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Undoubtedly the most famous scientist on the planet and the very face of physics over the last half-century, Stephen Hawking is remarkable for many reasons, not least because he has continued to strive to achieve so much while being hamstrung by debilitating illness. He has demonstrated categorically that if you put your
mind to it, you can achieve anything, no matter your physical state. Of course, it helps if you happen to possess a mind such as his.
His work on black holes put him on the map, and he became globally famous for his "A Brief History of Time," communicating the most difficult scientific ideas at a period when he'd lost the ability to speak. How To Think Like Stephen Hawking reveals the key motivations, desires, and philosophies that make Hawking one of
the world s most enduring talents.
Studying how he overcame great adversity, fought his demons as well as his detractors, and looked back to the origins of the universe, and with quotes and passages by and about him, you too can learn to think like the man who claims he can think in 11 dimensions.
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Hunter Island (Paperback)
Danielle Smith-Llera; Illustrated by David Sanangelo
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R148
R127
Discovery Miles 1 270
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In this Third Edition of STATE AND LOCAL POLITICS: INSTITUTIONS AND
REFORM, Donovan, Mooney, and Smith go beyond the purely descriptive
treatment usually found in state and local texts. Offering an
engaging comparative approach, the Third Edition shows students how
politics and government differ between states and communities, and
points out the causes and effects of those variations. The text
also focuses on what social scientists know about the effects of
rules and institutions on politics and policy. This comparative,
institutional framework enables students to think more analytically
about the impact of institutions on policy outcomes, asks them to
evaluate the effectiveness of one institutional approach over
another, and encourages them to consider more sophisticated
solutions. Written by three young, high-profile specialists who
have contributed significantly to the field in the last decade,
STATE AND LOCAL POLITICS: INSTITUTIONS AND REFORM incorporates the
most recent scholarship available into the course, giving students
access to perspectives that no other textbook on the market
currently provides.
Scientists have recently made startling discoveries about plastic
pollution and our food supply. Could we really be eating
microscopic pieces of plastic every day? What does this mean for
our health? And what can we do about it? In this book, readers will
get practical tips on how they can get involved to solve the
problem and become part of the solution.
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Hunter Island (Hardcover)
Danielle Smith-Llera; Illustrated by David Sanangelo
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R515
R415
Discovery Miles 4 150
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Weighing as much as a small car, a rover named Curiosity rolls
quietly around Mars. Scientific instruments pack its body and
cluster at the end of a mechanical arm. An arrangement of lenses
and instruments tops its mast, like a face. To the many NASA
workers involved in Curiosity's mission on Mars, the rover is not
simply a robot, but an astronaut bravely exploring an alien place.
Curiosity's instruments collect data and its cameras take images of
the Mars landscape, including self-portraits, in vivid color and
detail. As it roams and explores, Curiosity will help find the
answers to such age-old questions as has there ever been life on
Mars? Could there be one day?
To the untrained eye, Photo 51 was simply a grainy black and white
image of dark marks scattered in a rough cross shape. But to the
eye of a trained scientist, it was a clear portrait of a DNA fiber
taken with X-rays. And to young scientists James Watson and Francis
Crick, it confirmed their guess of deoxyribonucleic acid's
structure. In 1953 the pair was racing toward solving the mystery
of DNA's structure before other scientists could beat them to it.
They and others believed that finding the simple structure of the
DNA molecule would answer a great mystery, how do organisms live,
grow, develop, and survive, generation after generation? Photo 51
and subsequent models based on the photo would prove to be the key
to unlocking the secret of life.
Deeply religious, the ancient Greeks honored many gods and
goddesses. The ancient Greeks believed these gods and goddesses had
great power over the weather and the Earth. But they weren't
all-powerful, and they had flaws. From Zeus to Athena, read about
the family of gods and goddesses that the ancient Greeks believed
watched over them.
Looking at defining moments in Winston Churchill's life and
revealing his key principles, philosophies and decisions, this book
will teach you how to think just like Churchill. Remembered for his
leadership during the Second World War, Churchill's commitment to
'never surrender', as well as his stirring speeches and radio
broadcasts, helped inspire British resistance to the Nazi threat
when Britain stood alone against an occupied Europe. As well as a
hugely successful politician, Churchill was an officer in the
British Army, a journalist, historian and a writer, winning the
Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953. As one of the few voices
warning about Nazi Germany in the 1930s, he returned to government
to play his part in defeating Nazism, becoming one of the defining
figures of the twentieth century. Studying how and why he
accomplished what he did, how he overcame personal and professional
adversity and stood strong in the face of overwhelming odds, with
quotes and passages by and about the great man, you too can learn
to think like Churchill. Other books in the series include: How to
Think Like Stephen Hawking, How to Think Like Sherlock and How to
Think Like Steve Jobs
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White of the Eye (Blu-ray disc)
David Keith, Cathy Moriarty, Alan Rosenberg, Michael Green, Fred Allison, …
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After a series of killings in which everyday housewives are
brutally mutilated, sound expert Paul White (David Keith) comes
under suspicion by the police. In an attempt to prove his
innocence, Paul sets out to track down the real killer, but soon
even Paul's own wife, Joan (Cathy Moriarty), begins to have her
doubts.
