This book is about mathematical ideas about what mathematics means-and why Abstract ideas for the most part arise via conceptual metaphor-metaphorical ideas projecting from the way we function in the everyday physical world Where Mathematics Comes From argues that conceptual metaphor plays a central role in mathematical ideas within the cognitive unconscious-from arithmetic & algebra to sets & logic to infinity in all of its forms ...

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The children of Mivtown have grown up hearing the legend of the monsters of the loch But it's only a story
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A haunting tale of war love & loss from the author of Birdsong & A Week in December The Sunday Times bestseller On a small island off the south coast of France Robert Hendricks
- an English doctor who has seen the best & the worst the twentieth century had to offer
- is forced to confront the events that made up his life His host is Alexander Pereira a man who seems to know more about his guest than Hendricks himself does The search for the past takes us through the war in Italy in 1944 a passionate love that seems to hold out hope the great days of idealistic work in the 1960s & finally
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- back into the trenches of the Western Front This moving novel casts a long baleful light over the century we have left behind but may never fully understand Daring ambitious & in the end profoundly moving this is Faulks's most remarkable book yet



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Pippa loves staying with her Aunty Peggy She loves going for walks whether it's sunshiney or cold
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Winner of the 2017 Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize for nature writing The natural history of the Western Front during the First World War' If it weren't for the birds what a hell it would be' During the Great War soldiers lived inside the ground closer to nature than many humans had lived for centuries Animals provided comfort & interest to fill the blank hours in the trenches
- bird-watching for instance was probably the single most popular hobby among officers Soldiers went fishing in flooded shell holes shot hares in no-man's land for the pot & planted gardens in their trenches & billets Nature was also sometimes a curse
- rats spiders & lice abounded & disease could be biblical But above all nature healed & despite the bullets & blood it inspired men to endure Where Poppies Blow is the unique story of how nature gave the British soldiers of the Great War a reason to fight & the will to go on

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True love friendship & luck
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An irresistible twisty thriller perfect for fans of Gone Girl Lie With Me & The Girlfriend She used to report on murder cases
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The stunning sequel to Gayle Forman's international best seller If I Stay
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play "I hate to advocate weird chemicals alcohol violence or insanity to anyone but they&ve always worked for me" Bill Murray stars as Hunter S Thompson the legendary reporter with a sideways way of looking at the news due in part to his love of alcohol & weird chemicals In his journalistic adventures he covers a free-for-all San Francisco drug trial has a one-on-one bathroom interview with Richard Nixon & gives away his Superbowl tickets so that he can review the game from his hotel room This off-the-wall comedy also boasts a musical score from rock legend Neil Young & a tremendous soundtrack featuring Bob Dylan Creedence Clearwater Revival The Temptations The Pointer Sisters & Jimi Hendrix Actors Bill Murray Peter Boyle Bruno Kirby Rene Auberjonois Neil Young RG Armstrong Leonard Gaines & Danny Goldman Director Art Linson Certificate 18 years & over Year 1980 Screen Widescreen 1781 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (10) Mono Subtitles Danish ; Dutch ; English for the hearing impaired ; Finnish ; Norwegian ; Swedish Duration 1 hour & 35 minutes (approx)
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