This is a marvellous book not only because of its abundance of colour pictures but also because of the knowledgeable text written in Stewart's pleasing style that is never pedantic always informative & smooth
- European Mathematical Society Think of a zebra's stripes the complexities of a spider's web the uniformity of desert dunes or the spirals in a sunflower head think of a snowflake The Beauty of Numbers in Nature shows how life on Earth forms the principles of mathematics Starting with the simplest patterns each chapter looks at a different kind of patterning system & the mathematics that underlies it In doing so the book also uncovers some universal patterns both in nature & man-made from the basic geometry of ancient Greece to the visually startling fractals that we are familiar with today Elegantly illustrated The Beauty of Numbers in Nature is an illuminating & engaging vision of how the apparently cold laws of mathematics find expression in the beauty of nature
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The Beauty of the End is a gripping psychological thriller from Debbie Howells author of the bestselling Richard & Judy Book Club success The Bones of You I was fourteen when I fell in love with a goddess A love he'd never forget Ex-lawyer Noah has never forgotten his first love When years later he hears that she's suspected of murder he knows with certainty that she's innocent With April on life-support & the evidence pointing towards her guilt he's compelled to help her But he's also unprepared as he's forced to confront what happened between them all those years ago A secret she would never reveal April Moon had loved Noah She never wanted to hurt him But there was something
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- dark in her life which made happiness together impossible A family she could never forgive Ella is a troubled teenager with her own secrets to tell But no one will listen What Ella knows holds the key to finding the killer But as Noah April & Ella's stories converge shocking revelations come to the surface The truth is obvious Or so everyone believes

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Modern society is obsessed with outward beauty What if there was a way to guarantee you could become more & more beautiful ...

Before the Beauty the world was blissfully unawarebut far from innocent Collecting issues 7-11 of the critically acclaimed series from writerartist Jeremy Haun (Constantine Batwoman) & co-writer Jason A Hurley the second volume of The Beauty introduces new characters who encounter the disease before the full truth of what it meant to contract it was known Bringing the intriguing new cast to life are guest artists Mike Huddleston Brett Weldele & Stephen Green with colors by Eisner-nominated John Rauch ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Two-time Academy Award winner Jodie Foster directs & co-stars with two-time Academy Award winner Mel Gibson in The Beaver a funny & heartfelt story about a man on a journey to re-discover his family & re-start his life Plagued by his own demons Walter Black was once a successful toy executive & family man who&s now lost his way No matter what he tries Walter cannot seem to get himself back on track until a beaver hand puppet enters his life ...

In the first book of the Shaw Confessions the companion series to the New York Times bestselling Mara Dyer novels old skeletons are laid bare & new promises prove deadly This is what happens after happily ever after Everyone thinks seventeen-year-old Noah Shaw has the world on a string They're wrong Mara Dyer is the only one he trusts with his secrets & his future He shouldn't & both are scared that uncovering the truth about themselves will force them apart They're right From the New York Times bestselling author of the Mara Dyer Trilogy comes a chilling new series told from the perspective of Noah Shaw ...

Funny & evocative refreshing as a G & T
- this book is as good as a holiday!' JANE LINFOOT author of The Little Wedding Shop by
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Where do baby apes sleep? In apricots! I'm Elsa & that's one of my jokes (I tell LOTS of jokes & I'm going to be a big star one day) I do my best to cheer my family up
- but no one seems to laugh much any more Not since we lost our lovely house & had to move into a bed & breakfast hotel
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & region B Blu-ray It will require a region B Blu-ray player to play the Blu-ray & DVD or a Region 2 DVD player for the DVD BFI Flipside presents THE BED SITTING ROOM (DVD Blu-ray) A film by Richard Lester THE FLIPSIDE rescuing weird & wonderful British films from obscurity & presenting them in new high-quality editions In a vividly realised post-apocalyptic London Mrs Ethel Shroake is crowned Queen & Lord Fortnum awaits his imminent transformation into a bedsitting room Meanwhile seventeen-months pregnant Penelope & her parents leave the safety of their underground carriage to find her a husband & finally reclaim their baggage Richard Lester&s sharply satirical end-of-the-world comedy is based on a beautifully bittersweet Goonish script by John Antrobus & Spike Milligan Special Features Presented in both High Definition & Standard Definition Original trailer Three Bernard Braden Now & Then interviews from 1967 Richard Lester (18 mins); Spike Milligan (41 mins); Peter Cook (31 mins) Fully Illustrated booklet with film notes contemporary review original promotional materials & biographies UK 1969 colour English language with optional English hard-of-hearing subtitles 91 minutes Original aspect ratio 1851 Disc 1 BD50 1080p 24fps PCM mono audio (48k 24-bit) Disc 2 DVD9 PAL PCM mono audio (320kbps) ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The Cold War just got a lot hotter Nerve-wracking suspense surrounds The Bedford Incident the tale of a US naval vessel on a routine NATO patrol that ends up in a freakish showdown with a Russian submarine Richard Widmark is Capt Eric Finlander the maniacal commander who drives his tense crew to the brink of of nervous exhaustion Sidney Poitier is Ben Munceford photojournalist aboard assigned to record a &typical& mission His moral indignation is put to the test by the captain&s obsession with forcing the sub to the surface Several crew members are at their breaking points as Finlander continues his prowl Especially affected is a former German U-boat commander now aboard the Bedford as a NATO observer portrayed by Eric Portman Actors Richard Widmark Sidney Poitier James Mac Arthur Martin Balsam Eric Portman Michael Kane & Wally Cox Director James B Harris Certificate PGYear 1965 Screen Widescreen 1851 Anamorphic Languages English ; German ; Spanish ; Italian
- Dolby Digital (10) Mono Subtitles Czech ; Danish ; Dutch ; English ; Finnish ; German ; Greek ; Hebrew ; Hindi ; Hungarian ; Italian ; Norwegian ; Polish ; Portugese ; Spanish ; Swedish ; Turkish Duration 1 hour & 35 minutes (approx) Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players

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