Life of Pi

A brilliant, bittersweet novel about love and family, husbands and wives, parents and children.From beloved bestselling author David Nicholls.Douglas and Connie - scientist and artist, husband and wife - live a quiet and quietly unremarkable life in the suburbs of London. Until, suddenly, after more than twenty years of marriage, Connie decides she wants a divorce.Heartbroken but determined, Douglas comes up with the perfect plan: he is going to win back the love of his wife and the respect of Albie, their teenage son, by organising the holiday of a lifetime.The hotels are booked, the tickets bought, the itinerary planned and printed.What could possibly go wrong?

A wide-ranging and appreciative literary history of the castaway tale from Defoe to the present

This visual stunning volume--part scrapbook, part travelogue, part production archive--introduces readers to the Indian culture and takes them into the imagination of a boy stranded on a boat in the m

Part scrapbook, part travelogue, part production archive, this graphic, diversely illustrated volume is a collection of initial inspirations, intimate interviews, storyboards, sketches, souvenirs, sna

One boy, one boat, one tiger . . . After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen year-old boy

Pi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity an

一艘孤單小船、一個落難少年，加上一隻『虎』視眈眈的巨無霸！這是南太平洋上，最艱難的生存習題…… 這個故事有個快樂的結局：少年Pi從此過著幸福的日子；那隻叫做『理查．帕克』的老虎可能也是。不過大家最好奇的恐怕是：一個人類單獨和一隻孟加拉猛虎為伴，如何能安然度過兩百二十七天？！何況，他們還是漂流在茫茫大海中、擠在一艘毫無希望的小小救生艇上…… 其實，這原本是一趟航向未來的偉大旅程！至少Pi起初是這麼想

Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for FictionPi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not onl

After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a

★ 史上第一本數學書登上No.1暢銷榜！★ 當數學出錯，世界也會一起出包★ 從飛機沒油到橋梁搖晃，真實災難超荒謬★ 最好笑也最驚人的「數學翻車現場」我們的世界，建立在數學之上——但當數學出錯時，後果會有多誇張？一座橋莫名晃動、一架飛機因單位錯誤耗盡燃料、甚至數十億資金憑空消失……這些看似不可思議的事件，其實都有一個共通點：數學出了問題。數學家兼喜劇演員馬特．帕克，用幽默又犀利的筆調，帶領讀者回顧一連串真實發生的「數學災難」。從工程、金融到網路與選舉，他揭示那些隱藏在日常生活中的計算錯誤與系統漏洞。這不只是一本關於錯誤的書，更是一場關於理解與學習的旅程。當我們願意面對數學的失誤，也能更看清它在世界中的重要性——甚至，開始把數學當成朋友。The first ever maths book to be a No.1 Bestseller shows us what happens when maths goes wrong in the real world**The First Ever Maths Book to be a No.1 Bestseller**'Wonderful ... superb' Daily MailWhat makes a bridge wobble when it's not meant to? Billions of dollars mysteriously vanish into thin air? A building rock when its resonant frequency matches a gym class leaping to Snap's 1990 hit I've Got The Power? The answer is maths. Or, to be precise, what happens when maths goes wrong in the real world.As Matt Parker shows us, our modern lives are built on maths: computer programmes, finance, engineering. And most of the time this maths works quietly behind the scenes, un

Blending classic wisdom with over 100 pop culture references, Singh whimsically switches the lens in this book from the traditional society teaching math to a new and bold math teaching society. With

Blending classic wisdom with over 100 pop culture references, Singh whimsically switches the lens in this book from the traditional society teaching math to a new and bold math teaching society. With

Poetry. African American Studies. "These poems are at once a road trip of a new type and a tour of the little-known icons of our urban landscape, where brand-name objects and what might be called 'lit

The history of pi, says the author, though a small part of the history of mathematics, is nevertheless a mirror of the history of man. Petr Beckmann holds up this mirror, giving the background of the

Pi-Rat and his swashbuckling crew are fearsome and brave, living by their own rules and afraid of almost nothing.

Who's the most rascally rat to sail the seas? It's Pi-Rat of course!Ahoy there! Meet Pi-Rat and his swashbuckling crew. They're brave, bold and nothing scares them. Well, almost nothing... Children wi

This volume presents applications of the Pi-Theorem to fluid mechanics and heat and mass transfer. The Pi-theorem yields a physical motivation behind many flow processes and therefore it constitutes a

"We cannot help but throw ourselves in the footprints of Doctor Pi."---Enrique Molina"There is an Argentine poetry before Bayley, and another after him."---Alberto VanascoDoctor Pi---a sleuth without

No number has captured the attention and imagination of people throughout the ages as much as the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. Pi–or ? as it is symbolically known–is

