This book has been written for the IB Diploma Programme course Mathematics: Applications and Interpretation HL, for first assessment in May 2021. This book is designed to complete the course in conjunction with the Mathematics: Core Topics HL textbook. It is expected that students will start using this book approximately 6-7 months into the two-year course, upon the completion of the Core To…
Film critic, producer, and presenter Mark Cousins' history shows how filmmakers are influenced both by the historical events of their times, and by each other. He demonstrates, for example, how Douglas Sirk's 1950s Hollywood melodramas influenced Rainer Werner Fassbinder's despairing visions of 1970s Germany and how George Lucas' Star Wars epics grew out of Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress.…
In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be positive all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people For decades, weve been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. Fuck positivity, Mark Manson says. Lets be honest, shit is fucked and we have to live with it. In…
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The bestselling, award-winning team of Yolen and Teague are back with another playful dinosaur tale--this time about a sick dinosaur child who catches the flu and must go to the doctor. What if a dinosaur catches the flu?Does he whimper and whine between each "At-choo"?Does he drop dirty tissues all over the floor?Does he fling his medicine out of the door? Just like kids, little dinosaurs hat…