Number 9 tells the story of Enjil, a boy mathematician who is challenged by a spirit to solve the riddle, What is the fixed point of the wind? As Enjil searches for the answer, he and the reader embark on a journey through myth, legend, and religion. Enjil s adventures lead readers to an appreciation of symmetry within asymmetry, classical ideas, and modern impulses. Along the way Balmond redefines arithmetic for the lay person and opens the gateway to further discoveries.

When an efficient duck who gives the time over the telephone gets sick, other animals, believing the job to be easy, try to take her place.

By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas | Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize “A novel as accomplished as anything being written.”—Newsweek Number9Dream is the international literary sensation from a writer with astonishing range and imaginative energy—an intoxicating ride through Tokyo’s dark underworlds and the even more mysterious landscapes of our collective dreams. David Mitchell follows his eerily precocious, globe-striding first novel, Ghostwritten, with a work that is in its way even more ambitious. In outward form, Number9Dream is a Dickensian coming-of-age journey: Young dreamer Eiji Miyake, from remote rural Japan, thrust out on his own by his sister’s death and his mother’s breakdown, comes to Tokyo in pursuit of the father who abandoned him. Stumbling around this strange, awesome city, he trips over and crosses—through a hidden destiny or just monstrously bad luck—a number of its secret power centers. Suddenly, the riddle of his father’s identity becomes just one of the increasingly urgent questions Eiji must answer. Why is the line between the world of his experiences and the world of his dreams so blurry? Why do so many horrible things keep happening to him? What is it about the number 9? To answer these questions, and ultimately to come to terms with his inheritance, Eiji must somehow acquire an insight into the workings of history and fate that would be rare in anyone, much less in a boy from out of town with a price on his head and less than the cost of a Beatles disc to his name. Praise for Number9Dream “Delirious—a grand blur of overwhelming sensation.”—Entertainment Weekly “To call Mitchell’s book a simple quest novel . . is like calling Don DeLillo’s Underworld the story of a missing baseball.”—The New York Times Book Review “Number9Dream, with its propulsive energy, its Joycean eruption of language and playfulness, represents further confirmation that David Mitchell should be counted among the top young novelists working today.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Mitchell’s new novel has been described as a cross between Don DeLillo and William Gibson, and although that’s a perfectly serviceable cocktail-party formula, it doesn’t do justice to this odd, fitfully compelling work.”—The New Yorker “Leaping with ease from surrealist fables to a teenage coming-of-age story and then spinning back to Yakuza gangster battles and World War II–era kamikaze diaries, Mitchell is an aerial freestyle ski-jumper of fiction. Somehow, after performing feats of literary gymnastics, he manages to stick the landing.”—The Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Mr. Small does it all (and now he does it in board books)! In this adventure, Fireman Small rushes to battle a fire in town. When the alarm bell rings, Fireman Small suits up and roars down the road in his shiny red fire engine. When he helps extinguish the fire and rescues a young girl, Fireman Small becomes a hero in Tinytown.

The first book of the #1 New York Times bestselling series and the inspiration for the hit movie from Dreamworks! John Smith seems like an ordinary teenager, living a normal life with his guardian Henri in Paradise, Ohio. But for John, keeping a low profile is essential, because he is not an ordinary teenager. He’s an alien from the planet Lorien, and he’s on the run. A group of evil aliens from the planet Mogadore, who destroyed his world, are hunting anyone who escaped. Nine Loric children were sent to Earth to live in hiding until they grew up and developed their Legacies, powers that would help them fight back—and help them save us. Three of them are now dead. John is Number Four, and he knows he’s next…. Michael Bay, director of Transformers, raved: “Number Four is a hero for this generation.” This epic story is perfect for fans of action-packed science fiction like The 5th Wave series by Rick Yancey, The Maze Runner series by James Dashner, and Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game. The battle for Earth’s survival wages on. Read all of the books: #2: The Power of Six, #3: The Rise of Nine, #4: The Fall of Five, #5: The Revenge of Seven, #6: The Fate of Ten, and #7: United as One. Don’t miss the first book in the brand-new I Am Number Four spin-off series: Generation One.

Since man was created, he realised that his fingers were his best tools. He built his counting system on those fingers with which he learned to develop writing, writing the numbers and the alphabet. Our concept of numbers is born with us before that of speech and writing. The brain is conscious of numbers from the very early stages of development. This concept progresses with education, practice, and applications, i.e., through life experiences. Our life journeys, from beginning to end, go through a path totally surrounded by numbers. We adapt ourselves through this journey to make some sense of it. Hence, numbers are a major and essential part of our existence. This book highlights the history and development of numbers and delves into the mystery of number 9 in a wide variety of mathematical excursions. The famous Fibonacci numbers, as well as other numbers and sequences, fall under the mystique of number 9.

From the theory of synchronicity of Carl G. Jung's analysis of a case and extension / modification of the hypothesis of a theoretical construct, and reflections on the dynamics of the death of Whitney Houston. This is not a script for specialists is very concise and informative would be a new theory which brings the current positions of the physical insights of some psychologists of the past and a minimalist analysis of reality. The writing is small and not comprehensive but clear and simple, this is a complex topic in which you try to make sense of the physical theory of witches from psychological point of view and exemplify with a personality of the show known to many

Chapter 25: Strange Kill Team Wei Le heard the sound, her hair stood up. She suddenly stood up and turned around. Sure enough, she saw an extremely handsome young man standing in the light behind her. "Cousin." Wei Le bowed his head and called out honestly. Diep Truong Minh came two steps closer, his long eyelashes slightly drooped, his eyes swept over to Wei Le: "Didn't you say you didn't know Nghiem Tinh Thuy?" He remembered. The day before at a party, she had just said she didn't know Nghiem Tinh Thuy, but today she contacted the other person. When Diep Truong Minh arrived, the two of them were ready to hang up. He still hadn't seen his face. of the other person, but he heard her voice, which was Nghiem Tinh Thuy. "Huh?" Wei Le heard these words, remembered her cousin's first question, her face looked confused, "I was just chatting with my student, not Nghiem Tinh Thuy." Again, Nghiem Tinh Thuy and his student looked after me. completely different, her cousin is still young, there won't be any problems with his eyes, right? Diep Truong Minh was silent, he didn't hear that voice wrong.

NUMBER 9 RODEO DRIVE is a steamy book that takes a look at Hollywood without makeup, the behind-the-scenes making of deals and stars, an array of fascinating characters from the entertainment industry. It is a saga of emotion, ambition, greed glamour, drugs, sex and murder!It is an intimate inside look at the fast paced world of PR, the public relations industry in Hollywood, from the 60s through the 80s. The story revolves around two unique young women from a small town in southwestern Oklahoma, and J.D. Wilkinson, the aging millionaire, who spots their talents early on.Stephanie Karras is the beautiful, strong-willed woman who, starting from scratch, builds NUMBER 9 RODEO DRIVE into Hollywood's hottest PR firm. Sultry, charismatic Misty a singer born out of another era in time, is catapulted into a career that leads her to stardom, and later disaster.

This fascinating and affectionate book takes an in-depth look at the phenomenon that is 'El Nino', including his secret wedding to girlfriend Olalla and the recent birth of his daughter.