Numbers: A Cultural History provides students with a compelling interdisciplinary view of the development of mathematics and its relationship to world cultures over 4, 500 years of human history.
Mathematics is often referred to as a "universal language, " and that is a fitting description. Many cultures have contributed to mathematics in fascinating ways, but despite its "universal" character, mathematics is also a human endeavor. It has play...
Learn the basics. This is a sequence of poems, reworkings, translations, misapprehensions and prose-poems. Which is which? Only canny investors decide.
Kiely goes through major sections of the Gospels, pausing with the Italian painters to consider Jesus, how he looks, how he stands or sits, how he interacts with other figures and the viewer, and how his actions and teachings are interpreted and translated by artists into forms without words.
When you need a practical answer to a specific problem, who do you ask? Have you ever been frustrated with leadership books that are full of theory? And at the end you didn't find what you needed anyway? This book is a very honest, no frills look back on twenty years of experience in people leadership. These eighteen tips will eliminate your fear of people leadership and help you form your own style. The Book That Could Not Be Written is focus...
Kiely invites the reader of postmodern fiction to travel back to the 19th-century novel without pretending to let go of contemporary expectations. Whilst he does not claim that all fictions begin to look alike, he examines a variety of ways in which new texts reflect on old.
Schneebedeckte Berge, eine urige Waldhütte, romantische Zweisamkeit: Mit einem idyllischen Wochenende möchten Carl (Sam Huntington) und Sue (Meaghan Rath) ihre eingefahrene Beziehung auffrischen und ihr im ehelichen Alltag eingeschlafenes Sexleben wieder ankurbeln. Bei ihrer Ankunft im Winter-Wonderland entpuppt sich die Betreiberin der gemütlichen Herberge jedoch ausgerechnet als Carls ehemalige Chefin und Ex-Freundin Robyn (Emmanuelle Chriqu...
