![]() ![]() Following the little ducks as they float to all parts of the globe, young explorers can see for themselves the meanings of directional words and learn simple math concepts, such as counting and the use of cardinal and ordinal numbers. ![]() But as the sun sets, the 10th little rubber duck is left all alone, bobbing helplessly on the big wide sea. One drifts west, where a friendly dolphin jumps over it. "Ducks overboard!" shouts the captain, as a giant wave washes a box of 10 little rubber ducks off his cargo ship and into the sea. ![]() In Eric Carle’s poignant and funny story, illustrated with strikingly designed collages, readers are taken on an exciting voyage of discovery. Ahoy! This classic from the New York Times bestselling author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and The Grouchy Ladybug stars 10 little rubber ducks and their globe-trotting adventures. ![]()
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![]() These men rarely if ever treated obese patients themselves, and they repeatedly suggested that since no diet worked nothing was to be learned by studying diets.” Then there were those who refused to accept that carbohydrate restriction offered anything more than calorie restriction in disguise-Bray, Van Itallie, Cahill, Hirsch, and their fellow club members. These men invariably struggled to maintain credibility. There were those who believed carbohydrate-restricted diets were the only efficacious means of weight control-Denis Craddock, Robert Kemp, John Yudkin, Alan Howard, and Ian McLean Baird in England, and Bruce Bistrian and George Blackburn in the U.S.-and wrote books to that effect, or developed variations on these diets with which they could treat patients. ![]() ![]() “In retrospect, the influential figures in the clinical investigation of human obesity in the 1970s can be divided into two groups. ![]() ![]() His nephew, Adan Barrera, is his worthy successor.Īrt Keller is a US government operative, so determined to obtain revenge for a murdered colleague that his pursuit of the cartel veers dangerously towards an obsession outside the law. Superb' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAYĪ brilliant page-turning thriller of power and revenge on the front lines of the drug war.ĭrug lord Miguel Angel Barrera is head of the Mexican drug federacion, responsible for millions of dollars worth of cocaine traffic into the US and the torture and murder of those who stand in its way. should have a place on every crime freak's bookshelf. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo 'Breathtaking' JEREMY CLARKSON ![]() ![]() Victoria Stewart lectures in English and Drama at the University of the West of England, Bristol. The outcome, she concludes, is ‘a dialogue between two fields of discourse – science and theatre – which reveals that both necessarily deal in ambiguity and uncertainty of outcome’. ![]() Victoria Stewart here assesses the nature and the success of Frayn's techniques in relation to the wider uncertainties of live theatrical performance as well as to the relationship between the scientific and artistic use of metaphor. Michael Frayn's recent play, Copenhagen, used the crucial wartime visit paid by Heisenberg to Niels Bohr, his fellow architect of the Uncertainty Principle, to explore the scientific concepts involved through the work's own form and content. ![]() This approach is questioned by scientists, who doubt the possibility of bridging the scientific and the literary uses of the metaphorical language being deployed. A recurring strand over the past few years in New Theatre Quarterly has been the relationship between the nature of theatricality and scientific conceptions rooted in quantum mechanics – notably Chaos Theory and Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. ![]() ![]() ![]() Marsh's first novel, A MAN LAY DEAD (1934), which she wrote in London in 1931-32, introduced the detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn: a combination of Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey and a realistically depicted police official at work. She did not always see herself as a writer, but first planned a career as a painter. ![]() Over a fifty-year span, from 1932 to 1982, Marsh wrote thirty-two classic English detective novels, which gained international acclaim. Sayers, Ngaio Marsh alone survived to publish in the 1980s. Of all the "Great Ladies" of the English mystery's golden age, including Margery Allingham, Agatha Christie, and Dorothy L. There is some uncertainty over her birth date as her father neglected to register her birth until 1900, but she was born in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand. Dame Ngaio Marsh, born Edith Ngaio Marsh, was a New Zealand crime writer and theatre director. ![]() ![]() ![]() «Podría decirse que Borges es el gran puente entre la modernidad y la postmodernidad de la literatura de todo el mundo.» David Foster Wallace «Adoro su trabajo porque cada una de sus piezas contiene un modelo del universo o un atributo del universo.» Italo Calvino «Él más que nadie renovó el lenguaje de la ficción y abrió el camino a una generación importante de novelistas españoles-americanos.» J. ![]() «Vi el Aleph, desde todos los puntos, vi en el Aleph la tierra, y en la tierra otra vez el Aleph y en el Aleph la tierra.» La crítica ha dicho. Porque en esa esfera resplandeciente confluyen de un modo asombroso todos los tiempos y todos los espacios. La mayoría de los cuentos reunidos en este libro pertenecen al género fantástico. El cuento "El Aleph", publicado por primera vez en 1945, aborda uno de los temas recurrentes en la literatura de Borges: el infinito. Algunos surgieron a partir de crónicas policiales, de pinturas o simplemente de la visión de algún conventillo otro explora el efecto que la inmortalidad causaría en los hombres hay una glosa al Martín Fierro, sueños sobre la identidad personal y fantasías del tiempo. First published in September 1945, it was reprinted in the short story collection, The Aleph and Other Stories, in 1949, and revised by the author in 1974. ![]() La mayoría de los cuentos reunidos en este libro pertenecen al género fantástico. 