Category Archives: used books

Some new acquisitions

Posted on October 14, 2021 by The Mitr

and also few from my old stack. Several books below  acquired from Abids used book market at Hyderabad. Thanks to ArvindJ for taking me there. Thanks to @desperadomar for arranging books below. Lot of literature and titles in Hindi too. … Continue reading →

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The Magic of Galaxies and Stars – Gurevich, Chernin

Posted on January 9, 2020 by The Mitr

In this post, we will see the book The Magic of Galaxies and Stars L. E. Gurevich and A. D. Chernin About the book This book is ideal for those who wish to start learning about the intriguing modem concepts of … Continue reading →

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Kutkha – The Raven

Posted on February 2, 2017 by The Mitr

In this post we will see another book on fairy-tales titled Kutkha The Raven This is a book of folk tales and fables of the peoples of the Soviet Far North, the Chukchi Nentsi, Eskimos and others, in which all … Continue reading →

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Mir Titles: How to Help?

Posted on November 25, 2013 by damitr

How you can contribute? Quite often visitors and patrons of mirtitles.org ask us how can the site be helped. This post (an extended version of the very first post that was made) will chalk outlines where the help is needed. … Continue reading →

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I need new bookshelves…

Posted on June 29, 2013 by damitr

Given the bibliophile that I am, the space for books always tends to fill up… There are about 15 more boxes to arrive, and the shelf is already overflowing, (there are two more which are full)…. All randomly placed, no … Continue reading →

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Submitting Links for New Books

Posted on September 19, 2012 by damitr

Since we have quite a few people who are submitting links for books which are not yet posted. This post is specially for these books. Please post all the links to the books that have not been posted so far … Continue reading →

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Handbook of Elementary Physics – Koshkin, Shirkevich

Posted on September 14, 2011 by damitr

In the previous post we discussed about two Handbooks of Mathematics by M. Vygodsky. In this post I will be discussing a Handbook of Elementary Physics that I know of, two other Handbooks by Yarovsky and Detlaf will be discussed … Continue reading →

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Handbooks of Mathematics

Posted on September 12, 2011 by damitr

However, it is well to bear in mind that neither handbook, nor textbook alone suffices  to give the reader a knowledge of the subject: he must use pencil and paper and work through the examples and problems for himself. This … Continue reading →

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Popular Science Books – 1

Posted on June 9, 2011 by damitr

In this post I am highlighting some of the books in the popular science series published by Mir. The time of publication is from late 60s to early 70s. The books are in varied subjects and disciplines and the reason … Continue reading →

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Science for Everyone

Posted on September 6, 2010 by damitr

Science for Everyone is a long running series from Mir Publishers. Most of the titles that I have collected are from used book shops. Some of the titles are by others and some from library and some of the titles … Continue reading →

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