Monthly Archives: May 2009

W.R.Patterson (rev. G.H.Calvert), Colloquial Spanish

This Routledge course in Spanish was originally published in 1919 and revised in 1931 and 1963. Our copy is a 1991 reprint, purchased in the mid 1990’s. It’s now out of print, for reasons that this review should make clear. … Continue reading

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Reviel Netz and William Noel, The Archimedes Codex

The Archimedes Codex tells two stories: that of Archimedes himself and his contributions to mathematics, and that of the small battered parchment volume which is our only source for some of his discoveries. The book alternates between these two stories. … Continue reading

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