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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 1964 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl. It has been published and reprinted many different times with different illustrators. It is now chiefly known through videos on youtube. The story features the adventures of young Charlie Bucket inside the chocolate factory of eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was first published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf,...

Account of a man who escaped from Devil's Island and made it to Panama and from there to San Francisco and New York where he became a US Citizen. Here is the story of a man's dauntless courage in the struggle against death, insanity and the atrocities of the French "Guiana Hell". This man was meant to die …. but Rene Belbenoit's one hundred pound body contained a spirit and will that were unconquerable..Life holds but two alternatives for the ...

Rook endgames are the most basic endgames in chess. They come up all the time. I cannot begin to tell you how many times they have come up in my own tournament games. The most important endgame to learn is rook and pawn against rook where your king is in front of the opponent's pawn. You will need to know when to defend from the side and so that when the opponent's pawn reaches the sixth rank you immediately go to his back file and defend from...

This text is the great story of the fundamental human intellectual evolution that constituted the first step into the current scientific revolution we see today. The development of The Calculus or other mathematical subjects, the revealing of the Non-Euclidean way of thought was a breakthrough in the creative consciousness of mathematics.

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Henry Berge Helson (June 2, 1927 - January 10, 2010) was an American mathematician at the University of California at Berkeley who worked on analysis.Helson received his bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1947. With the support of a Harvard traveling fellowship, he spent the academic year 1947-1948 in Europe, he visited London, Paris, Prague, and Vienna, but spent most of his time in Warsaw and then from spring 1948 in Wroclaw, where...

Kim (Kimball O'Hara) is the orphaned son of an Irish soldier (Kimball O'Hara sr., a former color sergeant and later an employee of an Indian railway company) and a poor Irish mother (a former nanny in a colonel's household) who have both died in poverty. Living a vagabond existence in India under British rule in the late 19th century, Kim earns his living by begging and running small errands on the streets of Lahore. He occasionally works for ...

Although this book was first published in 1903, little has changed in Kandy. The railroad system including the trains and railroad stations were built by the British and are still the same. The most interesting changes are the three major motion pictures that have been made in Kandy and several minor films. Especially the films Elephant Walk starring Elizabeth Taylor and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom starring Harrison Ford. Also Bridge ...

If you're ever lost a games to a master chess player, then you have probably asked yourself why, playing with same pieces and the same board, he was able to spot situations you didn't even see. This book is "creative" in that the author shows how to create brilliant moves in ordinary chess situations and how to turn them to your advantage. Mr. Reinfeld says that if 10, 000 players were faced with the ordinary situations and positions shown in ...

The authors are Elementary School teachers in Ohio and Missouri. They feel that geometry is a neglected or overlooked subject in elementary school. Children have a natural interest in squares and circles as well as in strings. Yet they are taught little about these things. Instead they are taught simple arithmetic and multiplication tables. This book advocates a course to teach teachers how to teach children. I remember in Seventh Grade my sch...

The Fourteenth Trump is a detective murder-mystery by Judson Philips, who wrote more than one hundred murder-mysteries. His obituary was published in the New York Times on March 9, 1989. He published under different names with different publishing companies. Judson Pentecost Philips (August 10, 1903 - March 7, 1989) was an American writer who wrote more than 100 mystery and detective novels under the pseudonyms Hugh Pentecost and Philip Owen, ...

Author escaped from Devil's Island and eventually made it to USA. This book is the successor to the book Dry Guillotine. ISBN 4871870618 He escaped many times only to be recaptured and sent back.

The book documents Jacobs's life as a slave and how she gained freedom for herself and for her children. Jacobs contributed to the genre of slave narrative by using the techniques of sentimental novels "to address race and gender issues." She explores the struggles and sexual abuse that female slaves faced as well as their efforts to practice motherhood and protect their children when their children might be sold away.

Ahab searches for the Great White Whale that has bitten off his leg at the knee. Ishmael signs on to a whaling ship near Boston and sails all the way to the Pacific Ocean in the hunt for the Great While Whale

Deliverance was mave into a movie who was a 1972 American thriller film produced and directed by John Boorman, and starring Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty and Ronny Cox, with the latter two making their feature film debuts. The screenplay was adapted by James Dickey from his 1970 novel of the same name. The film was a critical and box office success, earning three Academy Award nominations and five Golden Globe Award nominations. Four A...

Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920 and then published in its entirety in Paris on 2 February 1922, Joyce's 40th birthday. It is considered one of the most important works of modernist literature and has been called "a demonstration and summation of the entire movement movement., "Before Joyce, no writer of fiction ...