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A Strange Wilderness
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Author : Amir D. Aczel
language : en
Publisher: Union Square + ORM
Release Date : 2011-10-04
A Strange Wilderness written by Amir D. Aczel and has been published by Union Square + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The international bestselling author of Fermat’s Last Theorem explores the eccentric lives of history’s foremost mathematicians. From Archimedes’s eureka moment to Alexander Grothendieck’s seclusion in the Pyrenees, bestselling author Amir Aczel selects the most compelling stories in the history of mathematics, creating a colorful narrative that explores the quirky personalities behind some of the most groundbreaking, influential, and enduring theorems. Alongside revolutionary innovations are incredible tales of duels, battlefield heroism, flamboyant arrogance, pranks, secret societies, imprisonment, feuds, and theft—as well as some costly errors of judgment that prove genius doesn’t equal street smarts. Aczel’s colorful and enlightening profiles offer readers a newfound appreciation for the tenacity, complexity, eccentricity, and brilliance of our greatest mathematicians.
This Strange Wilderness
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
This Strange Wilderness written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with categories.
This Strange Wilderness
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Author : Nancy Plain
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2015
This Strange Wilderness written by Nancy Plain and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Birds were "the objects of my greatest delight," wrote John James Audubon (1785-1851), founder of modern ornithology and one of the world's greatest bird painters. His masterpiece, The Birds of America depicts almost five hundred North American bird species, each image--lifelike and life size--rendered in vibrant color. Audubon was also an explorer, a woodsman, a hunter, an entertaining and prolific writer, and an energetic self-promoter. Through talent and dogged determination, he rose from backwoods obscurity to international fame. In This Strange Wilderness, award-winning author Nancy Plain brings together the amazing story of this American icon's career and the beautiful images that are his legacy. Before Audubon, no one had seen, drawn, or written so much about the animals of this largely uncharted young country. Aware that the wilderness and its wildlife were changing even as he watched, Audubon remained committed almost to the end of his life "to search out the things which have been hidden since the creation of this wondrous world." This Strange Wilderness details his art and writing, transporting the reader back to the frontiers of early nineteenth-century America.
This Strange Wilderness
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Author : Nancy Plain
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2015-03-01
This Strange Wilderness written by Nancy Plain and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Describes how the writer and naturalist set about recording in both word and image the birds of North America, and details the legacy his work has left behind.
Second Witness Analytical And Contextual Commentary On The Book Of Mormon
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Author : Brant A. Gardner
language : en
Publisher: Greg Kofford Books
Release Date : 2007-09-01
Second Witness Analytical And Contextual Commentary On The Book Of Mormon written by Brant A. Gardner and has been published by Greg Kofford Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-01 with Religion categories.
Stop looking for the Book of Mormon in Mesoamerica and start looking for Mesoamerica in the Book of Mormon! Second Witness, a new six-volume series from Greg Kofford Books, takes a detailed, verse-by-verse look at the Book of Mormon. It marshals the best of modern scholarship and new insights into a consistent picture of the Book of Mormon as a historical document. Taking a faithful but scholarly approach to the text and reading it through the insights of linguistics, anthropology, and ethnohistory, the commentary approaches the text from a variety of perspectives: how it was created, how it relates to history and culture, and what religious insights it provides. The commentary accepts the best modern scholarship, which focuses on a particular region of Mesoamerica as the most plausible location for the Book of Mormon’s setting. For the first time, that location—its peoples, cultures, and historical trends—are used as the backdrop for reading the text. The historical background is not presented as proof, but rather as an explanatory context. The commentary does not forget Mormon’s purpose in writing. It discusses the doctrinal and theological aspects of the text and highlights the way in which Mormon created it to meet his goal of “convincing . . . the Jew and Gentile that Jesus is the Christ, the Eternal God.”
Mathematically Speaking
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Author : C.C. Gaither
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 1998-01-01
Mathematically Speaking written by C.C. Gaither and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-01-01 with Mathematics categories.
