True Stories in the News 3/e: A Beginning Reader (Level 3) with Audio CD/1片 (3版)

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rue Stories in the News 3/e: A Beginning Reader (Level 3) with Audio CD/1片 作者：Sandra Heyer ISBN：9780136154815 版次：3 年份：2008 出版商：Pearson Education 頁數/規格：108頁 Description Imagine … finding yourself all alone on a mountain during a blizzard -- and being saved thanks to a surprise phone call! having a party to celebrate your wedding -- and there was no wedding! picking up a newspaper and seeing a photograph of twins who look exactly like you! These stories and more -- humorous, poignant, astounding -- and all true! True Stories in the News, Third Edition, by Sandra Heyer, consists of 22 readings based on human-interest stories adapted from worldwide news sources and includes new, updated, and improved materials. The universal appeal of these believe-it-or-not stories ensures a pleasurable reading experience and encourages beginning-level students to read with fluency and confidence. Table of Contents Unit 1 Dish Soap for Dinner Unit 2 A New Man Unit 3 The Runner Unit 4 The Love Letters Unit 5 Bad Luck, Good Luck Unit 6 Lost and Found Unit 7 A Little Traveler Unit 8 Man's Best Friend Unit 9 The Coin Unit 10 Love or Baseball? Unit 11 Buried Alive Unit 12 The Winning Ticket Unit 13 Thank You Unit 14 Together Again Unit 15 Saved by the Bell Unit 16 This is the Place for Me Unit 17 Nicole's Party Unit 18 Strong Little Boy Unit 19 The Champion Unit 20 The Bottle Unit 21 The Last Laugh Unit 22 Old Friends

Algorithms, Monks, and Merchants: Computing in Everyday Life in the Middle Ages (1版)

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【簡介】 This book explores the tight relationship that existed between application needs and computational problem-solving methods during the Middle Ages, particularly the period between the 9th and 15th centuries. It was a time of great cultural and economic evolution, starting with the blooming phase of Arab science and continuing with the acquisition of Hindu-Arabic computation methods (based on the decimal positional number system) in Western Europe.The aim is to show, by means of suitable examples, how in the Middle Ages mathematics and computation were tightly related to the solution of everyday life problems. These ranges from religious problems like computing the date of Easter to land measurement and financial computations, as well as handling various volumes and managing agricultural resources.In particular, during the late medieval centuries when the economy saw a substantial upswing, merchants’ activity required strong computational skills to solve a great variety of problems. It is such need that led to the creation of the so called ’abacus schools’ that the sons of merchants, primarily Italians but also from other European regions, attended during their boyhood to learn computing techniques.