The wall

A woman takes a holiday in the Austrian mountains, spending a few days with her cousin and his wife in their hunting lodge. When the couple fails to return from a walk, the woman sets off to look for them. But her journey reaches a sinister and inexplicable dead end. She discovers only a transparent wall behind which there seems to be no life. Trapped alone behind the mysterious wall she begins…

Grit: kekuatan passion dan kegigihan (Edisi Revisi)

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ISBN/ISSN

9786020620930

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158.1 DUC g

Atomic habits: an easy & proven way to build good habits & break bad ones

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9781847941831

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306 p. ; ill. ; 23 cm

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158 CLE a

The Catcher in The Rye

Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins, "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll p…

I wish my teacher knew: how one question can change everything for our kids

One day, third-grade teacher Kyle Schwartz asked her students to fill-in-the-blank in this "I wish my teacher knew _____." The results astounded her. Some answers were humorous, others were heartbreaking-all were profoundly moving and enlightening. The results opened her eyes to the need for educators to understand the unique realities their students face in order to create an open, safe and s…

Don quixote

Don Quixote has become so entranced reading tales of chivalry that he decides to turn knight errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, these exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While Quixote's fancy often leads him astray--he tilts at windmills, imagining them to be giants--Sancho acquires cunning and a certain sagacity. Sane madman and wise fool, they ro…

Erasing history: how fascists rewrite the past to control the future

Combining historical research with an in-depth analysis of our modern political landscape, Erasing History issues a dire warning for America and the the worst fascist movements of humanity's past began in schools; the same place so many of today's right-wing political parties have trained their most vicious attacks. Donald Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson, Ron DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy, Vladimir Put…

The Math of life and death: 7 mathematical principles that shape our lives

In The Math of Life and Death , Yates takes us on a “dizzying, dazzling” ( Nature ) tour of everyday situations and grand-scale applications of mathematical concepts, including exponential growth and decay, optimization, statistics and probability, and number systems. Along the way he reveals the mathematical undersides of controversies over DNA testing, Ponzi schemes, viral marketing, and …

The Fall

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9780679720225

Collation

147p; bw; pbk

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823.802 CAM f

Humble pi: when math goes wrong in the real world

Our whole world is built on math, from the code running a website to the equations enabling the design of skyscrapers and bridges. Most of the time this math works quietly behind the scenes . . . until it doesn’t. All sorts of seemingly innocuous mathematical mistakes can have significant consequences. Math is easy to ignore until a misplaced decimal point upends the stock market, a unit c…