Това е историята на Роузи Ревер, която мечтае да стане инженер. Там, където някои хора виждат само боклук, Роузи Ревер открива вдъхновение. Нощем, когато е сама в стаята си, стеснителната Роузи конструира велики изобретения от парченца и остатъци. Машини за хотдог, панталони с хелий, шапки от сирене, с които да отблъсквате питони. Хрумките на Роузи биха смаяли всеки - стига тя някога да реши да ги покаже. Заради своя страх от провал тя ги крие под леглото си. И така - до съдбоносното гостуване на прапралеля ѝ Роуз. Тя ѝ разкрива, че първата несполука не е повод за страх, а повод за празнуване. Тандемът ... |
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Сериозни научни отговори на абсурдни хипотетични въпроси. ... Рандал Мънро е автор на книгата "Какво би станало, ако...?" - бестселър номер едно на "Ню Йорк Таймс", както и на научния блог "What If" и популярния уебкомикс "xkcd". Бивш специалист по роботика в НАСА, той напуска агенцията през 2006 г., за да се отдаде изцяло на рисуването на комикси в интернет, издържайки се с продажбите на тениски, печатни материали, плакати и книги, свързани с "xkcd". Рандал обича вечерите на свещи и дългите разходки по плажа. Живее в Масачусетс. От създателя на невероятно популярния ... |
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Изследване на творението с химия и физика е седмата книга поредицата Млад изследовател . Тази учебна програма по естествени науки за деца в начална училищна възраст използва методологията на Шарлот Мейсън, за да въведе малките ученици във вълнуващия свят на химията и физиката. Книгата започва с изучаване свойствата на материята и основните градивни частици на живота - атомите и молекулите. След заниманията по химия тя запознава учениците с концепции на физиката като законите на движението и на термодинамиката. Включено е и подробно разглеждане на енергията в множеството ѝ форми. След това учениците продължават с ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Richard, Duke of Gloucester - the bitter, deformed brother of the King - is secretly plotting to seize the throne of England. Charming and duplicitous, powerfully eloquent and viciously cruel, he is prepared to go to any lengths to achieve his goal. In his skilful manipulation of events and people, Richard is a chilling incarnation of the lure of evil and the temptation of power. This "Macmillan Collector's Library" edition is illustrated throughout by renowned artist Sir John Gilbert (1817 - 1897), and includes an introduction by Ned Halley. ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Gorgeous, strange and magical, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is perhaps the best loved of William Shakespeare 's plays. A young woman flees Athens with her lover, only to be pursued by her would-be husband and her best friend. Unwittingly, all four find themselves in an enchanted forest where fairies and sprites soon take an interest in human affairs, dispensing love potions and casting mischievous spells. In this dazzling comedy, confusion ends in harmony, as love is transformed, misplaced, and - ultimately - restored. This Macmillan ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... In "Julius Caesar", William Shakespeare uses the most notorious murder in classical history to tell a tragic tale of friendship, ambition and betrayal. As the greatest figures of the Roman Republic are swept along on the tide of a terrifying conspiracy, a touchingly human story is revealed in some of the most beautiful poetry ever written. This Macmillan Collector's library edition is illustrated throughout by renowned artist Sir John Gilbert (1817 - 1897), and features an introduction by Ned Halley. Designed to appeal to the booklover, ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... "Tales of the Jazz Age" features eleven of F. Scott Fitzgerald's best-loved short stories and "novelettes" including "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz". Set in the Jazz Age, Fitzgerald's own term for the Roaring Twenties of newly confident, post-war America, this collection shows a comic genius at work, fashioning every genre from low farce to shrewd social insight, along with fantasy of extraordinary invention. These stories illuminate the unique talent who went on to ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... "Othello" is an intense drama of love, deception, jealousy and destruction. Desdemona's love for her husband Othello, the Moor, transcends racial prejudice; but his trusted ensign, the envious Iago, conspires to devastate their lives. In its vivid rendering of the savagery lurking within civilization, Othello is arguably the most topical and accessible tragedy from Shakespeare's major phase as a dramatist. The play raises uncomfortable and pertinent questions about both racial identity and sexuality, as Othello and Desdemona's ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Reading the stories of Somerset Maugham is rather like curling up and up listening to the delicious, risqué tales of an old, dear and rather wicked friend. You turn the pages and enter a magical world of fabulous characters, are transported to the very place, the villa, the street, the bar, of which he writes. This Macmillan Collector's Library selection features ten of his finest and most vivid stories: "The Letter", "The Verger", "The Vessel of Wrath", "The Book-Bag", "The Facts of Life", " ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... In "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", one of the best-known and best-loved poems in the English language, a grizzled old sailor stops a man on his way to a wedding and tells a terrifying story. He speaks of how he doomed the crew of his ship by shooting dead an albatross, awakened the wrath of ocean spirits, met Death himself, and must now walk the earth for ever and share his tragic tale of sin, guilt and - ultimately - redemption. This Macmillan Collector's Library edition of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s longest major poem features ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... When the chance discovery of an ancient cryptogram reveals a path to the Underworld, the adventurous Professor Otto Lidenbrock sets off to Iceland, determined to reach the centre of the earth. But nothing can prepare him and his nephew Axel for what they will find beneath the ground; measureless caverns and vast subterranean seas reveal all of the earth's known history and more, while dinosaurs do battle, giant men herd mastodons, and danger and excitement wait around every corner. Richly illustrated by Édouard Riou, the French painter and ... |