【兩屆紐伯瑞獎得主2026最新力作】當電池電量即將歸零，我們對愛的記憶是否能重新開機？《The Second Life of Snap》一場關於生存、友誼與「告別」的溫柔革命。在資源極度匱乏、由大企業掌控一切的未來世界「亮谷」，十二歲的女孩 Zuzu 對冷冰冰的機器人毫無興趣。然而，當失業的父親帶回一台過時的第一代保衛機器人「Snap」時，一切都改變了。Snap 雖然博學卻有些頑固，最糟糕的是，他的電池正一天天耗盡，且無法再充電。在一個水與食物都被配給的殘酷世界，Zuzu與她的好友們必須在 Snap 徹底「重設」之前，展開一場拯救計畫。這不只是一台機器人的第二生命，更是一群少年在塵土與烈日下，攜手找回希望的生命啟示錄。Twelve-year-old Zuzu Santos doesn't want a robot. She and her best friends, otherwise known as "the Valleycats," would rather explore Bright Valley on their own. But then Zuzu meets Snap, a know-it-all guardian robot with a limited battery life and an abundance of hope. A gripping, stand-alone, thematically rich survival story by two-time Newbery Medalist Erin Entrada Kelly, for fans of The Wild Robot and A Rover's Story. Bright Valley Subsidized Camp #5 is not a perfect place to live. It's dusty, there are no trees to provide respite from the beating sun, the trailers are falling apart, and the water supply is heavily rationed. But to twelve-year-old Zuzu Santos and her three b

Virginia Woolf's first fully realized work of fiction--published in its final, revised form for the first time A beguiling trio of fantastical and farcical anti-fairy tales about a giantess who builds a magical "cottage of one's own," battles a silver-scaled sea monster, and defies governesses and gravity alike In 1907, eight years before she published her first novel, a twenty-five-year-old Virginia Woolf drafted three interconnected comic stories chronicling the adventures of a giantess named Violet--a teasing tribute to Woolf's friend Mary Violet Dickinson. But it was only in 2022 that Woolf scholar Urmila Seshagiri discovered a final, revised typescript of the stories. The typescript revealed that Woolf had finished this mock-biography, making it her first fully realized literary experiment and a work that anticipates her later masterpieces. Published here for the first time in its final form, The Life of Violet blends fantasy, fairy tale, and satire as it transports readers into a

加入《科學冠軍》系列，開啟充滿樂趣的冒險之旅，一路學習豐富的科學知識！在這本書中，我們將瞭解動物生命週期的奇妙世界。接下來會發生什麼事？一窺袋鼠育兒袋，毛毛蟲的神奇蛻變，一次激動人心的班級旅行，一次蜂巢學習之旅，一次令人震驚的過夜發現等等！《科學冠軍》系列以引人入勝的漫畫故事，呈現新加坡小學科學最新教學大綱及其他課程的概念。故事以各種場景為背景，展現與現實生活的關聯。為了豐富內容，本書還包含包含驚人事實和照片的專題文章。系列特色：科學概念與關鍵科學詞彙常見誤解專題文章，用於豐富內容並貼近現實生活主題心智圖概述趣味笑話

加入《科學冠軍》漫畫，開啟充滿樂趣的冒險之旅，一路學習豐富的科學知識！在這本漫畫書中，我們將瞭解奇妙的植物生命週期。等待你的是什麼？參觀垂直農場、探索海灘上奇特的漂浮物、發現奇特的班級寵物、探索生長在地下的食物、探索外層有種子的水果等等！《科學冠軍》系列漫畫以引人入勝的漫畫故事，呈現新加坡小學科學最新教學大綱及其他課程的概念。故事以各種場景為背景，展現與現實生活的關聯。為了豐富內容，漫畫中也包含包含精彩事實和照片的專題文章。系列特色：科學概念與關鍵科學詞彙常見誤解專題文章，用於豐富內容並貼近現實生活主題心智圖概述趣味笑話

加入《科學冠軍》漫畫，開啟充滿樂趣的冒險之旅，一路學習豐富的科學知識！在這本漫畫書中，我們將瞭解奇妙的植物生命週期。等待你的是什麼？參觀垂直農場、探索海灘上奇特的漂浮物、發現奇特的班級寵物、探索生長在地下的食物、探索外層有種子的水果等等！《科學冠軍》系列漫畫以引人入勝的漫畫故事，呈現新加坡小學科學最新教學大綱及其他課程的概念。故事以各種場景為背景，展現與現實生活的關聯。為了豐富內容，漫畫中也包含包含精彩事實和照片的專題文章。系列特色：科學概念與關鍵科學詞彙常見誤解專題文章，用於豐富內容並貼近現實生活主題心智圖概述趣味笑話