Bøker av Martin Davis

Arnold Palmer: American Hero is the seventh book in our large coffee table book series (11" X 14") on the greatest in the game. In addition to the definitive history of the Ryder Cup, we have also published large lavishly produced coffee table books in this format on - Ben Hogan (2), Bobby Jones, Byron Nelson and Jack Nicklaus.The Palmer book features wonderfully crafted essays on different aspects of Arnie's life in the front third of the book with game-day coverage of each of his biggest tournaments, both the thrilling wins and heart-breaking losses, in the back two-thirds.As with all our books, Arnold Palmer: American Hero sports a real cloth cover with gold foil stamping and a laminated and embossed dust jacket. To achieve the utmost in quality reproduction, the book has been printed in five colors in Italy on some of the finest printing papers available by one of the world's most renown printers. Even the black-and-white photos are color separated to ensure the utmost in fidelity.Once again, we've assembled an all-star cast of essayists, each writing on different aspects of Arnie's life, but for this book we assembled 21 featured essayists in all, instead of the usual five or six. There were just so many fascinating - and wholly unknown - facets to Arnie's life that just begged coverage. It seems that every time we would investigate one aspect of his life, we'd find two more to delve into. The further we looked, we'd add another essay or two as the book just kept getting bigger and bigger - and we do believe - better and better.Consider a sampling of the featured essayists - Marino Parascenzo (former president of the Golf Writers Association of America), Doc Giffen (Arnold's right-hand man since the mid 1960s), Jaime Diaz (Golf Channel), John Hopkins (The Times of London), Dan Hicks (who covered Arnie's tournament for NBC for over 25 years), Ron Green, Jr. (Global Golf Post), Charlie Mechem (former LPGA Commissioner), Ron Sirak (the Associated Press and Golf Digest), Jay Monahan (PGA TOUR Commissioner), Kelly Tilghman (Golf Channel), Adam Schupak (Golf World), Peter Jacobsen (PGA TOUR and NBC), Nancy Lopez (LPGA and World Golf Hall of Fame) and numerous others. Even Arnie's close friend Gary Player crafted a very personal forward with much new and revelatory information about their relationship - you'll laugh, you'll smile and you may even get a bit teary.It's certainly an All Star cast of contributors.As with our earlier coffee table books on the greats of the game, the back two-thirds of the book features extensive take-outs with numerous large photos - along with the game day stories on every significant event in Arnie's life.

The collapse of the Soviet Union has seen the emergence of its unprecedentedly comprehensive global secret military mapping project and the commercial availability of a vast number of detailed topographic maps and city plans at several scales.

Trixie Treat is still only fifteen years old. But suddenly, all kinds of interesting people are trying to kill her. People inside her school. People outside her school. And one particularly large being who inhabits its own substantial space in our galaxy, but who isn't too keen on following the rules of the "game" Trixie is forced to play. The stars have set a Task for Trixie. Evidently, not everyone wants her to complete it. As the story accelerates towards its cataclysmic conclusion, the friends helping her are increasingly in danger. Her family is in danger (the intervention of highly-paid assassins being a distinct possibility). And if she can't deliver when it counts, a whole lot of other people are in danger too. Plus, she has a life of her own to lead. And the fact that she has to spend all this time on Conflict, Plotting and just generally Staying-Alive is really, really beginning to annoy her!!

Trixie Treat is fifteen years old and realises that she is privileged. Big house. Posh school. Nice family. Oh ... and the small matter of being able to hear the stars talking; although she has never told anyone about this and can't actually understand what the astral giants are saying - yet. When she finds out, she's going to be mildly horrified. Because she's also going to discover who she really is, what she really has to do, who she's going up against - and what's at stake if she fails.

The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing explores the fascinating lives, ideas, and discoveries of seven remarkable mathematicians. It tells the stories of the unsung heroes of the computer age - the logicians.

The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing explores the fascinating lives, ideas, and discoveries of seven remarkable mathematicians. It tells the stories of the unsung heroes of the computer age - the logicians.

How do today's computers perform such a wide variety of tasks? Davis illustrates how the answer lies in the fact that computers are essentially engines of logic. Their hardware and software embodies concepts developed by logicians sugh as Gottfried Leibniz, Kurt Godel and Alan Turing.

Welcome to the updated version of Astrolocality Astrology. Since the original version was published, the world has shrunk and computer software has dramatically improved. This revised edition includes the fascinating case histories of Edward Snowden and Ronnie Biggs, and it is also organised in a more reader-friendly format. Enjoy.

From a "conductor" who assisted runaway slaves in their flight to freedom, here is a collection of letters, newspaper articles, and firsthand accounts about refugees' narrow escapes and deadly struggles. Over 50 illustrations.