Paul Georgiou

Broschiertes Buch

Adventures in Numberland

a story of numbers in life and in business

Beschreibung

Adventures in Numberland is a fairy story about numbers in life and in business. The target audience is adult but will work for older children as an introduction to business and the importance of numeracy The hero is Piff, the wood-cutters daughter, a beautiful , strong-minded young girl who is thrown out of her home by her fat and lazy step-mother. Alone in the forest, Piff meets the fairy, Numberlina, who decides to help Piff by showing her how useful numbers are and how powerful they can be. In return Numberlina wants a share of the profits and help in dealing with the Anathemath, an evil and confusing spirit, shrouded in a noxious green cloud. Piff develops the wood-cutting business successfully, moving into furniture manufacturing and finally ship building. In the process, she leans how useful all the numbers (including pi, phi and e) can be. She attracts the unwelcome attention of Prince Baltigral who owns almost everything in Numberland. Baltigral is a greedy prince who has enlisted the help of the Anathemath, to mislead, suppress and exploit the population of Numberland. In the course of her commercial career, Piff learns that mathematics has many practical uses - e.g. for making perfect right angles in the design of furniture, for measuring distances, for designing buildings and for calculating interest. In the end, there is a final cataclysmic political and numerical struggle between Piff supported by Numberlina on one side and Prince Baltigral aided by the Anathemath on the other.

Autor

Paul was educated at St Marylebone Grammar School and New College, Oxford, where he read English for a B.A (hons) and then took an M. Phil. in Modern English Studies. He has written poetry, fiction and non-fiction all his life. Most of his poetry has been published in a hard cover book entitled "The Elements of Life". This is a collection of poems, with illustrations by Daria Kisliouk, which is now in its second edition. He has also published an illustrated retelling in verse of "The Tortoise and the Hare" fable, illustrated by Joan Steel. In 2014, he published The Fourth Beginning, the first book in the Truth quartet. The second book in the series, The Devil's Truth, was published in 2016. The third volume, The Praesidium, will be published later in 2018. The fourth and final volume, The Whole Truth, will be published towards the end of 2018. In 2014 Paul also published Adventures in Grammarland, co-authored with Chris Prendergast, a fantasy of grammatical proportions and illustrated by Daria Mitchell. In 2015, he published the Report Writer's Handbook, designed to help anyone engaged in writing any kind of document to order their material and express their thoughts as clearly and succinctly as possible. In 2016, Adventures in Numberland was published, a companion to Adventures in Grammarland. Adventures in Numberland is a fairy tale that illustrates the importance of numeracy in business and in life All these books are available from Amazon. Paul has also written several other, as yet unpublished, fictional works, with the following titles: ¿ The Earthlight ¿ The Diarist ¿ Sexual Crisis Paul lives with his wife Janet just inside the New Forest, near Ringwood. They have two grown up children, Josh and Stephanie, and two boxer dogs, Cromwell and Tess. Paul is also currently developing a computer programme, DocuPraxis, as a companion to the Report Writer's Handbook, to assist users in composing reports and other types of document

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Panarc International Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 204g
• ISBN-13: 9780995463752
• ISBN-10: 0995463751
• Artikelnr.: 46968667