![]() With the help of Summer McCraken, a fiesty girl with secrets of her own, the two narrow down their prime suspects. They want to see any trace of Henry’s death disappear like yesterday’s paper. Dealing with the zoo’s top brass proves to be nothing but a waste of time. Even though it’s claimed he died of natural causes, Teddy smells something fishy and it sure ain’t the polar bear’s lunch. Henry, the hippopatamus at the brand-new nationally known FunJungle, has gone belly up. ![]() ![]() 12 year old Theodore Teddy Roosevelt Fitzroy has got a murder on his hands and trouble on his tail. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() As the complexity scientist Samuel Arbesman writes in his recent book Overcomplicated: Technology at the Limits of Comprehension, the intricacy of modern technologies-the code behind the guidance system used to land planes-has made them opaque, even to people whose job it is to work with them. How does the Macaulay approach translate to the unseeable? The Way Things Work Now is longer than its predecessors it has a whole new section on all things digital. Now Macaulay has updated The Way Things Work, which was first published in 1988 and revised in 1998. ![]() In addition to co-writing The Way Things Work with Neil Ardley, Macaulay has also published a primer on the human body ( The Way We Work) as well as shorter books on individual masterworks of human engineering ( books about cathedrals, pyramids, toilets). Macaulay’s school-age readers have fewer and fewer everyday chances to witness the technologies of their world in motion. ![]() ![]() ![]() As this horrific historical revolt explodes, everyone becomes ensnared in surviving their differing worlds determined to destroy the other. Torn between both worlds, Rhianna agonizes with her love for both the Roman and a Trinovante warrior. He must find her before she is destroyed with the others. Tormented with Rome's expectations, Julius Agricola struggles to find Rhianna - Boudica's daughter. ![]() With only 80,000 legionaries, will he annihilate Boudica and her horde or will he suffer disgrace in Rome for losing - to a woman? At stake is Suetonius Paulinus's reputation. ![]() Camulodunum Londinium Verulaneum Three Roman cities smolder from the Iceni queen's wrath, as she leads her warriors intent on destroying all things Roman - be it Roman temples, Roman villas, or entire families sympathetic to Rome. Julius Agricola to Britannia again and again.This is where his search begins. ![]() |