Download or read book Alex s Adventures in Numberland written by Alex Bellos and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-04-05 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tenth anniversary edition of the iconic book about the wonderful world of maths Sunday Times bestseller | Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize 'Original and highly entertaining' Sunday Times 'A page turner about humanity's strange, never easy and, above all, never dull relationship with numbers' New Scientist 'Will leave you hooked on numbers' Daily Telegraph In this richly entertaining and accessible book, Alex Bellos explodes the myth that maths is best left to the geeks, and demonstrates the remarkable ways it's linked to our everyday lives. Alex explains the surprising geometry of the 50p piece, and the strategy of how best to gamble it in a casino. He shines a light on the mathematical patterns in nature, and on the peculiar predictability of random behaviour. He eats a potato crisp whose revolutionary shape was unpalatable to the ancient Greeks, and he shows the deep connections between maths, religion and philosophy. From the world's fastest mental calculators in Germany to numerologists in the US desert, from a startlingly numerate chimpanzee in Japan to venerable Hindu sages in India, these dispatches from 'Numberland' are an unlikely but exhilarating cocktail of history, reportage and mathematical proofs. The world of maths is a much friendlier and more colourful place than you might have imagined. This anniversary edition is fully revised and updated.
Download or read book The Adventures of Alex written by James Zall and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-02-25 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex is a young adventure seeker always on the look out for new outdoors experiences and meeting new animal friends along the way to help him get through his adventures. Alex is informed by his mother Laura to look out for riptides while playing in the ocean. A riptied is a strong underwater current that can carry a person out to sea In a matter of seconds. While swimming, Alex meets Dusty a dolphin on vacation from Mexico swimming north up the coast, Dusty informed Alex he's caught in a riptide and to recall the advise Laura his mother gave him about how to get out of the riptide if caught in it. Alex remembered to swim sideways to the shore until he is out of the riptide. This allows Alex to swim out of the riptide and safely return to shore where his mother is waiting to take him home. Finally on his way home Alex already starts to think of what adventure he wants to experience next weekend.
Download or read book The Grapes of Math written by Alex Bellos and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From triangles, rotations and power laws, to cones, curves and the dreaded calculus, Alex takes you on a journey of mathematical discovery with his signature wit and limitless enthusiasm. He sifts through over 30,000 survey submissions to uncover the world’s favourite number, and meets a mathematician who looks for universes in his garage. He attends the World Mathematical Congress in India, and visits the engineer who designed the first roller-coaster loop. Get hooked on math as Alex delves deep into humankind’s turbulent relationship with numbers, and reveals how they have shaped the world we live in.
Download or read book Adventures with Alex written by Rhonda Higby and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-04-06 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex learns about life through situations that are sometimes common, sometimes humorous, and sometimes dangerous. How would your child react? Find out as you and your child finish each adventure with Alex.
Download or read book The Lost Ranger written by C. Lamb and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03-17 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex Rogers is a young, intelligent, workaholic who had jumped from high school, to college, to a career with little time for a personal life. With his dog Kinsey, he pursues his only vice, wandering in the wilderness areas of Washington State, and dreaming of adventure. Without warning, he and Kinsey find themselves in an unfamiliar land, unable to speak the language, and fighting for their lives. It is here that Alex discovers he has been dropped in the middle of an ancient struggle for power, in a land where magic replaces science. If he can survive the near future, he has the potential to become a great wizard, feared by the very people he needs to protect.
Download or read book The Unlikely Adventures of Alex and Nan written by Horton-De Wolfe and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-07-26 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nan Holloway, a one-time network TV correspondent, is now barely making it as a PR consultant in small Upstate New York. Enter Alex Rayburn—a silver-haired man-about-town and a matchless detective, at least in his own mind. Life quickly changes for Nan, leaving her both titillated and terrified. In Adventure One: Reappearing Persons, Nan spots an ominous figure from the past and a missing woman reappears—dead. Nan and Alex are brought together in an uneasy partnership that turns out to be more dangerous—and more fun—than either of them anticipated. In Adventure Two: Unrelated Incidents, a cigar store Indian is stolen from Alex’s favorite tobacco emporium, and Nan learns of a threat made to a Native American environmental activist. Can the problematic pair uncover the sinister connection between these seemingly unrelated incidents without falling prey to a ruthless landowner and his murderous minions?
