Get more nyuks for your bucks with The Three Stooges Vol 2 Graphic Novel collection! America&s favorite funnymen are back with the first comic book series that captures the likeness of Moe Larry & Curly! These all new adventures present The Three Stooges unique brand of wit & slapstick to a new generation of fans Celebrate April Fools Day the Stooges way with this 144 page graphic novel collecting The Three Stooges Merry Stoogemas The Three Stooges April Fools Day Special The Three Stooges TV Time The Three Stooges Halloween Stoogetacular & packed with extra fun parody ads interviews classic comics & even more Stooge goodness ...

Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy Sophocles' The Three Theban Plays are among the most enduring & timeless dramas ever written This Penguin Classics edition is translated by Robert Fagles with introductions & notes by Bernard Knox Collected here are Antigone Oedipus the King & Oedipus at Colonus in a translation by Robert Fagles which retains all of Sophocles' lucidity & power the cut & thrust of his dialogue his ironic edge the surge & majesty of his choruses & above all the agonies & triumphs of his characters Oedipus in exile searching for his identity desperately trying to avoid his fate seeking the truth of his origins & achieving immortality; his daughter Antigone defending her integrity & ideals to the death
- these heroic tragic figures have captivated theatregoers & readers since the fifth century BC It is Sophocles' characterisation of Oedipus that would in the nineteenth century inspire Sigmund Freud to a revolutionary conception of the human mind & the tragedies in this volume continue to move & inspire us to this day Sophocles (496-405 BC) was born at Colonus just outside Athens His long life spanned the rise & decline of the Athenian Empire; he was a friend of Pericles & though not an active politician he held several public offices both military & civil The leader of a literary circle & friend of Herodotus Sophocles wrote over a hundred plays drawing on a wide & varied range of themes & winning the City Dionysia eighteen times; though only seven of his tragedies have survived among them Antigone Oedipus Rex Ajax & Oedipus at Colonus If you enjoyed The Three Theban Plays you might like Aeschylus' The Oresteia also available in Penguin Classics'I know of no better English version' Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones Oxford University' The most impressive verse translations of Sophocles that have been made' Stephen Spender
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Long long ago a very special star appeared in the night sky It shone more brightly than all the other stars Three wise men called Melchior Caspar & Balthasar gazed at the star in wonder They had never seen anything like it before In this beautifully illustrated book for young children the three Kings decide to journey west following the star to a very special destination Loek Koopmans' retelling of one part of the Christmas story is full of life & character as well as mystery & wonder ...

A new title in the fantastic " First Reading" series aimed at children who are beginning to read Nat & Ned are poor & often hungry until Ned rescues a fairy Are all their troubles over for good? Developed in consultation with Alison Kelly who is a senior lecturer in education & an early reading specialist from Roehampton University A great value quality hardback with ribbon marker guaranteed to foster pride in book ownership ...

When Ben is granted three wishes he dreams of changing his life forever But you must always be careful what you wish for! A fantastical tale of love magic & a sausage specially written for children who are just learning to read & with stunning illustrations by Lorena Alvarez throughout 48 pages Full colour throughout Prentice Andrew ...

1967 Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China's Cultural Revolution This singular event will shape not only the rest of her life but also the future of mankind Four decades later Beijing police ask nanotech engineer Wang Miao to infiltrate a secretive cabal of scientists after a spate of inexplicable suicides Wang's investigation will lead him to a mysterious online game & immerse him in a virtual world ruled by the intractable & unpredicatable interaction of its three suns This is the Three-Body Problem & it is the key to everything the key to the scientists' deaths the key to a conspiracy that spans light-years & the key to the extinction-level threat humanity now faces ...

This book written for a general readership reviews & explains the three-body problem in historical context reaching to latest developments in computational physics & gravitation theory The three-body problem is one of the oldest problems in science & it is most relevant even in today's physics & astronomy The long history of the problem from Pythagoras to Hawking parallels the evolution of ideas about our physical universe with a particular emphasis on understanding gravity & how it operates between astronomical bodies The oldest astronomical three-body problem is the question how & when the moon & the sun line up with the earth to produce eclipses Once the universal gravitation was discovered by Newton it became immediately a problem to understand why these three-bodies form a stable system in spite of the pull exerted from one to the other In fact it was a big question whether this system is stable at all in the long run Leading mathematicians attacked this problem over more than two centuries without arriving at a definite answer The introduction of computers in the last half-a-century has revolutionized the study; now many answers have been found while new questions about the three-body problem have sprung up One of the most recent developments has been in the treatment of the problem in Einstein's General Relativity the new theory of gravitation which is an improvement on Newton's theory Now it is possible to solve the problem for three black holes & to test one of the most fundamental theorems of black hole physics the no-hair theorem due to Hawking & his co-workers ...

THE FORTY FACES OF DRACULA! From the first medieval atrocity stories about Vlad the Impaler to Bram Stoker&s immortal novel to the most recent Universal blockbusters Kenneth Hite&s The Thrill of Dracula zooms through centuries of blood bats & — ballet? — to bring you the most complete look at the Count&s story ever! Richly furnished with story seeds & ideas for your Night&s Black Agents campaign or any RPG featuring vampire mythology Richly furnished with story seeds & ideas for your Night&s Black Agents campaign or any RPG featuring vampire mythology So sharpen your stakes & prepare for the thrill of your Un– Lifetime — The Thrill of Dracula! Made in the US ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play This romantic comedy takes a satirical aim at the frenetic world of television Happily married Beverly Boyer is the ultimate housewife but her life is about to change dramatically It seems that the president of a soap company who she has just met sees the clean-cut Beverly as the perfect TV pitchwoman for his product After the ads air Beverly becomes famous from coast to coast & an even better breadwinner than her husband
- who isn&t coping with either of these occurrences very well Can the Boyers patch up their crumbling marriage before it&s too late? Actors Doris Day James Garner Arlene Francis Edward Andrews Reginald Owen Zasu Pitts Carl Reiner Hayden Rorke & Alice Pearce Director Norman Jewison Certificate Universal Suitable for All Year 1963 Screen Widescreen 1851 Languages English
- Dolby Digital (10) Mono Subtitles English for the hearing impaired Duration 1 hour & 44 minutes (approx)

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' So impossibly funny clever demented charming & altogether wonderful that I was a convert within three pages Buy it for everyone you know regardless of what you think they like Brilliant stuff' Lucy Mangan Stylist Books of the Year' An eye-opener The more I think about this the higher I esteem it'
- Nicholas Lezard Guardian Books of the Year Winner of the British Book Design & Production Award for Graphic Novels Winner of the Neumann Prize in the History of Mathematics Nominated for the 2016 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album & Best Writer Artist In The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace & Babbage Sydney Padua transforms one of the most compelling scientific collaborations into a hilarious set of adventures Meet two of Victorian London's greatest geniuses Ada Lovelace daughter of Lord Byron mathematician gambler & proto-programmer whose writings contained the first ever appearance of general computing theory a hundred years before an actual computer was built & Charles Babbage eccentric inventor of the Difference Engine an enormous clockwork calculating machine that would have been the first computer if he had ever finished it But what if things had been different? The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace & Babbage presents a delightful alternate reality in which Lovelace & Babbage do build the Difference Engine & use it to create runaway economic models battle the scourge of spelling errors explore the wider realms of mathematics & of course fight crime
- for the sake of both London & science Extremely funny & utterly unusual The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace & Babbage comes complete with historical curiosities extensive footnotes & never-before-seen diagrams of Babbage's mechanical steam-powered computer & ray guns

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