Download or read book The Phantom Tollbooth written by Norton Juster and published by Yearling. This book was released on 1988-10-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With almost 5 million copies sold 60 years after its original publication, generations of readers have now journeyed with Milo to the Lands Beyond in this beloved classic. Enriched by Jules Feiffer’s splendid illustrations, the wit, wisdom, and wordplay of Norton Juster’s offbeat fantasy are as beguiling as ever. “Comes up bright and new every time I read it . . . it will continue to charm and delight for a very long time yet. And teach us some wisdom, too.” --Phillip Pullman For Milo, everything’s a bore. When a tollbooth mysteriously appears in his room, he drives through only because he’s got nothing better to do. But on the other side, things seem different. Milo visits the Island of Conclusions (you get there by jumping), learns about time from a ticking watchdog named Tock, and even embarks on a quest to rescue Rhyme and Reason. Somewhere along the way, Milo realizes something astonishing. Life is far from dull. In fact, it’s exciting beyond his wildest dreams!
Download or read book The Dodecahedron written by Paul Glennon and published by The Porcupine's Quill. This book was released on 2005 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve narratives, twelve narrators, twelve genres and twelve fictional worlds collide to spectacular effect in Paul Glennon's The Dodecahedron, or a Frame for Frames. The second book from the author of How Did You Sleep? takes his adventures in short fiction to strange new regions, where professional polygamists, heretical alcoholics and hallucinating arctic explorers find themselves sharing plot points, character traits and dialogue. At turns philosophical and farcical, The Dodecahedron makes for intriguing, compelling reading. Each of the book's twelve chapters has its own style and apparent fictional autonomy, but every narrative finds itself corroborated or undermined by the next. Messages found in bottles, computer-generated dialogues and the lamentations of the world's last genie shouldn't have much in common, but their paths constantly intersect in The Dodecahedron, creating networks of allusions and contradictions. The Dodecahedron revels in the art of story making and proves once and for all that the geometry of the dodecahedron is a rich source of comic fiction.
Download or read book The Mind Eaters Book 1 written by Ethan Somerville and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On future Earth, in the North American continent, Human/Eridon half-castes have started to concentrate in disturbingly high numbers. The Great Council of Eridon assigns Ranados Taithlin from the Human/Eridon Half-Caste Team to lead an expedition to discover why.Ranados gathers together Eridon's foremost Earthian experts; Omadon Delfay and three of his old friends; Aidan Thomas, Katarine of Carcassonne and Con Hatsopopoulos. Together they form the SPecial Advisory Committee to Earth - or SPACE team.On Earth the team soon discover that the human/Eridon half-castes left behind have managed to master their psionic powers and take control. The entire US has become a gigantic police state with the strongest psyker at the head. The mysterious General Frank Cassidy has been in charge for over a hundred years.To boost their powers PsiForce scientists created the Dodecahedron - a crude, grisly, but exceptional psionic enhancer. Only the strongest psykers can control it without being torn apart. It is so powerful it must be held on an alternate plane where only PsiForce officers can access it.Unfortunately the creation of such an abomination has attracted a deadly threat from the very edges of the universe. Beings that feed on psionic energy and swarm to worlds with an overpopulation of powerful psykers are coming, and there are enough of these psionovores to swallow the Earth and drain it dry.To defeat such monsters can only be accomplished if the psionic fascist General Cassidy and the SPACE team cooperate. But will all their combined mental powers be enough? Or will they need to resort to using the evil device that summoned these creatures in the first place?The Dodecahedron has the power to turn people into gods.Also available in the Eridon Chronicles series:Half-CasteTime Crystal 1 - The ConvergenceTime Crystal 2 - Delsaron's WorldTime Crystal 3 - The IcosahedronTime Crystal 4 - The SingularityRise of the Unmaker Past - Dawn of the NightbringerRise of the Unmaker Present - Zenith of the DaystoneRise of the Unmaker Future - Dusk of UncreationThe Mind Eaters Book 2 - The ChronopsykerThe Mind Eaters Book 3 - The Old Ones
Download or read book The Mathematics of Harmony written by Alekse? Petrovich Stakhov and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2009 with total page 745 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assisted by Scott Olsen (Central Florida Community College, USA) This volume is a result of the author's four decades of research in the field of Fibonacci numbers and the Golden Section and their applications. It provides a broad introduction to the fascinating and beautiful subject of the ?Mathematics of Harmony,? a new interdisciplinary direction of modern science. This direction has its origins in ?The Elements? of Euclid and has many unexpected applications in contemporary mathematics (a new approach to a history of mathematics, the generalized Fibonacci numbers and the generalized golden proportions, the ?golden? algebraic equations, the generalized Binet formulas, Fibonacci and ?golden? matrices), theoretical physics (new hyperbolic models of Nature) and computer science (algorithmic measurement theory, number systems with irrational radices, Fibonacci computers, ternary mirror-symmetrical arithmetic, a new theory of coding and cryptography based on the Fibonacci and ?golden? matrices).The book is intended for a wide audience including mathematics teachers of high schools, students of colleges and universities and scientists in the field of mathematics, theoretical physics and computer science. The book may be used as an advanced textbook by graduate students and even ambitious undergraduates in mathematics and computer science.
