Kjartan Poskitt

Isaac Newton viveu há trezentos anos e vai ser famoso de morrer até o fim dos tempos. MAs por quê? Todos sabem que um dia ele se sentou à sombra de uma macieira e levou uma maçãzada na cabeça, o que o levou a descobrir a lei da gravidade. SÓ que a história é mais comprida e muito, mas muito mais interessante. POucos sabem, por exemplo, que Isaac foi o último da classe.LOgo nas primeiras páginas, o autor relaciona algumas coisas que contará sobre o grande sábio: "Por que ele enfiava coisas embaixo do globo ocular e quase ficou cego; como ele conseguiu decompor a luz; como ele inventou todo um novo sistema matemático; por que ele sempre queria guardar para si suas brilhantes descobertas; por que ele queria tocar fogo na mãe (dele); por que a Igreja o odiava; por que os falsários o odiavam; por que, na verdade, quase todo mundo o odiava; por que newtons demais matariam você; por que ele quase foi parar na forca; de quem era o nariz que ele esfregou na parede de uma igreja, e como ele conseguiu, acima de tudo, ser tão inteligente".TÍtulo Altamente Recomendável pela Fundação Nacional do Livro Infantil e Juvenil - FNLIJ 2001, categoria tradução jovem

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Isaac Newton

How can you make a liar tell the truth? How many people in the world share your birthday? Easy Questions, Evil Answers provides the answers to these questions and more. It's the perfect read for anyone who's ever wondered just how many footballs you can fit in a swimming pool and how long it takes to count to a million.

Easy Questions, Evil Answers

A humorous look at the world of numbers, covering topics number systems, such as place values, fractions, prime numbers, and their uses. Suggested level: intermediate, junior secondary.

The Key to the Universe

Maths with the laughs added in! \* How can maths rescue someone in deadly peril? \* Which famous mathematician was murdered? \* How did time begin? Find out in Murderous Maths - all the tricks, tips and short-cuts they don't teach at school.

Guaranteed to Bend Your Brain

Murderous Maths has been given a gorgeous new cover look! Using a host of hilarious characters, Kjartan Poskitt presents all the tricks, tips and shortcuts to algebra they don't teach at school. Readers must pit their wits against Professor Fiendish in the Foul Formula Challenge and Chainsaw Charlie and his gruesome gang discover that even the simplest maths can be murderous. But look no further: The Phantom is here to banish algebraic agony - for good!

The Phantom X

Using a host of hilarious characters, Kjartan Poskitt presents all the tricks, tips and shortcuts to shapes they don't teach at school. Readers will find out how to command respect throughout the entire Universe, learn why the US defence headquarters is a penagon, and discover the quickest way to get a naked Colonel back to his beach hut.

Savage Shapes

Find out how maths can rescue someone in deadly peril, and why perilous old Pythagoras got so upset about maths he murdered someone!

Murderous Maths Guaranteed to Mash Your Mind

Find out about how maths could help you rescue someone in deadly peril, how not to shoot yourself with a cannon, and meet famous mathematicians who were really hard. And watch out for One Finger Jimmy, Chainsaw Charlie and their gangster friends, who are living proof that maths can be murderous.

Murderous Maths

This gobsmacking guide gives you mind-boggling information about our galaxy and beyond. Go on a grand tour of the solar system, where you can go skiing on Mars and meet the sad creature from Pluto. There are incredible facts about red giants, white dwarves and supernovas.

The Gobsmacking Galaxy

Never dared before, Murderous Maths of Everything is one big book with all the answers to everything in maths. And it's in cool colour, too! Readers can join the cast of crazy characters on a tour of the Murderous Maths building to discover the darkest and deadliest mathematical secrets. Discover how to make birthdays last twice as long, how the number 1 starts fights, how triangles lead to murder and much more. Put an end to maths misery, once and for all.

Murderous Maths of Everything

Readers must pit their wits against Professor Fiendish in the Foul Formula Challenge, and Chainsaw Charlie and his gruesome gang discover that even the simplest maths can be murderous.

Awesome Arithmetricks

Op humoristische wijze wordt informatie gegeven over ons zonnenstelsel en de bouw van het heelal. Met vrolijke zwart-witte tekeningen. Vanaf ca. 11 jaar.

Echt gigantisch, dat heelal / druk 1

Maths with the laughs added in! � Why does a horse need hands? � How many metres are there on the head of a pin? � How dense are you? Find out in Desperate Measures - all the tricks, tips and short-cuts they don't teach at school.

Desperate Measures

It's time for tea, but one pesky pea has decided to ping himself off the plate in search of a party! The rogue pea shoots, flings and bounces across the kitchen as he embarks on his perilous adventure - but will he find the fun he is looking for or is the kitchen a scarier place than he thought? This quirky caper from debut duo Kjartan Poskitt and Alex Willmore will show you just what can happen when you take your eye off your dinner for a second! PRAISE FOR THE RUNAWAY PEA: ‘A runaway success’ – Philip Ardagh 'Kids will enjoy . . . Poskitt’s lively rhyming verse as the pea plops, splashes, bangs and twangs his way across the kitchen' – The Observer

The Runaway Pea

True life stories of the most amazing people EVER! Meet HARRY HOUDINI, the brilliant escape artist who thrilled the world with his death-defying stunts and awesome showmanship.Find out:- How he was inspired by a man with no head,- Why he kept asking to be put in jail (and how he got out again)- And why he dangled upside down from a crane 120 feet up in the air.Get to know HARRY on First Name terms.

First Names: Harry (Houdini)

Discover the man behind the magic and see how Houdini pulled off his most daring escapes Before Harry Houdini (1874-1926) became the greatest magician in the world, he was just little Ehrich Weisz, a Hungarian-born immigrant who moved to America with his family and performed stage tricks for a little extra cash. He started off with card tricks and then eventually began performing the escape acts that would make him famous. Known for his daring and death-defying illusions, he would do some of the greatest tricks ever: escaping from a milk can, being buried alive, and being locked inside a crate and thrown into a river. He conquered each of these seemingly impossible feats and showed the world the power of a little magic. Fun, fast-paced, and highly illustrated, Harry Houdini tells the story of the curious boy who became the world's greatest magician and reveals how Houdini did some of his most stunning escapes. It includes a timeline, glossary, and index.

Harry Houdini (the First Names Series)

This gobsmacking guide provides mind-boggling information about our galaxy and beyond. Readers can embark on a grand tour of the solar system, go skiing on Mars and meet the sad creature from Pluto. It also contains incredible facts about red giants, white dwarves and supernovas.

Gobsmacking Galaxy

Never dared before, Murderous Maths of Everything is one big book with ALL the answers to EVERYTHING in maths. And it's in cool colour, too! Readers can join the cast of crazy characters on a tour of the Murderous Maths building to discover the darkest and deadliest mathematical secrets. Discover how to make birthdays last twice as long, how the number 1 starts fights, how triangles lead to murder and much more. Put an end to maths misery, once and for all.

The Murderous Maths of Everything

Murderous Maths: The Brain-Bending Basics is full of facts, tricks and tips to give children a roller-coaster overview into the world of murderous maths. Updated for the relaunch of the primary national curriculum in autumn 2014, children can learn to become mathematical masters with simple explanations and hilarious characters.

Murderous Maths: The Brain-Bending Basics

Boxed set contains Awesome Arithmetricks, Guaranteed to Bend Your Brain, Desperate Measures, Do You Feel Lucky, Easy Questions Evil Answers, Key to the Universe, Guaranteed to Mash Your Mind, The Perfect Sausage, The Phantom X and Savage Shapes.

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