Author: Raymond Blum
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402700262
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Math will never be the same again-and you'll love it! Fun tricks, calculator conundrums, brainteasters and other numerical hoaxes will challenge every inch of your brain in the most satisfying way. There are even riddles to get you giggling. Amaze your friends with your psychic powers when you predict the outcome of the "7-11" card trick. Figure out how to cut a pepperoni pizza using only 3 straight lines-and still have a piece of pepperoni on each slice. Solve a series of pencil puzzles...without ever lifting the pencil from the paper. Build a house with 11 toothpicks; then move just one to make the building face the opposite direction. Comical illustrations add to the enjoyment. So sharpen a pencil, get a piece of paper, and start on these mathematical mysteries right away!
Mathamazing
Author: Raymond Blum
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402700262
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Math will never be the same again-and you'll love it! Fun tricks, calculator conundrums, brainteasters and other numerical hoaxes will challenge every inch of your brain in the most satisfying way. There are even riddles to get you giggling. Amaze your friends with your psychic powers when you predict the outcome of the "7-11" card trick. Figure out how to cut a pepperoni pizza using only 3 straight lines-and still have a piece of pepperoni on each slice. Solve a series of pencil puzzles...without ever lifting the pencil from the paper. Build a house with 11 toothpicks; then move just one to make the building face the opposite direction. Comical illustrations add to the enjoyment. So sharpen a pencil, get a piece of paper, and start on these mathematical mysteries right away!
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402700262
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Math will never be the same again-and you'll love it! Fun tricks, calculator conundrums, brainteasters and other numerical hoaxes will challenge every inch of your brain in the most satisfying way. There are even riddles to get you giggling. Amaze your friends with your psychic powers when you predict the outcome of the "7-11" card trick. Figure out how to cut a pepperoni pizza using only 3 straight lines-and still have a piece of pepperoni on each slice. Solve a series of pencil puzzles...without ever lifting the pencil from the paper. Build a house with 11 toothpicks; then move just one to make the building face the opposite direction. Comical illustrations add to the enjoyment. So sharpen a pencil, get a piece of paper, and start on these mathematical mysteries right away!
The Thermodynamics of Electrical Phenomena in Metals, and A Condensed Collection of Thermodynamic Formulas
Author: Percy Williams Bridgman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Metals
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Metals
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Deal Hunter
Author: B.D. Murphy
Publisher: WorstAuthor LLC
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Princess Kainda runs away after learning she is targeted to die; the supposed random pirate attack she just survived wasn’t so random after all. To survive, how does she know whom to trust? Deal Hunter is not a typical salvaging freighter in this space sector, and the ship’s secret could make them a target of every pirate in the system. After escaping as a stowaway Kainda can only see one path, and that is to trust the captain of the Deal Hunter. Trusting the captain is a risky move, but the only option she has now. With conviction and unconventional thinking can she stop who is trying to kill her or will she simply be another pirate victim?
Publisher: WorstAuthor LLC
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Princess Kainda runs away after learning she is targeted to die; the supposed random pirate attack she just survived wasn’t so random after all. To survive, how does she know whom to trust? Deal Hunter is not a typical salvaging freighter in this space sector, and the ship’s secret could make them a target of every pirate in the system. After escaping as a stowaway Kainda can only see one path, and that is to trust the captain of the Deal Hunter. Trusting the captain is a risky move, but the only option she has now. With conviction and unconventional thinking can she stop who is trying to kill her or will she simply be another pirate victim?
The End of the World
Author: John Leslie
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134668546
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Are we in imminent danger of extinction? Yes, we probably are, argues John Leslie in his chilling account of the dangers facing the human race as we approach the second millenium. The End of the World is a sobering assessment of the many disasters that scientists have predicted and speculated on as leading to apocalypse. In the first comprehensive survey, potential catastrophes - ranging from deadly diseases to high-energy physics experiments - are explored to help us understand the risks. One of the greatest threats facing humankind, however, is the insurmountable fact that we are a relatively young species, a risk which is at the heart of the 'Doomsday Argument'. This argument, if correct, makes the dangers we face more serious than we could have ever imagined. This more than anything makes the arrogance and ignorance of politicians, and indeed philosophers, so disturbing as they continue to ignore the manifest dangers facing future generations.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134668546
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Are we in imminent danger of extinction? Yes, we probably are, argues John Leslie in his chilling account of the dangers facing the human race as we approach the second millenium. The End of the World is a sobering assessment of the many disasters that scientists have predicted and speculated on as leading to apocalypse. In the first comprehensive survey, potential catastrophes - ranging from deadly diseases to high-energy physics experiments - are explored to help us understand the risks. One of the greatest threats facing humankind, however, is the insurmountable fact that we are a relatively young species, a risk which is at the heart of the 'Doomsday Argument'. This argument, if correct, makes the dangers we face more serious than we could have ever imagined. This more than anything makes the arrogance and ignorance of politicians, and indeed philosophers, so disturbing as they continue to ignore the manifest dangers facing future generations.
