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Computer Graphics with OpenGL, 4/e is appropriate for junior-to graduate-level courses in computer graphics. Assuming no background in computer graphics, this junior-to graduate-level course presents basic principles for the design, use, and understanding of computer graphics systems and applications. The authors, authorities in their field, offer an integrated approach to two-dimensional and three-dimensional graphics topics. A comprehensive explanation of the popular OpenGL programming package, along with C++ programming examples illustrates applications of the various functions in the OpenGL basic library and the related GLU and GLUT packages. |
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Some guests are invited to a lonely mansion on Indian Island by a host who, surprisingly, fails to appear. First there were ten, each with something to hide and something to fear. On the island they are cut off from everything but each other and the inescapable shadows of their own past lives. One by one, the guests share the darkest secrets of their wicked pasts and, one by one, they die. This is considered by many readers the best mystery novel ever written. |
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Benjamin Button is a very strange baby. Born with a white beard, he looks like his grandfather. As years pass, he seems to get younger. This brings many problems, for him and the people around him. In these three stories by F.Scott Fitzgerald, people are not always as they seem. |
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Laura and her father live quietly in a castle in the middle of a thick forest, but their lives change when beautiful, strange Carmilla becomes their guest. People start dying, and Laura also becomes ill. Laura's father is worried. Will his daughter die too? Or can the deaths be stopped? |
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This funny play is about rich people. These people always want more money, so Volpone and his servant play a game. People think Volpone is dying. They bring beautiful things for him. They want his money after he dies. But what will happen to Volpone's money? Who will win and who will lose? |
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In Clanton, Mississippi, not much happens. There aren't many interesting stories for Willie Traynor's newspaper. But then there's a murder. When the killer goes to jail, the story does not end. Everybody is afraid now of this man and his family. Will there be more killings? Who will be next? |
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Emma Bovary is a dreamer. She escapes from her boring life with her father by marrying Charles, a doctor, but married life does not bring her the love and excitement she expected. She looks for love outside her marriage, and one of literature's great tragedies begins to unfold. |
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Martin Luther King had a dream. He wanted blacks and whites to live together happily. But in America in the 1950s and 1960s, all men were not equal. King led peaceful protests against the government and won changes for the blacks of America. But has King's dream really come true today? |
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When Miss Marple complains of feeling old and helpless, her doctor jokingly suggests that she needs a murder to solve. Then there is a death in the village. Is it murder? Did the right person die? Suddenly, Jane Marple has a new interest in life. And then there are more deaths |
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Monkey is an excitable, selfish creature with magic skills. As a punishment he is sent, by the gods, on a long, hard journey to the west, to protect a young Buddhist priest. The travellers have many advetures on the way. Can they return unharmed? |
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When a notice appears in the local newspaper, the villagers are curious. Is it a joke, or is there really going to be a murder at Little Paddocks? At the announced time, the lights go out. Gunshots are heard. What is happening? Will Miss Marple be able to explain the mystery? |
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Mary Lennox goes to live with her uncle in a big, old house in the country. There are many gardens round the house. One day Mary finds a garden that has high walls and no doors. What is the secret of the garden? |
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Young Mico is a slave in a big house in Pompeii. His only friend is the house dog, Fortunatus. One quiet summer day, Fortunatus suddenly runs away. He takes Mico with him. What does the dog know? What is he afraid of? Is it, perhaps, the mountain behind the town? |
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Some people choose adventure. Others suddenly find themselves in danger in their ordinary lives. This book tells the true stories of survivors. In the Antarctica cold or the Sahara Desert heat, in the wide Atlantic Ocean or a small Rwandan bathroom, these people have known terrible suffering but have lived. |
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Sherlock Holmes is a very clever man. When people have strange, difficult problems, they come to him. Where is Mr Hosmer Angel? Which student saw the exam paper before the exam? Why is somebody following Miss Smith? Can you find the answers before Sherlock Holmes does? Penguin Readers — блестящая коллекция художественной литературы, адаптированная к семи уровням сложности языка (от Easystarts до Advanced). Книги, написанные на британском и американском английском языке, представлены в трёх различных сериях — современная, классическая и оригинальная литература. Информация, представленная на обложке, помогает правильно выбрать книгу в соответствии с интересами читателя, его возрастом и уровнем владения языком. Хотя эти книги предназначены главным образом для экстенсивного чтения, они имеют также образовательную ценность. Penguin Readers привлекательно и динамично оформлены. Любой читатель, даже с самый взыскательный, сможет найти свою книгу в этой великолепной коллекции. Большинство книг сопровождаются аудио приложением на Audio CD с высококачественной записью художественного чтения книги в исполнении актёров. |
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Mark Jackson is on holiday in Turkey. He visits the old city of Troy and finds a yellow stone. I know this stone, he thinks. It comes from from. Suddenly Mark goes back in time. He can see a beautiful city, soldiers and a big wooden horse. |
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