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Download or read book Sacred Geometry The Universal Language of Divine Alignment written by Gail Hoag and Gregory Hoag and published by Hybrid Global Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-10 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world where challenges often appear insurmountable, where climate change serves as an urgent reminder of a deeper crisis, there exists a beacon of hope—a profound wisdom concealed within the timeless realm of Sacred Geometry.
Download or read book First Course in Microchemical Analysis written by Carl Gustav Hinrichs and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Commentary on Plato s Timaeus written by Alfred Edward Taylor and published by Oxford [Eng.]: Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1928 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Everyday Probability and Statistics written by M. M. Woolfson and published by Imperial College Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Probability and statistics impinge on the life of the average person in a variety of ways OCo as is suggested by the title of this book. Very often, information is provided that is factually accurate but intended to present a biased view. This book presents the important results of probability and statistics without making heavy mathematical demands on the reader. It should enable an intelligent reader to properly assess statistical information and to understand that the same information can be presented in different ways.
Download or read book Rudolf Steiner and the Founding of the New Mysteries written by Sergei O. Prokofieff and published by Temple Lodge Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prokofieff investigates the deepest mysteries of Rudolf Steiner's life and individuality and examines the earthly and supersensible aspects of the first Goetheanum, the implications of the Christmas Conference of 1923-24, and the Foundation Stone meditation.
Download or read book The Cyclop dia Or Universal Dictionary of Arts Sciences and Literature By Abraham Rees with the Assistance of Eminent Professional Gentlemen Illustrated with Numerous Engravings by the Most Disinguished Artists In Thirthy nine Volumes Vol 1 39 written by and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Die 20 written by Kieron Gillen and published by Image Comics. This book was released on 2021-09-29 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bleed," Part Five You can never go home, said Sol, way back in issue two. Let's see if he was right.
