What's your favorite animal? In My Favorite Animal: Owls, students will learn amazing facts about owls. Each My Favorite Animal book features interesting non-fiction at a 2nd-grade reading level paired with questions throughout the text to check the reader's comprehension. Sample Text: All owls fly without making a sound, except for fishing owls since they don't need to fly silently over water. Their feathers have a soft edge that makes their flight silent. This makes them excellent predators since they can swoop down on their prey without being ...

"The binomial theorem is usually quite rightly considered as one of the most important theorems in the whole of analysis." Thus wrote Bernard Bolzano in 1816 in introducing the first correct proof of Newton's generalisation of a century and a half earlier of a result familiar to us all from elementary algebra. Bolzano's appraisal may surprise the modern reader familiar only with the finite algebraic version of the Binomial Theorem involving positive integral exponents, and may also appear incongruous to one familiar with Newton's series for rational exponents. ...

Концепции смерти и аутентичности - два великих бастиона экзистенциально-феноменологической ...

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In 1944 the Soviet armed forces approach Hungary. As a result, Germany offers the opportunity to the Hungarian university students to continue their studies in Germany. Two such students are Eva Radnai and Botond Barna, who are in love and share an apartment in Budapest. After some hesitation, they decide to escape to Germany with other students. Budapest is being bombarded by the Allied air force, causing much damage. After ten days of traveling by train, Eva and Botond arrive in Dresden, Germany. The couple find an apartment. Botond is recruited by ...

Composed rapidly during April of 1879 in the wake of his success with the two serenades (Opp.22 and 44), Dvorak this time incorporated Czech folk dances into his new work, which was to be for full orchestra. The term serenade, then more often associated with chanber or ensemble pieces (the Opp.22 and 44 were for strings and winds respectively) didn't quite fit and the new piece was designated the Czech Suite . It received its premiere ar the Provisional Theatre in Prague on May 16, 1879 with the theatre orchestra conducted by Adolf Cech, with Dvorak conducting ...

Vieni, sali. Sì, dico a te che stai leggendo, siediti accanto a noi. Porta poche cose. No, non ti mettere lì, siediti al volante. Qualcosa di buono sta per succedere nelle nostre vite e approfitteremo di questo momento. Sarà un percorso per il mondo esterno che rifletterà soltanto una minima parte del viaggio dentro di te. Cosa ci aspetta? Cosa succederà quando attraverseremo quella frontiera? Come ci riceveranno? Incertezze...Ma se non ci proviamo non lo sapremo mai. Herman e Candelaria Zapp sono saliti su una Graham ...

Claiming that the realm of the sacred in modern societies is characterized more by rediscovery than by revival, Wuthnow examines the main theoretical approaches toward religion that have emerged of late in the social sciences and shows how these approaches can help explain the shifting location of the sacred.