From the pyramids and the Parthenon to the Sydney Opera House and the Bilbao Guggenheim, this book takes readers on an eye-opening tour of the mathematics behind some of the world's most spectacular b
Provides information about lodging, sights, and excursions for the top twenty-seven national parks in the United States, including Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, and Yosemite.
Everyone loves a celebration, and renowned illustrator Tasha Tudor offers one for every month in this enchanting treasury of seasons. Come enter a world where sledding excursions melt into summer picn
Never without his Hasselblad, Simon Walter has made countless excursions into the Swiss Alps, seeking and finding reflections. The photographer uses this phenomenon as a visual means of dramatization.
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Topics including harmonic division and Apollonian circles, inversive geometry, the hexlet, conic sections, projective geometry, the Golden Section and angle trisection are addressed in a way that brin
This book comprises five parts. The first three contain ten historical essays on important topics: number theory, calculus/analysis, and proof, respectively.? Part four deals with several historically
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A selection of ruminative nature writing on walking and the beauty of New England, here Thoreau’s characteristically wide-ranging and philosophical style offers a multitude of fascinating observ
