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      • Trusted Partner
        November 1951

        Von Pythagoras bis Hilbert

        Epochen der Mathematik und ihrer Baumeister. Geschichte der Mathematik für jedermann

        by Colerus zu Geldern, Egmont von

      • Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        October 2020

        THE MURDER OF PYTHAGOR

        by MARCOS CHICOT

        AN HISTORICAL THRILLER FULL OF LOVE, ACTION AND ENIGMAS. A JOURNEY TO ANCIENT GREECE WHERE YOU WILL DISCOVER UNEXPECTED SECRETS AND THE MOST DISQUIRING CHARACTERS. The elderly philosopher Pythagoras, one of the most powerful characters of his time, is about to choose a successor among the great masters when a series of murders begins in his community. Behind the crimes, a dark and powerful mind seems to surpass Pythagoras himself. The enigmatic Ariadne and the Egyptian researcher Akenón will try to discover who the murderer is while solving their own feelings. A challenge in which the ghosts of the past join the dark threats of the present.

      • Management: leadership & motivation

        How to Lose Friends and Infuriate People

        Success -- Management -- Leadership

        by Jonar Nader

        We were taught to be patient, yet impatience is also a virtue. We were encouraged to be tolerant, yet intolerance is a characteristic of successful people. We were told to win friends and avoid conflict, yet it is vital to learn how to fight against time-thieves who stop us from achieving success and happiness. This tantalising book is the most explosive text in decades. It is for people who are fed up with inaccuracy and untruths. It is a tool for those who have the vision to shape new futures and the courage to realise their dreams. Come on a journey that will enrich and liberate you as you learn how to tackle the roots of personal achievement, management, and leadership. You will feel liberated and fulfilled when you say what needs to be said, fight for what needs to be won, and do what must be done -- even if you might lose friends and infuriate people. This fourth edition contains 28 chapters. One of them is a 10,000-word chapter about terrorism, called, ‘Infuriating Terrorists: Why tolerant people must not tolerate intolerant people.’ It also includes a new chapter about the cost-cutting frenzy. In criticising corporate executives, Jonar says, ‘Cost-cutting is for wimps. Any fool can cut costs.’ He wants managers to learn how to charge their customers more, and have the customers pay more with pleasure.

      • Humanities & Social Sciences

        RUMI, DIALOG WITH THE UNIVERSE

        Gli insegnamenti spirituali del grande poeta mistico persiano

        by COLELLA GIULIANA

        A journey into the poetic and spiritual world of the great Sufi mystic Rumi, who lived in the thirteenth century, considered not only a poet but also a prophet and a saint, so much so that for many Muslims he is a new Mohammed; for many Christians, a new Jesus; for many Jews, a new Moses.His message - love is the essence of all things - can be compared to St. Francis' and Dante's, his contemporaries; but there is also evident affinity with the thinking of Pythagoras, Socrates and Plato. The book, through a selection of evocative verses by Rumi, explores the path connecting it with Dante's work, explaining how the treasure of doctrines and ecstatic techniques still preserve a very modern flavor. This is because Rumi's approach, free and universal, transcends the specifics of the individual religions. TOPICSIncludes practical instructions on meditative techniques used by Rumi.Gives an unprecedented experiential and spiritual angle unlike studies on Rumi that have a predominantly literary and historical approach.

      • March 2023

        Teaching the Quadrivium

        A Guide for Instructors

        by Peter Ulrickson

        Reviving an educational tradition involves a double task. A new generation of students must be taught, and at the same time the teachers themselves must learn. This book addresses the teachers who seek to hand on the quadrivium-the four mathematical liberal arts of arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy-at the same time as they acquire it. Two components run in parallel throughout the book. The first component is practical. Weekly overviews and daily lesson plans explain how to complete the study of A Brief Quadrivium in the course of a single school year, and suggestions for weekly assessments make it easy to plan tests and monitor student progress. The second component is directed to the continuing education of the teacher. Short essays explore the history, philosophy, and practice of mathematics. The themes of these essays are coordinated with the simultaneous mathematical work being done by students, allowing the teacher to instruct more reflectively. Some users of this book are confident in their grasp of mathematics and natural science. For them, the essays will clarify the unity of mathematical activity over time and reveal the old roots of new developments. Other users of this book, including some parents who school their children at home, find mathematics intimidating. The clear structure of the lesson plans, and the support of the companion essays, give them the confidence to lead students through a demanding but doable course of study. The British mathematician John Edensor Littlewood remarked that one finds in the ancient mathematicians not “clever schoolboys” but rather “Fellows of another College.” This guide invites all teachers of the quadrivium to join the enduring mathematical culture of Littlewood and his predecessors, and to witness for themselves the significance and vitality of a tradition as old as Pythagoras.

      • Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

        Bach and The Tuning of the World

        by Jens Johler

        Everyone has heard of Johann Sebastian Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier – but hardly anybody knows anything about his journey to F sharp major.In March of 1700, shortly before his fifteenth birthday, Johann Sebastian Bach set off on his journey. His destination: to create perfect music, music that unites heaven and earth in harmony. His search finally brought him to Lübeck, where he became acquainted with Andreas Werckmeister and the well-tempered tuning. In this tempering – and that is new! – you can play everything, all keys, in major and minor. But perfection has its price: All notes are "tempered" a bit, which means falsified; the music has a touch of artificiality from now on. And not only the notes and pitches – nature and people are also being tempered. Gardens are laid out with geometric precision, rivers are canalized, cities redesigned. Night becomes day thanks to street lighting, the pocket watch makes it possible to take along the time with you, the tuning fork enables choral pitch. The journey into an artificial world has begun. When Bach completed the Well-Tempered Clavier, he was overcome with profound doubt: Is not his work "only of this world" – perfect, artificial, profane?

      • Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure

        THE HANDBOOK OF PALMISTRY

        by Rosa Baughan

        The future’s not written in the stars, but etched in the palm of your hand – as Victorian mystic Rosa Baughan discovered to her endless fascination. Drawn from clandestine dinners with Parisian scholars, the wisdom of the Kabbala and more, this handbook is the product of her exhaustive research into the ancient art of palmistry. More than a century on, it still stands as the definitive guide for anyone seeking their first glimpse of tomorrow today. Prepare to astound your friends with your new-found knowledge: essential reading for anyone who’s ever dreamed of unlocking their inner-seer.

      • September 2021

        Birds, Bees and Burgers: Puzzling Geometry from Enigmaths

        by Paulo Ferro

        Paul Ferro presents 60 new problems for the geometry puzzler - including many puzzles based on familiar shapes. Problems are presented simply and colourfully, and solutions are well expounded and clear. The reader will enjoy the challenge - and the “aha” moment of understanding any solution that they did not come to themselves. Great fun - and enriching too! The style is simple and clear and explanations in the answers are enlightening.

      • Complementary therapies, healing & health
        August 2012

        An Introduction To Healing

        by Pat Smith

        This book aims to answer the question How do I become a healer? It is a comprehensive explanation of spiritual healing, the aim being to inform, encourage and enlighten the reader. In easily understandable terms, the book describes the background of healing, how to tap into the universal energy and how to protect oneself. Spiritual healing is traditional in its origins and there continues to be an urgent need for it today. The complex and seemingly strange energies which spiritual healing involves are explained and terms such as energy , spirit and protection are demystified. Pat Smith, believes that anybody who wants to help others can become a healer and within this book she shows how.

      • Fiction
        January 2023

        The Last Life of Emma Taylor

        by Melanie S. Wolfe

        Emma hates the Bible belt culture. The hypocrisy, the lack of love, and worship of the church irritates the crap out of her. She has this unquenchable thirst to know the truth and researches every religion. Then, she goes to college and her world is turned upside down as she falls in love with an angel and is caught between good and evil and the God she's longed to meet.   From the author:   I wrote The Last Life of Emma Taylor in 2008 and self-published the eBook in 2009. It started out as a love story between a college girl and an angel, (inspired by Twilight). But as I wrote the story it took on a life of its own and became a reflection of my own life. At the time I was questioning everything I was told to believe about God, and I was quite sick of everyone telling me what to believe. So I went on a journey to research every book, belief, or religion I was told by my Evangelical leaders was bad, and I ended up finding my own truth.  If there is interest, I would love to turn this book into a series.

      • Agriculture & farming
        June 2020

        Medicinal and Aromatic Plants

        Utilization and Conservation Techniques

        by Gopal Shukla ,Bidhan Roy, Vineeta & Sumit Chakravarty

        Medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) are invaluable natural resources of use to human race, without which the survival of human/ animal race is incredible. There is an enormous diversity of plants which are put into medicinal, beauty care and culinary purposes. Cultivation of commercially important medicinal plants is in high demand as the global community is growing towards a green and herbal oriented approach. India as a country has thousands of years old traditional medicinal systems which rely solely on medicinal plants. There is a gradual loss of medicinal plants with the increasing demand of plant derived drugs. Majority of medicinal plants are still collected from the wild. This doesnt meet the demand and thereby pave ways to adulterants. The over extraction and ignorant activities cause biodiversity loss. Farm production of MAPs in these days is extremely vulnerable to underlying climate risk. Sustainable management of these resources requires urgent attention for environmental stability and improvement of livelihood. New income generating opportunities are opening up for rural populations and in particular for small-scale farmers as well as marginal farmers through MAPs cultivation. New generation are not well aware of the various uses of many plants to which it was put before. Thus there is an urgent need to spread the knowledge and conserve the wild populations of medicinal plant diversity in various forest areas of India. Considering the importance of the MAPs, an attempt was taken in this edited book to understand and highlight the role of MAPs in livelihood improvement and income generation through cultivation, conservation and utilisation. Most of the chapters in this book dealt with individual medicinal plants in detail. Two chapters have also been included on pests and diseases management of MAPs. Nowadays, IPR issues are more important. One chapter has been included on IPR issues on medicinal plants. A chapter also devoted on value addition of the medicinal plant products.

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