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"A funny, marvelously readable portrait of one of the most brilliant and eccentric men in history." --The Seattle Times Paul Erdos was an amazing and prolific mathematician whose life as a world-wandering numerical nomad was legendary. He published almost 1500 scholarly papers before his death in 1996, and he probably thought more about math problems than anyone in history. Like a traveling salesman offering his thoughts as wares, Erdos would show up on the doorstep of one mathematician or another and announce, "My brain is open." After working through a problem, he''d move on to the next place, the next solution. Hoffman''s book, like Sylvia Nasar''s biography of John Nash, A Beautiful Mind, reveals a genius''s life that transcended the merely quirky. But Erdos''s brand of madness was joyful, unlike Nash''s despairing schizophrenia. Erdos never tried to dilute his obsessive passion for numbers with ordinary emotional interactions, thus avoiding hurting the people around him, as Nash did. Oliver Sacks writes of Erdos: "A mathematical genius of the first order, Paul Erdos was totally obsessed with his subject--he thought and wrote mathematics for nineteen hours a day until the day he died. He traveled constantly, living out of a plastic bag, and had no interest in food, sex, companionship, art--all that is usually indispensable to a human life." The Man Who Loved Only Numbers is easy to love, despite his strangeness. It''s hard not to have affection for someone who referred to children as "epsilons," from the Greek letter used to represent small quantities in mathematics; a man whose epitaph for himself read, "Finally I am becoming stupider no more"; and whose only really necessary tool to do his work was a quiet and open mind. Hoffman, who followed and spoke with Erdos over the last 10 years of his life, introduces us to an undeniably odd, yet pure and joyful, man who loved numbers more than he loved God--whom he referred to as SF, for Supreme Fascist. He was often misunderstood, and he certainly annoyed people sometimes, but Paul Erdos is no doubt missed. --Therese Littleton

Em 2023, quando se comemoram os 150 anos do nascimento de Santos Dumont, Asas da loucura nos convida a conhecer a vida e as criações de um dos maiores inventores brasileiros de todos os tempos. Alberto Santos Dumont foi imortalizado no imaginário brasileiro, tendo sido homenageado em poemas, canções, estátuas, bustos, pinturas, biografias e comemorações em sua memória. A fama e o carisma o tornaram, durante um determinado período, o homem mais célebre do mundo. Apesar disso, Santos Dumont foi também um homem tímido e calado, um gênio atormentado pelo peso de sua criação, o que culminou em seu trágico fim. Asas da loucura traz as glórias e as sombras de sua história. Santos Dumont tinha 18 anos quando chegou a Paris, na virada do século XX. O brasileiro, nascido em Minas Gerais e criado nas fazendas de café da família, era apaixonado por dirigíveis e balões, que conhecera nos romances de Júlio Verne, e pelos avanços tecnológicos que encontrou na cidade francesa. Ele desenvolveu e construiu aeronaves motivado pelo sonho de um dia cada indivíduo ter seu próprio avião, como já acontecia com os automóveis, o que aproximaria as pessoas e reduziria as distâncias. Ao vencer uma competição para construir o primeiro avião, a imprensa francesa celebrou Santos Dumont como um "conquistador do ar". A história mundial, no entanto, acabaria consagrando os irmãos norte-americanos Orville e Wilbur Wright como os pioneiros na aviação — ainda que seus objetivos tenham sido muito menos nobres que o idealismo do brasileiro. Com sua fé no futuro da tecnologia, Santos Dumont não previu o poder destrutivo de suas máquinas e testemunhou com grande desgosto a capacidade de destruição dos aviões durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial. A consagração dos irmãos Wright foi outro motivo de contrariedade. Os distúrbios psicológicos e as circunstâncias de sua morte precoce são revelados integralmente neste livro. No aniversário de 150 anos do nascimento de Santos Dumont, a Editora Record traz de volta Asas da loucura, a biografia deste extraordinário pioneiro, personagem brilhante na história da aviação. Com uma narrativa arrebatadora, o premiado jornalista americano Paul Hoffman conta a memorável vida do aviador brasileiro, que contribuiu de forma decisiva para a modernidade e simbolizou o espírito torturado do século XX.

