A brief history of all things: Mathematical. ... In this book, Johnny Ball tells one of the most important stories in world history - the story of mathematics. By introducing us to the major characters and leading us through many historical twists and turns, Johnny slowly unravels the tale of how humanity built up a knowledge and understanding of shapes, numbers and patterns from ancient times, a story that leads directly to the technological wonderland we live in today. As Galileo said, 'Everything in the universe is written in the language of mathematics', and Wonders Beyond Numbers is your guide to this ... |
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"Oxford Bookworms Library Factfiles" are non-fiction graded readers from the "Oxford Bookworms Library" available for Levels 1 to 4 (CEFR A1 - B2). Students learn about different countries and cultures, science and nature, history and historical figures all while practising and improving their English. Is there anyone who has not looked at the dark sky, and the shining points of light above us, and asked themselves questions about what is out there? Where did our planet come from? When did the universe begin? Could we live on another planet? And one question above all - is there life anywhere else in ... |
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"Oxford Bookworms Library Factfiles" are non-fiction graded readers from the "Oxford Bookworms Library" available for Levels 1 to 4 (CEFR A1 - B2). Students learn about different countries and cultures, science and nature, history and historical figures all while practising and improving their English. What do you find in these two countries at the end of the world? One is an enormous island, where only twenty million people live - and the other is two long, narrow islands, with ten sheep for every person. One country has the biggest rock in all the world, and a town where everybody lives under the ... |
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"The Ministry of Utmost Happiness" takes us on a journey of many years-the story spooling outwards from the cramped neighbourhoods of Old Delhi into the burgeoning new metropolis and beyond, to the Valley of Kashmir and the forests of Central India, where war is peace and peace is war, and where, from time to time, 'normalcy' is declared. Anjum, who used to be Aftab, unrolls a threadbare carpet in a city graveyard that she calls home. A baby appears quite suddenly on a pavement, a little after midnight, in a crib of litter. The enigmatic S. Tilottama is as much of a presence as she is an absence in the ... |
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#1 New York Times Bestselling Author. ... Of course I want to be like them. They're beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. They will live forever. And Cardan is even more beautiful than the rest. I hate him more than all the others. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe. One terrible morning, Jude and her sisters see their parents murdered in front of them. The terrifying assassin abducts all three girls to the world of Faerie, where Jude is installed in the royal court but mocked and tormented by the Faerie royalty for being mortal. As Jude grows older, she realises that ... |
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The No. 1 "New York Times" Best-Selling Series. "Fables" is the winner of 14 Eisner Awards. ... Who Killed Rose Red? In Fabletown, where fairy tale legends live alongside regular New Yorkers, the question is all anyone can talk about. But only the Big Bad Wolf can actually solve the case - and, along with Rose's sister Snow White, keep the Fabletown community from coming apart at the seams."Fables: Legends in Exile" collects the first five issues of writer and creator Bill Willingham's award-winning "Vertigo" series (superbly illustrated by Lan Medina, Steve Leialoha and ... |
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След анонсирането на албума и споделянето на новото парче "Good News" семейството на Мак Милър издава неговия шести и последен студиен албум, "Circles". Написан като продължение на номиниранията за Грами през 2018 г. албум "Swimming", "Circles" е завършен с помощта на продуцента Джон Брайън, с когото Милър е работил по него и с когото са работили заедно по "Circles" до момента на смъртта му. Звуково отличавайки се от своя предшественик, "Circles" включва много от качествата на "Swimming", заради които той е толкова харесан при излизането си - Милър, ... |
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Filling notebook after notebook with sketches, inventions, and theories, Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519) not only stands as one of the most exceptional draftsmen of art history, but also as a mastermind and innovator who anticipated some of the greatest discoveries of human progress, sometimes centuries before their material realization. From the smallest arteries in the human heart to the far-flung constellations of the universe, Leonardo saw nature and science as being unequivocally connected. His points of inquiry and invention spanned philosophy, anatomy, geology, and mathematics, from the laws of optics, ... |
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This gorgeous boxed set of all of her classic romantic novels includes "Pride and Prejudice", "Emma", "Sense and Sensibility", "Mansfield Park", "Persuasion" and "Northanger Abbey", and each individual volume is beautifully designed and features a bespoke jacket, introduction or afterword, and Hugh Thomson's timeless, evocative illustrations. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Whether in the electrically charged chemistry of Elizabeth Bennett and ... |
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"Тази книга събира на едно място словата на Елена Пеева и картините на Ангел Василев. Докато я четях, бях особено омаян от прелестта на словесната ѝ шевица, извезана с поетичната пъстрота на възхищението, предизвикано от магнетичните платна на отплавалия с небесния си платноход пловдивски художник. Ангелският отглас на рисунъка му тихо трепти в сказа на всеки един от тези разкази, посветени на живописния му дух, на болката му, която с Божията помощ, Ангел превръща в изящество. Както отбелязва и авторката "в картините му живееше вечния празник, но в душата му - Бог да я помилва, понякога празникът плачеше. ... |
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Шаблонът от серията "Atelier des Arts" на "Stamperia" е с дизайн на надписи: "Art is the essence of beauty", "we all have an artist within us", "Creativity", "Live with love and you will create art" и други. От него могат да се направят различни декорации, магнити за хладилник или украса за арт проекти. Той е гъвкав и моделираните формички се изваждат лесно от него. Формите могат да се използват за моделиране с различни материали, които се разпространяват в матрицата с помощта на шпакла или притискане към нея с помощта на ръце или друг инструмент. Също така те ... |
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Албумът е продължение на записа от 2014 г. "YES!", и е първият пълен студиен запис на Джейсън Мраз от 4 години. Заедно с обявяването на албума "Know.", изпълнителят пусна и ново парче "Unlonely", което може да се намери на всички дигитални платформи. Част от албума "Know." е настоящият хит на Джейсън Мраз "Have It All", който той изпълни в предаването "Live With Kelly And Ryan". Парчето е в топ 15 на "Hot AC radio" в САЩ, и има над 4,5 милиона слушания само в Щатите. "Have It All" наскоро се сдоби и с акустична версия. Идеята за "Have It ... |
