![]() ![]() ![]() Aside from that, the only numerals in sight are on a pre-title page, in a column showing 1 to 1,000,000 stacked up by factors of ten. As these mind-bogglers may not mean much without comparisons, Schwartz extends the same references to picture a billion (here the human tower "would stand up past the moon") and, finally, a trillion, where the pages of stars are now a roll of paper "stretching from New York to New Zealand." As proof that this isn't mere wand-waving, an appendix furnishes doubters with the calculations through which Schwartz arrived at his statements. Climb aboard"-for a balloon trip through just seven star-dotted pages, whereupon a lunch break is declared. First, "If one million kids climbed onto one another's shoulders, they would be.farther up than airplanes can fly." And finally, "If this book had a million tiny stars, they would fill 70 pages. What Schwartz's Marvelossissimo the Mathematical Magician does is give the concept some concrete form in four wide-eyed examples. We all know a million is lots, and we all have trouble visualizing how much. ![]()
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Thanks to her star-crossed parents Marko and Alana, newborn baby Hazel has already survived lethal assassins, rampaging armies, and horrific monsters, but in the cold vastness of outer space, the little girl encounters her strangest adventure yet. ![]() ![]() What a shame that the party of Lincoln and Grant would eventually give license to the domestic terrorists known as the Ku Klux Klan just so they could bid for the votes that would allow them to shrink all but the most violent parts of the government. ![]() It seems like the exact point in time where, on social issues at least, the parties really did "trade places". It's a shame, then, that the Southern Strategy really did turn out to be a naked plea to American racists to crush black equality under the law. Get 50 off this audiobook at the AudiobooksNow online audio. Perlstein played fair, and he gave the conservative characters in this book the platform that they deserved. 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First of all, the performance by the narrator has caused me to reconsider what it means to experience excellent performance. ![]() ![]() In the Northlands, the Union Army prepares to face the forces under Beothed. ![]() There are three main plot threads in the book. As with the first book, this volume often feels like a 'standard' fantasy novel with lots of standard tropes in use, but Abercrombie successfully continues to put a subversive spin on events which keeps things fresh and interesting. ![]() In this middle volume of the sequence, Before They Are Hanged picks up the storylines left dangling from the first novel and develops them further. Before They Are Hanged is the second book in The First Law Trilogy and the sequel to The Blade Itself, which I reviewed favourably here. ![]() ![]() ![]() After the King (his father) dies, the prince becomes king and engages in a battle that takes him away from home. 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