![]() In the far reaches of deep space, the tiny Wayfarer crew will confront a host of unexpected mishaps and thrilling adventures that force them to depend on each other. But risking her life wasn’t part of the plan. ![]() Tunneling wormholes through space to a distant planet is definitely lucrative and will keep them comfortable for years. It’s also about to get extremely dangerous when the crew is offered the job of a lifetime. Life aboard the Wayfarer is chaotic and crazy - exactly what Rosemary wants. An introspective young woman who learned early to keep to herself, she’s never met anyone remotely like the ship’s diverse crew, including Sissix, the exotic reptilian pilot, chatty engineers Kizzy and Jenks, who keep the ship running, and Ashby, their noble captain. While the patched-up ship has seen better days, it offers her a bed, a chance to explore the far-off corners of the galaxy, and most importantly, some distance from her past. ![]() ![]() Rosemary Harper doesn’t expect much when she joins the crew of the aging Wayfarer. Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space - and one adventurous young explorer who discovers the meaning of family in the far reaches of the universe - in this lighthearted debut space opera from a rising sci-fi star. ![]()
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Written with startling power' New York Times Book Review Piercing the shadows of the naked stage was a single shaft of rosy limelight, and in the centre of this was a girl: the most marvellous girl - I knew it at once! - that I had ever seen. A reissue with a new introduction to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters's wonderfully lush, sensuous and bawdy debut novel set in the music halls of the late 19th century. ![]() ![]() ![]() After the Nazi takeover, his fortunes changed. Rogosinski married in 1928 in Königsberg. The original was translated into English in 1950 and is still used. It provided a student's introduction to Fourier series. His first book Fouriersche Reihen was published in 1930. Rogosinski and Szegő families became friends. He worked for five years with Richard Brauer, Gábor Szegő and Kurt Reidemeister. In 1923, he went to Koenigsberg, first as a lecturer, becoming an associate professor in 1928. His dissertation, "New Application of Pfeiffer's method for Dirichlet's divisor problem", caused a stir in 1922. His interest was analytical problems, especially in series. ![]() Rogosinski focused his studies on pure mathematics, physics and philosophy. His studies were interrupted by World War I, in which Rogosinski served as a medic. ![]() He attended the University of Breslau, University of Freiburg and University of Göttingen, with Edmund Landau. Rogosinski studied at Mary Magdalen School from 1900 until 1913. His father, Hermann Rogosinski was Counsel in Wroclaw. Rogosinski was born in Breslau, into a Jewish family. Werner Wolfgang Rogosinski FRS (24 September 1894 – 23 July 1964) was a German (later British) mathematician. ![]() New Application of Pfeiffer's method for Dirichlet's divisor problem (1922) Foreign member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences ![]() ![]() ![]() Seuss's publisher, that Seuss (after completing The Cat in the Hat using 236 words) could not complete an entire book without exceeding that limit. ![]() The vocabulary of the text consists of just 50 words and was the result of a bet between Seuss and Bennett Cerf, Dr. Green Eggs and Ham is one of Seuss's "Beginner Books", written in a very simple vocabulary for beginning readers. When he declares that he likes them, he happily says, "I do so like green eggs and ham. Finally, the man accepts the offer and samples the green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am." 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