This title covers everything you never knew about the human body. From what makes blood red to why a haircut is painless, it helps your child discover all about the human body. Fantastic facts and far-out photos answer a multitude of quirky questions and tell the head-to-toe story of what makes our bodies tick. They'll take a look at our circulation system and discover how blood travels around the body and why our heart beats faster when we run.
Mathematical Puzzles, for Beginners and Enthusiasts
This is a delightful collection of head-scratchers all described in an easy-going format. Puzzles (all of them are word puzzles, and all answers appear at the back) are grouped as algebraic, geometric, easy-arithmetical, combinatoric, puzzles about integers, etc.; none are trivial, some are extremely challenging, and they all teach some point about inference or mathematical method. In the preface, the author writes, "Some of these puzzles are old favorites...
Added by: arcadius | Karma: 2802.10 | Fiction literature | 4 August 2010
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The book of poems was written by Charles Bukowski from 1974-1977. His poems talk about his endless consumption of alcohol, mostly beer. In some of his poems he does say he has to give up his voluptuary ways and find a nice woman and stop drinking. His poems are visceral and very blunt and honest. He’s also an artist, a painter. He doesn’t live in affluence. In fact through his poems you imagine he lives close to squalor. He talks about the cockroaches that permeate his place. It’s about the harsh realities of living in near squalor and poverty in a rough part of Los Angeles ...
This book offers an original study of debates which arose in the 1790s about the nature and social role of literature and the new class of readers produced by the revolution in information and literacy in eighteenth-century England. The first part concentrates on the dominant arguments about the role of literature and the status of the author; the second shifts its focus to the debates about working-class activists and radical women authors, and examines the growth of a Romantic ideology within this context of political and cultural turmoil.
