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 ...

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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In The Throne of Caesar award-winning mystery author Steven Saylor turns to the most famous murder in history It's Rome 44 AD & the Ides of March are approaching 400 pages Saylor Steven ...

EVER since the gods of Ancient Egypt were unleashed on the modern world Carter Kane & his sister Sadie have been in big trouble As descendants of the magical House of Life they command certain powers But now a terrifying enemy
- Apophis the giant snake of chaos
- is rising If Carter & Sadie don't destroy him the world will end in five days' time & in order to battle the forces of chaos they must revive the sun god Ra
- a feat no magician has ever achieved Because first they must search the world for the three sections of the Book of Ra then they have to learn how to chant its spells Can the Kanes destroy Apophis before he swallows the sun & plunges the earth into darkness forever?


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Ever since the gods of Ancient Egypt were unleashed on the modern world Carter Kane & his sister Sadie have been in big trouble As descendants of the magical House of Life they command certain powers But now a terrifying enemy
- Apophis the giant snake of chaos
- is rising If Carter & Sadie don't destroy him the world will end in five days' time & in order to battle the forces of chaos they must revive the sun god Ra
- a feat no magician has ever achieved Because first they must search the world for the three sections of the Book of Ra then they have to learn how to chant its spells


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