Shamanism and Vulnerability on the North and South American Great Plains
Author: Kathleen Bolling Lowrey
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 1646420365
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
In Shamanism and Vulnerability on the North and South American Great Plains Kathleen Bolling Lowrey provides an innovative and expansive study of indigenous shamanism and the ways in which it has been misinterpreted and dismissed by white settlers, NGO workers, policymakers, government administrators, and historians and anthropologists. Employing a wide range of theory on masculinity, disability, dependence, domesticity, and popular children’s literature, Lowrey examines the parallels between the cultures and societies of the South American Gran Chaco and those of the North American Great Plains and outlines the kinds of relations that invite suspicion and scrutiny in divergent contexts in the Americas: power and autonomy in the case of Amerindian societies and weakness and dependence in the case of settler societies. She also demonstrates that, where stigmatized or repressed in practice, dependence and power manifest and intersect in unexpected ways in storytelling, fantasy, and myth. The book reveals the various ways in which anthropologists, historians, folklorists, and other writers have often misrepresented indigenous shamanism and revitalization movements by unconsciously projecting ideologies and assumptions derived from modern ‘contract societies’ onto ethnographic and historical realities. Lowrey also provides alternative ways of understanding indigenous American communities and their long histories of interethnic relations with expanding colonial and national states in the Americas. A creative historical and ethnographical reevaluation of the last few decades of scholarship on shamanism, disability, and dependence, Shamanism and Vulnerability on the North and South American Great Plains will be of interest to scholars of North and South American anthropology, indigenous history, American studies, and feminism.
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 1646420365
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
In Shamanism and Vulnerability on the North and South American Great Plains Kathleen Bolling Lowrey provides an innovative and expansive study of indigenous shamanism and the ways in which it has been misinterpreted and dismissed by white settlers, NGO workers, policymakers, government administrators, and historians and anthropologists. Employing a wide range of theory on masculinity, disability, dependence, domesticity, and popular children’s literature, Lowrey examines the parallels between the cultures and societies of the South American Gran Chaco and those of the North American Great Plains and outlines the kinds of relations that invite suspicion and scrutiny in divergent contexts in the Americas: power and autonomy in the case of Amerindian societies and weakness and dependence in the case of settler societies. She also demonstrates that, where stigmatized or repressed in practice, dependence and power manifest and intersect in unexpected ways in storytelling, fantasy, and myth. The book reveals the various ways in which anthropologists, historians, folklorists, and other writers have often misrepresented indigenous shamanism and revitalization movements by unconsciously projecting ideologies and assumptions derived from modern ‘contract societies’ onto ethnographic and historical realities. Lowrey also provides alternative ways of understanding indigenous American communities and their long histories of interethnic relations with expanding colonial and national states in the Americas. A creative historical and ethnographical reevaluation of the last few decades of scholarship on shamanism, disability, and dependence, Shamanism and Vulnerability on the North and South American Great Plains will be of interest to scholars of North and South American anthropology, indigenous history, American studies, and feminism.
