Award-winning original fiction for learners of English At seven levels from Starter to Advanced this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities Sam is like any other teenage girl except that she was born deaf She meets Jim falls in love & feels happier than ever before Then one day Jim's jealous ex-girlfriend reveals a secret Sam is left wondering if she really knows Jim at all For their love to grow Jim must show her that their worlds are not too different Paperback-only version Also available with Audio CD including complete text recordings from the book ...

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With a lighter accent on the physical interpretation of the results a more manageable page count than comparable texts a highly readable style & over 1000 exercises designed to be solved without a calculating device this book emphasizes the understanding & practice of essential topics in a succinct yet fully rigorous fashion ...

This text presents a graduate-level introduction to differential geometry for mathematics & physics students The exposition follows the historical development of the concepts of connection & curvature with the goal of explaining the Chern-Weil theory of characteristic classes on a principal bundle Along the way we encounter some of the high points in the history of differential geometry for example Gauss' Theorema Egregium & the Gauss-Bonnet theorem Exercises throughout the book test the reader's understanding of the material & sometimes illustrate extensions of the theory Initially the prerequisites for the reader include a passing familiarity with manifolds After the first chapter it becomes necessary to understand & manipulate differential forms A knowledge of de Rham cohomology is required for the last third of the text Prerequisite material is contained in author's text An Introduction to Manifolds & can be learned in one semester For the benefit of the reader & to establish common notations Appendix A recalls the basics of manifold theory in addition in an attempt to make the exposition more self-contained sections on algebraic constructions such as the tensor product & the exterior power are included Differential geometry as its name implies is the study of geometry using differential calculus It dates back to Newton & Leibniz in the seventeenth century but it was not until the nineteenth century with the work of Gauss on surfaces & Riemann on the curvature tensor that differential geometry flourished & its modern foundation was laid Over the past one hundred years differential geometry has proven indispensable to an understanding of the physical world in Einstein's general theory of relativity in the theory of gravitation in gauge theory & now in string theory Differential geometry is also useful in topology several complex variables algebraic geometry complex manifolds & dynamical systems among other fields The field has even found applications to group theory as in Gromov's work & to probability theory as in Diaconis's work It is not too far-fetched to argue that differential geometry should be in every mathematician's arsenal ...

This is a textbook on differential geometry well-suited to a variety of courses on this topic For readers seeking an elementary text the prerequisites are minimal & include plenty of examples & intermediate steps within proofs while providing an invitation to more excursive applications & advanced topics For readers bound for graduate school in math or physics this is a clear concise rigorous development of the topic including the deep global theorems For the benefit of all readers the author employs various techniques to render the difficult abstract ideas herein more understandable & engaging Over 300 color illustrations bring the mathematics to life instantly clarifying concepts in ways that grayscale could not Green-boxed definitions & violet-boxed theorems help to visually organize the mathematical content Color is even used within the text to highlight logical relationships Applications abound! The study of conformal & equiareal functions is grounded in its application to cartography Evolutes involutes & cycloids are introduced through Christiaan Huygens' fascinating story in attempting to solve the famous longitude problem with a mathematically-improved pendulum clock he invented mathematics that would later be applied to optics & gears Clairaut's Theorem is presented as a conservation law for angular momentum Green's Theorem makes possible a drafting tool called a planimeter Foucault's Pendulum helps one visualize a parallel vector field along a latitude of the earth Even better a south-pointing chariot helps one visualize a parallel vector field along any curve in any surface In truth the most profound application of differential geometry is to modern physics which is beyond the scope of this book The GPS in any car wouldn't work without general relativity formalized through the language of differential geometry Throughout this book applications metaphors & visualizations are tools that motivate & clarify the rigorous mathematical content but never replace it ...

We've all been there We know we must talk to a colleague our boss or event a friend about something we know will be at least uncomfortable & at worst explosive So we repeatedly mull it over until we can no longer put it off & then finally stumble through a confrontation when we could have had a conversation Difficult Conversations is the definitive work on handling these unpleasant exchanges based on 15 years of research at the Harvard Negotiation Project It teaches us to work through them by understand that we're not engaging in one dialogue but three the "what happened" conversation (what do we believe was said & done) the "feelings" conversation (the emotional impact on everyone involved) & the "identity" conversation (what does this mean for everyone's opinion of themselves) In a world where asking for a pay rise saying 'no' to your boss asking a favour or apologizing for a mistake can be a horrendous nightmare Difficult Conversations deserves its position as a business classic ...

What is a difficult conversation? Asking for a pay rise saying 'no' to your boss or spouse confronting a friend or neighbor asking a difficult favor apologizing This book helps you to turn your difficult conversations into positive problem-solving experiences 272 pages Patton Bruce ...

' Phenomenally powerful & beautifully written' the Guardian The women in these stories live lives of privilege & of poverty are in marriages both loving & haunted by past crimes or emotional blackmail A pair of sisters grown now have been inseparable ever since they were abducted together as children & must negotiate the elder sister's marriage A woman married to a twin pretends not to realize when her husband & his brother impersonate each other A stripper putting herself through college fends off the advances of an overzealous customer A black engineer moves to Upper Michigan for a job & faces the malign curiosity of her colleagues & the difficulty of leaving her past behind From a girls' fight club to a wealthy subdivision in Florida where neighbors conform compete & spy on each other Gay delivers a wry beautiful haunting vision of modern America' Gay brings the powerful voice that flows through her work as a novelist & cultural critic to the 21 short stories in her first collection Gay's difficult women are unforgettable' BBCcom' Gay's signature dry wit & piercing psychological depth make every story mermerisingly unusual & simply unforgettable' Harper's Bazaar ...

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This is 15 Dice Set & is Approx. 20 bigger than standard dice Each set contains 3x D4 4x D6 2x D8 D10 D12 3x D20 & Percentile Dice Role 4 Initiative are large High-Visibility Polyhedral Dice & are over 20 bigger than standard polyhedral dice They have bigger bolder numbers ...