Download or read book The Further Adventures of Alex and Nan written by Horton - De Wolfe and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nan Hollaway, a 70-something TV talk show host in Upstate New York, was foisted on debonair, silver-haired detective Alex Rayburn as an unwelcome partner in solving a crime of international proportions. Following the successful conclusion of their first case, the problematic pair found themselves involved in more unlikely adventures - as well as an unlikely affair of the heart. What now? A quiet walk in the cemetery leads to an encounter with a frantic escaped prisoner who begs Alex to prove his innocence. Nan and Alex’s nubile grandniece Dani join in the Perilous Pursuits of the bad guys, but it’s Alex who must ultimately brave a watery grave. In Golden Retrievals, a historic buried treasure becomes an intriguing case for Alex and Nan. All is happily resolved until one dark and stormy night when an unlikely miscreant makes his move at the Rayburn mansion.
Download or read book The Adventures Of Alex And Alvaro written by Javier Salazar Calle and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-11-20 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interactive stories about the adventures of two mice that discover the world and let their imagination run. Delicious stories that children will love and that come full of activities in which they will be able to help the protagonists and learn at the same time: coloring, counting objects, following the dotted lines or guessing riddles... And now available in several languages!A great adventure for the whole family!Translator: Andrew James Roberts
Download or read book Bravo For Adventure written by Alex Toth and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex Toth's magnum opus, collected in book form for the first time ever! This deluxe hardcover edition contains all three of The Genius's stories starring Jesse Bravo, knock-about pilot and reluctant swashbuckler, including the original graphic novel that's been out of print for 30 years. Also included are never-before-seen pencil roughs, preliminary drawings, and story fragments, as well as Toth's own coloring samples for an edition that never saw print, and-freed from storage after 40-some-years of the coloring for what was intended to be Bravo's original 1975 first printing in France! It's not just a comics collection, it's a capital "E" Event — the ultimate Bravo for Adventure, published by special arrangement with the Toth family!
Download or read book Cammie and Alex s Adventures at Rainbow Rinks written by Olga Jaffae and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'You left your skates in the locker room, walked away, and somebody tampered with them.' 'But...but who did it?' Cammie asked weakly. Coach Ferguson looked her straight in the face. 'This is the question you should ask yourself. Who is the person that hates you so much that he, or she, is willing to jeopardize your test?' Cammie swallowed hard, but the lump in her throat didn't dissolve. 'I...I don't know.' Eleven-year-old Cammie is one of the best ice skaters at her hometown rink. But when an older girl joins her class, Cammie is in awe of the beautiful sixteen-year-old's expensive clothes and ability to glide gracefully over the ice. Isabelle and Cammie soon become best friends, and Isabelle convinces Cammie to move to Skateland, a magical place with skating rinks of unusual, enchanting colors. Cammie's parents and coach are hesitant, uncertain as to whether she is ready to be on her own, but Cammie is captivated by her new life...that is, until everything starts falling apart. Something strange is going on in Skateland-someone is trying to sabotage her chances at a gold medal! With the help of her friend Alex, Cammie must unravel the mystery at Rainbow Rinks and save her skating career before it's too late! Cammie and Alex's Adventures at Rainbow Rinks is Olga Jaffae's second book following friends Cammie and Alex in an ice-skating fantasy that teaches about the importance of telling the truth and being yourself that children and young adults will love.
