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The quickest explanation of math, in 200 essential numbers. Why 60 seconds in a minute? Who invented zero? What exactly is pi? Why do mathematicians hunt prime numbers? And how can you get a number bigger than infinity? To find out, take a tour through 200 important, fascinating and unusual numbers - the easy and entertaining way to grasp mathematics. Numbers in Minutes demystifies the math surrounding the key numbers including: zero, 1-40, negatives, percentages, prime numbers, fractions, decimals, pi, exponentials, imaginary numbers, squares and cubes, roots and powers, Fibonacci numbers, the golden ratio, millions and trillions, a googol, 'perfect,' 'kissing,' 'vampire' and 'weird' numbers, infinity, infinity+1 and other sizes of infinity... Every number is explained in a few short paragraphs with a helpful picture, making the maths simple to understand and remember.
Thoughts I've been carrying around for 45 years have finally come out in a constructive fashion.
Julia Hamilton and her family are forced to move from New York City to the small town of Fish Creek in Door County, Wisconsin after losing everything in the stock market crash of October 1929. More than culture shock, Julia is caught between her mother-in-law, Mavis Hamilton, and her aunt Emily Collins, sisters who have been estranged for nearly 30 years. Everyone expects this arrangement to be necessary for a short time, less than six months. But as time passes, Julia begins to wish they would stay in Fish Creek. She has made friends and discovered a lifestyle she prefers. But Mavis is goading Julia’s husband Kevin to earn enough money so they can return to New York. And Kevin is weak enough to be tempted into doing things he would never have considered in his former life. Meanwhile, Julia’s new close friend Maggie O’Brien has a lover, Jesse Hughes, who develops a more-than-casual interest in Julia. Set in a small town community where gossip, appearances and morals fall under close scrutiny, Julia is forced to make hard choices that will forever change her expectations of what life has to offer her.
A missing mummy. A drug cartel. An ex-US Army Ranger. And a woman who's at odds with the world. It's Relentless... There's no hiding the fact that Julia Collins has issues. She's shy to the point of trying to become invisible. She has OCD tendencies--breaking out in hives if she loses control of her environment. She finds it hard to talk to intimidating men, or more accurately, to any men. A fact that makes working as the office manager for Benson Security particularly difficult--the company is made up almost entirely of huge, intimidating,ex-military men. But none of the men affect her the way Joe Barone does. The ex-marine is charming, confident, heroic and so sexy it hurts to look at him....
This edition of Gateway to the West has been excerpted from the original numbers, consolidated, and reprinted in two volumes, with added Publisher's Note, Tables of Contents, and indexes, by Genealogical Publishing Co., SInc., Baltimore, MD.
Includes the seminal "Early History of Negro Minstrelsy," by Col. T. Allston Brown, together with pen-and-ink portraits of the major minstrels, and a comprehensive index.
"Uncover the back story of the Christiana Resistance and the Civil War. The story is told from the perspective of Henry Green, who stepped out of his door and into history on September 11, 1851."--Cover, p. 4.