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Roger Hart writes with savvy, grace, and abiding tenderness about people in love and in trouble. He's an enchanter casting his spell with impeccable sentences and exquisite details. He knows that characters only truly exist when they interact and entangle with other characters. What ingenuity on these pages, what nerve, and what an exhilarating collection of stories Mysteries of the Universe is. And in this universe, future events can influenc...

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In this compelling mix of high adventure and intellectual quest, a renowned scientist relates his near-death experience on Mount Everest--and how it led him to a lifelong search for the nature of reality. Though no stranger to extreme climates, Dr. Roger Hart very nearly succumbed to them in a horrifying accident that sent him literally falling off the face of the mountain. His brush with death was the beginning of an intellectual and spiritua...

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Explains the fundamentally visual way Chinese mathematicians understood and solved mathematical problems.

Suitable for planners, educationalists and environmentalists, this book introduces the theory and the practice of children's participation, and its importance for developing democracy and sustainable communities.

While the Jesuits claimed Xu as a convert, he presented the Jesuits as men from afar who had traveled from the West to China to serve the emperor.

This book showcases photographically the wide variety of cars and drivers that fit into the exhibition theme: the jets, wheelstanders, rockets and other exhibition vehicles that have thrilled millions of spectators. Their entire basis was who had the fastest vehicle. But in 1959 complaints from other competitors and Detroit automakers got all aircraft-powered dragsters banned, so they became the sideshow attached to the legitimate circus that ...