| 单词 | complex |
| 例句 | Most of them were huge, complex, and obviously very expensive. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z "Look at the silly hippies! Look at their pathetic attempts to simulate a complex global ecosystem in their backyard." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Playfully she ran through complex sentences, calling the words alive with her voice, making it seem that the author somehow was speaking directly to me. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z To modern eyes, the puzzle is not that this should have occurred, but that it should have taken so long for people to lose their inferiority complex. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z They pitched their tents somewhere in this tranquil grove, then hiked the short way through the woods to Skyland Lodge, another commercial complex, to eat in its restaurant. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Although we associate rounds with children, there are many complex and lengthy rounds with more serious topics for adults. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The team made complex tables of the letter distributions in these messages. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z These and other discoveries add details, which continue to fascinate me, to our understanding of how agriculture’s rise triggered the rise of agriculturally based complex societies in the ancient world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z All of these vibrations happen at the same time, producing a rich, complex, interesting sound. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z We easily parse complex distinctions in facial expression. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Tito had been shot right in front of their apartment complex. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z When we become expert in something, our tastes grow more esoteric and complex. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Cells of all sorts are commonly likened to biochemical factories, busy ferments in which dozens of mechanisms are working away in complex sequences that are half Rube Goldberg, half ballet. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Between the edge of the burned forest and the mountains, a rocky slope of heavy boulders and scree was littered with scorched and twisted metal: girders and struts that had belonged to some complex machine. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Her home was a roomy two-story building in a guarded complex in Kinshasa. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “I know it’s a complex topic, and I’ll be sure to go over painstaking details at a later time, after we clean up the mess you made, but right now...” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Older children appreciate and are capable of singing complex songs, particularly those that include multiple parts and simple harmony. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Dr. Legs explained that many people believe spoken communication evolved because human societies had become so complex that hand gestures and grunting were no longer enough. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z In two places, where Charles explained how the eye, such a complex organ, had evolved, she challenged his theory. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Better graphics and sound, more complex challenges and on-screen data to juggle. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z It was a very complex job the Count was doing, but the six fingers on his right hand never for a moment seemed in doubt as to just what to do. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Five minutes later, I am driving into Jill’s apartment complex and I have the music turned up so we don’t have to talk. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Examples include the rules that govern punctuation, complex forms of agreement, and fine semantic distinctions between uncommon words like militate and mitigate and credible and credulous. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Around the hospital and the church stood the beautiful ferocious trees, a complex of camphors and teaks. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She circled the apartment complex once, then once again. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Now there’s a huge building in its place, what they call a shopping complex, as if shopping were a psychic disease. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The subject is complex, and I break it into two parts. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Furthermore, two or more people disturb the ecologic complex of an area. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Pacioli is a mathematician; the person who painted him was surely also a mathematician, as demonstrated by his understanding of complex mathematical shapes. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z These correlations suggest strongly that regional population size or population density or population pressure has something to do with the formation of complex societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Maybe he’s just getting over his Boethius complex. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, or deep or complex sorrows. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z She wasn’t sure what kind of response her flyers had generated among the boys in the complexes around Clarkston. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Thus, even in those areas where complex systems of hydraulic management did emerge, they were a secondary consequence of states that must have formed for other reasons. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Rising and falling, complex in harmony, uncertain in pitch, but constant in the recitative of pain. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps it is due to complex brightly colored organic molecules produced when ultraviolet light from the Sun breaks down the methane, ammonia, and water in the Jovian atmosphere and the molecular fragments recombine. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “A girl could get a complex,” she said. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z “Since Susan and Sandra are gone, I feel a guilt complex myself. What am I doing? Where is my project? I am a woman of interests, ideals.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She was in the middle of a complex bit of magic. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z It had become the centerpiece of an elaborate complex, crisscrossed with artificial canals and connecting bridges. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The philosophical reasoning behind this is complex: in Muslim tradition, the idea of music as entertainment is looked upon as degrading; therefore, the holy Qur’an cannot be labeled as music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The whole complex must have been a couple of miles square. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z “Ah, yes. The notorious Mr. Huxley. He’s the one who tore down a senior citizen housing complex to build a shiny mall full of ridiculously expensive shops.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z “Diabetes mellitus—commonly referred to as diabetes—is a costly, silent killer. This complex but common disease occurs when a cat’s body either doesn’t produce or doesn’t properly use insulin.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Give me plastics, periodical tables, t.v. dinners with vegetables no more complex than peas mixed with diced carrots. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m really looking forward to my meeting tomorrow with the activities director at Mrs. Gilbert’s seniors’ apartment complex. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z The bodice was embroidered with hundreds of tiny crystal beads in a complex pattern of flowers, and in the dusky light that came through the window, the bodice shimmered like the scales of a fish. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z As tiring as it was, he’d loved his job for what it taught him about Chicago’s complex political system and for proving that his organizing instincts could work on a larger scale. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Likewise, the celebrated rationality of the fifth century represents a retrospective bleaching of what was actually a complex and contested story. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z In short, Enigma was so complex that it could not be solved once and for all, even by the British experts. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Anything this complex and strange would usually be left for the Thunderhead to resolve—but this was a scythe matter, which meant the Thunderhead would not interfere. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z These tests confirm that the same ancestral peoples either ended up extinct, or returned to living as hunter-gatherers, or went on to build complex states, depending on their environments. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It showed an artist’s colorful rendering of the new ROC, with huge shopping complexes, smiling people in sunglasses toting oversize shopping bags, a Corporation oil rig shining from the blue water in the background. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Reggie was living in an apartment complex in a busy part of Salt Lake City, surrounded by commercial strips, chain restaurants, and retailers. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z It copied her waving with one raised arm and made complex motions with its other hand. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “The accountant who wants to stay in business in America will be the one who focuses on designing creative, complex strategies, like tax avoidance or tax sheltering, managing customer relationships,” he said. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z The simplest, hydrogen, is element 1; the most complex, uranium, is element 92. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Middleton High seemed frozen somewhere in the fifties, a sprawling, one-story tile, glass, and brick complex, many of whose students were headed inexorably toward lifetimes of low-paying jobs in small, conservative Idaho towns. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We assume that a large brain, the use of tools, superior learning abilities and complex social structures are huge advantages. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z From the very beginning she was surly with me, and she didn’t have to worry about getting over any Electra complex, because she never had one. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The agencies said they would scatter the Bantu around the various apartment complexes in town, wherever they could find space. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z They live together in dense, interdependent communities, feeding and supporting the environment for each other, regulating the balance of populations between different species by a complex system of chemical signals. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The table greatly simplifies a complex mass of historical facts: see the text for some of the many important caveats. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The mine complex is a smoldering black mountain range behind her. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “They’re visiting from the SkyWay complex down in Hartford,” he lied kindly, as if we were other rich kids here in the foyer waiting for our rich aunt. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Hampton Roads had become the embodiment of what Cold War president Dwight D. Eisenhower would a decade later dub the “military- industrial complex.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Their status as precursors led archaeologists to believe that the subsequent emergence of other complex societies was due to their example—or their conquest. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He exits the town house complex with a quiet, clumsy turn onto the street. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z But I’d become part of a system, as permanent and complex as war itself, made a dozen small choices that had led to these dead creatures with their wide faces and chapped lips. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The zombies had just marched into the hero’s house and eaten his mother when they arrived at the apartment house complex. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He exited the store and circled around back, taking a shortcut to get back to the apartment complex. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z It may even be that those factors play a very subtle and complex role in increasing the odds of something happening to him in the next seventy-two hours. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z I began to relax, and as I did, I began to understand the complex culture of the gym. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Your problem,” Arnold said, “is both simple and a bit complex. More tea?” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z The Raleigh accent is soft and beautifully cadenced, but my brother's is a more complex hybrid, informed by his professional relationships with marble-mouthed, deep-country work crews and his abiding love of hard-core rap music. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Some older refugee kids from the complexes in Clarkston had managed rides to the game, an hour away from Clarkston, and several volunteers from resettlement agencies showed up as well. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z A. To create her magnificent new book, Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, Maria took elements from the studies she painted in Surinam and produced complex full-page designs in watercolors. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The sports complex, with its state-of-the-art facilities, was a more recent addition to the school, but it was kind of a trek on a cold day in February. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Five men had been arrested in the Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate complex. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Its hydrofoils were retracted, but with the carbon- polymer hull shattered, Nailer could see into its workings: the huge gears that extended the foils, the complex hydraulics and precision electronic systems. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z How can we account for the empirical observation that band or tribal organization just does not work for societies of hundreds of thousands of people, and that all existing large societies have complex centralized organization? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Their reasoning was complex in detail, but simple in principle. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Ray leaped up from behind a car farther down the block and began sprinting, ducking behind cars as he moved around the enclosed complex. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z These whole neighborhood sections were way bigger and more complex. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z The sharp sound of their radios echoed in the parking lot and in the darkened stairwells of the apartment complex. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z In fact, it could well be the case that life, once it becomes complex, is inherently unstable and will self-destruct within a few thousand years. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education and, even more amazing, no superiority complex because he had succeeded despite that lack. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The next morning Mrs. Bedlow led Lyddie down the street past all the corporation boardinghouses to the bridge that led to the factory complex. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Skipping over the complex course of Tisquantum’s life is understandable in a textbook with limited space. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z That was why archaeologists and anthropologists had come across the ruins of complex societies throughout Mesoamerica and the Andes, but saw only hunter- gatherers and slash-and-burners in Amazonia. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The apartment complexes were within walking distance of the main shopping center, so residents could get their food without hitching a ride or taking a train or bus. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Nor does prison even begin to address the root causes of crime, which are diverse and complex. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z As political legacies go, the Richards family is one of the most complex bits of history Alex has tried to unravel. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The walk from the restaurant to our apartment complex was about ten minutes. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z President Dwight Eisenhower, in his farewell speech in January 1961, railed against the United States’ growing military-industrial complex. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Most of the complex is open to tourists. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Benton smiled back awkwardly, thinking that perhaps Rameel had convinced himself that he could convert tribal peoples to a complex faith like Christianity in as little as twenty minutes. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z That is, political centralization arose for some other reason and then permitted construction of complex irrigation systems. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Those cases, initially so puzzling to us moderns accustomed to viewing writing as indispensable to a complex society, included one of the world’s largest empires as of A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He imagines himself as a tall white- coated engineer striding into a laboratory: cauldrons steam, machinery rumbles, complex charts paper the walls. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Indeed, if you looked carefully, all the chaotic and complex phenomena of the world were the result of highly organized natural laws. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The connections between modern landmasses and those of the past were found to be infinitely more complex than anyone had imagined. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It was nowhere near as complex as the top-secret Enigma machines the Nazis had developed. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z More important, a specific part of the brain of humans and other primates — the region known as the neocortex, which deals with complex thought and reasoning — is huge by mammal standards. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It only looked chaotic because it was vastly, marvelously complex. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The town itself had a weather-beaten look to it, with closed stores, rusted-out cars, and worn apartment complexes lining the road, but it was still beautiful. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Groves joked later that when this complex and contentious job was done, “I was hoping to get to a war theater so I could find a little peace.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The books used a “graded” curriculum with successively more complex songs and exercises, and combined author-composed songs in these books with folk and classical material. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The slope lengthened until a new balance point was reached, one defined by the complex interactions of countless tiny particles and their ability to maintain an angled shape. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z "Not too cold, I hope? I'll never understand why our launch complex is in the middle of the Gobi Desert." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The mathematics to model a trait controlled by five or seven genes, Fisher discovered, was not all that complex. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Dylan laughed and they exchanged a series of complex, multistage handshake-fist-bump-high-fives. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z It tasted, he thought—but did not say—like tea—complex and fine and not too sweet. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “Oh yeah, it’s coming. Watch out for it. And I’m also writing a piece about the princess industrial complex,” I say, starting to feel comfortable and finally eating my food like a normal person. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z Over the years, people have woven an incredibly complex network of stories. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z There were many other emergencies in which the lunar module might find itself, and the command-module pilot’s job as rescuer was a very complex one. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Quite the opposite: that all that extra information isn’t actually an advantage at all; that, in fact, you need to know very little to find the underlying signature of a complex phenomenon. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Take all of the numbers in the complex plane and multiply them by two. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z She drove past the store, and had to make a U-turn in the parking lot of an old apartment complex called the Lakes. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z While these grassroots initiatives and policy proposals are major achievements, they raise questions about how best to address the complex and interlocking forms of discrimination experienced by black people with criminal records. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z At times, when a dubious or complex combination was played, or when the diminutive American Reshevsky took one hour and ten minutes on one move, twenty-two hundred eyebrows seemed to rise in unison. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Under his tutelage, I learned artificing as quickly as I learned everything, and it wasn’t long before we worked our way up to more complex projects like heat-eaters and sympathy lamps. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I too had managed an apartment complex, I could answer truthfully, and had also driven a cab. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And yet everyone agreed that to lead a huge project, involving the juggling of dozens of complex tasks, Groves was the right choice. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z True turning points exist, but they are nearly always the visible tip of a vast and highly complex social process. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Rut wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale; cannot bring home the finer distinctions, cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behaviour. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z On the far side of the park were the Columbia University complex, Grant’s Tomb, and Riverside Church, all places I would come to know over the following years. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Landlords filled the apartment complexes through government housing programs and cut back on upkeep, allowing the complexes to fall into disrepair. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Remember, the main premise of this course is that a better understanding of where the basics come from will lead to better and faster comprehension of more complex ideas. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Not everyone agreed with my father’s philosophy or methodology; he was considered complicated, intricate, and complex. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z They drove through the complex until they arrived at the main offices at the front of the prison. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The problem of language acquisition is extremely complex. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z These were the great, complex questions of ontology that tormented him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z By their very nature chemical controls are self-defeating, for they have been devised and applied without taking into account the complex biological systems against which they have been blindly hurled. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It’s full of books and plants she tends to with complex spreadsheets of watering schedules. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Scientific theories are complex things, for they are constituted by interlocking bundles of theories, facts, and equipment. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Although neurologists are still exploring how the auditory cortex functions, they now believe that music processing is actually much more complex then initially imagined, and involves many more parts of the brain than previously thought. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z They entered the factory complex through the counting room as they had two weeks before, but this time it was teeming with men, all dressed like gentlemen. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Considering the tendency of nature to find uses for complex and intricate mechanisms, this seems to me unnatural. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Wes and his friend ran through a dark alley, jumping over trash cans and fences, trying to get to the other side of the complex as fast as possible. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z In the decades to come, this revolutionary science would extend its domain from simple organisms to complex ones. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z After a short vacation at the end of the season, Luma had just a month to find the Fugees a new home field within walking distance of the apartment complexes where her players lived. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z There are some complex maze variations I’d like him to learn to be sure he keeps in shape. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z The answers are complex, not mutually exclusive, and mostly beyond the scope of this book. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z So she let us use the courtyard at her apartment complex. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Reducing a complex intelligence or the economy to numbers on a scale, whether I.Q. or GNP, is myopic at best and many times simply ludicrous. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The Fashion Minister guides her through the complex vertical network of stores. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Most students of Titan agree that complex organic molecules are the most likely explanation. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He had grown close with Eldin, the Bosnian goalie, who lived in the same apartment complex. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z These are more extravagant than those, vibrant and complex, petals folded into petals. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z However, demand was fully re-established in the decade 1600-1609, and not just for the new more complex commentaries such as that of Clavius, published in fat quartos, but also for cheap octavo editions. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z To become a high officer in the Sarf one must have, it seems, a certain complex form of stupidity. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The theories to explain olfaction are as numerous and complex as those for immunologic sensing. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And that—to use the kind of complex word you'd expect from a prodigy—blew. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z The explanation was simple; the consequences for Kamen’s career rather more complex. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “They had a complex system of rules, but... yes, that’s essentially what happened.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z All living things on our planet are constructed of organic molecules—complex microscopic architectures in which the car- bon atom plays a central role. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But don’t run away with the idea that Uraniborg was entirely the forerunner of a modern observatory and technological complex. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z She’s a widow who lives in the senior citizen apartment complex a quick bike ride away from our house. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z McKissick had a knack for translating complex ideas and for incorporating the audience’s responses into his speeches. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The complex workings of living beings can be perceived in terms of these layers: physics enabling chemistry, and chemistry enabling physiology. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Kote was in the middle of it all, always moving, like a man tending a large, complex machine. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z And while many mathematicians saw the complex numbers as a convenient fiction, others saw God. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He gestures to complex problems facing the new country but focuses on the 1966 massacres. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z After all, Egypt by 3000 B.C. was undoubtedly the site of Africa’s most complex society, and one of the world’s earliest centers of writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This six-part ricercar is still, to this day, considered by musicians and composers the greatest, most complex feat of counterpoint of all time. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He began with sight-reading and mastering basic rhythms and pitches that gradually increased step by step to become more complex, sometimes by adding only one new note or rhythmic value at a time. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z This works a little bit like the waves in tubes, above, but the waves produced on membranes, though very interesting, are too complex to be discussed here. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z I had been selfish and hyper-sensitive, a martyr to my own inferiority complex. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Like many other researchers before him, Gordon realized we are lacking in terminology to explain all of the complex processes that go on with music learning and listening. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z I feel that America’s past is too shallow, her national character too superficially optimistic, her very morality too suffused with color hate for her to accomplish so vast and complex a task. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Of the complex millionfold division of the cells. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z This table is sure to horrify any knowledgeable scholar, because it reduces exceedingly complex histories to a few seemingly precise dates. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We walked through the gates of our complex, and I stopped just in front of Abuela’s apartment. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Because intensive agriculture has been regarded a prerequisite for complex societies, it has long been claimed that civilizations can arise only in such farm-friendly places. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Whatever they are watching has to be complex enough to allow, upon repeated exposure, for deeper and deeper levels of comprehension. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z If he thought being arrested was bad...and then she would concoct elaborate revenge schemes in her head, complex and vicious. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Even though they were willing to try anything, I'd personally reached peak frustration levels at our country's complex and seemingly arbitrary immigration laws. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z This complex and exceedingly efficient government operation was completed while residents of New Orleans were trapped in attics and begging for rescue from rooftops and highway overpasses. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z In a forest, or wood—any kind of natural area—all the different kinds of plants and animals make up a whole, wonderful, complex pattern. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z My simple device to deceive Polonius and the king grew, under Hamlet’s hand, into a plot with ever more complex motives and uncertain ends. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “You ask deep questions, Mr. Potter. Wandlore is a complex and mysterious branch of magic.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The people who lived in the house came to look on her as a quiet child who had a queer complex about tidiness. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The truth is that Aché society, like every human society, was very complex. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z They want to believe that their language and culture are so unique as to have required uniquely complex developmental processes, unlike those operating elsewhere in the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We had already concluded that the formation of complex societies is somehow linked to population pressure, so we should now seek a link between population pressure and the outcome of war. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z If the cameras look in the ultraviolet, however, we see a graceful, complex swirling weather system in the high atmosphere, where the winds are around 100 meters per second, some 220 miles per hour. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z With all those decaying apartment complexes in town, Clarkston had a surplus of cheap housing. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The centerpiece of the complex is a grassy outdoor seating area populated with oversized, oddly shaped chairs painted in bright zigzag patterns. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Quang-ha has a real persecution complex, which is no doubt legitimate. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Within minutes the car pulled out of the apartment complex and headed toward the airport for a long night of shuttling passengers around. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z “Something a bit more complex than last time, and yes, I may be interested,” he says. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z "The universe is a complex place," said Ishtar. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z With 2,300 journalists around the world, in 197 bureaus, serving a market including investment bankers, derivatives traders, stockbrokers, newspapers, radio, television, and Internet outlets, Reuters has always had a very complex audience to satisfy. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z To mount this argument he needs not just a complex contrivance but one which is in continuous movement. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z This was the unit that Marina Raskova would be commanding herself—she, too, had had to learn to fly the complex Pe-2 before she could lead her flight crews into battle. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Or maybe he wanted to know what the plan was—like, were we going to stay inside and not go wandering around the apartment complex. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z When my father discovered my colony of frozen slugs in the basement freezer, I chose not to explain my complex theories of suspended animation. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Indian classical forms more than make up for an absence of harmony with highly complex and intricate melodies and rhythms. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Other examples of complex technologies that diffused east and west in the ancient Old World, from a single West Asian source, include door locks, pulleys, rotary querns, windmills—and the alphabet. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Dalcroze’s exercises are always sequential, beginning with the simplest and becoming more complex as students master and develop their skills. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Every point on the ball has a shadow on the complex plane; in a sense, every point on the ball is equivalent to its shadow on the plane and vice versa. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Independence is a complex word in a foreign tongue. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z There were three swing sets in the middle of the complex that sat vacant at all times because all of the children had been taught to stay clear of them. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z In the complex math of elementary school, I was a whole number, not a fraction. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z He clambered down the stairs and exited the apartment complex. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z He hated the idea of the black inferiority complex and castigated what he called the worship and idolization of the West and their ideas. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Native peoples had created town sites, farms, monumental earthworks, and networks of roads, and they had devised a wide variety of governments, some as complex as any in the modern world. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z “She and her greedy uncle want the Riverview property for a luxury condominium complex.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z We lived in a very small apartment complex, so Uncle Joe, my younger brothers, and I all slept in the living room. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The lists of plants, the many characteristics of each, the details of the dyeing procedures, so much complex knowledge; all of it was clear and complete. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Riemann merged projective geometry with the complex numbers, and all of a sudden lines became circles, circles became lines, and zero and infinity became the poles on a globe full of numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Before they read Descartes in 1637 the English had called complex machines ‘engines’, not ‘machines’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Maybe in a place as complex as C Average Middle School, it was impossible to analyze every single thing that happened. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z A full- fledged agricultural revolution with a multifarious suite of crops, the complex is an example of a major cultural innovation that has completely disappeared. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I pulled up outside of Daisy’s apartment complex and parked Harold. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Riemann imagined a translucent ball sitting atop the complex plane, with the south pole of the ball touching zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z All the complex’s residents were standing outside now, mostly men, some women. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “That, too. But the therapy and the ethics offices are in the same complex, so I get it all done the same days. How’d your project go?” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Dylan turns to me, once again abandoning the complex sorcery of the pause button. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z He moved several yards down the beach and began a new equation, captivating his audience with a lengthy explanation of each new and complex symbol. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z There is something irresistible about the discovery of even a token, perhaps a complex inscription, but, best by far, a key to the understanding of an alien and exotic civilization. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Economic and social behaviors, Galbraith continued, “are complex, and to comprehend their character is mentally tiring. Therefore we adhere, as though to a raft, to those ideas which represent our understanding.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The Islands have a long and complex cultural history, but are most known for their rich African-American heritage as white plantation owners left the islands in the 19th century leaving their slaves behind. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Those plants, growing in complex, living soils, produced polyphenols to protect themselves from pests and disease. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The palace complex comprised the Beta quarter and was in the northeast; Alpha quarter housed the courts of justice, and Delta the town’s extensive Jewish community. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z I look closer—what I took to be closet shelves are just the front layer of a complex construction. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Gladers were scattered all over the complex, but there was no sign of their leader. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z In contrast, the New World’s sole writing systems, those of Mesoamerica, never spread to the complex Andean and eastern U.S. societies that might have adopted them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Then you’ll wake up in the morning very sick, and a doctor will say you have typhoid or malaria, but in fact the problem will be more complex. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Behind, on higher ground, stood a splendid theater, a compulsory feature in any Greek city, and to its west, the Emporion, a complex of docks and customshouses where every ship was inspected. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z At first glance, the natural world seems incredibly complex, Herschel acknowledged. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The music slowly grew, changed, and became more complex. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The patterns of nature are deep and complex, constantly changing. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The relationship between the two editions is a complex one. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z With shells exploding all around, the bus sped to a military airbase and stopped in front of a complex that had once been General Westmoreland’s headquarters. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z A tricky situation needs to be resolved through a complex series of steps — and somehow the pilots fail to coordinate and miss one of them. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z It involved solving some relatively complex equations, and also trying to remember information he’d been asked to memorize a few equations prior. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z It was the largest shopping complex in the Bay Area, built in an old Ford assembly plant. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Beside a huge, misshapen hill, the car descended into a complex of rectangular buildings, as squat as ugly dorms and painted the color of dried grass. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Then imagine the skill required to isolate this particle, to take it apart and analyze its components and determine their highly complex functioning. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Driving to Daisy’s apartment complex, I kept forgetting why I was stopped at a stoplight, and then I’d let off Harold’s brake only to look up and notice, oh, right. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Farming enabled populations to increase so radically and rapidly that no complex agricultural society could ever again sustain itself if it returned to hunting and gathering. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The horizontal axis represents the real part of the complex number, while the vertical axis represents the imaginary part. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Romantic-era47 music also tends to use more complex chords in greater variety, and is very likely to use chords that are not in the key. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Key hallmarks of this transition included the development of agriculture, metallurgy, complex technology, centralized government, and writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We call it “instrument flying” now, and it’s much more complex and reliable than it was in the 1930s. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I have remained heavily involved in computing science, investigating and maintaining complex networks and studying everything from memes to artificial intelligence. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z On the ground, he couldn’t see that the streets, which were paved in various shades of stone, were laid out in a complex geometric pattern so that the city looked like a giant mosaic. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Dad's new apartment complex was miles away from our old neighborhood. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z In those early days, lightning and ultraviolet light from the Sun were breaking apart the simple hydrogen-rich molecules of the primitive atmosphere, the fragments spontaneously recombining into more and more complex molecules. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Pens contained thousands of pigs and cattle, and as Raizel and I headed deeper into the complex, the air grew muggy with their earthy animal odors. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Hussein turned, lowered his head, and began to walk toward the footpath that led to his apartment complex. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z In West Africa, rhythm is complex and highly valued, and involves communal/group participation, improvisation, and movement. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z None more complicated than the human brain, Etienne would say, what may be the most complex object in existence; one wet kilogram within which spin universes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z So, the highest of all our complex technologies in the hardest of our sciences will soon be engaged, full scale, in what is essentially biologic research—and with some aspects of social science, at that. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Sleep was a more complex matter, but most of the time she skimmed along, face barely submerged, coming up for frequent breaths. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Such complex inventions were usually acquired by borrowing, because they spread more rapidly than they could be independently invented locally. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Beak first, a dark and secret complex, a personality disorder let loose on the world, it plunges! How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z If the body percussion is too complex, simply say the rhyme or clap to the rhyme. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z What is simplistic is saying “It’s so complex.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z It contains a county map of Texas with complex voter demographic breakdowns, matched up with the populations of children of undocumented immigrants, unregistered voters who are legal residents, voting patterns over the last twenty years. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He accomplished this without the complex surveying equipment available later to the Romans, let alone GPS receivers, laser range finders, or satellites. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Sometimes I would stare at her and I knew I could see more inside her than anyone else, and all I could see was the whirring light complex of a supercomputer. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z What she meant was rather more complex than what everyone else so eagerly understood, and her moments of unease came when she felt that she could not express these nuances. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z In Cange, Farmer lived in a small house, with a bathroom but no hot water, on a hill across from the clinic complex. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Both relied on a complex blend of statistics and instinct to crack puzzles. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I don’t want her to develop one of them complexes you hear about.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z For indeed, we are nothing but figureheads to complex forces which seem to be under a kind of impulse. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Z and her army of associates had only a few days left to smooth out any kinks in the library’s complex operating system. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z How accurate could the driver be at thinking through complex issues, even doing math problems presented by the person on the other end of the line? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Eugenicists such as Galton had hoped to select complex phenotypes—intelligence, height, beauty, and moral rectitude—as a biological shortcut to enrich genes for intelligence, height, beauty, and morality. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z In 1960, Langley had only just completed Building 1268, a West Side facility housing one of the most advanced computer complexes on the East Coast. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z History consists for the most part of a complex bundle of deeply interwoven threads, social, cultural and economic forces that are not easily unraveled. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Tension would set in at the mere mention of whites and a vast complex of emotions, involving the whole of my personality, would be aroused. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The rest of the temple complex was silent, but Pong’s thoughts swished like the wind through palm leaves, filling his head with noise. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z One story, headed “Class in Cryptology,” stated that Elizebeth “had conducted a class in solving code messages,” showing “how experts translate into plain language the most complex of code and cipher.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The whole complex, recently painted with a mix of red ochre and buttermilk, stood against the sky like a row of giant beets popped clear of the earth. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z “You saw that big apartment complex we passed? Those are the projects we lived in when I was younger.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Phrase-by-phrase teaching is best when the song is longer or has a lot of lyrics or complex melodies. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z If Clausewitz’s dictum is so subtle, complex, and misunderstood, how is the reader being enlightened by being told it is false? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Similarly, when my dad focuses on something, he bites his lower lip and squints his eyes, as if to suggest that whatever he’s doing is extremely complex. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z It only took a few minutes for Wind Being to construct a complex sand painting around Nathan and Pond. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Any rhyme can be made more complex by adding a body percussion pattern or simple instrument pattern. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Thaya Jaan shows us the parts of the complex where there was a calligraphers’ market in olden times, and we pause by the huge square wudu fountain in the center of the courtyard. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Farther up the hill, the gorgons were scrambling over the roof of the apartment complex. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z It is essential to understand the complex interrelationships Indigenous peoples had before European invasions. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z None of the crucial developments preceding political centralization in those same parts of the world were associated with river valleys or with complex irrigation systems. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In fact, he was worried about the formation of the eye and other complex organs even back when he was still living in London. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe that was why so many apartment complexes around town were named for ferns and wet, wooded sanctuaries. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z More complex units don’t always conquer less complex ones but may succumb to them, as when the Roman and Chinese Empires were overrun by “barbarian” and Mongol chiefdoms, respectively. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z At the end of the last Ice Age, much of the world’s population lived in societies similar to that of the Fayu today, and no people then lived in a much more complex society. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Like that complex, it was a vast grid of chain-link fencing with few walls, so the prisoners were visible to the guards and each other. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Alphabets of ultimately eastern Mediterranean origin spread throughout all complex societies of Eurasia, from England to Indonesia, except for areas of East Asia where derivatives of the Chinese writing system took hold. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The complex pattern of dark lines may be ice fractures which have been filled in with material from beneath the crust. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon bebop musicians began dispensing with the blueprints of the standard songs and instead invented their own chord sequences and melodies - highly complex ones at that, sometimes derived from the note combinations of unusual chords. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z We lived once again in married student housing, a plywood apartment complex set among pine trees, and the singular topic of conversation among our young neighbors was the inadequacy of these rattletrap tenements. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z First, he seemed to be the only prisoner in the complex entertained by the state of affairs—being held at Camp Greyhound. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Such activities depend on a complex collaboration between the natural and the social. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z There are opportunities in every circumstance—even a circumstance as complex and troubling as the one around me...but as I take everything in, I’m finding it hard to see any opportunity whatsoever. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The decision bore the hallmarks of his overarching ambition: a top-down approach, beginning with the most complex and variant traits conceivable—intelligence, temperament, physical prowess, height. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Is it clear why I have said that the American white man’s malignant superiority complex has done him more harm than an invading army? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, don’t play baby lotto again, okay? We only have so many apartments in this complex.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Within just a block or two, you stop seeing modest apartment complexes and start seeing houses and luxury apartment buildings, restaurants with outdoor patios, and shops of all kinds. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The unpredictable current and the vast, complex system of wildlife that resides beneath the churning water gave me hives. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z I cut through the parking lot of the townhome complex and come out closer to my block. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z She would be ready with paintbrush and sketchbook to record their complex, miraculous lives. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The door slammed behind her, and a few seconds later, the truck rumbled out of the complex parking lot. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Even in sleep, the brain is pulsing, throbbing and flashing with the complex business of human life—dreaming, remembering, figuring things out. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He was driven to the front of the prison complex and was brought to another small cinderblock room, where he saw Raleigh, the first representative of the outside world he’d seen since his arrest. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “That doesn’t sound so complex,” he disagreed, but he was suddenly sympathetic. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z He had some idea that I had studied instrument building and was in fact able to do all sorts of complex, technical work, though I had never told him any such thing. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I hang out with Mop and Bren every day after my shifts at the restaurant, I see Carmen occasionally around the apartment complex, and I eat a ton of ice cream. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z When they escaped that complex of mirrors and marbled halls in an eruption of fire and rubble and charred scraps of paper. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z It sure was a strange and complex world outside Garland. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Archaeological excavations uncovered complex systems of drainage ditches dating back to 9,000 years ago and becoming extensive by 6,000 years ago, as well as terraces serving to retain soil moisture in drier areas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Social health is another kind of problem, more complex and urgent, and there will be other bills to pay. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The Old Me would have taken a lot of pleasure in a firsthand look at such a complex emotional condition. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z The garden in the center of our apartment complex does not need the approval of elected officials to be transformed, but I want whatever I submit to the bank to appear very professional. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z A final consideration mandating complex organization for large societies has to do with population densities. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As societies grew increasingly complex, the old classes became more heterogeneous. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Ever since chemists began to manufacture substances that nature never invented, the problems of water purification have become complex and the danger to users of water has increased. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Farther east was the Serapeion, a vast temple complex six hundred feet long and one hundred wide, dedicated to Alexandria’s patron deity. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z The simplest one-celled organism is a far more complex machine than the finest pocket watch. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “But I am afraid it is rather complex, and not the easiest of matters to explain, or believe.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z It was richer, more complex—a chord as opposed to a note. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z To get from the white world into the Negro world is a complex matter. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Beyond stands a scattered complex of buildings among which move crowds of people in shorts and baseball caps. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z How could something as complex as a human form emerge out of the union of sperm and egg? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Her desires parade through my mind like a series of télétrope images—each more complex than the next. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The original German expresses a more subtle and complex idea than the English words in which it is so frequently quoted. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z These vast architectural complexes included not only an inner shrine but workshops, storehouses, and residential quarters. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z As you proceed from one level to the next, the tunnels take on gradually more complex geometric shapes, and the number of enemies and obstacles crawling up toward you multiplies drastically. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Then the sperm cannot move to its destination; the fertilized egg cannot carry to completion its complex divisions and elaborations. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Or will we think on longer time scales, with concern for our children and our grandchildren, to understand and protect the complex life-support systems of our planet? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The forbidding complex of twenty buildings employed 7,000 people; by some estimates, the Stasi archives contained more than one billion documents describing the vast network of spies and informers cultivated over four decades. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z About ten million years ago, the Sun emerged from the Gould Belt complex of the Orion Spiral Arm, which is now a little less than a thousand light-years away. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There are paths for walking, a small exercise complex, a man-made pond surrounded by benches and willow trees. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z A cluster of people jams the steps leading up to our apartment complex. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “I have never been much of a potion-brewer and this one is particularly complex.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Those are the reasons why large societies cannot function with band organization and instead are complex kleptocracies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The human body is an extremely complex form. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z As the clock chimes, another ball joins the rest until at midnight he juggles twelve balls in a complex pattern. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “But a complex thing like a rocket, no, you couldn’t keep it secret.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The decline tracks the Maya priesthood’s steady loss of the scientific expertise necessary to maintain its complex calendars. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In addition, food production contributes in at least three ways to specific features of complex societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He leads me to the farthest-back corner of the hold where the lab complex is. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z With prints, however, the relationship between artist and image is more complex. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Miraculously, Oskar Schindler, this complex man of many contradictions—Nazi opportunist, schemer, courageous maverick, rescuer, hero—had saved nearly 1,200 Jews from almost certain death. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z “If you’re going to decipher a hidden code from a complex set of different mazes, I’m pretty sure you need a girl’s brain running the show.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z As the games became more complex, the spectators, many of whom followed each game with their tiny pocket sets or leather chess wallets, discussed the vagaries of the positions in whispers. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Both had had difficult adolescent lives, in complex families under unstable circumstances. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Hunt Correctional Center was a complex of one-story red-brick buildings laid out across an immaculate green campus. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z I get up and head out the gate to the front of the apartment complex. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Earthrise over rolling hills and complex overlapping craters on the Moon. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The isolation cells were in our same complex, but in another wing. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A small elite, like Dorothy Hoover, were endowed with an aptitude for complex math so strong that it exceeded the ability of many of the engineers at the lab. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z If a command was too complex, the game’s simple parsing engine wouldn’t be able to understand it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z When you enter the apartment complex, it feels like entering the courtyard of a dead king and his decaying cement kingdom. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Later, while Sansa was off listening to a troupe of singers perform the complex round of interwoven ballads called the "Dance of the Dragons," Ned inspected the bruise himself. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z When the rhythms are complex, this is necessary to make the rhythm in each part clear. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z In the 1830s Gauss realized that each complex number—numbers that have real and imaginary parts, like 1 – 2i—can be displayed on a Cartesian grid. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Soon word spread to the parking lots and apartment complexes around town. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Surveillance cameras were mounted in every room in the IOI complex, but that apparently wasn’t enough. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z There were crazy people in the apartment complexes in Clarkston—maybe she was one of those. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z And finally, the relationship between an organism’s physical or mental attributes and heredity was much more complex than anticipated. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z She was a molecular biologist working on identifying genes associated with complex genetic traits. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As long as the West Point complex of forts was held by the Americans, its guns would keep enemy ships from ascending the river. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The same is true of women’s magazine quizzes: How to tell if he loves someone else; Does your man suffer from the Boethius complex?; Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Perotin strikes us, even today, as an irrepressibly adventurous creative force, a firecracker of a composer who conceived and wrote down the most complex simultaneous note clusters that had ever been heard. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “I think you will enjoy working in our laboratory complex.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Luke didn’t stop running until he reached the apartment complex, sprinting up the stairs and throwing the door open. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z The causes of the English Civil War are many and complex, and historians still argue about them. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Extraterrestrial intelligence will be elegant, complex, internally consistent and utterly alien. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t until her best friend and neighbor from the Arkansas retirement complex came through that we figured out what was going on. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z “Oh, it’s just your average takedown of Hollywood’s extremely superficial and stereotypical roles black women are assigned in the movie industrial complex that is basically ruining our lives,” I explain. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z But in general the divisions between the major parts of a clause, such as subject and predicate, are comma-free zones, no matter how complex the syntax. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I studied a complex of concrete buildings that were half covered with tropical greenery. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z I know from Janice that Sherrie’s husband is away most of the time, he’s in Tokyo right now working on bridge financing for an industrial complex in Bangladesh. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The economic, political, and social forces that unloosed themselves on the streets of Petrograd and launched the Russian Revolution were vastly more complex than Alexei’s hemophilia or Rasputin’s machinations. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z They cause several different diseases in cultivated plants and have probably most recently evolved from more complex organisms rather than from simpler ones. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Over the last two decades, genetic technologies have advanced so rapidly that we can decipher how several of these genes operate in time and space to enable these complex functions. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Of course, in real life, things can get considerably more complex. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z At the edge of the palace complex, a temple with a red coral roof exploded, sending fire and debris streaming in slow motion across the farthest gardens. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z She’s looking at him now more like he’s a very complex problem set. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z But the correlations do not tell us precisely how population variables function in a chain of cause and effect whose outcome is a complex society. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The need for nets, in Haas’s view, gave the inland cities the whip hand—Norte Chico was based on farming, like all other complex societies, although not on farming for food. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Early scripts were incomplete, ambiguous, or complex, or all three. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In short, scientists say that nothing we do as humans uses more parts of our brain and is more complex than playing an instrument. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z He wore a black ski mask and carried a large, complex green water cannon. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z As we approach the apartment complex, we see the flashing lights. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z His father’s apartment is part of a complex called Baron’s Court. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It’s the arena, not rendered in Peeta’s precise strokes but in the rough lines of a man whose mind is occupied by other, far more complex things. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Galen’s text had never been accompanied by illustrations—Galen explicitly said that illustrations were worthless—because in a manuscript culture complex illustrations degrade rapidly each time they are copied. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was too complex to be put into words. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Greene does not tut-tut over the fact that this reasoning depends on complex mathematics. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z This used to be an apartment complex, but it's fallen into disrepair. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Learning to look like this involved learning to isolate mathematical shapes within more complex objects. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Lord Asriel sighed, almost with satisfaction; it was as if he’d come to the end of a long and complex calculation, and reached an answer that made quite unexpected sense. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The whole complex was somehow shocking, alien to the sloping hills and fields. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z In June 1972, they broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, DC. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z But for more complex traits, such as intelligence or mental illness, the establishment of heredity was vastly more complex. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Thus, food production, which increases population size, also acts in many ways to make features of complex societies possible. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The disk’s script was a syllabary with more signs, of more complex form, than the Roman alphabet used by Gutenberg. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There was now a real advantage in possessing a large brain and in communicating complex thoughts. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But next to the sports complex, set slightly apart, as if to show off that it was there in the first place, was the hockey rink. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z And there was a sacred sector, a complex of temples and palaces, the tallest clearly the emperor’s home here in the city. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z This section will explore different types of songs appropriate for older children, and the process for introducing more complex musical experiences. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Descartes’ remarkable and novel claim, first stated in the Discourse on Method, was that animals are automata, that is, complex, self-moving machines. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Classical music traditions around the world tend to encourage longer, more complex forms which may be difficult to recognize without the familiarity that comes from study or repeated hearings. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z We rounded a corner and I saw the pool complex, a shimmering blue expanse with the same island I remembered from my childhood, except now it was covered by a glass-plated geodesic dome. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Known as hand ciphers, these encryptions could be very complex, which made them more secure. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The only real certainty was the disruption that would be caused by long-distance travel and the myriad other difficulties inherent in building a complex structure far from home. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z However, detailed archaeological studies have shown that complex irrigation systems did not accompany the rise of centralized bureaucracies but followed after a considerable lag. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There was a complex moment when his body uncoiled and shot forward with sudden metallic tension. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z With the trial set to begin soon, the Ellsbergs had moved into this complex near the courthouse. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z But the long-term trend has still been toward large, complex societies, culminating in states. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They are subtle and complex and surprisingly common, and what happened on Wheeler Avenue is a powerful example of how mind reading works—and how it sometimes goes terribly awry. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Stars like the Sun are born in batches, in great compressed cloud complexes such as the Orion Nebula. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Other types of music, such as traditional Western African drumming, may have very complex meters that can be difficult for the beginner to identify. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z And because their brains are so complex, chimps can do things we used to think only humans could do—like solving problems and planning ahead what they are going to do. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Her eyes flick toward the far back corner of the hold into the lab complex. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He liked complex problems, and he liked breaking new ground. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z He’d been working in the Ford River Rouge complex for the last five years when Ruth gave birth to their first child in the middle of a snowstorm. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The golden monkey leapt for Father MacPhail, but not to attack: he scrambled up and over the man’s shoulders to reach the complex heart of the wires and the pipe work, the resonating chamber. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He starts a run, reaches a midpoint in the second bar where there should be a set of complex harmonics, stops, and goes back to begin over, dissatisfied. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He issued last-minute instructions to staff, and when ten people had crammed themselves into the cab or the bed of the pickup, needing a ride to various destinations, we departed the complex. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The book showed how useful Arabic numerals were for doing complex calculations, and the Italian merchants and bankers quickly seized upon the new system, zero included. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “He’s forgotten a lot. Most of his complex responses seem to have been wiped out. He’s solving problems on a much more primitive level than I would have expected.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z It had the multimillion-dollar sports complex, physics lab, arts center, and global studies buildings to prove it, not to mention the two-hundred-year-old red brick mansions and halls housing all the other classrooms and offices. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z I had come to the army as an escape from my life—as many men did, I suppose—and though I’d had a complex and rougher childhood than most, I was still virtually unsophisticated. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Green light comes pouring out of them, and together they draw a complex symbol of glowing green. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Gordievsky took off through the woods beyond his apartment complex and broke into a run. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I must avoid complex relationships—a troublesome lover or a troubled friend. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She would defy them and get a job anyway because, like me, she suffered from immigrant child guilt complex. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z The event was held at the Rikers Island jail complex, which stands on a 413-acre plot of land in the middle of New York’s East River. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Not only did my entire family work together at La Cocina, but we also lived in the same apartment complex. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “Darwin writes that man is liable to slight variations, which are induced by general and complex laws.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z A complete answer to that question would be long and complex, since Western music, like any living language shared by many different communities, has many "local dialects." Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z One can point out that human societies and dinosaurs are extremely complex, being characterized by an enormous number of independent variables that feed back on each other. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Is it intensive food production that is the cause, triggering population growth and somehow leading to a complex society? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I was searching for software, brainpower, complex algorithms, knowledge workers, call centers, transmission protocols, breakthroughs in optical engineering—the sources of wealth in our day. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Such experiences created the assumption that the very smallest creatures were as complex as the largest, and had the same sorts of organs. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Feed: Like all animals, chickens have complex dietary requirements that must be met if they are to remain healthy and lay well. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z They played whenever they could, as opposed to when they had to, and they didn’t need a soccer complex or a formal practice to get inspired. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Yes it can, and so can lots of other seemingly complex situations. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z This capacity, Beadle understood, was due to the presence of enzymes within the cell—proteins that acted as master builders and could synthesize complex biological macromolecules out of basic precursor chemicals. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The theory also notes that any big, complex system for irrigation or hydraulic management requires a centralized bureaucracy to construct and maintain it. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Take any complex number and measure its angle. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Because a gun raises a complex set of issues that change according to one factor: whose hand happens to be holding the gun. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I turned the corner from our apartment complex and walked a few blocks to the main strip, where all the restaurants and shops in Canal Grove were located. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The basement was a meandering complex of rooms so lightless I may as well have explored them blindfolded. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Maudsley had studied mental illness among families and concluded that the patterns of inheritance were vastly more complex than the ones Galton had proposed. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “I’m pretty convinced that we should go the extra mile to have a good and complex consent process,” he told me. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “We could hardly believe it,” Jesse later told me, recalling that first morning when they gazed up at a squat, ugly, four- story apartment complex facing a suburban highway. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He gathered up the trailing wire, which led to a complex assembly. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Musicians tend to have greater word memory and more complex neural brain patterning, as well as greater organizational and higher-order executive functioning. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Those lost in the memory serum haze are gathered into groups and given the truth: that human nature is complex, that all our genes are different, but neither damaged nor pure. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Margaret had finished; Lady Constance’s hair was now an alarmingly complex knot of yellow braids. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z While Aboriginal Australians and many Native Americans remained hunter-gatherers, most of Eurasia and much of the Americas and sub-Saharan Africa gradually developed agriculture, herding, metallurgy, and complex political organization. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z On October 5, 1957, America awoke to the news that a man-made object launched the previous day from a Soviet space complex was orbiting overhead. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z At a Queens strip joint called the Playhouse, Pitkin—a short, pugnacious, extroverted officer who some felt had a Napoleon complex—ran into an ex-con in the men’s room. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His office in Building 1 afforded him a commanding view of the large park in the center of the Johnson Space Center complex. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z She made the turn that would lead them back to the apartment complex. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z She set up a meeting for me with the activities director at her senior citizen complex. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z Five areas of technology may be singled out: First, metals—initially copper, then bronze, and finally iron—were used for tools in all complex Eurasian societies as of 1492. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The smoke rose in dense fumes and arranged itself in complex patterns against the sky. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Somewhere in the Galaxy there are stars— perhaps dozens of them—that are the brothers and sisters of the Sun, formed from the same cloud complex, some 5 billion years ago. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Her town house is in one of those complexes with about eight or nine other places. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Ultraviolet light from the sun converts methane to more complex hydrocarbon molecules and hydrogen gas. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Today I could not find my way around its newly built freeways, its thriving industrial complexes, its racially mixed, upscale suburban sprawl. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Also, she was bright enough to understand and accurately type his complex chemical and genetic ruminations. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z They are more complex than they were on that walk to the windmill so many years ago, but they still have much in common, and their commonalities shine. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Multiplication and exponentiation in the complex plane became geometric ideas; you could actually see them happening. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Life is incredibly complex. One day, you will see.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Who can measure the loss to the world of a person as complex and energetic as Zhenya Rudneva at the age of twenty-two? A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Eva took on administrative duties for our new project, which were pretty challenging given that federal dollars came with all kinds of complex reporting and accounting requirements. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z His name was Bob Robinson and he really had an inferiority complex. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Through a gate topped by razor wire, into a complex of low-slung white buildings with pitched blue roofs. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z All numbers in the complex plane suffer this fate. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z As Enigma became more complex, the Poles created a decoding device that helped decrypt the messages. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “They don’t think you’re that complex—just an even blend of Abnegation and Dauntless—selfless to the point of idiocy. Or is that brave to the point of idiocy?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Twilight has faded to a blue-gray evening by the time I arrive in front of the crumbling Hunts Point, Bronx, apartment complex I call home. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Then complex, whirling patches of fire: oranges, reds, yellows. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Complex agricultural societies gradually arose in the Americas far to the south of that entry route, developing in complete isolation from the emerging complex societies of the Old World. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But the situation is complex, and the criteria of experimental success may have been inadequate. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Here, people whisper, the Germans have renovated two kilometers of subterranean corridors under the medieval walls; they have built new defenses, new conduits, new escape routes, underground complexes of bewildering intricacy. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z In art, as in language, we are above all inventors of symbols that convey complex thoughts in new ways. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Immigrant child guilt complex was bringing me down. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z In the early morning light, a lone figure churned through the water of the swimming pool outside a Los Angeles apartment complex. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z In addition to a beach, The Lovely Condominium complex has everything their Beautiful Home in Bloomfield Hills had. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I think about it: If the world gets bombed, cockroaches will take over the planet—like they have my apartment complex. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z They were body rotations that made my legwork more complex, and just, overall, made the routine look cooler. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z A complex man—as those caught between eras often are—Spaulding removed the grinning mask of servility, but could never quite put it aside. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Round the castles was a complex of marks, tracks, walls, railway lines, that were of significance only if inspected with the eye at beach-level. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Many were extremely complex, using as many as “three to five methods...each of which must be solved as an entity in itself.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Qendrim’s first friends were other Albanian and Bosnian Muslim kids he met in his apartment complex. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z My own feelings were complex, and we let the matter drop. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z A quite separate argument was the claim that the universe has been designed to serve a purpose, like a clock or any other complex machine, and that it therefore demonstrates the existence of God. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Timbre is caused by the fact that each note from a musical instrument is a complex wave containing more than one frequency. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Musicologists love to wax on about the ambitious first movement of the Eroica symphony, mainly because it is unusually long and complex, and provides fuel for seemingly endless analysis and scholarly scrutiny. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The living cell is a regime as complex and beautiful as the realm of the galaxies and the stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “But my story is still more complex. I have taken part in such a drama as would only be believed on a stage, a tragedy ending in the death of kings and princes.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The slope plummeted eighty feet, straight to the roof of an apartment complex built into the hillside. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “Montag, a funny thing. Heard tell this morning. Fireman in Seattle, purposely set a Mechanical Hound to his own chemical complex and let it loose. What kind of suicide would you call that?” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z It is a complex and sometimes strange story. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The only greenery in the apartment complex was in the courtyard. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z They camped out in a single building that was still standing among the remains of a burned-out factory complex. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z But that doesn’t prove that food production and large populations make complex societies inevitable. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Two hundred yards farther on, they came to the Yambuku Mission Hospital, a complex of low, whitewashed buildings made of concrete, with corrugated tin roofs. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z One thing was certain now: The complex wasn’t empty. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The lower to middle elementary-aged child is ready for more complex listening, singing, and music making. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z About 300,000 years after their appearance, matter and energy started to coalesce into complex structures, called atoms, which then combined into molecules. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The apartment complex manager’s office looks like an abandoned church, and has the name Royce Court scrawled across in an old country-western font. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z I told him he had a big inferiority complex. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The idea that excellence at performing a complex task requires a critical minimum level of practice surfaces again and again in studies of expertise. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z His expressions changed, became more fluid and dynamic, more complex. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z In the centre of the complex rose a citadel larger than Grand Central Station, its walls encrusted with pearls, its domed golden roof cracked open like an egg. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z It was a sturdy and complex monument to his towers of determination. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z She recalled nothing of the movie, had eaten nothing at the restaurant, part of a small shopping complex off Route 1. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Have to get over this savior complex, I instruct myself, no one wants to be rescued by a klutz. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z And more than that, there must be a massive surrounding sports complex to provide venues for a wide variety of competitions, a single, unified Reichssportfeld. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z In the view of these black elites, a “poverty complex” plagued the black poor, one that made them politically apathetic and content with broken-down, overcrowded, and dirty living conditions. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I have never heard it compared to other industrial complexes—like this whole system that is set up to teach women how to act, how to think, what to wear...whoa! Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z If the earth shifted any more, the entire complex might collapse on their heads. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I kept hoping the explanation would turn out to be more complex, that there’d turn out to be more than pure, blind hatred to motivate their actions. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z So many ways to screw the pooch, and just one staggeringly complex, scrupulously modeled, endlessly rehearsed, indefatigably tested way to succeed. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He discovered that more complex tasks not only took more time, they introduced a new wrinkle: more error. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Instead, the bus would go from complex to complex to pick the players up. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z However, Poncelet had no idea that projective geometry would reveal the mysterious nature of zero, because the second important advance, the complex plane, was still needed. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z And if we lived in an unpredictable world, where things changed in random or very complex ways, we would not be able to figure things out. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was more than a month distant, but the enormous, complex preparations that it entailed were throwing extra work onto everybody. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn’t hard when I had a reason to want to know it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He was dressed in a long flowing robe covered entirely with complex mathematical equations and a tall pointed cap that made him look very wise. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z But the 2nd page is a complex word problem. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z “We went all the way to a waste mart I’d seen before, but it’s gone—they’ve bulldozed the slums in that part of the city to build a shopping complex.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z This is less helpful than it might seem, however, because the palace complex occupied a large area—as Strabo states elsewhere, up to a third of the extent of the entire city. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z He liked the classical genetic assumption that male and female cells contribute equal amounts of genetic material, even though the resulting analysis was perversely complex. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Using sun-dried brick as a basic building block, the Mesopotamians devised complex cities centered around the temple. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z Resilience to stress is a complex multidimensional construct. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z After a year, they could crack most of the complex ones. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I have heard the expression “trick of the light” applied to sights within Le Cirque des Rêves so frequently that I sometimes suspect the entirety of the circus is itself a complex illusion of illumination. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Warburg has devoted a lifetime of study to the complex processes of oxidation within the cell. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But interhemispheric diffusion made no contribution to Native America’s complex societies, isolated from Eurasia at low latitudes by broad oceans, and at high latitudes by geography and by a climate suitable just for hunting-gathering. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It wasn't long after it was knocked down that the apartment complex built a playground where it used to be. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z The making of tools is a more complex matter. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z They’d been raking leaves all day, and he was too tired to walk the two miles up the road to his apartment complex. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The clays have a complex active surface, given to absorbing and releasing gases and to catalyzing chemical reactions. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Basketball requires a complex combination of many diverse skills,” said Farooqi. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z “This map,” explained Grace, “is more like a riddle. A seemingly easy yet remarkably complex puzzle.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z It was built near the mess hall, class and office buildings, the sports complex, and the boys’ dorm. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z When we finish, he gives me his card and says he wants to talk to me about a big lighting job he's bidding on at the new shopping complex. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z The inferiority complex, he affirmed, was the greatest barrier to liberation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For one, it was easily accessible to the apartment complexes around Clarkston, some of which were visible through the pine trees on the field’s northern side. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Acorns and caterpillars dotted the asphalt loop that framed the complex of about a dozen brick buildings, all identical, embedded in a communal expanse of log chips. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I learned that the walled complex of buildings near the docks was the Temple of Tehlu. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Other days, in the hours after lessons, Werner tows his little sister through the mine complex in a wagon he has assembled from cast-off parts. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z But we are still left with the question of how small, simple societies actually evolve or amalgamate into large, complex ones. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “I was...well, I was raised by a colored woman. I’ve seen how simple it can be and—and how complex it can be between the families and the help.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z John Gottman took a complex problem and reduced it to its simplest elements: even the most complicated of relationships and problems, he showed, have an identifiable underlying pattern. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Living in Steve's small Grant Park duplex allowed me to question him nonstop about the complex issues and challenges our cases and clients presented. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z From the front, the hospital was a smart, sprawling single floor complex that seemed as long as the Griffin Building was tall. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z With that as background, we shall finally return to the question of how a simpler society actually becomes more complex as the regional population increases. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Aunt Tuti walked me all the way inside when we finally got to the complex. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z At a place called Camp Davis, a holiday complex, forty-six people, mostly women and children, took refuge from the rising flood waters in the camp’s main building. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Even if I got everyone in this entire complex to join me here with garden tools, I don't think we could make it happen. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z At the moment, he had NT 5, NT 4, Work Station, Windows 98, and he and Eric had begun fooling around with Linux, the complex, open-source software system rapidly spreading across the world. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Fuchs described some of the complex challenges of separating uranium atoms. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z This didn’t particularly worry the Soviets—the messages were always written in an extremely complex code. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Like the master score of a bewitchingly complex symphonic work, the genome contains the instructions for the development and maintenance of organisms. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Like any other scientists, mathematicians are motivated by a complex of emotions including healthy doses of jealousy, arrogance, and competitiveness. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps it is red because it is carrying up to view the complex molecules produced or concentrated at greater depth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “We could volunteer at homeless shelters and food banks. Or teach kids math. Or play board games at Mrs. Gilbert’s senior citizen complex and walk rescue dogs at the animal shelter...” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z He took on a frustrated look from trying to find words to express his complex emotions. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Glad he stopped buying those kiddie books and started buying ones with more intricate complex designs. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Walking through the complexes around town could be tough, since you never knew when you might be treading on someone else’s turf. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The pilot cut the speed and began the complex business of adjusting the height. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z But the string is making all those other possible vibrations, too, all at the same time, so that the actual vibration of the string is pretty complex. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z I read and watched talk shows and took Ginger on walks around the golf course that bordered the swinging singles complex. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z A well-executed suborbital flight would buy the United States a little breathing room; but orbital flight—the end game of Project Mercury— was infinitely more complex. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z As the limousine approached Truman, it passed by a factory complex, the old 3M plant—Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Marco hands him one, and Mr. Barris begins drawing, taking the rudimentary sketch of the circus’s layout and developing it into a complex design. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He was in another long passageway, stretching back under the complex, the way he had come. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z At the beginning of this chapter, I mentioned the failure of some food-producing societies with complex political organization to develop or adopt writing before modern times. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They were put back on a bus and driven through the prison complex—an array of geometrically arranged buildings with blue roofs. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “Well, it’s a step up from the apartment complex,” she said. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z The other mode of formation of complex societies, besides merger under threat of external force, is merger by conquest. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Alice was kneeling in front of her, facing away, as the woman bent over her and with deft fingers wove her hair into complex braids, twisting flowers into it as she did. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “I get that you have some save-the-world hero complex going on, but leave me out of it.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z My immigrant child guilt complex was boiling over. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z This time, it took Jake less than five minutes to complete the complex series of equations and find his vectors. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z June is often a mystery, a big ball of complex emotions and motivations, but her heart is honest and true. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I spent part of my time at the apartment complex pool, which was almost empty during the day. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z The psychologist Barry Schwartz recently proposed that elite schools give up their complex admissions process and simply hold a lottery for everyone above the threshold. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Some of us are squares; some are triangles; some have more complex shapes. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z My grandmother, displaying a theatrical flair akin to her hypochondria, registered complex emotions: surprise; initial delight; second thoughts; prudent near refusal; and then, to the applause already starting up, dizzy acceptance. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He held up his hands, showing me an impossibly complex pattern spread between his fingers. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “I know I’m right. You’ve got a bad persecution complex. You think people are trying to harm you. “People are trying to harm me.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z My family walked together through the streets, back to the apartment complex. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I had the master key because another one of my summer jobs was assistant apprentice super for my family’s complex. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I opened the gate to our apartment complex and walked Abuela to her unit on the first floor. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Maybe they can rent another apartment and stay in the complex. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Through some complex combination of duplicity and disposition, Jefferson had come to embody the will to believe. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z They engulf algae, which then establish themselves as complex plant tissues, essential for the life of the whole company. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Those complex political units are much better able to mount a sustained war of conquest than is an egalitarian band of hunters. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As we pulled away from my apartment complex, I craned my neck to look through the transport’s tinted rear windows, up at the building where I’d lived for the past year. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Or are large populations and complex societies instead the cause, somehow leading to intensification of food production? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Now, his apartment complex had some big bugs. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It was this complex and ambiguous inheritance that the Royal Society adopted when it wrote the word into its Statutes. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He did not wholly understand the intricate play of ideas and the complex phrases, but as he read he sensed a strong, true purpose behind the words and he felt that he almost understood. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Nineteenth- century writers attributed the mound complexes to, among others, the Chinese, the Welsh, the Phoenicians, the lost nation of Atlantis, and various biblical personages. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Farming, the cornerstone of the complex societies in the rest of the world, was in Peru an afterthought. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z No song as complex as “Sir Savien” can be played perfectly on six strings instead of seven. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z After a thirty-minute ride, the caseworker pulled into the Willow Ridge apartment complex. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z How did life evolve to produce beings as elaborate and complex as we, able to explore the mystery of our own origins? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z On the Aeron, the seat pan and back of the chair moved independently through a complex mechanism. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The golden monkey’s expression was as subtle and complex as it had ever been in all their thirty-five years of life. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z When the people of the Norte Chico were building these cities, there was only one other urban complex on earth: Sumer. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “To you character is a psychosis. Integrity is a complex. I’ve heard it all before.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Inmates awaiting trial or those serving shorter terms stay in local jails, such as New York City’s giant Rikers Island complex, near La Guardia Airport. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But a complex web of thoughts was weaving itself in the bear-king’s mind, with more strands in it than hunger and satisfaction. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Before then, patients with complex facial problems like mine had different parts of their faces treated separately. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z They have gone through this cycle at least twice, possibly more—rising to awesome heights, eroding away to nothingness, rising again, each time recycling their component materials in a dazzlingly confused and complex geology. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z It reminded me of how lonesome our apartment complex parking lots used to be. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z “I don’t,” Dan said, and walked along the bridge to study the complex webbing. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z At the same time, it can’t be so complex that the first time around it baffles the children and turns them off. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s also extremely complex. It might take you and all of the other teams to unravel this particular puzzle.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z How good is Reggie at focusing and dealing with complex problems? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Did a linguistic or cultural factor account for the otherwise puzzling failure of complex Andean civilizations to develop writing? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He was renting a town house in a luxury condo complex down by the Hudson River, just south of the George Washington Bridge, where Nicole and I ran and hiked. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z “And when a brilliant scholar like me doesn’t understand it you know it’s got to be complex.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The complex interactions of the three stars in the Alpha Centauri system would make the search for a low-mass companion there very difficult. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For some reason, somewhere in his life, he has gotten an inferiority complex. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “On top of everything else,” he said immediately, “we’ve got ‘Wise Child’ complexes. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z And then his fingers flowed swiftly across the ivory, and the room was filled with a composition so complex, so luxuriant, it was impossible to believe only one set of hands played. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z One is a Mass he wrote for Reims Cathedral, newly rebuilt but subsequently destroyed in the French Revolution, and which, as it happens, had a complex maze set into its nave. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He thrived on solving complex problems, prided himself on coming up with novel solutions, the kinds of things other people would never think of in a million years. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Um, thanks for taking me today,” I say to Grace as she turns in to Field of Dreams, the sports complex where we have all our practices and games. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z Were complex features such as intelligence, intellectual accomplishment, or beauty, say, variant in the same manner? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z If I didn’t know better—if the gold-flecked eyes didn’t brim with many millennia’s worth of knowledge—I’d swear he was just one of the chess-playing old heads at my apartment complex in Chicago. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z It was an impossibly complex and gruesome plan, likely beyond the powers of anyone to execute, but his description is noteworthy for what it revealed, without his intention, about his astigmatic soul. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z But the difficulties that linguists have in agreeing on groupings of Native American languages reflect the difficulties that complex Native American societies themselves faced in expanding within the New World. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Luma called again, raising her arm in the air and pointing in the direction of the apartment complexes north of the field. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z I tugged at Otto’s nipples, and he gave a complex confused grunt. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The musical term for the secret guiding sequences in fourteenth-century composition is isorhythm, and the pieces that employed it are among the most complex musical structures ever attempted. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “It’s very complex. You wouldn’t understand. And in the meantime, your taxes have been unpaid. There are fines for not paying. You owe five hundred rubles now.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Bethesda Hospital is made up of several buildings in a large complex all connected by glass corridors. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Having read Myers's testimony and reviewed the records that were available about him, I knew that he had a tragic background and a complex personality. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Stalin was a complex, confusing man who was both powerful and paranoid. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Bobby left the ballroom of the Empire Hotel, just steps away from the construction site of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts cultural complex. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z As we enter the apartment complex I say: "I'm going to try again tomorrow." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Over the weeks, as I learned more about American history, I started to understand more about what it meant to be African American, and the ongoing and complex fight for equality. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “Are you going with an alphabetical classification system or something a bit more complex?” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z They probably still loathe school, but when they go home, their computers are passports to a vast, complex, and communicative world, one still largely invisible to many parents, educators, and other adults. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a dense layer of Candor surrounding the entire complex of Erudite buildings. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z She told him that she didn’t live in Dundee but her cousin did, on the other side of the complex. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z And then, as we pulled into our apartment complex parking lot, Mom’s laughing died out and she got this different look on her face as she stared straight ahead. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z As early as the sixteenth century, mathematicians were using numbers with i included—the so-called complex numbers—to solve cubic and quartic polynomials. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z She plays it again and again, each time adding a new variation that makes the tune more complex, until the original simple melody is barely audible beneath the trills and chords on top of it. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The more time I spent in my new, permanent assignment, the clearer it became that prison sociology was more complex than it first appeared. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In a wild fly species named Drosophila pseudoobscura, for instance, Dobzhansky found multiple gene variants that influenced complex traits, such as life span, eye structure, bristle morphology, and wing size. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Heisenberg opened by explaining the basics of a complex mathematical theory called S-matrix, quickly filling the blackboard with a jumble of symbols and formulas. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The struggle, therefore, that now begins in the world is extremely complex, involving the historical role of Christianity in the realm of power—that is, politics—and in the realm of morals. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z I didn't have a basic grasp of the complex appeals process that shaped death penalty litigation, a process that would in time become as familiar to me as the back of my hand. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Yet in the case of animals such as cattle, sheep and Sapiens, each with a complex world of sensations and emotions, we have to consider how evolutionary success translates into individual experience. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z We pull into the lot of a black-and-white brick apartment complex. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z So, I'm right about the booby trap, but it's clearly more complex than I had imagined. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z More specifically, it addresses only the final stage in the evolution of complex societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A twelve-foot centipede with three sets of wings and three pairs of taloned feet corkscrewed around the room in a complex aerial display. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “Maybe I could solve a complex equation at a rolling chalkboard,” says Emily. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z This simple construction, called the complex plane, revealed a lot about the way numbers work. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The two men were having dinner at a French restaurant in Georgetown, a neighborhood just down the hill from the sprawling Soviet embassy complex. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Zigzags and complex geometric shapes filled in the spaces between the figures. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Like the Eurasian centers of civilization, Mesoamerica and the Andes were places where complex, long-lasting cultural traditions began. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Sometimes I feel like an apartment complex with too many residents. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He raised his eyebrows wearily and said, “A considerable time. It is an immensely complex question.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He rode his bike from his apartment complex near Clarkston to Decatur to watch the younger Fugees team play, and to help Coach carry gear. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Aarfy was like an eerie ogre in a dream, incapable of being bruised or evaded, and Yossarian dreaded him for a complex of reasons he was too petrified to untangle. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Ten minutes later, they pulled up in front of the apartment complex. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z I left the cabin calmly, then sprinted through the golf course, skirting the pool complex, and ran up to the mansion. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Pride of place must go to the Olmec, the first technologically complex culture in the hemisphere. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The first living things were not anything so complex as a one-celled organism, already a highly sophisticated form of life. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z While I was weaving the veterans’ personal stories into the complex, divisive web of politics and protests in America, more than a million refugees poured into Europe from Middle Eastern and African countries. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z He’s built a complex farm system around this simple idea. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z It is too big, too complex, with too many working parts lacking visible connections. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Her mouth was relaxed, and her whole expression was complex and subtle. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “Nothing,” I replied, because the emotion was so complex. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Why, when there were almost one hundred prisoners elsewhere in the complex, was he in their cage? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Every day a new place, a complex, winding traverse over the varied topography of this appealing planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This was essentially the idea that Reich pursued, albeit with more complex initial patterns. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The cipher was so complex that it took days to break it. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Eventually we pull up to a two-story apartment complex with a fountain in the courtyard. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Dominga convinces other immigrants in her apartment complex to sign up. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The tactic lessened the individual dosages, but spread the gas all over the complex. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z A complex of white buildings, like a museum or a university, nestled in a grove of pines to the left. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The more complex the molecule, the happier Bragg became when a new method allowed its elucidation. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Over the past 13,000 years the predominant trend in human society has been the replacement of smaller, less complex units by larger, more complex ones. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But he was in Cornwall, at least a five-hour drive from London, and with the alarms sounding, the armed guards, and the razor wire, he’d never make it out of the complex. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z It was built of a light stone that shone almost like snow in the glare of the moon, a vast spreading complex of walls and roofs and buttresses, all surrounding the slender spire. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z For both of those reasons, all developments of economically complex, socially stratified, politically centralized societies beyond the level of small nascent chiefdoms were based on food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “A simplistic statement for a complex endeavor. But, yes. We can.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Extensive study and practice are needed to be able to identify and understand these more complex progressions. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z It was the only time I’d ever gotten to see my own town from above, so I painted that, too, in the landscape under the complex. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I arrive at Dell's office and we pretend, as always, that nothing has changed and we don't live in the same apartment complex on the same floor of the same neighborhood of Bakersfield. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z He lives in the same apartment complex as us, but his mom smokes. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Rock passing games such as “Obwisana” start out very simply, but the rocks can be tapped in more complex polyrhythms after the children master the easier rhythms. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Could the “stupid molecule” be the carrier of the most complex information in biology? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z In general, the larger the size and the higher the density, the more complex and specialized were the technology and organization, for reasons that we shall examine in detail in later chapters. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Lots of times, that ability to compute and calculate information rapidly was helpful, like when he was reading about complex mathematical theories. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z River valleys of the southwestern United States eventually came to support irrigation agriculture and complex societies, but only after many of the developments on which those societies rested had been imported from Mexico. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They came one, then another, and another, echoing between the buildings of the apartment complexes behind Indian Creek Elementary at about ten-forty Sunday morning. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z My cells are no longer the pure line entities I was raised with; they are ecosystems more complex than Jamaica Bay. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z How can children be prepared to contribute and compete in a complex society? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Nothing complex; you’d have to fight your own self to miss, but he isn’t going to miss because he isn’t going to aim. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z According to the training film, this device monitored my physical location and also granted or denied me access to different areas of the IOI office complex. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Sticking to a consistent vantage point is the first step in getting the tenses in a complex story to come out right, but there’s more to it than that. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It was designed to house low-risk inmates in dormitory complexes rather than cell blocks. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z They built a series of apartment complexes—mostly two-story buildings arranged around big parking lots. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Her hair coiled in complex curls over her shoulders like snakes. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z I said, with a nod at the complex of buildings over his left shoulder. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The fantastical creatures and characters, on the other hand, were allotted a much more exotic and complex musical palette, often based on the so-called ‘Octatonic’ scale. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z I saw no houses or street lights, either, just a potato-processing plant that was bigger than many towns—the giant Simplot complex—and seemed to extend for miles. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Encrypted with machines, these ciphers were so complex that it could take months or even years to figure out how a single type of machine worked. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z It was by far the most complex project in the group. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The Titan army had set up camp all around the UN complex. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “Transfiguration is some of the most complex and dangerous magic you will learn at Hogwarts,” she said. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z A story that has to be memorised and spoken out loud is necessarily less complex than a novel that can be written down and unfolds over a greater length of time. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z This was primary source material, research papers based on direct experimental data, involved theoretical constructions utilizing a complex vocabulary and containing a wealth of original ideas—and he was breaking his head on it. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The longer or more complex the program, the more cards the programmer fed the computer. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Many simple children’s games actually carry complex musical attributes. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Second, the two elements being compared should be grammatically and semantically parallel, a requirement that’s easy to flub when the first is complex. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Power has become so subtle and complex a thing in the ways taken by the Ekumen that only a subtle mind can watch it work; here it is still limited, still visible. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Why did Australia not develop metal tools, writing, and politically complex societies? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They moved in a complex, chaotic dance across the cobblestones. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Scene after scene from their childhood played in his head until he was in the parking lot of the complex. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z It makes marvelously complex molecules, good for life. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a kind of subconscious, schizophrenic fibbing, if you ask me, and if those parents don’t have guilt complexes, I don’t know who has. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z Besides offering the luxury of grass, Armistead Field was set away from the flow of pedestrians in and out of the apartment complexes. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The Milky Way contains some 400 billion stars of all sorts moving with a complex and orderly grace. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Students absorb the fundamental music materials for their “tool box” to be used in more complex activities in the future. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z You could easily make out all those apartment complexes-—shadowed squares and rectangles around half-empty ponds of asphalt. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z But with only one operational success under its belt and with six Mercury missions to go—with the orbital flight still on the drawing board—NASA’s road to the Moon seemed unimaginably complex. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z That kind of specialization would be the key to managing the increasingly complex nature of aeronautical research in the postwar era. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The head of the local Klan was obviously a more complex character than many had imagined. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The rest of my stronghold was belowground, in a vast subterranean complex that stretched all the way to the asteroid’s core. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z It looked like some kind of complex drilling apparatus, or the cockpit of a gyropter, or the cabin of a massive crane. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z A complex program might include hundreds, if not thousands, of these cards in tall stacks. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z For example, because improvising music is far more complex than imitating basic patterns, the latter is required in order to perform the former. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The animals in her stories were always smarter than humans, and capable of making complex moral decisions. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Once you pushed it, the hover ladder randomly flitted in front of the shelves, using advanced biofeedback technology, heart-rate monitors, and complex algorithms to figure out what sort of story you might be interested in. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z The tar is an extremely rich collection of complex organic molecules, including the constituent parts of proteins and nucleic acids. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandpa Izzy's high-rise retirement condominium was three towns north of Dad's swinging singles apartment complex. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z In the old days, before Riemann saw that the complex plane was really a sphere, functions like 1/x would stump mathematicians. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “The way is complex. I wish Odysseus were here. He would understand.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Which was nothing—elementary—compared to the complex system he and Kenzi had. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z A moment later he was battling with the complex undergrowth that was already engulfing the scar. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z He was the maintenance man for our apartment complex. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z All these origins of complex societies give us a rich database for understanding their development. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z While William’s rail fence cipher is easy to read, transposition ciphers can get much more complex. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z He was, like many fathers, a complex man. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The politics of teenage grudges are very complex. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z For classical and Renaissance authors every well-known animal or plant came with a complex chain of associations and meanings. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Other things, like a forest ecosystem, or the structure of a government, are so complex that they have to be explored or studied before their structure can be understood. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z But composers often add some notes or even whole sections of music that are from a different key, to make the music a little more complex and interesting. 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