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THE GRIPPING NEW ADVENTURE FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE LEFT HAND OF GOD SERIES America is on the brink of civil war. Only Thomas Cale can stop it . . . ________ Thomas Cale - the world''s most dangerous yet reluctant hero - has been running from his enemies. Tracked down moments before his execution, Cale is presented with a chance to escape. But it comes at a price: He must murder the American president. The father of modern democracy. The man fighting the south''s attempts to reinstate slavery. Accept, and he risks the fates of millions. Refuse, and he endangers his own life . . . ________ Praise for Paul Hoffman: ''Fiction on a grand and ambitious scale'' Daily Telegraph ''Brooding and magnificent'' Eoin Colfer ''Exhilaratingly engaging writing'' Spectator ''Gripped me from the first chapter'' Conn Iggulden ''A riveting, powerful tale'' Publishers Weekly

"Someone is eating priests, Inspector Scrope, and it''s got to stop."

We once believed that as a majority culture in North America everyone knew all there was to know about a church and its surroundings. This certainly is no longer true in a post-Christian North American culture. Most people in our towns and cities, in the neighborhoods and surrounding countryside of our church properties are completely mystified about who we are, what we do, and who is welcome-or not. Hoffman''s inviting prose, which includes many practical proposals, will expand your notions of who hospitality ministers are and why they matter. His own compelling experience suggests that the rewards of our efforts to welcome the stranger will deeply enrich our congregational ministry and our relationships with one another and with God.

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Después de La mano izquierda de dios y Las cuatro postrimerías, llegaBatir de alas y el encuentro definitivo de Cale con su destino. Thomas Cale ha estado huyendo de la verdad. Desde que descubrió que su brutal formación militar obedecía a un solo propósito – la destrucción del mayor error divino, la humanidad- Cale vive bajo la amenaza fantasmal del hombre que le convirtió en Ángel de la Muerte: el papa redentor Bosco. Pero Cale no ha dicho todavía su última palabra: la suerte de la humanidad está en sus manos.

Das grandiose Finale der spannenden Serie um die linke Hand Gottes. Thomas Cale hat die Augen lange Zeit vor der Wahrheit verschlossen. Seit er aber weiß, dass seine brutale Kampfausbildung nur einer Sache diente, und zwar, Gottes größten Fehler auszumerzen und die Menschheit zu zerstören, wird er von dem gejagt, der ihn einst zum Engel des Todes machte. Aber Thomas Cale ist schwach. Seine Seele liegt im Sterben. Der Tag der Abrechnung rückt unaufhaltsam näher. Cales Rachegelüste ziehen ihn deshalb zurück zur Ordensburg. Er will sich endlich dem Menschen stellen, den er am meisten hasst, und Bosco, den Erlösermönch, konfrontieren. Doch Cale muss erkennen, dass er selbst die Inkarnation von Gottes Zorn ist. Nur er kann entscheiden, ob er seine Bestimmung erfüllt. Das Schicksal der Menschheit liegt damit ganz in seinen Händen ...

Etter sin fars plutselige bortgang, er Frances Irvine nødt til å emigrere til Sør-Afrika for å gifte seg med en mann hun ikke elsker. 1880-tallets Sør-Afrika er et land herjet av grådighet. Samtidig har naturen og omgivelsene en rå, ubesudlet skjønnhet over seg. En koppeepidemi tvinger Frances til å isolere seg ved en diamantgruve, og hun blir dratt inn i en ubarmhjertig verden av grådighet og utnyttelse. Frances må ta sitt livs vanskeligste valg – et valg som kan få katastrofale følger. Dødens Engel er tredje bok i den bestselgende fantasy trilogien om Thomas Cale

