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Presents an illustrated look at Ern? Rubik and the Rubik's Cube, revealing the obsession, imagination, and engineering process behind the creation of the puzzle that will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2024.

Join Hedy on her journey, where she encounters good fortune and misfortune, a kind helper and cruel soldiers, a reunion and a tragedy, and discover how Hedy is both lucky and brave.

An inspiring and haunting memoir of a teenager who survived the Nazi death camps of World War ll with her mother and brother.

Judit Polgar, dazzled the world as a prodigy, winning tournaments, gold medals, and defeating eleven world champions, including Garry Kasparov and Magnus Carlsen. At her peak, Judit was rated the eighth best chess player in the world.

"[Presents the biography of] Elizabeth B?thory ... daughter of a powerful family, the wife of a military hero, a concerned mother, and a caretaker of her many lands. Elizabeth B?thory was an accused serial killer ... She may have been responsible for as many as 650 murders over the course of her lifetime"--page four.

During World War I, Sari Arany, a herbalist in a small Hungarian village falls in love with on of the Italian POWs housed nearby, when her fianc? returns Sari poisons him. Soon other women in the village are coming to her for help in similar situations.

Tells the story of the Fenyvesi family, a Jewish family in East Central Europe, from the days of the Hasidim to modern times.

"The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nuclear weapons and self-replicating spacecrafts. All bear the fingerprints of one remarkable, yet largely overlooked, man: John von Neumann. Born in Budapest at the turn of the century, von Neumann is one of the most influential scientists to have ever lived. A child prodigy, he mastered calculus by the age of eight, and in high school made lasting contributions to mathematics. In Germany, where he helped lay the foundations of quantum mechanics, and later at Princeton, von Neumann's colleagues believed he had the fastest brain on the planet-bar none. He was instrumental in the Manhattan Project and the design of the atom bomb; he helped formulate the bedrock of Cold War geopolitics and modern economic theory; he created the first ever programmable digital computer; he prophesized the potential of nanotechnology; and, from his deathbed, he expounded on the limits of brains and computers-and how they might be overcome. Taking us on an astonishing journey, Ananyo Bhattacharya explores how a combination of genius and unique historical circumstance allowed a single man to sweep through a stunningly diverse array of fields, sparking revolutions wherever he went. The Man from the Future is an insightful and thrilling intellectual biography of the visionary thinker who shaped our century"--Provided by publisher.

"Before Johan Cruyff and Diego Maradona, modern soccer was shaped by legends like Guszt?v Sebes, B?la Guttman, M?rton Bukovi, Egri Ebstein, and Imre Herschel. In the 1920s and 1930s, they gathered with fellow players and coaches in the coffeehouses Budapest and invented soccer as we know it today. By the 1940s their culture was gone and these men and women, many of whom were Jewish, would be dead, interned, or in exile, their contributions to the beautiful game forgotten. In 'The Names Heard Long Ago', Jonathan Wilson invites readers into the pre-World War II era, when Hungary first established professional leagues. An unprecedented number of middle-class people in both countries took an interest in the sport. They were largely university educated, and they instinctively applied academic techniques and analysis to the game. 'The Names Heard Long Ago' is as much about the individuals who cultivated the way the game is played as it is a tale of a way of life that was wiped out by fascism"--OCLC.