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Author: Cecil Balmond Publisher: Prestel Publishing ISBN: 9783791340678 Category : Number theory Languages : en Pages : 0
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Number 9 tells the story of Enjil, a boy mathematician who is challenged by a spirit to solve the riddle, What is the fixed point of the wind? As Enjil searches for the answer, he and the reader embark on a journey through myth, legend, and religion. Enjil s adventures lead readers to an appreciation of symmetry within asymmetry, classical ideas, and modern impulses. Along the way Balmond redefines arithmetic for the lay person and opens the gateway to further discoveries.
Author: Cecil Balmond Publisher: Prestel Publishing ISBN: 9783791340678 Category : Number theory Languages : en Pages : 0
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Number 9 tells the story of Enjil, a boy mathematician who is challenged by a spirit to solve the riddle, What is the fixed point of the wind? As Enjil searches for the answer, he and the reader embark on a journey through myth, legend, and religion. Enjil s adventures lead readers to an appreciation of symmetry within asymmetry, classical ideas, and modern impulses. Along the way Balmond redefines arithmetic for the lay person and opens the gateway to further discoveries.
Author: F J Campbell Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd ISBN: 1789013348 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 392
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A novel with a strong female lead character who’s flawed but who readers will take to their hearts. A story about grief, family conflicts and first love, with a dramatic background of sport and the Olympics. What do you do when your amazing, beautiful, beloved sister dies? Hide in your room for two years. Sleep with a very, very wrong man. Leave home and start a new life, lying to everyone you meet including your kind employer, your curious friends and the man you love? Pip Mitchell’s an expert at making seriously bad decisions. But when her past, present and future collide at the Sydney Olympic Games, she’s going to have to decide whose side she’s on – or she’ll lose everyone she loves. No Number Nine is a coming-of-age story about an 18-year-old girl who has put her life on hold for two years after the death of her sister. Pip leaves her home in England and tries to move forward with her life, taking a job in Germany as an au pair to the von Feldsteins, a family which is full of surprises - and not good ones. Set in Munich, the story follows Pip for a year as she crashes from one embarrassing, awkward mistake to the next. Finally, as she starts to emerge from her fog of grief, she travels with the von Feldsteins to Sydney where, amid the drama of the 2000 Olympic Games, everything that can go wrong, does go wrong. Can Pip protect herself and the people she loves? Does she have the courage to tell the truth, even if it destroys her?
Author: A.P. Herbert Publisher: House of Stratus ISBN: 0755151593 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 265
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The Admiral’s dedication could not be questioned – but it was a bit much expecting him to give up his ancestral home for the psychological testing of Civil Service candidates. Assisted by his son, he embarks upon a battle of wits against the political hopefuls. The result is a hilarious tale of double-crossing, eavesdropping – and total mayhem.
Author: Jeffrey Allen Publisher: ISBN: 9780440840527 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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When an efficient duck who gives the time over the telephone gets sick, other animals, believing the job to be easy, try to take her place.