For years, Daniel Smith suffered from bouts of acute anxiety,
extended episodes without any apparent cause that seized control of
his body and mind, leaving him an emotional wreck. Sleep was
impossible and headaches and nausea haunted his days. Anxiety
threatened his sanity and jeopardized his relationships. He had a
prestigious job, a comfortable apartment, and caring friends-but,
according to his therapists, nothing seemed to be wrong. Now in
paperback, Monkey Mindis the story of how one man finally learned
to live with-and laugh at-his own anxiety issues. Smith shares his
own hilarious and heart-wrenching story from his first severe
episode at age sixteen to his discovery of the author Philip Roth,
who made anxiety seem noble, to his first job, which nearly drove
him to distraction, to his struggle to give up the endless cycle of
hand-wringing angst in order to keep the love of his life. Through
medication, endless psychoanalysis, self-imposed isolation, and
meditation, Smith finally makes peace with his restless mind and
becomes the husband and father he longs to be. Whether you suffer
from clinical anxiety or an overdose of modern life in our "Age of
Anxiety," Monkey Mind's combination of wit, candour, and serious
advice will help you live in the moment instead of inside your own
head.
Consulting detective Sherlock Holmes has been fascinating generations of readers, watchers and listeners for over 130 years, since he first appeared in print in 1887. Now an internationally renowned cultural icon, his name appears on books, films, television dramas, radio plays, stage adaptations and the rest right across the world and he is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as 'the most portrayed movie character' in history.
With all this material readily available, one might think there's not much to find out about Sherlock, but in Sherlock Unlocked, Daniel Smith looks behind what we think we know about the well-known sleuth and reveals little-known facts of which every Sherlock aficionado should be aware. From the eccentric and odd characters to the bizarre plot twists, and from Conan Doyle to Moriarty, this book will appeal to Holmes' fans old and new.
Full of fascinating facts, such as:
- The shameful addiction of Watson's that Holmes kept secret - a dark gambling habit.
- The part the legendary Langham Hotel played, in both Conan Doyle's literary friendships - including with Oscar Wilde - and in the storylines he created for Holmes and Watson.
- The Real Moriarty? The true-life London underworld thief-taker, Jonathan Wild, was a model for Professor Moriarty
- Holmes's retirement passion was bee-keeping.
- One of Conan Doyle's childhood teachers, Eugene Chantrelle, became a notorious murderer.
The real-life mystery featuring the two men - Joseph Bell and Henry
Littlejohn - who inspired the creation of Sherlock Holmes. December
1893. Arthur Conan Doyle shocks his legions of fans by killing off
the world's favourite fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes.
Meanwhile, in Scotland, a sensational real-life murder trial is
playing out. Alfred Monson, a scion of the aristocracy, is charged
with killing a young army lieutenant, Cecil Hambrough, on the
sprawling Ardlamont estate. The worlds of crime fiction and crime
fact are about to collide spectacularly. Among the key prosecution
witnesses that the Ardlamont case brought together were two
esteemed Edinburgh doctors, Joseph Bell and Henry Littlejohn. Bell
- Doyle's tutor when the author studied medicine in the 1870s - had
recently been unmasked as the inspiration behind the creation of
Sherlock Holmes (Doyle said of Bell, `It is most certainly to you
that I owe Sherlock Holmes...'). But what the public did not know
was that Bell and Littlejohn - a pioneer in the emerging field of
forensic detection - had actually been investigating crimes
together for more than twenty years. Largely unacknowledged,
Littlejohn deserves equal billing as the prototype of Baker
Street's most famous resident. In The Ardlamont Mystery, author
Daniel Smith re-examines the evidence of the case that gripped
Victorian Britain, putting forward his own theory as to why Cecil
Hambrough was murdered. Outlining the key roles of the men whose
powers of deduction and detection had so inspired Doyle, Smith
explores the real-world origins of Sherlock Holmes through the
prism of a mystery as engrossing as any case the Great Detective
ever tackled. Will Bell and Littlejohn's shared faith in science
and reason be enough to see justice win out?
Be inspired by Barack Obama and learn how to think big with this
unique insight into the mind of one of the world's great
influencers. Born to a black Kenyan father and white American
mother, raised in Hawaii and, for a time, Indonesia, Barack Obama
would typically never have been tipped for a future president of
the United States, such was the world he was born into. But the
path towards greatness and the choices he made along the way can be
understood by an attitude that saw him take on any challenge -
indeed, `Yes We Can' became the all-inclusive slogan for his
presidential candidacy. Riding a wave of positivity and hope for
the future that swept him all the way to the Oval Office, Obama
aimed to define his presidency as one that would provide
opportunities for the many, not the few. With the price of change
being gritty negotiation and compromise, Obama evolved the skills
of a twenty-first century president which belied his relative
inexperience to achieve the America that, as a young man, he had
dreamed of. How to Think Like Obama reveals the motivations,
inspirations and philosophies behind a man who broke the mould to
challenge the status quo. With his thoughts on leadership,
innovation, overcoming obstacles and fighting inequality, and with
quotes by and about him, with this book you too can learn to think
like Barack Obama.
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