Satisfying both as a story & as an exploration of story The Three Pigs takes visual narrative to a new level When the wolf comes a-knocking & a-puffing he blows the pigs right out of the tale & into a whole new imaginative landscape where they begin a freewheeling adventure as they wander-and fly-through other stories encountering a dragon & a cat with a fiddle among others This familiar tale will never be the same old story again ...

In the overcrowded world & cramped space colonies of the late twenty-first century tedium can be endured through the use of the drug Can-D which enables the user to inhabit a shared illusory world But when industrialist Palmer Eldritch returns from an interstellar trip he brings with him a new drug Chew-Z which is far more potent than Can-D But could the permanent state of drugged illusion it induces be part of something much more sinister? ...

Left on the doorstep of an orphanage run by nuns three newborn knuckleheads grow up to be finger-poking nyuk-nyuking janitors named Larry (Sean Hayes) Curly (Will Sasso) & Moe (Chris Diamantopoulos) When they learn that financial problems will soon force the only home they&ve ever known to close the trio sets out to raise 830000 in one month Out in the world for the very first time the three innocent bumblers become embroiled in a murder plot & find stardom on a TV reality show ...

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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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 ...

After a spate of apparent suicides among elite scientists nanotech engineer Wang Miao is asked to infiltrate a secretive cabal During his investigation Wang is inducted into a mysterious online game that is the key to humanity's place in the cosmos & the key to the extinction-level threat it now faces 448 pages Liu Cixin ...

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 ...