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Struck by Genius: How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel
Jason Padgett · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover |
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"No one sees the world as Jason Padgett does. Water pours from the faucet in crystalline patterns, numbers call to mind distinct geometric shapes, and intricate fractal patterns emerge from the movement of tree branches, revealing the intrinsic mathematical designs hidden in the objects... |
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GED® Math Test Tutor, For the New 2014 GED® Test
Ms. Sandra Rush M.A. · Research & Education Association; Csm edition |
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REA's GED® Math Test Tutor - Helps You Pass the Most Challenging Part of the GED® Get ready for the math portion of the GED® with REA's GED® Math Test Tutor Book features: - Content 100% aligned with the new 2014 GED® test - Written by a GED® math tutor... |
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The Rooftop Beekeeper: A Scrappy Guide to Keeping Urban Honeybees
Megan Paska · Chronicle Books |
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The number of urban beekeepers has escalated with more than 25 percent increases year over year in the United States and the United Kingdom. From a go-to authority on beekeeping and backyard farming, The Rooftop Beekeeper is the first handbook to explore the ease and charm of keeping bees... |
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Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot
Mark Vanhoenacker · Chatto & Windus |
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A longhaul airline pilot recaptures the wonder of flight for the modern traveller. Turn your mind back to when you first flew. When you first left the Earth, and travelled high and fast above its turning arc. When you looked down on a new world, captured simply... |
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The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning
Marcelo Gleiser · Basic Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Do all questions have answers? How much can we know about the world? Is there such a thing as an ultimate truth? To be human is to want to know, but what we are able to observe is only a tiny portion of whats out there. In The Island of Knowledge, physicist Marcelo Gleiser traces our search... |
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Galapagos : Discovery on Darwin's Island
David W. Steadman · Smithsonian Institution Press; 1 edition
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback |
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209 pages of high quality text, maps & photographs as fitting a Smithsonian product. There are also several excellent paintings of wildlife. |
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The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day
David J. Hand · Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 269
Format: Hardcover |
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In The Improbability Principle, the renowned statistician David J. Hand argues that extraordinarily rare events are anything but. In fact, they're commonplace. Not only that, we should all expect to experience a miracle roughly once every month. But Hand is no believer in superstitions,... |
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A Buzz in the Meadow: The Natural History of a French Farm
Dave Goulson · Picador USA
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover |
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A CONSERVATIONIST'S DEEPLY PERSONAL AND FASCINATING REFLECTION ON OWNING AND REVITALIZING A FARM IN RURAL FRANCEA Sting in the Tale, Dave Goulson's account of a lifetime studying bees, was a powerful call to arms for nature lovers everywhere. Brilliantly reviewed, it was shortlisted... |
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