Download Numbers, Numbers Everywhere by Elliott Kaufman PDF

By Elliott Kaufman

A stick to up the profitable Abbeville children name Alphabet Everywhere, Elliott Kaufman’s artistic images booklet permits kids (and adults) to find unintentional quantity shapes present in unforeseen places.

As in Alphabet Everywhere, the place there has been a global of letters simply ready to be came across, Numbers Everywhere unearths how digits and mathematical symbols are available on the earth round us—if we all know how one can search for them. during this attractive and pleasant ebook, Kaufman unearths the "secret" lifetime of numbers via his pictures, exhibiting how they are often present in issues we come upon daily. each one quantity is represented by means of a number of photographs, accidentally created through the intersection of architectural information, shadows, gentle, or common parts as stuck through the photographer’s willing eye. In “addition"… Numbers Everywhere comprises “formulas” for budding mathematicians to unravel. This enjoyable strategy additionally reinforces the proposal that studying to determine the commonplace in new methods encourages visible literacy and creativity.

With an attention-grabbing die-cut hardcover, Numbers Everywhere will motivate number-hunters of every age, and attract either kid's and present buyers.

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Download Philosophy: A Discovery in Comics by Margreet de Heer PDF

By Margreet de Heer

A enjoyable creation in comics to deep pondering and the historical past of Philosophy! what's considering? and the way does our considering set us except different animals?

Now that we're considering, what's fact? Is there an aim truth or are there various subjective realities? And will we stream in it with a unfastened will or is every little thing predestined?

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Erasmus, Descartes, Spinoza, Nietzsche: quite a few philosophers who've reflected those questions.

Comic artist Margreet de Heer and her husband Yiri commute in the course of the historical past of Western Philosophy and draw a colourful photograph of these types of questions

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Download Over the Hills and Faraway by Susan Skylark PDF

By Susan Skylark

It is a booklet of contrasts, a stewpot in which whatever and every thing may lurk with each one spoonful a special style: excessive experience and entire nonsense, critical quests and foolish meanderings, actual poetry and doggerel verse, one second grave as demise and blithe as a lark the subsequent. As in existence, the area of tale and Faerie particularly is a varicolored, ever transferring panorama of pleasure and sorrow, laughter and tears, event and quietude. each one tale is preceded via a bit verse or a citation that could or will not be appropriate, a lot of them are encouraged through previous nursery rhymes as one wonders what got here of the unique story past the little handed down from time immemorial to the puzzling over hearts of kids in the course of the a long time. existence is a narrative and with those bits and items of tale, this loopy duvet of caprice because it have been, maybe it's going to upload a bit extra ask yourself on your personal.

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Download Wishing On the Midnight Star: My Asperger Brother by Nancy Ogaz PDF

By Nancy Ogaz

Alex's more youthful brother Nic by no means seems capable of get whatever correct. He even invitations Brianna Santos the woman Alex likes over whilst Alex is goofing round in his geeky pyjamas.

But Alex by no means forgets what a distinct individual Nic is. hoping on the middle of the night famous person provides the sibling's view of the thrill and frustrations of getting a more youthful brother with Asperger Syndrome, with insights into the day-by-day adventures of an AS family members, and the optimistic coping, and loving concepts they've got developed. it's an enticing and fun youngster love tale that would entice older and more youthful children.

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Download How to Be Happy: A Memoir of Love, Sex and Teenage Confusion by David Burton PDF

By David Burton

A humorous, unhappy and critical memoir, tips to feel free is David Burton's tale of his turbulent lifestyles at highschool and past. Feeling misplaced and confident that he's now not basic, David has a rocky begin. He longs to have a female friend, yet his first 'date' is a catastrophe. There's the disaster of the college swimming carnival—David isn't sporty—and friendships that take devastating turns. Then he reveals a few solace in drama periods with the production of 'Crazy Dave', and he builds a lifestyles the place every little thing is okay. yet every thing isn't really fine.

And, on the centre of all of it, attempting desperately to paintings all of it out, is the genuine David.

How to be at liberty tackles melancholy, friendship, sexual identification, suicide, educational strain, love and adolescent confusion. It's a courageous and sincere account of 1 younger man's look for a contented, actual and significant existence that might resonate with readers old and young.

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