This book might just change your life. Meet Valentine Michael Smith, Martian. Experience first-hand his troubles in adjusting to life on Earth. Witness the birth of a religion.
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Looking for a gift for your favorite Mensa candidate? In this Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, Douglas Hofstadter explores the connections between Godel’s mathematical works, Escher’s amazing and impossiblly self-referential artistic creations, and the compositions of J.S. Bach, bringing Lewis Carroll into the fray as well. This book will change your life, and you’ll find yourself going back to it time and time again.
If you’re looking for a book to take to your beach vacation this summer, and were trying to decide between the latest best seller suspense thrillers, think again. They will have you coming home from vacation unenlightened, uninspired, and maybe a little bit darker and more relaxed. Take the Norton Anthology of Poetry, and you’ll come back wiser, hipper, more romantic and more inspired. With 1700 poems by 340 poets, and every major force represented, how can you go wrong?