pickMG adventure! Three kids who first meet at a D.C. airport while snowed in work together with their hunches, to solve a mystery: the “Francis Scott Key” US flag has been stolen from the Smithsonian!
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so-so(2011) It's a popular history of Western mathematics light on mathematical detail and heavy on biographical anecdotes. Some favorite stories are included: the Cardano-Tartaglia and Newton-Leibniz feuds, Galois's stupid and romantic death at 20, the Bourbaki pranksters and Grothendieck's reclusiveness. But for me the stories were familiar and Aczel's retelling didn't add much. I'd have liked more math, but that's not the kind of book this is.
💛💛💛💛🎉🎉🎉🎉🙌🙌🙌🙌Christine thank you so much! these all arrived in different packages and made it feel like the birthday extravaganza it was! Also- while i love it all- i was going to order variegated embroidery thread and now it is here!!!! This is going to be fun for a very long time.
pickWhile this imparts a powerful history of the forced removal, disenfranchisement, and legal gymnastics against American Indians throughout history, it confusingly starts with a very detailed account of a murder of which the details have zero relevance to the rest of the book. It was confusing and set up a false expectation for the rest of the book. It should be read by every American citizen, but just don't get invested in the Jacobs murder...
pickWhat a fun part of US History to read about. Tammany Hall's grip on New York and American politics from the early 1800's to their ultimate demise after FDR. A wild story of corruption and gamesmanship politics. Loved it. Very fun read.
Just couldn't help myself at the Nobel Peace Center. They practically had a whole bookstore in the gift shop! And I learned about a few other books I definitely want to put on my tbr, primarily The Witness of Those Two Days about the memories of the survivors of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by Nihon Hidankyo (the recipients of the 2024 Novel Peace Prize for their ongoing advocacy against the use of nuclear weapons).
Now I love my 90‘s hip hop but I really love reggae/dancehall. If you get in my car 99% of the time Bob Marleys Tuff Gong Radio will be on! I‘ve loved all things Bob since the early 90‘s and whenever my parents see something they buy it for me. At a tag sale my Dad found this book and bought it for me! What i didn‘t realize is this book was published in 1983 (Bob died in 81) and the author interviewed him and his family for the book!
pickYou can see Richard Lasher‘s car & the dirt bike he was able to flee the approaching ash cloud on.
I was alive when St Helen‘s happened but was too young & too far away from WA to remember. I wish the book would have gone right to covering the event & not the years before background & its players.
I do remember the elderly man that refused to heed warnings & condemned 16 cats to eruption death. You also get perished dogs & horses. Humans too. 💧
