Andrew Hodges
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"A New York Times Bestseller 2014, 2015" "The Imitation Game, Winner of the 2015 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay" "Winner of the 2015 (27th) USC Libraries Scripter Award, University of Southern California Libraries" "One of The Guardian's Best Popular Physical Science Books of 2014, chosen by GrrlScientist" Andrew Hodges teaches mathematics at the University of Oxford. Douglas Hofstadter is the College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished...
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"In 1944, hundreds of Allied soldiers were trapped in POW camps in occupied France. The odds of their survival were long. The odds of escaping, even longer. But one-man had the courage to fight the odds. An elite British S.A.S. operative on an assassination mission gone wrong. A Jewish New Yorker injured in a Nazi ambush. An eighteen-year-old Gary Cooper lookalike from Mobile, Alabama. These men and hundreds of other soldiers found themselves in...
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During the winter of 1952, British authorities entered the home of mathematician, cryptanalyst, and war hero Alan Turing to investigate a reported burglary. They instead ended up arresting Turing himself on charges of ́gross indecency,́ an accusation that would lead to his devastating conviction for the criminal offense of homosexuality. Little did officials know they were actually incriminating the pioneer of modern-day computing.
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Toddlers love to be big helpers around the house. They can help straighten up, garden, read, prepare foods ... even give baby brother his bath! A play-along program specially designed for babies' social, emotional, cognitive, and physical development. Highlights include: cooperation, being helpful and asking for help; identifying and labeling of objects; color matching, sorting, and sequencing; concepts of "in" and "out" and "big" and "small"; communication...