Something Deeply Hidden
Author: Sean Carroll
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1524743038
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER As you read these words, copies of you are being created. Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist and one of this world’s most celebrated writers on science, rewrites the history of twentieth-century physics. Already hailed as a masterpiece, Something Deeply Hidden shows for the first time that facing up to the essential puzzle of quantum mechanics utterly transforms how we think about space and time. His reconciling of quantum mechanics with Einstein’s theory of relativity changes, well, everything. Most physicists haven’t even recognized the uncomfortable truth: Physics has been in crisis since 1927. Quantum mechanics has always had obvious gaps—which have come to be simply ignored. Science popularizers keep telling us how weird it is, how impossible it is to understand. Academics discourage students from working on the "dead end" of quantum foundations. Putting his professional reputation on the line with this audacious yet entirely reasonable book, Carroll says that the crisis can now come to an end. We just have to accept that there is more than one of us in the universe. There are many, many Sean Carrolls. Many of every one of us. Copies of you are generated thousands of times per second. The Many-Worlds theory of quantum behavior says that every time there is a quantum event, a world splits off with everything in it the same, except in that other world the quantum event didn't happen. Step-by-step in Carroll's uniquely lucid way, he tackles the major objections to this otherworldly revelation until his case is inescapably established. Rarely does a book so fully reorganize how we think about our place in the universe. We are on the threshold of a new understanding—of where we are in the cosmos, and what we are made of.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1524743038
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER As you read these words, copies of you are being created. Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist and one of this world’s most celebrated writers on science, rewrites the history of twentieth-century physics. Already hailed as a masterpiece, Something Deeply Hidden shows for the first time that facing up to the essential puzzle of quantum mechanics utterly transforms how we think about space and time. His reconciling of quantum mechanics with Einstein’s theory of relativity changes, well, everything. Most physicists haven’t even recognized the uncomfortable truth: Physics has been in crisis since 1927. Quantum mechanics has always had obvious gaps—which have come to be simply ignored. Science popularizers keep telling us how weird it is, how impossible it is to understand. Academics discourage students from working on the "dead end" of quantum foundations. Putting his professional reputation on the line with this audacious yet entirely reasonable book, Carroll says that the crisis can now come to an end. We just have to accept that there is more than one of us in the universe. There are many, many Sean Carrolls. Many of every one of us. Copies of you are generated thousands of times per second. The Many-Worlds theory of quantum behavior says that every time there is a quantum event, a world splits off with everything in it the same, except in that other world the quantum event didn't happen. Step-by-step in Carroll's uniquely lucid way, he tackles the major objections to this otherworldly revelation until his case is inescapably established. Rarely does a book so fully reorganize how we think about our place in the universe. We are on the threshold of a new understanding—of where we are in the cosmos, and what we are made of.
Visitor
Author: C. J. Cherryh
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0756409101
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Working with the aiji-dowager a year after returning from an interstellar mission to discover that their government had been overthrown, Bren Cameron finds his efforts to reinstate peace throughout the atevi world challenged by an unexpected new threat.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0756409101
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Working with the aiji-dowager a year after returning from an interstellar mission to discover that their government had been overthrown, Bren Cameron finds his efforts to reinstate peace throughout the atevi world challenged by an unexpected new threat.
Elementary Physical Education
Author: Inez Rovegno
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
ISBN: 144960403X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 894
Book Description
Elementary Physical Education is designed to help students plan lesson objectives for motor, cognitive, affective and social domains that are linked appropriately. Throughout the text, the authors illustrate various ways to teach motivational thinking, social skills and concepts. Tasks are labeled and symbols appear in the margins of lesson plans so readers can find examples of how to teach these skills and concepts to children. Each chapter includes sample lesson plans designed to be teaching tools which will help transform the ideas discussed in the textbook. The content is presented in complete lesson plans, lesson segments, lesson and unit outlines of tasks, or descriptions of content for lessons. The lesson plans are linked to the NASPE standards and can be downloaded from the book's companion website to enable students to design lessons to meet the needs of their situations and the lesson format requirements of their programs.Overall, this is a very research oriented text. Dr. Rovegno has translated the current research on learning, motivation, perceptions of competence, constructivism, higher-order thinking skills, social responsibility and multicultural diversity into easy to understand concepts and instructional techniques. The book will reinforce and extend student's understanding of topics tested in state and national certification exams and required by state and national certification agencies, and illustrate how to integrate these concepts and instructional techniques into lesson plans.
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
ISBN: 144960403X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 894
Book Description
Elementary Physical Education is designed to help students plan lesson objectives for motor, cognitive, affective and social domains that are linked appropriately. Throughout the text, the authors illustrate various ways to teach motivational thinking, social skills and concepts. Tasks are labeled and symbols appear in the margins of lesson plans so readers can find examples of how to teach these skills and concepts to children. Each chapter includes sample lesson plans designed to be teaching tools which will help transform the ideas discussed in the textbook. The content is presented in complete lesson plans, lesson segments, lesson and unit outlines of tasks, or descriptions of content for lessons. The lesson plans are linked to the NASPE standards and can be downloaded from the book's companion website to enable students to design lessons to meet the needs of their situations and the lesson format requirements of their programs.Overall, this is a very research oriented text. Dr. Rovegno has translated the current research on learning, motivation, perceptions of competence, constructivism, higher-order thinking skills, social responsibility and multicultural diversity into easy to understand concepts and instructional techniques. The book will reinforce and extend student's understanding of topics tested in state and national certification exams and required by state and national certification agencies, and illustrate how to integrate these concepts and instructional techniques into lesson plans.
