Wicked women of the raj, Younger, Coralie

Автор: Coralie Bickford-Smith
Название: The Fox and the Star
ISBN: 1846148502 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781846148507
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Once there was a Fox who lived in a deep, dense forest. For as long as Fox could remember, his only friend had been Star, who lit the forest paths each night. But then one night Star was not there, and Fox had to face the forest all alone.

Автор: Bickford-Smith Coralie
Название: Fox and the Star
ISBN: 0141978899 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141978895
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: This is the moving story of a fox, a star and an eternal friendship, written and beautifully illustrated by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith - chosen as Waterstones Book of the Year and selected in Time Out's 100 Best Children's Books. 'Brilliant ... A delight' Philip Pullman'A star book for all ages ...

the sort you want to keep for ever' Kate Kellaway, Observer'I would like to frame each page' Lauren Child, Guardian, Books of the Year'My picture book of the year ... outstanding' Amanda Craig, New Statesman'Once there was a Fox who lived in a deep, dense forest. For as long as Fox could remember, his only friend had been Star, who lit the forest paths each night.

But then one night Star wasn't there, and Fox had to face the forest all alone...'

Автор: Schneps Leila, Colmez Coralie
Название: Math on Trial: How Numbers Get Used and Abused in the Courtroom
ISBN: 0465032923 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780465032921
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: In the wrong hands, math can be deadly. Even the simplest numbers can become powerful forces when manipulated by politicians or the media, but in the case of the law, your liberty,and your life,can depend on the right calculation.In Math on Trial , mathematicians Leila Schneps and Coralie Colmez describe ten trials spanning from the nineteenth century to today, in which mathematical arguments were used,and disastrously misused,as evidence. They tell the stories of Sally Clark, who was accused of murdering her children by a doctor with a faulty sense of calculation of nineteenth-century tycoon Hetty Green, whose dispute over her aunt`s will became a signal case in the forensic use of mathematics and of the case of Amanda Knox, in which a judge`s misunderstanding of probability led him to discount critical evidence,which might have kept her in jail. Offering a fresh angle on cases from the nineteenth-century Dreyfus affair to the murder trial of Dutch nurse Lucia de Berk, Schneps and Colmez show how the improper application of mathematical concepts can mean the difference between walking free and life in prison.A colourful narrative of mathematical abuse, Math on Trial blends courtroom drama, history, and math to show that legal expertise isn`t always enough to prove a person innocent.