Dicono che sia un condottiero spietato e infallibile. Dicono che abbia mandato al massacro centinaia di soldati soltanto come monito per il resto dell''esercito. Dicono che al suo passaggio non restino altro che morte e distruzione. Ma tutto ciò appartiene al passato. Thomas Cale infatti è gravemente malato: il suo corpo è ormai allo stremo e anche la sua mente ha perso la lucidità di un tempo. In pochissimi sono a conoscenza di questo segreto, e l’unico modo per nasconderlo agli occhi dei nemici è portare Cale al sicuro, presso il Priorato dell''isola di Cipro. Eppure, nell’ombra, due sicari sono già sulle sue tracce. Sono stati mandati dal Pontefice Bosco, l’uomo che per dieci anni ha addestrato Cale nel Santuario dei Redentori perché diventasse la Mano Sinistra di Dio e, un giorno, distruggesse l''errore più grande commesso dall''Onnipotente: l''uomo. Invece, non appena ne ha avuto l’occasione, Cale lo ha tradito, rivelandosi un fallimento. Il Pontefice Bosco però si sbaglia. Sebbene la sua fine sia vicina, Cale è sempre la Mano Sinistra di Dio. È l''Angelo della Morte. E presto i Redentori sentiranno il battito delle sue ali riecheggiare tra le mura del Santuario...

This is the final instalment in the epic Paul Hoffman trilogy following Cale and the Sanctuary of the Redeemers. This climatic ending will bring this narrative to a close, and finally the fate of the angel of death will be revealed.

“Looks at the twists and turns in the investigation, possible perpetrators . . . as well as some of the good that eventually came out of this tragedy” (Wauwatosa Patch). In 1925, the peaceful Milwaukee suburb of Wauwatosa found itself involved in mystery and horror. Eight-year-old Arthur ‘Buddy’ Schumacher Jr. was last seen by three of his friends after they hopped off a freight train they’d jumped to get a ride to a nearby swimming hole. For seven weeks, the community and state searched desperately to find the boy until his body was found just a mile from his house with his clothing torn and a handkerchief shoved down his throat. The police pursued several promising leads, but to no avail. Includes photos. “Tosa native Paul Hoffman reconstructs the case . . . and finds it more than cold . . . He conjures up a picture of a much different Wauwatosa than we know today.” —Shepherd Express “More than 85 years later, the murder of Buddy Schumacher remains unsolved. There were suspects at the time and their stories and the cases against them are included in Murder in Wauwatosa.” —OnMilwaukee

SEEN FROM A DISTANCE is the story of Cusack, an Iraq war veteran now working for a private security firm. Alienated from his past and haunted by it, too, he lives determinedly in the here and now. His assignment is surveillance of an elderly professor, W.S. Tyler, whose dead son-in-law had ties to a shadowy Senegalese rebel army, accused by the U.S. government of being a terrorist organization. Cusack''s preferred method of surveillance - the detached technology of camera and microphone is abruptly abandoned in favor of a role which puts him in Tyler''s classroom and soon thereafter in a complicated relationship with his family. Cusack''s boss, increasingly obsessed with Tyler, drags Cusack into his hidden agenda where deadly unforeseen events occur in rapid succession and the situation spins rapidly out of control. In the end, Cusack is confronted with choices that will change his future as radically as his earlier choices fixed his past. Seen From A Distance can be read as a character study, or a dramatic adventure or considered for its parallels to political events of the recent past. At every level, it is a terrific read.

Thomas Cale er tatt til fange og må på nytt returnere til De hellige befrieres kloster. Her blir han fortalt at det er nødvendig at menneskeheten uskadeliggjøres. De hellige befriere forsøker å oppnå den totale makt som Cale innehar, men hans sjel er langt mer fremmed og ukontrollerbar enn de noen gang kan forestille seg. Dette er andre bok i trilogien om Thomas Cale og De hellige befriere. Den første var "Guds venste hånd" (2010).

