Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Non-Fiction | 7 August 2008
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This beginner’s guide to Shakespeare reminds us that the main reason people still watch and read Shakespeare’s plays is because they identify with the characters and situations depicted in them.
Drawing on all of Shakespeare’s plays, Laurie Maguire shows how they illustrate some of life’s most familiar stories – love and obsession, parents and children, sex and politics, suffering and revenge.
The book groups the stories into five broad categories, moving from those concerned with personal identity to those dealing with romance and marriage, family life, politics, and public life. This thematic arrangement makes the plays accessible to the widest possible audience, and helps readers grasp the connection between the issues addressed by the plays and those of our own time.
With the same user-friendly, quirky, and perceptive approach that made Innumeracy
a bestseller, John Allen Paulos travels though the pages of the daily
newspaper showing how math and numbers are a key element in many of the
articles we read every day. From the Senate, SATs, and sex, to crime,
celebrities, and cults, he takes stories that may not seem to involve
mathematics at all and demonstrates how a lack of mathematical
knowledge can hinder our understanding of them.
This fascinating book assembles human stories about physicists and
mathematicians. Remarkably, these stories cluster around some general
themes having to do with the interaction between scientists, and with
the impact of historic events such as the advent of fascism and
communism in the twentieth century on scientists behavior. Briefly, but
lucidly, some of the beautiful science that brought these scientists
together in the first place is explained.
Ñáîðíèê òùàòåëüíî îòîáðàííûõ è ïðîôåññèîíàëüíî ïðîèëëþñòðèðîâàííûõ çàíèìàòåëüíûõ òåêñòîâ äëÿ ÷òåíèÿ, àäàïòèðîâàííûõ èç ãàçåò è æóðíàëîâ. 14 èñòîðèé, íàïèñàííûõ íà î÷åíü ë¸ãêîì è ïîíÿòíîì àíãëèéñêîì, êîòîðûå íå îñòàâÿò âàñ ðàâíîäóøíûìè!
A woman gets a phone call, but it is the wrong number. How does this call save her life?
A man parks near a “No Parking” sign and gets a ticket. Every day he goes back to the “No Parking” sign and parks there, and every day he gets a ticket. Why does he keep going back?
A woman is driving on a highway at 100 mph, and she cannot slow down. What does she do?
All New Very Easy True Stories, by Sandra Heyer, continues the True Stories tradition with a companion book to Very Easy True Stories. Written at the same reading level, the text features all new stories and exercises.