For the first time, a book has brought together in one easily accessible form the best expressed thoughts that are especially illuminating and pertinent to the discipline of mathematics. Mathematically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations provides profound, wise, and witty quotes from the most famous to the unknown. You may not find all the quoted "jewels" that exist, but you will definitely a great many of them here. The extensive author and subject indexes provide you with the perfect tools for locating quotations for practical use or pleasure, and you will soon enjoy discovering what others have said on topics ranging from addition to zero. This book will be a handy reference for the mathematician or scientific reader and the wider public interested in who has said what on mathematics.
Inside The Invisible
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Author : Celeste-Marie Bernier
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool Studies in Internati
Release Date : 2019
Inside The Invisible written by Celeste-Marie Bernier and has been published by Liverpool Studies in Internati this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Art categories.
Inside the Invisible investigates the life and works of Turner Prize-winning Black British artist and curator Lubaina Himid (CBE) to provide the first study of her lifelong determination to do justice to the hidden histories and untold stories of Black women, children, and men bought and sold into transatlantic slavery.
My Mother S Way Of Dying Well
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Author : Dianne Porter
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2014-01-14
My Mother S Way Of Dying Well written by Dianne Porter and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-14 with Family & Relationships categories.
The unexpected collection of my parent’s ashes from the crematorium opened the door to a new adventure in dealing my parents death that I personally found very liberating for my soul. It marked the beginning of a personal pilgrimage of faith I had no intention of taking, I thought I was dealing with my parents remains. As time passed I realized I had no choice but to take this path – this journey was the only way forward for me. Surprisingly for me it actually strengthened my faith in God and his ways as taught in the Christian faith and it’s hard to describe how. Once I committed myself to the task I had to take action. I plunged my hands into their ashes that first day even though for me it was like plunging my hands into my parent’s dead bodies. It was irksome and revolting to me the first time.
Dali I
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Author : Stan Lauryssens
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2008-07-08
Dali I written by Stan Lauryssens and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-08 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An extraordinary memoir of fortune, fraud, and the master of modern art Art dealer Stan Lauryssens made millions in modern art, but he sold only one name: Salvador Dalí. The surrealist painter's work was a hot commodity for the newly rich, investors, and shady businessmen looking to launder their black-market cash. Stan didn't mind looking the other way; he just hoped the buyers would look the other way as well. The artworks he sold came from some very questionable sources, but he soon discovered that the shadiest source of all was Dalí himself. The more successful Stan became, the closer he came to Dalí, until he found himself living next door to the aging artist, in the Catalonian hills. While hiding from Interpol's detectives, Stan spent his time with the artists, musicians, business associates, and eccentrics who surrounded Dalí. He learned about Dalí's secret history, the studio of artists who produced his work, and the moneymaking machine that kept Dalí's extravagant lifestyle afloat long after his creativity began to flounder. Dalí & I offers a behind-the-scenes view of the commerce and conspiracy that go hand in hand in the international art world, written by a man who has been to the top only to discover that it's not so different from the bottom.
Conserving Words
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Author : Daniel J. Philippon
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2004
Conserving Words written by Daniel J. Philippon and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Literary Criticism categories.
Conserving Words looks at five authors of seminal works of nature writing who also founded or revitalized important environmental organizations: Theodore Roosevelt and the Boone and Crockett Club, Mabel Osgood Wright and the National Audubon Society, John Muir and the Sierra Club, Aldo Leopold and the Wilderness Society, and Edward Abbey and Earth First! These writers used powerfully evocative and galvanizing metaphors for nature, metaphors that Daniel J. Philippon calls “conserving” words: frontier (Roosevelt), garden (Wright), park (Muir), wilderness (Leopold), and utopia (Abbey). Integrating literature, history, biography, and philosophy, this ambitious study explores how “conserving” words enabled narratives to convey environmental values as they explained how human beings should interact with the nonhuman world.