swarmed with soldiers and spies. On holidays i...(展开全部)

When Kapka Kassabova was a child, the borderzone between Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece was rumoured to be an easier crossing point into the West than the Berlin Wall so it swarmed with soldiers, spies and fugitives. On holidays close to the border on the Black Sea coast, she remembers playing on the beach, only miles from where an electrified fence bristled, its barbs pointing in...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 卡帕卡·卡萨波娃（Kapka Kassabova）1973年出生于保加利亚首都索非亚，1992年时跟随家人移居新西兰，现居苏格兰。曾经出版小说《和平别墅》（Villa Pacifica）、回忆录《无名之街》（Street Without a Name）和《十二分钟的爱：探戈故事》（Twelve Minutes of Love: A Tango Story）。 . 【译者简介】 马娟娟，浙江人，国际关系学院毕业，曾在新闻媒体长期从事国际新闻工作，译有《软实力》《战略：一部历史》《以色列总理私人史》等作品。

In this extraordinary work of narrative reportage, Kapka Kassabova returns to Bulgaria, from where she emigrated as a girl twenty-five y ears previously, to explore the border it shares with Turkey and Greece. When she was a child, the border zone was rumored to be an easier crossing point into the West than the Berlin Wall, and it swarmed with soldiers and spies. On holidays i...(展开全部)

When Kapka Kassabova was a child, the borderzone between Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece was rumoured to be an easier crossing point into the West than the Berlin Wall so it swarmed with soldiers, spies and fugitives. On holidays close to the border on the Black Sea coast, she remembers playing on the beach, only miles from where an electrified fence bristled, its barbs pointing in...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 卡帕卡·卡萨波娃（Kapka Kassabova）1973年出生于保加利亚首都索非亚，1992年时跟随家人移居新西兰，现居苏格兰。曾经出版小说《和平别墅》（Villa Pacifica）、回忆录《无名之街》（Street Without a Name）和《十二分钟的爱：探戈故事》（Twelve Minutes of Love: A Tango Story）。 . 【译者简介】 马娟娟，浙江人，国际关系学院毕业，曾在新闻媒体长期从事国际新闻工作，译有《软实力》《战略：一部历史》《以色列总理私人史》等作品。

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A snail's father advises him to keep his house small and tells him what happened to a snail that grew a large and spectacular shell.

Illus. in full color. A young snail realizes that a big house might be a disaster for him.