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Per dieci anni ha vissuto nel Santuario dei Redentori. Per dieci anni ha patito la fame e il freddo. Per dieci anni ha subito terribili punizioni e atroci torture. E, per tutto quel tempo, ha avuto un unico obiettivo: fuggire. E ci è riuscito. Eppure, dopo aver conosciuto il mondo al di fuori del Santuario - un mondo in cui l''amicizia si è rivelata una trappola e l''amore si è trasformato in una menzogna -, Cale è tornato, pronto a obbedire al proprio destino: diventare la Mano Sinistra di Dio e redimere i peccati dell''umanità. Annientandola. Investito di un potere pressoché assoluto, Cale arruola i detenuti del Purgatorio, le carceri del Santuario dove sono rinchiusi i nemici dell''Unica Vera Fede, e li invia subito in battaglia: decine, centinaia, migliaia di uomini mandati consapevolmente al massacro come monito per il resto dell''esercito. Per i Redentori, è la prova della sua risolutezza e il primo passo verso la vittoria finale. Per lui, invece, è il primo passo verso la vendetta. Sotto quella maschera di spietata ferocia, infatti, Cale nasconde una tempesta di emozioni contrastanti. Proprio lui che ha imparato a non provare benevolenza o rimorso, paura o pietà, è in realtà lacerato da sentimenti così impetuosi da sfuggire persino al controllo dei Redentori. Sentimenti che lo costringeranno a fare una scelta. Perché lui è l''Angelo della Morte. Lui è la Mano Sinistra di Dio. Ma, forse, la sua strada deve essere ancora tracciata.

The epic story of Thomas Cale—introduced so memorably in The Left Hand of God—continues as the Redeemers use his prodigious gifts to further their sacred goal: the extinction of humankind and the end of the world... To the warrior-monks known as the Redeemers, “the last four things” represent the culmination of a faithful life. Death. Judgment. Heaven. Hell. The last four things represent eternal bliss—or endless destruction, permanent chaos, and infinite pain. Perhaps nowhere are the competing ideas of heaven and hell exhibited more clearly than in the dark and tormented soul of Thomas Cale. Betrayed by the girl he loves but still marked by a child’s innocence, possessed of a remarkable aptitude for violence but capable of extreme tenderness, Cale will lead the Redeemers into a battle for nothing less than the fate of the human race. And though his broken heart foretells the bloody trail he will leave in pursuit of a personal peace he can never achieve, a glimmer of hope remains—the question even Cale can’t answer: When it comes time to decide the fate of the world, to ensure the extermination of humankind or spare it, what will he choose? To express God’s will on the edge of his sword, or to forgive his fellow man—and himself?

Cale ist die linke Hand Gottes, der Engel des Todes. Er ist dazu bestimmt, jeden zu vernichten, der nicht des wahren Glaubens ist. Die Erlösermönche, allen voran sein ehemaliger Mentor Bosco, glauben der Prophezeiung, die besagt, dass Cale Gottes Gesandter ist. Erst wenn er seinen Auftrag vollbracht hat, wird Gott eine neue Welt erschaffen können mit den letzten gerechten Menschen dieser Welt. Aber Cale will nur ungern von seinen ehemaligen Unterdrückern für ihre Zwecke benutzt werden und lässt die Mönche erst einmal in dem Glauben, dass er für sie arbeitet. In Wirklichkeit hat er längst einen ganz anderen Plan ...

Cale er en ung gutt på fjorten eller femten år. Han ankom Sanktuariet som femåring og har glemt sitt egentlige navn. Sanktuariet er befriernes hellige kloster, et ødslig og dystert sted hvor grusomheter skjer. Cale er en gåtefull, brutal, morsom og fandenivoldsk gutt som en dag oppdager en hemmelighet han aldri skulle ha oppdaget.

"Writers like Hoffman are too rare. This wonderful book gripped me from the first chapter and dropped me days later, dazed and grinning to myself." -Conn Iggulden, New York Times bestselling author of The Dangerous Book for Boys Raised from early childhood in the Redeemer Sanctuary, the stronghold of a secretive sect of warrior monks, Thomas Cale has known only deprivation, punishment, and grueling training. When he escsapes to the outside world, Cale learns that his embittered heart is still capable of loving- and breaking. But the Redeemers won''t accept the defection of their prized pupil without a fight...

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In these wide-ranging essays Paul Hoffman argues that Descartes retains three Aristotelian doctrines: soul and body are related as form to matter; an agent''s action is the same as the patient''s passion; cognition is possible because things that exist in the world can exist in the soul in another way.