Download or read book Here s Looking at Euclid written by Alex Bellos and published by Free Press. This book was released on 2011-04-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Too often math gets a bad rap, characterized as dry and difficult. But, Alex Bellos says, "math can be inspiring and brilliantly creative. Mathematical thought is one of the great achievements of the human race, and arguably the foundation of all human progress. The world of mathematics is a remarkable place." Bellos has traveled all around the globe and has plunged into history to uncover fascinating stories of mathematical achievement, from the breakthroughs of Euclid, the greatest mathematician of all time, to the creations of the Zen master of origami, one of the hottest areas of mathematical work today. Taking us into the wilds of the Amazon, he tells the story of a tribe there who can count only to five and reports on the latest findings about the math instinct—including the revelation that ants can actually count how many steps they’ve taken. Journeying to the Bay of Bengal, he interviews a Hindu sage about the brilliant mathematical insights of the Buddha, while in Japan he visits the godfather of Sudoku and introduces the brainteasing delights of mathematical games. Exploring the mysteries of randomness, he explains why it is impossible for our iPods to truly randomly select songs. In probing the many intrigues of that most beloved of numbers, pi, he visits with two brothers so obsessed with the elusive number that they built a supercomputer in their Manhattan apartment to study it. Throughout, the journey is enhanced with a wealth of intriguing illustrations, such as of the clever puzzles known as tangrams and the crochet creation of an American math professor who suddenly realized one day that she could knit a representation of higher dimensional space that no one had been able to visualize. Whether writing about how algebra solved Swedish traffic problems, visiting the Mental Calculation World Cup to disclose the secrets of lightning calculation, or exploring the links between pineapples and beautiful teeth, Bellos is a wonderfully engaging guide who never fails to delight even as he edifies. Here’s Looking at Euclid is a rare gem that brings the beauty of math to life.
Download or read book War written by Matt T. Berry and published by Matt T. Berry. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex has never beaten his older brother Greg at anything. Not even once! Now fully armed with their new water pistols and sent into the backyard, will Alex be able to finally defeat Greg in an ultimate battle to drench the other? This is not a fun game, this is not quality family time, this is WAR! Join Alex as he battles not only his brother, but his own misfortune as things go from bad to worse in this crazy, ridiculous and hilarious story.
Download or read book Adventures with My Daddies written by Gareth Peter and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set off on a series of incredible adventures with a family that has two dads! As they read bedtime stories with their little one, the pages burst into colorful life. Together, this LGBTQ+ family battles dragons, dodges deadly dinosaurs, zooms to the moon, and explores the world in a hot air balloon, before winding down to sleep in a wonderfully cozy ending. This rhyming read aloud celebrates the power of imagination and champions the love that brings all kinds of families together. Author and illustrator team Gareth Peter and Garry Parsons deliver an imaginative, heartwarming tale filled with bright and optimistic acrylic and pencil illustrations
Download or read book Amazon Diary written by Hudson Talbott and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-year-old Alex is rescued from a plane crash by the Yanomami Indians of Venezuela and spends several weeks in the Amazon jungle with them, learning and appreciating their way of life.
Download or read book Alex s Adventures written by Abigail Boyle and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex is a girl from the small village of Lestul. She was used to living a peaceful life. But things change when her and her friend Emma meet up with Owen, a boy who lived in the town of Acoti. Along with her business partner John, the four kids set off on an adventure to battle a treacherous, fire-breathing dragon and save Acoti from further disaster. Find out what happens in Alex's Adventures: Slaying the AmberFlame.
Download or read book The Adventures of Alex The Blue Jay written by Kerry Kay and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-04-26 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex is a Blue Jay. He lives in a beautiful forest with his parents. He has no brothers or sisters, but he has lots of cousins and friend’s to play with and have lots of fun with. He likes to explore his surroundings. He likes adventure. His favorite game to play is “Fly Catch” with his friends and his cousins.
Download or read book Adventures in Happiness written by John Clarke and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *** THIS VERSION HAS BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS INSIDE ***Adventures In Happiness is a true story of travel, change, and adventure. It is based on what happened when John, a thirty-seven-year-old corporate worker, quit his twenty-one-year career, and took a massive step into the unknown. It covers the highs, the lows, and everything in-between as he drove a campervan through Europe and Morocco, backpacked across South Africa, rode a motorbike around Sri Lanka, kitesurfed a lot, and settled for a while in the city of Cape Town. But it's not just a story of travel. It's also a story of change, and lessons learnt.They say happiness is a journey. Well they're not kidding, and this is his so far.
