Blockhead
Title | Blockhead PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph D'Agnese |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 52 |
Release | 2010-03-30 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0805063056 |
A biography of Leonardo Fibonacci, the 12th century mathematician who discovered the numerical sequence named for him.
Signing Their Rights Away
Title | Signing Their Rights Away PDF eBook |
Author | Denise Kiernan |
Publisher | Quirk Books |
Pages | 263 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 159474520X |
Book jacket unfolds to reveal a full-color reproduction of the U.S. Constitution.
Signing Their Lives Away
Title | Signing Their Lives Away PDF eBook |
Author | Denise Kiernan |
Publisher | Quirk Books |
Pages | 263 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1594743304 |
Presents the lives, deaths, and scandals involving the fifty-six signers of the Declaration of Independence, including John Adams, John Hancock, and Thomas Jefferson.
The Newman's Own Organics Guide to a Good Life
Title | The Newman's Own Organics Guide to a Good Life PDF eBook |
Author | Nell Newman |
Publisher | Villard |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2003-03-11 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1588362698 |
It’s fairly obvious that one can’t be a ‘perfect’ environmentalist. But that’s okay. Perfection isn’t the goal. A good life is. And a good life has as much to do with your intent as with the end result.” —from the Introduction The Newman’s Own Organics Guide to a Good Life is the essential book for those of us who can’t live in an organic hemp tepee but do care about our quality of life, global warming, clean water, and disappearing resources. Nell Newman shows you how to do what is within easy reach. Along with realistic, practical advice, she shows how and why living a more environmentally conscious life benefits you and your immediate surroundings. In addition to recycling and reusing, the book covers consumer-related steps such as • how buying and eating organic food supports small farms (and tastes better, too) • how you can buy clean power through your regular power company • which long-distance telephone companies offer competitive pricing and service while returning a portion of their profits to environmental and educational organizations • where to buy everything—from pots and pans to pet food—so that you can “vote with your dollar” and feel good about your purchases Packed with profiles of fascinating—and sometimes zany—people and a heavy dose of sanity, this book is organized according to the way you really live, making it easy to identify what areas of change are viable for you. A resource directory of publications, retailers, groups, and associations is included in the back of the book.
Growing Patterns
Title | Growing Patterns PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah C. Campbell |
Publisher | Astra Publishing House |
Pages | 35 |
Release | 2022-07-26 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1635928370 |
ALSC Notable Children's Book A wonderful introduction to one of the most beautiful connections between mathematics and the natural world–the Fibonacci sequence–through a series of stunning nature photographs. Discover the biggest mathematical mystery in nature—Fibonacci numbers! Named after a famous mathematician, the number pattern is simple and starts with: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13. Each number in the sequence comes from adding the two numbers before it. What's the mystery? The pattern crops up in the most unexpected places. You'll find it in the disk of a sunflower, the skin of a pineapple, and the spiral of a nautilus shell. This book brings math alive, celebrates science, and will inspire kids to see nature through new eyes.
Hollywood Highbrow
Title | Hollywood Highbrow PDF eBook |
Author | Shyon Baumann |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 2018-06-05 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0691187282 |
Today's moviegoers and critics generally consider some Hollywood products--even some blockbusters--to be legitimate works of art. But during the first half century of motion pictures very few Americans would have thought to call an American movie "art." Up through the 1950s, American movies were regarded as a form of popular, even lower-class, entertainment. By the 1960s and 1970s, however, viewers were regularly judging Hollywood films by artistic criteria previously applied only to high art forms. In Hollywood Highbrow, Shyon Baumann for the first time tells how social and cultural forces radically changed the public's perceptions of American movies just as those forces were radically changing the movies themselves. The development in the United States of an appreciation of film as an art was, Baumann shows, the product of large changes in Hollywood and American society as a whole. With the postwar rise of television, American movie audiences shrank dramatically and Hollywood responded by appealing to richer and more educated viewers. Around the same time, European ideas about the director as artist, an easing of censorship, and the development of art-house cinemas, film festivals, and the academic field of film studies encouraged the idea that some American movies--and not just European ones--deserved to be considered art.
The Underground Culinary Tour
Title | The Underground Culinary Tour PDF eBook |
Author | Damian Mogavero |
Publisher | Currency |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 2017-01-24 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1101903309 |
The Underground Culinary Tour is a high-octane, behind-the-scenes narrative about how the restaurant industry, historically run by gut and intuition, is being transformed by the use of data. Sixteen years ago, entrepreneur Damian Mogavero brought together an unlikely mix of experts—chefs and code writers—to create a pioneering software company whose goal was to empower restaurateurs, through the use of data, to elevate and enhance the guest experience. Today, his data gathering programs are used by such renown chefs as Danny Meyer, Tom Colicchio, Daniel Boulud, Guy Fieri, Giada De Laurentiis, Gordon Ramsay, and countless others. Mogavero describes such restaurateurs as the New Guard, and their approach to their art and craft is radically different from that of their predecessors. By embracing data and adapting to the new trends of today’s demanding consumers, these innovative chefs and owners do everything more nimbly and efficiently—from the recipes they create to the wines and craft beers they stock, from the presentations they choreograph to the customized training they give their servers, making restaurants more popular and profitable than ever before. Finally, Damian takes readers behind the scenes of his annual, invitation-only culinary tour for top chefs and industry CEOs, showing us how today’s elite restaurants embrace new trends to create unforgettable meals and transform how we eat. From the glittering nightclubs of Las Vegas to a packed seasonal restaurant on the Long Island Sound, from Brennan’s storied, family-run New Orleans dynasty to today’s high-stakes celebrity chef palaces, The Underground Culinary Tour takes readers on an epicurean adventure they won’t soon forget.