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German boys, enthusiastic members of "Hitler's Youth," move finally into shattering combat. Grades 7-9.
Unlock the more straightforward side of Friedrich with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of Friedrich by Hans Peter Richter, the heart-breaking story of two young boys growing up in Nazi Germany who, despite their similar upbringing and close friendship, are torn apart by anti-Semitism and the horrors of World War II. The novel won the prestigious American Batchelder Award in 1972, a prize for the most outstanding foreign language children’s literature. Having been translated into 13 different languages, it is the most famous work by Richter, who has written many notable books on sociology and psychology and drew on his own experie...
New ways to teach reading, writing and the love of literature.
A young German boy recounts the fate of his best friend, a Jew, during the Nazi regime.
Now approaching its tenth year, this hugely successful book presents an unusual attempt to publicise the field of Complex Dynamics. The text was originally conceived as a supplemented catalogue to the exhibition "Frontiers of Chaos", seen in Europe and the United States, and describes the context and meaning of these fascinating images. A total of 184 illustrations - including 88 full-colour pictures of Julia sets - are suggestive of a coffee-table book. However, the invited contributions which round off the book lend the text the required formality. Benoit Mandelbrot gives a very personal account, in his idiosyncratic self-centred style, of his discovery of the fractals named after him and Adrien Douady explains the solved and unsolved problems relating to this amusingly complex set.
The fate of an alien civilization could hold the key to a new future for our race.
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A series of natural disasters conceal what might be terrorist attacks. Enter Edward Talbot, the latest member of a generation of an anonymous and singular family line of what might be deemed "Messiahs-in-waiting" or "God's warriors". On loan from the secret government organisation who resource his family line (and study them with perhaps an eye to control them), Edward helps investigate the reasons behind the disasters. He soon discovers strange truths that threaten to fully negate the prospect of him ever being Messiah. Amongst the mysteries he encounters is what appears to be an alien incursion, a sub-culture of militant vampires and an insidious government experiment involving neurologica...