Babytalk - March 2010The free monthly publication of Babytalk aims to help new mothers trust their maternal instincts with "straight talk" from experts and real moms.
Babytalk - April 2010The free monthly publication of Babytalk aims to help new mothers trust their maternal instincts with "straight talk" from experts and real moms.
How to Guard an Art Gallery and Other Discrete Mathematical Adventures
What is the maximum number of pizza slices one can get by making four straight cuts through a circular pizza? How does a computer determine the best set of pixels to represent a straight line on a computer screen? How many people at a minimum does it take to guard an art gallery? Discrete mathematics has the answer to these -- and many other -- questions of picking, choosing, and shuffling. T. S. Michael's gem of a book brings this vital but tough-to-teach subject to life using examples from real life and popular culture.
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Marketing Straight to the Heart: From New Product Development to Advertising -- How Smart Companies Use the Power of Emotion to Win Loyal Customers...
Feig, a marketing consultant, uses his vast experience in directing businesses to use emotion to sell a product. Drawing on such basic marketing concepts as market share and target marketing, he explains how to get customers to embrace a product and keep buying it.
This masterpiece of science (and mathematical) fiction is a delightfully unique and highly entertaining satire that has charmed readers for more than 100 years. The work of English clergyman, educator and Shakespearean scholar Edwin A.Abbott (1838-1926), it describes the journeys of A.Square, a mathematician and resident of the two-dimensional Flatland, where women - thin, straight lines - are the lowliest of shapes, and where men may have any number of sides, depending on their social status.
