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Matt Parker
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This tour of real-world mathematical disasters reveals the importance of math in everyday life. All sorts of seemingly innocuous mathematical mistakes can have significant consequences. Exploring and explaining a litany of glitches, near misses, and mathematical mishaps involving the internet, big data, elections, street signs, lotteries, the Roman Empire, and an Olympic team, Matt Parker uncovers the ways math trips us up." --
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Adenike and Ayodele are a Nigerian couple living in Brooklyn. Following the joyous celebration of the their wedding, complications arise out of their inability to conceive a child, a problem that devastates their family and defies cultural expectations, leading Adenike to make a shocking decision that could either save her family or destroy it.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Cartman are third graders who continue to have weird things happen to them. Includes such incidents as Big Gay Al being fired as a scout master. A cult led by magician David Blaine brainwashes the kids. Cartman seeks revenge on an eighth grader. The boys want to help the children of Afghanistan and end up taking on the Taliban.
7) Summer of 84
Publisher
Brightlight Pictures Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Set in the summer of 1984, 15-year-old Davey Armstrong convinces his three best friends to help him investigate if Davey's police officer neighbor is the serial killer that is hunting in their Oregon hometown.