This book supports the intent of the new Australian National Curriculum to help students to recognise that 'mathematical ideas have evolved over centuries and across all cultures and they continue to expand'. A maths odyssey encourages all Australian students to experience the power of mathematics and to develop the ability to use mathematical skills and knowledge creatively and efficiently"--P. 2.
A vile and sinister history lies buried beneath the tiny river town of Pierre Geant. Friendship and loyalty, charms and invocations, the fierce acuity of a local mechanic and the irrepressible curiosity of childhood sweethearts are all that stand in the way of this wicked legacy and it's murderous resolution.
This is not a shaggy dog story, although a dog carries the tale through history starting with the campfire. Digital Dark Age cleverly illustrates some of the important technologies we have invented to capture our stories and carry their threads across space and time. We live in the present and embrace new technologies that move at a faster and faster pace, but without effective systems in place to store our memories is it possible that, as Mark Twain once wrote, in the future we won't recall 'any but the things that never happened'?This is the cautionary note: the more complex the technology we make to keep our records the less control we have over our ideas, our writings, our photos, our history and arguably ourselves. The dog hasn't swallowed our story; we are simply unleashing it with our love of new technology. Is there nothing that can be done? Read this new book for some great tips on saving our past and present for the future.
Matthew O¿Connell¿s intriguing and compelling mystery, Spirit of the Fox, draws on the culture and history of Japan. Meiko, whose parents, David and Chieko, are divorced, doesn¿t feel like she fits in¿either in San Diego, where she grew up with her father, or in Japan, where she¿s teaching English and learning about her mother¿s homeland. After years of painful separation, Meiko and her mother start to rebuild their relationship. But then, Meiko takes a trip to Kyoto and disappears. When Meiko¿s picture is found with a businessman who jumped out of a window, her parents work to figure out who is behind her disappearance, and why she is being connected to suicides. In the course of their investigation, they learn about the historical significance of foxes in Japanese culture. Chieko¿s mother, Aiko, becomes convinced that Meiko¿s involvement with various businessmen isn¿t a coincidence, but is instead connected to Japanese folklore about fox possession. Elsewhere, Meiko struggles to remember who she is before her alter ego, Hana, takes over entirely.
A manhunt beginning in the rubble of post-war Europe and coursing over the latter half of the Twentieth Century culminates in the brutal death of the hunter. Now, Frank Gibbon and Sonya Damsche must pick up the scent and course again. Their chase will lead them deep into the killing fields of the Second World War and into the desperate catalogue of the Nuremberg prosecution. It will lead them through the post-war American landscape of forgetfulness and prosperity, where a killer grows fat and complaisant on the stolen fortune of his victim. And, it will lead them into great and pressing danger as they encounter a generational malignancy that will kill again with undiminished savagery should they come to close.
Presents a catalogue from an exhibition introducing cyberworlds; computer applications; the computer pioneers; computer users from boffins to billionaires, hackers, geeks and cyberpunks and computer interface where people and computers meet. It tells about Cyborgs, exploring the post-human and robotics, made in our image.
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