A non-fiction book for children
Math becomes concrete and real when kids read about the many kinds of circles and find out how they're important in the real world. Circles have many surprising applications beyond the geometry adults remember.
This is a survey of some of the various methods used to investigate papers and record the results of those investigations. It covers some of the similarities and differences in investigating works of art on paper, documents, and printed material through fibre analysis and watermarks along with their recording. The accuracy of historical reference material, the importance of mill records as well as other archival material, and the needs for comparative material are discussed. Keeping an open mind in both the analysis and interpretation of the evidence is stressed, along with the importance of collaboration with investigators in other fields. Some aspects of papermaking and watermarking practice that seem rarely to be considered, but which can often have an important part to play in interpreting one's findings, will be highlighted.
This is a survey of some of the various methods used to investigate papers and record the results of those investigations.
Uses everyday activities to introduce different types of triangles and includes puzzles, games, and projects.
Uses everyday activities to introduce different types of triangles and includes puzzles, games, and projects.
Reflections on Plato's Poetics presents the reflections of leading scholars from China and the West on the form, nature and significance of Plato's engagement with poetry. The book does not adopt any monolithic point of view about Plato and poetry. Instead it openly explores Plato's attitudes to poetry, both comprehensively and within the intricate confines of particular dialogues. These reflections reveal a Plato who is deeply influenced by poetry; a Plato who writes, at least very often, from within a poetic paradigm; a Plato whose concerns about the influence and ambiguity of words force him to play with meaning and to provoke questions about meaning. Thus, many of the contributions reveal a concern about the relation of philosophy to poetry, how the two categories are different and whether (or in what way) one is superior to the other.A unique feature of Reflections on Plato's Poetics is the establishment of a dialogue between Chinese and Western scholars, whose different background assumptions about philosophy, poetry and Plato lead, we hope, to further reflections of genuinely novel and significant interest.
The book does not adopt any monolithic point of view about Plato and poetry. Instead it openly explores Plato's attitudes to poetry, both comprehensively and within the intricate confines of particular dialogues.
