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Pie Academy by Haedrich
“Discover recipes for all types of crusts and pastry, including gluten-free, whole wheat, and extra-flaky. Learn about the best tools and gadgets to make dough and fillings. Step-by-step instructions with photos make it easy for bakers of all levels”– Provided by publisher.
Literary Eats by Scharnhorst
“This is a comprehensive collection of authentic recipes, for drinks and dishes that more than 150 American authors since the late 18th century are known to have enjoyed…[including] Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rudolfo Anaya, Emily Dickinson, William Faulkner and Benjamin Franklin”– Provided by publisher
Pie by Weeks
After the death of Polly Portman, whose award-winning pies put the town of Ipswitch, Pennsylvania, on the map in the 1950s, her devoted niece Alice and Alice’s friend Charlie investigate who is going to extremes to find Aunt Polly’s secret pie crust recipe. Includes fourteen pie recipes.
How to bake Pi : an edible exploration of the mathematics of mathematics by Cheng
What is math? How exactly does it work? And what do three siblings trying to share a cake have to do with it? In How to Bake Pi, math professor Eugenia Cheng provides an accessible introduction to the logic and beauty of mathematics, powered, unexpectedly, by insights from the kitchen…
Humble Pi : when math goes wrong in the real world by Parker
“This tour of [hilarious] real-world mathematical disasters reveals the importance of math in everyday life…[Explore] glitches, near misses, and mathematical mishaps involving the internet, big data, elections, street signs, lotteries, the Roman Empire, and an Olympic team…”– Provided by publisher.
A history of (PI) by Beckmann
Petr Beckmann holds up this mirror, giving the background of the times when pi made progress and also when it did not, because science was being stifled for one reason or another.
The maker’s guide to the zombie apocalypse : defend your base with simple circuits, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi by Monk
A collection of DIY hardware projects using circuits, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi to store electricity, detect invading zombies, generate solar power, and create communication and surveillance devices. Projects include alarms, low-power LED lighting, an FM radio frequency hopper, a periscope, a wind turbine, and flash, movement, and noise makers”– Provided by publisher
Film: Pi (Numbers)
All ancient civilizations wrestled with the challenge of calculating the area of a circle by simply using a ruler and compass. It took 5,000 years finally to come up with a solution. To solve this mathematical conundrum, mathematicians used geometry, quadratic equation, calculus and other math formulae.
CD: The Best of Don McLean
AMERICAN PIE.
“I can’t remember if I cried
When I read about his widowed bride
But something touched me deep inside
The day the music died
So bye, bye, Miss American Pie”
Soundtrack: Sweeney Todd: the demon barber of Fleet Street
THE WORSTPIES IN LONDON
“Wait, what’s your rush, what’s your hurry?
You gave me such a fright
I thought you was a ghost
Half a minute, can’t you sit? Sit you down, sit
All I meant is that I haven’t seen a customer for weeks
Did you come here for a pie, sir?”
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