Download or read book Elements of Constructive Geometry written by William Noetling and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alcinous The Handbook of Platonism written by Alcinous and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1993-10-28 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Dillon presents an English translation of Alcinous' Handbook of Platonism, accompanied by an introduction and a philosophical commentary which reveal the intellectual background to the ideas in the work. The Handbook purports to be an introduction to the doctrines of Plato, but in fact gives us an excellent survey of Platonist thought in the second century AD. - ;Clarendon Later Ancient Philosophers This series, which is modelled on the familiar Clarendon Aristotle and Clarendon Plato Series, is designed to encourage philosophers and students of philosophy to explore the fertile terrain of later ancient philosophy. The texts range in date from the first century BC to the fifth century AD, and they cover all the parts and all the schools of philosophy. Each volume contains a substantial introduction, an English translation, and a critical commentary on the philosophical claims and arguments of the text. The accurate and faithful translations are highly readable and accompanied by notes on textual problems that affect the philosophical interpretation. No knowledge of Greek or Latin is assumed. The Handbook of Platonism, or Didaskalikos, attributed to Alcinous (long identified with the Middle Platonist Albinus, but on inadequate grounds), is a central text of later Platonism. In Byzantine times, in the Italian Renaissance, and even up to 1800, it was regarded as an ideal introduction to Plato's thought. In fact it is far from being this, but it is an excellent source for our understanding of Platonism in the second century AD. Neglected after a more accurate view of Plato's thought established itself in the nineteenth century, the Handbook is only now coming to be properly appreciated for what it is. It presents a survey of Platonist doctrine, divided into the topics of Logic, Physics, and Ethics, and pervaded with Aristotelian and Stoic doctrines, all of which are claimed for Plato. John Dillon presents an English translation of this work, accompanied by an introduction and a philosophical commentary in which he disentangles the various strands of influence on the text, elucidates the complex scholastic tradition that lies behind it, and thus reveals the sources and subsequent influence of the ideas expounded. -
Download or read book Graph and Network Theory written by Michael A. Henning and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-06-03 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook covers a diversity of topics in graph and network theory, both from a theoretical standpoint, and from an applied modelling point of view. Mathematica® is used to demonstrate much of the modelling aspects. Graph theory and model building tools are developed in tandem with effective techniques for solving practical problems via computer implementation. The book is designed with three primary readerships in mind. Individual syllabi or suggested sequences for study are provided for each of three student audiences: mathematics, applied mathematics/operations research, and computer science. In addition to the visual appeal of each page, the text contains an abundance of gems. Most chapters open with real-life problem descriptions which serve as motivation for the theoretical development of the subject matter. Each chapter concludes with three different sets of exercises. The first set of exercises are standard and geared toward the more mathematically inclined reader. Many of these are routine exercises, designed to test understanding of the material in the text, but some are more challenging. The second set of exercises is earmarked for the computer technologically savvy reader and offer computer exercises using Mathematica. The final set consists of larger projects aimed at equipping those readers with backgrounds in the applied sciences to apply the necessary skills learned in the chapter in the context of real-world problem solving. Additionally, each chapter offers biographical notes as well as pictures of graph theorists and mathematicians who have contributed significantly to the development of the results documented in the chapter. These notes are meant to bring the topics covered to life, allowing the reader to associate faces with some of the important discoveries and results presented. In total, approximately 100 biographical notes are presented throughout the book. The material in this book has been organized into three distinct parts, each with a different focus. The first part is devoted to topics in network optimization, with a focus on basic notions in algorithmic complexity and the computation of optimal paths, shortest spanning trees, maximum flows and minimum-cost flows in networks, as well as the solution of network location problems. The second part is devoted to a variety of classical problems in graph theory, including problems related to matchings, edge and vertex traversal, connectivity, planarity, edge and vertex coloring, and orientations of graphs. Finally, the focus in the third part is on modern areas of study in graph theory, covering graph domination, Ramsey theory, extremal graph theory, graph enumeration, and application of the probabilistic method.
Download or read book Mathematics for the Liberal Arts written by Donald Bindner and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a clear bridge between mathematics and the liberal arts Mathematics for the Liberal Arts provides a comprehensible and precise introduction to modern mathematics intertwined with the history of mathematical discoveries. The book discusses mathematical ideas in the context of the unfolding story of human thought and highlights the application of mathematics in everyday life. Divided into two parts, Mathematics for the Liberal Arts first traces the history of mathematics from the ancient world to the Middle Ages, then moves on to the Renaissance and finishes with the development of modern mathematics. In the second part, the book explores major topics of calculus and number theory, including problem-solving techniques and real-world applications. This book emphasizes learning through doing, presents a practical approach, and features: A detailed explanation of why mathematical principles are true and how the mathematical processes work Numerous figures and diagrams as well as hundreds of worked examples and exercises, aiding readers to further visualize the presented concepts Various real-world practical applications of mathematics, including error-correcting codes and the space shuttle program Vignette biographies of renowned mathematicians Appendices with solutions to selected exercises and suggestions for further reading Mathematics for the Liberal Arts is an excellent introduction to the history and concepts of mathematics for undergraduate liberal arts students and readers in non-scientific fields wishing to gain a better understanding of mathematics and mathematical problem-solving skills.