Author: David Mitchell Publisher: Random House ISBN: 1588362159 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 483
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By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas | Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize “A novel as accomplished as anything being written.”—Newsweek Number9Dream is the international literary sensation from a writer with astonishing range and imaginative energy—an intoxicating ride through Tokyo’s dark underworlds and the even more mysterious landscapes of our collective dreams. David Mitchell follows his eerily precocious, globe-striding first novel, Ghostwritten, with a work that is in its way even more ambitious. In outward form, Number9Dream is a Dickensian coming-of-age journey: Young dreamer Eiji Miyake, from remote rural Japan, thrust out on his own by his sister’s death and his mother’s breakdown, comes to Tokyo in pursuit of the father who abandoned him. Stumbling around this strange, awesome city, he trips over and crosses—through a hidden destiny or just monstrously bad luck—a number of its secret power centers. Suddenly, the riddle of his father’s identity becomes just one of the increasingly urgent questions Eiji must answer. Why is the line between the world of his experiences and the world of his dreams so blurry? Why do so many horrible things keep happening to him? What is it about the number 9? To answer these questions, and ultimately to come to terms with his inheritance, Eiji must somehow acquire an insight into the workings of history and fate that would be rare in anyone, much less in a boy from out of town with a price on his head and less than the cost of a Beatles disc to his name. Praise for Number9Dream “Delirious—a grand blur of overwhelming sensation.”—Entertainment Weekly “To call Mitchell’s book a simple quest novel . . is like calling Don DeLillo’s Underworld the story of a missing baseball.”—The New York Times Book Review “Number9Dream, with its propulsive energy, its Joycean eruption of language and playfulness, represents further confirmation that David Mitchell should be counted among the top young novelists working today.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Mitchell’s new novel has been described as a cross between Don DeLillo and William Gibson, and although that’s a perfectly serviceable cocktail-party formula, it doesn’t do justice to this odd, fitfully compelling work.”—The New Yorker “Leaping with ease from surrealist fables to a teenage coming-of-age story and then spinning back to Yakuza gangster battles and World War II–era kamikaze diaries, Mitchell is an aerial freestyle ski-jumper of fiction. Somehow, after performing feats of literary gymnastics, he manages to stick the landing.”—The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Author: Pittacus Lore Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0062000764 Category : Charms Languages : en Pages : 455
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Friendships and a beautiful girl are distracting to a teenager who is hiding on Earth while he waits to develop the powers he will need to rejoin the other six surviving Garde members and fight those who destroyed their planet.
Author: Robert Howley Publisher: Random House ISBN: 1780573952 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 197
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Rob Howley was a late developer in terms of playing international rugby. But the Cardif, Wales and British Lions scrum half has more than made up for lost time. In Number Nine Dream, Howley looks back at his career, including his injury heartache, his late development, the pain of seeing a friend temporarily paralysed and the various scrapes with officialdom he has been involved in throughout his career. He talks in detail about the teething problems of professionalism and how he, one of Welsh rugby's all-time great players, has on more than one occasion been issued with an ultimatum by the West Wales Under 11s, Rob Howley was desperate to realise his boyhood ambition - to play senior reugby for his country. Injuries and subsequent operations set back his progress and when he finally returned to action, courtesy of a local valley faith healer, he found himself involved in one of the most controversial transfers in Welsh rugby history. Now a seaconed international and British Lion, Howley tells a story of pride, passion and extreme personal pain. Number Nine Dream is a compelling recollection of events on and off the pitch and highlights exactly what goes on in rugby's corridors of power and behind the changing-room doors.
Author: Tram Doan Publisher: TRAM DOAN ISBN: Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 260
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Chapter 1 Who didn't turn off the light? Trieu Ly Nong closed her eyes, thinking vaguely, her eyebrows slowly wrinkled, she instinctively turned her face away from the light, but this light was shining on her neck leisurely. It's not like she's sleeping in the bedroom, it's more like she's sleeping next to a heat lamp in a laboratory. This thought just passed through Trieu Ly Nong's mind. In an instant, she opened her eyes, looked towards the light source, and couldn't help but be stunned: Wrong, it's not a light. The bright sunlight shined through the large rectangular crystal glass, almost making it impossible to open your eyes. She was not lying on the bed, nor in the laboratory, but sitting close to the window above. a train. I just don't know why, that year the two top universities in her province only had one place each. In the end, Trieu Ly Nong successfully received an admission letter from
Author: Inge Logenburg Kyler Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1450081258 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 79
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Inge Logenburg Kyler and her husband live in Michigan in an old farmhouse on eighteen acres. They both enjoy hiking the trails around their property, planting a huge vegetable garden, and taking care of the little animals that from time to time come to live with them. They have three grown children. An accomplished prize winning poet, she writes a monthly article for a local paper, Flashes.
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