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Chimera

by John Barth

Published: 2001-11-20

Paperback: 320 pages

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In CHIMERAJohn Barth injects his signature wit into the tales of Scheherezade of the Thousand and One Nights, Perseus, the slayer of Medusa, and Bellerophon, who tamed the winged horse Pegasus. In a book that the Washington Post called ?stylishly maned, tragically songful, and serpentinely...

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Augustus (New York Review Books Classics)

by John Williams

Published: 2014-08-19

Paperback: 336 pages

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WINNER OF THE 1973 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD  By the Author of Stoner In Augustus, his third great novel, John Williams took  on an entirely new challenge, a historical narrative set in classical Rome, exploring the life of the founder of the Roman Empire. To tell the story, Williams turned to...

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Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

by Thomas Pynchon

Published: 2006-10-31

Paperback: 776 pages

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Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on ...

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Healthcare Informatics DeMYSTiFieD

by Jim Keogh

Published: 2014-08-25

Paperback: 384 pages

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The quick and easy way to master healthcare technology and use your knowledge in real-world situations If you're looking for a fun, fast review that boils healthcare informatics down to its most essential, must-know points, your search ends here! Healthcare Informatics Demystified is a co...

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A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories.

by Isaac Bashevis Singer

Published: 1973-10

Hardcover: 342 pages

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Dog Soldiers

by Robert Stone

Published: 1997-04-02

Paperback: 352 pages

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In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he'll find action - and profit - by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go horribly wrong for him. Dog Soldiers perfectly captures the underground mo...

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Principles of Health Interoperability HL7 and SNOMED (Health Informatics)

by Tim Benson

Published: 2009-12-14

Hardcover: 263 pages

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Joined-up healthcare makes information available when and where it is needed to improve safety, efficiency and effectiveness. Politicians may take interoperability between healthcare computer systems for granted, but it is non-trivial. Healthcare integration projects are notoriously under-...

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The Nice and the Good

by Iris Murdoch

Published: 1978-12-14

Hardcover: 320 pages

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A novel originally published in 1968, revolving around a happily married couple and telling of a violent death, blackmail, suspected espionage, Black Arts, stress and terror, over which love conquers all.

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The Hair of Harold Roux

by Thomas Williams

Published: 1974

Hardcover: 373 pages

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In 1975 the National Book Award Fiction Prize was awarded to two writers: Robert Stone and Thomas Williams. Yet only Stone's Dog Soldiers is still remembered today. That oversight is startling when considering the literary impact of The Hair of Harold Roux. A dazzlingly crafted novel-withi...

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JR (American Literature (Dalkey Archive))

by William Gaddis

Published: 2012-02-07

Paperback: 725 pages

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Winner of the 1976 National Book Award, "J R" is a biting satire about the many ways in which capitalism twists the American spirit into something more dangerous, yet pervasive and unassailable. At the center of the novel is a hilarious eleven year old--J R--who with boyish enthusiasm turn...