Enemy Games
Author: Marcella Burnard
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Inc
ISBN: 1509228063
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Different species from different worlds make reluctant allies... While combating a plague, scientist Jayleia Durante becomes a pawn in a greater game. With her father missing and intergalactic mercenaries on her trail, her decision to cooperate with Major Damen Sindrivik may prove advantageous...if she can control her attraction to the officer who abducted her. Some secrets aren't worth keeping... Damen, a spy from a rival government, will use anything, including his predatory instincts, to achieve his mission...locating Jayleia's father. She reacts to Damen's charm and seductive power, so why does he question her motivation? Conflicted loyalties and enemies abound... Traitors and the alien enemies threaten to destroy the galaxy. Jayleia must choose. Betray her father, risk her friends, and lose Damen, or prevent an Interstellar war?
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Inc
ISBN: 1509228063
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Different species from different worlds make reluctant allies... While combating a plague, scientist Jayleia Durante becomes a pawn in a greater game. With her father missing and intergalactic mercenaries on her trail, her decision to cooperate with Major Damen Sindrivik may prove advantageous...if she can control her attraction to the officer who abducted her. Some secrets aren't worth keeping... Damen, a spy from a rival government, will use anything, including his predatory instincts, to achieve his mission...locating Jayleia's father. She reacts to Damen's charm and seductive power, so why does he question her motivation? Conflicted loyalties and enemies abound... Traitors and the alien enemies threaten to destroy the galaxy. Jayleia must choose. Betray her father, risk her friends, and lose Damen, or prevent an Interstellar war?
The Pentecostal Hypothesis
Author: Nimi Wariboko
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725254530
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
The Pentecostal Hypothesis is the capacity to resist conventional wisdom in social actions. On a daily basis Pentecostals deploy or enact this capacity through the use of the formula: "It does not make sense, but it makes spirit" in their decision-making processes. This is an alternate way of knowing that is keyed to a particular interpretative understanding of Jesus Christ as constitutive of and normative for the good decisions relevant to human flourishing. The book offers a critical-philosophical analysis of the social-ethical implications of this hypothesis intended for private decisions and social actions. This text is ultimately a critique of Pentecostal reason. In this book Wariboko explores the epistemological dimensions of everyday Pentecostal Christology, their interpretation of Jesus's character and nature as epistemology. For Pentecostals Jesus did not have an epistemology, but the story of his life as a whole is an epistemology. For them the validity of a truth claim is always (in)formed by the story of Jesus that claims them, the story that gives them the meaning and courage to affirm their decisions without fear of being contradicted by Enlightenment rationalism. What kind of normative sway does this orientation to modernity have over Pentecostals' pattern of thought? This book configures the response to this question with profound insights into the convergence of epistemology and Christology within the impelling matrix of a provocative social ethics. The epistemological in this book is not about the that of knowing, but the how (the performative dimension) of knowing, which is affective, emotive, and an embodied practice. The Pentecostal Hypothesis is the capacity to resist conventional wisdom in social actions.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725254530
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
The Pentecostal Hypothesis is the capacity to resist conventional wisdom in social actions. On a daily basis Pentecostals deploy or enact this capacity through the use of the formula: "It does not make sense, but it makes spirit" in their decision-making processes. This is an alternate way of knowing that is keyed to a particular interpretative understanding of Jesus Christ as constitutive of and normative for the good decisions relevant to human flourishing. The book offers a critical-philosophical analysis of the social-ethical implications of this hypothesis intended for private decisions and social actions. This text is ultimately a critique of Pentecostal reason. In this book Wariboko explores the epistemological dimensions of everyday Pentecostal Christology, their interpretation of Jesus's character and nature as epistemology. For Pentecostals Jesus did not have an epistemology, but the story of his life as a whole is an epistemology. For them the validity of a truth claim is always (in)formed by the story of Jesus that claims them, the story that gives them the meaning and courage to affirm their decisions without fear of being contradicted by Enlightenment rationalism. What kind of normative sway does this orientation to modernity have over Pentecostals' pattern of thought? This book configures the response to this question with profound insights into the convergence of epistemology and Christology within the impelling matrix of a provocative social ethics. The epistemological in this book is not about the that of knowing, but the how (the performative dimension) of knowing, which is affective, emotive, and an embodied practice. The Pentecostal Hypothesis is the capacity to resist conventional wisdom in social actions.