Sergej Rachmaninow (1873-1943) gehört zu den meistgespielten russischen Komponisten in Deutschland. Dabei ist er nicht unumstritten: Manchen Kritikern gilt seine Musik als sentimental und schwülstig. Charakteristische Merkmale sind ihr großer melodischer Atem und ihre ausgesprochene Klangpracht. Am bekanntesten wurden Rachmaninows Klavierkonzerte; andere Bereiche seines Schaffens, darunter viele Klavierminiaturen, Chorwerke und Lieder, stießen erst in jüngster Zeit auf anwachsendes Interesse. Viele Einzelheiten seiner Biographie und seines Gesamtwerks sind in Deutschland noch immer weitgehend unbekannt.
Eat Your Greens! We've heard it said so many times. Here, Pete Evans makes eating green easy with more than 130 mouth-watering dishes that take veggies from sides to stars. Even the pickiest eater will be won over by crispy carrot fritters with garlicky yoghurt dipping sauce, oh-so-simple sweet potato waffles topped with guacamole and a fried egg or the oozy deliciousness that is eggplant parmigiana. Eat Your Greens also includes simple tips on: - increasing your family's veg intake for breakfast, lunch and dinner- buying and growing seasonal, organic produce - harnessing the health benefits of different veggies.
From the author of the beloved romance classic The Windflower comes a novel of fortune, fate, and fiery passion.
A resourceful young gypsy living by her wits, Liza knows what proper-bred Englishmen think about women of her kind. So when she's caught trespassing on the estate of the esteemed Earl of Brockhaven, she expects no mercy. Fortunately for her, the master of the house-the impossibly handsome Lord Stewart-finds the lovely Liza to be utterly enchanting, a wild gypsy rose just waiting to be plucked . . .
Stewart soon learns that there's more to this girl than meets the eye. No ordinary vagabond, Liza displays a fierce intelligence that sets his heart on fire-and she wears a mysterious medallion that arouses his curiosity. An old family heirloom, it is Liza's only link to a long-lost fortune. But the poor girl can't even think about money-when she would gladly trade it all for one reckless night in Stewart's arms.
"Unreasonably entertaining . . . reveals how geometric thinking can allow for everything from fairer American elections to better pandemic planning." --The New York Times
From the New York Times-bestselling author of How Not to Be Wrong--himself a world-class geometer--a far-ranging exploration of the power of geometry, which turns out to help us think better about practically everything.
How should a democracy choose its representatives? How can you stop a pandemic from sweeping the world? How do computers learn to play Go, and why is learning Go so much easier for them than learning to read a sentence? Can ancient Greek proportions predict the stock market? (Sorry, no.) What should your kids learn in school if they really want to learn to think? All these are questions about geometry. For real.
If you're like most people, geometry is a sterile and dimly remembered exercise you gladly left behind in the dust of ninth grade, along with your braces and active romantic interest in pop singers. If you recall any of it, it's plodding through a series of miniscule steps only to prove some fact about triangles that was obvious to you in the first place. That's not geometry. Okay, it is geometry, but only a tiny part, which has as much to do with geometry in all its flush modern richness as conjugating a verb has to do with a great novel.
Shape reveals the geometry underneath some of the most important scientific, political, and philosophical problems we face. Geometry asks: Where are things? Which things are near each other? How can you get from one thing to another thing? Those are important questions. The word geometrycomes from the Greek for measuring the world. If anything, that's an undersell. Geometry doesn't just measure the world--it explains it. Shape shows us how.
