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Gamma - Exploring Euler's Constant - Julian Havil

Gamma - Exploring Euler's Constant - Julian Havil

\I like this book very much. So much, in fact, that I found myself muttering 'neat stuff!' all the way through. While it is about an important topic, there isn't a single competitor. This amazing oversight by past authors is presumably the result of the topic requiring an author with a pretty sophisticated mathematical personality. Havil clearly has that. His skillful weaving of mathematics and history makes the book a 'fun' read. Many instructors will surely find the book attractive.\--Paul J...

DKK 182.95
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Summing It Up - From One Plus One to Modern Number Theory - Avner Ash

Summing It Up - From One Plus One to Modern Number Theory - Avner Ash

\In Summing It Up, Ash and Gross, with their customary charm and clarity, build an impressive tower from the most basic mathematical story imaginable. They start by adding up finite sequences and whole numbers before journeying to the upper reaches of contemporary developments in number theory.\--Jordan Ellenberg, author of How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking\With joy and reflection, Summing It Up encourages readers to work alongside the authors to engage in simple computations..

DKK 202.95
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Up from the Depths - Professor Aaron Sachs

Up from the Depths - Professor Aaron Sachs

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography A double portrait of two of America's most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between them--and their uncanny relevance to our age of crisis Up from the Depths tells the interconnected stories of two of the most important writers in American history--the novelist and poet Herman Melville (1819-1891) and one of his earliest biographers, the literary critic and historian Lewis Mumford (1895-1990). Deftly cutting..

DKK 198.95
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Up to Heaven and Down to Hell - Colin Jerolmack

Up to Heaven and Down to Hell - Colin Jerolmack

The United States is the only country in the world where property rights commonly extend \up to heaven and down to hell,\ which means that landowners have the exclusive right to lease their subsurface mineral estates to petroleum companies. Colin Jerolmack spent eight months living with rural communities outside of Williamsport as they confronted the tension between property rights and the commonwealth. In this deeply intimate book, he reveals how the decision to lease brings financial rewards..

DKK 176.95
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Power-Up - Unlocking the Hidden Mathematics in Video Games - Matthew Lane

Power-Up - Unlocking the Hidden Mathematics in Video Games - Matthew Lane

A fun and lively look at the mathematical ideas concealed in video gamesDid you know that every time you pick up the controller to your PlayStation or Xbox, you are entering a world steeped in mathematics? Matthew Lane reveals the hidden mathematics in many of today''s most popular video gamesΓÇöand explains why mathematical learning doesn''t just happen in the classroom. He discusses how gamers are engaging with the traveling salesman problem when they play Assassin''s Creed, why it is mathematically..

DKK 178.95
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Digging Up Armageddon - The Search for the Lost City of Solomon - Eric H. Cline

Digging Up Armageddon - The Search for the Lost City of Solomon - Eric H. Cline

In 1925, James Henry Breasted, famed Egyptologist and director of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, sent a team of archaeologists to the Holy Land to excavate the ancient site of Megiddo--Armageddon in the New Testament--which the Bible says was fortified by King Solomon. Their excavations made headlines around the world and shed light on one of the most legendary cities of biblical times, yet little has been written about what happened behind the scenes. Digging Up Armageddon..

DKK 309.95
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How to Walk on Water and Climb up Walls - Animal Movement and the Robots of the Future - David Hu

How to Walk on Water and Climb up Walls - Animal Movement and the Robots of the Future - David Hu

Insects walk on water, snakes slither, and fish swim. Animals move with astounding grace, speed, and versatility: how do they do it, and what can we learn from them? How to Walk on Water and Climb up Walls takes readers on a wondrous journey into the world of animal motion. From basement labs at MIT to the rain forests of Panama, David Hu shows how animals have adapted and evolved to traverse their environments, taking advantage of physical laws with results that are startling and ingenious. In turn,..

DKK 163.95
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Protestants Abroad - How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America - David A. Hollinger

Protestants Abroad - How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America - David A. Hollinger

They sought to transform the world, and ended up transforming twentieth-century AmericaBetween the 1890s and the Vietnam era, tens of thousands of American Protestant missionaries were stationed throughout the non-European world. They expected to change the peoples they encountered abroad, but those foreign peoples ended up changing the missionaries. Missionary experience made many of these Americans critical of racism, imperialism, and religious orthodoxy. When they returned home, the missionaries..

DKK 373.95
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Phillipps' Field Guide to the Mammals of Borneo and Their Ecology - Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei, and Kalimantan - Karen Phillipps

Phillipps' Field Guide to the Mammals of Borneo and Their Ecology - Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei, and Kalimantan - Karen Phillipps

The most comprehensive and up-to-date field guide to Borneo's mammals This is the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and easily accessible field guide to the mammals of Borneo--the ideal travel companion for anyone visiting this region of the world. Covering Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei, and Kalimantan, the book provides essential information on 277 species of land and marine mammals and features 141 breathtaking color plates. Detailed facing-page species accounts describe taxonomy, size, range, distribution,..

DKK 322.95
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Birds of Europe - Lars Svensson

Birds of Europe - Lars Svensson

An expanded, comprehensively revised, and completely up-to-date new edition of the leading illustrated field guide to Europe's birds Since it was first published, Birds of Europe has established itself as the definitive illustrated field guide to the continent's fascinating birdlife. Now in its third edition, this superb guide has been expanded and brought completely up to date with revised text, illustrations, and maps. More than 50 plates are either new or have been completely or partly repainted,..

DKK 297.95
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