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Description The little girl at the heart of this story lives between two worlds. On one hand is her house, where she lives with her Latin American father and North American grandmother. Her mother is dead. Here there are many beautiful things, lots of books and plenty of money. On the other hand is her other grandmother's house, where her cousin lives with her own mother and many others. This is a Catholic household, where material possessions aren't especially important. Here the house is always full of people - those who live in the house as well as those who come by for a generous afternoon feast and a good gossip. Despite the child's many possessions at home, she loves the Catholic world in which her cousin lives. She is especially fond of the icon of the baby Jesus and a moonstone rosary. She is also envious of her cousin's forthcoming First Communion. All these feelings come to a head when she steals the rosary and, while she must confront her awful feelings of guilt, she realizes that she is a very lucky child to be able to move between two such wonderful worlds.
The World of Mathematics by James Roy Newman, ISBN 0486411508
An enormous popular success when first published in 1956, this monumental four-volume set -- fifteen years in the making -- reveals the sweeping scope of mathematics, the richness of its ideas and the multiplicity of its aspects. In the editor's words, "It presents mathematics as a tool, a language and a map; as a work of art and as an end in itself; as a fulfillment of the passion for perfection". Specially designed to make mathematics more accessible to the layman, the work comprises non-technical essays on every aspect of the subject, including articles by and about scores of eminent mathematicians as well as literary figures, economists, biologists and many other thinkers. Contributors include Archimedes, Galileo, Descartes, Newton, Gregor Mendel, Edmund Halley, Jonathan Swift, John Maynard Keynes, Henri Poincare, Lewis Carroll, George Boole, Bertrand Russell, Alfred North Whitehead, John von Neumann and many others.
Each essay is preceded by an informative commentary by noted mathematics...
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This well-known history of Watauga County, North Carolina, is considered one of the best ever written. From Watauga County's "Yankee Ancestry" to its role in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, nothing is overlooked.
There is a great deal of information about early Watauga families, including the ancestors of David Crockett, Sam Houston, John C. Calhoun, "Stonewall" Jackson, and Abraham Lincoln. The area's first wagon roads are described, along with gold mining, antebellum education, the formation of the county, and Boone's incorporation. Few localities can lay claim to a narrative portrait that is so detailed and well-written.
This reprint is an exact copy of the original; only a more complete index has been added for the reader's convenience.
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