'The Aleph' (original Spanish title: 'El Aleph') is a short story by the Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges. Dieciocho relatos filosóficos y sobrenaturales entre los que se encuentra uno de los más admirados en el campo de la literatura: El Aleph. ![]() ![]() Early in the next century we will have determined the function of every one of these 100,000 genes. Everything that makes us human can be read in our genes. While many believe that genetics proves biological determinism, Ridley will show that in fact free will is itself in the genes. Genome, a book of about 100,000 words, is divided into 23 chapters, a chapter for each chromosome. ![]() Genome also argues for the genetic foundations of free will. These 100,000 genes are sited across 23 pairs of chromosomes. The first chromosome, for example, contains our oldest genes, genes which we have in common with plants.īy looking at our genes we can see the story of our evolution, what makes us individual, how our sexuality is determined, how we acquire language, why we are vunerable to certain diseases, how mind has arisen. Life is a slippery term to try to pin down but it requires the ability to replicate and the ability to create order. It has clues to questions that help highlight why we do certain things and have certain characteristics - an autobiography of our species. These 100,000 genes are sited across 23 pairs of chromosomes. Genome contains information from both our recent and far distant past. ![]() The genome is the collective recipe for the building and running of the human body. The most important investigation of genetic science since The Selfish Gene, from the author of the critically acclaimed and best-selling The Red Queen and The Origins of Virtue. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Told through a fascinating dossier of hacked documents-including emails, schematics, military files, IMs, medical reports, interviews, and more- Illuminae is the first book in a heart-stopping, high-octane trilogy about lives interrupted, the price of truth, and the courage of everyday heroes. As Kady hacks into a tangled web of data to find the truth, it's clear only one person can help her bring it all to light: the ex-boyfriend she swore she'd never speak to again. A deadly plague has broken out and is mutating, with terrifying results the fleet's AI, which should be protecting them, may actually be their enemy and nobody in charge will say what’s really going on. But their problems are just getting started. ![]() With enemy fire raining down on them, Kady and Ezra-who are barely even talking to each other-are forced to fight their way onto an evacuating fleet, with an enemy warship in hot pursuit. Too bad nobody thought to warn the people living on it. ![]() The year is 2575, and two rival megacorporations are at war over a planet that’s little more than an ice-covered speck at the edge of the universe. This morning, Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the hardest thing she’d have to do. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Why: There is much to unpack in this beautifully written, atmospheric novel - it blends mystery, intrigue and family dynamics with a protagonist, Pet, who starts out quiet and timid but because of the extraordinary circumstances she gets thrown into, becomes a lass of steely resolve by the novel’s end. ![]() It is up to Pet to muster every ounce of courage to uncover the truth and do what she can to set things right. Mags becomes increasingly secretive and evasive, and her pa is distracted and distant. Mutti, a German immigrant, is packed off to an internment camp for “enemy aliens” as a matter of national security. Unlike her spirited sister, Pet isn’t particularly brave and is given to believing in myths and legends.Īs war encroaches upon their small community, Pet’s family gets caught up in a plot that threatens to tear them apart. Twelve-year-old Petra (Pet) and her family - older sister Magda (Mags), her pa and mother (Mutti) - are lighthouse keepers in the coastal village of Stonegate. What: It’s 1939, and England is on the cusp of World War II. ![]() Her first book, The Secret of Nightingale Wood, received high praise and her second, Our Castle by the Sea, is the subject of this review. Who: After stints as an actor, singer and storyteller, Lucy Strange became a secondary school teacher and writer of middle-grade historical fiction. ![]() ![]() It was during this time that Churchill gave the stirring speeches for which he’ll always be remembered, inspiring his countrymen to fight on as they braced for an expected German invasion. It’s a good thing Erik Larson didn’t ask himself that question, or else we might not have gotten his fascinating and accessible book, “The Splendid and the Vile.” Larson, author of “The Devil in the White City,” closely examines the year from May 1940 - when Churchill took office as prime minister - to May 1941, when Adolf Hitler’s deputy Rudolf Hess made a misguided solo flight to England, hoping to single-handedly negotiate peace between Britain and Germany.ĭuring that year, Britain snatched salvation from defeat on the beaches of Dunkirk and stood alone against Hitler as the conqueror of Europe unleashed a terrifying, monthslong aerial blitz against the island, killing or wounding nearly 100,000 Britons. So what do we need with another book on Churchill and the war? ![]() ![]() And Winston Churchill, the bulldog leader of Great Britain, is the war’s most chronicled figure. World War II is surely among the most chronicled events in history. ![]() |