Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 32 results for “colin adams”
Skip side bar filters

  • How to Ace Calculus

    The Streetwise Guide

    by Colin Adams, Abigail Thompson, Joel Hass ...
    " A marvelous, user-friendly introduction. . . . The book that 100,000 calculus students have been searching for is finally here." ―Ron Graham, Chief Scientist, AT&T Labs, former President of the American Mathematical Society, and author of Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation of Computer ScienceWritten by three gifted-and funny-teachers, How to Ace Calculus provides humorous and readable ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Zombies and Calculus

    by Colin Adams ...
    A novel that uses calculus to help you survive a zombie apocalypseHow can calculus help you survive the zombie apocalypse? Colin Adams, humor columnist for the Mathematical Intelligencer and one of today's most outlandish and entertaining popular math writers, demonstrates how in this zombie adventure novel.Zombies and Calculus is the account of Craig Williams, a math professor at a small liberal ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Do Androids Dream of Symmetric Sheaves?

    And Other Mathematically Bent Stories

    by Colin Adams ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    Why is the Devil thrilled when Hell gets its first mathematician? How do 6 and 27 solve the diabolical murder of 9? What are the advantages a vampire has in the math world? What happens when we run out of new math to discover? How does Dr. Frankenstein create the ideal mathematical creature? What transpires when a grad student digging for theorems strikes a rich vein on the ridge overlooking ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • How to Ace the Rest of Calculus

    The Streetwise Guide

    by Colin Adams, Abigail Thompson, Joel Hass ...
    Series series How to Ace
    The authors of How to Ace Calculus bring the same clarity and humor to more advanced concepts in this streetwise sequel. ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Hangman's Brae

    True Crime and Punishment in Aberdeen and the North-East

    by Colin Duncan, Norman Adams ...
    Hangman's Brae is a vividly written account of the blood-curdling crimes and brutal forms of punishment of north-east Scotland. The book explores the area's underworld and features the grave-robbers, jail-breakers, rioters and other lawbreakers whose crimes led them to premature deaths at the end of a rope or at the not so delicate hands of The Maiden, a gruesome decapitating device predating the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Travel and Geography in the Roman Empire

    Edited by Colin Adams, Ray Laurence ...
    The remains of Roman roads are a powerful reminder of the travel and communications system that was needed to rule a vast and diverse empire. Yet few people have questioned just how the Romans - both military and civilians - travelled, or examined their geographical understanding in an era which offered a greatly increased potential for moving around, and a much bigger choice of destinations. This ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Encyclopedia of Knot Theory

    Edited by Colin Adams, Erica Flapan, Allison Henrich, Lewis D. Ludwig, Sam Nelson, Louis H. Kauffman ...
    "Knot theory is a fascinating mathematical subject, with multiple links to theoretical physics. This enyclopedia is filled with valuable information on a rich and fascinating subject."– Ed Witten, Recipient of the Fields Medal"I spent a pleasant afternoon perusing the Encyclopedia of Knot Theory. It’s a comprehensive compilation of clear introductions to both classical and very modern developments ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Human Factors and Ergonomics in Sport

    Applications and Future Directions

    Edited by Paul M. Salmon, Scott McLean, Clare Dallat, Neil Mansfield, Colin Solomon, Adam Hulme ...
    Sport is an integral part of society, playing a key role in human health and well-being, and cultural, political and economic development. As sport is becoming more complex, competitive, diverse, and increasingly reliant on technology, HFE theories, methods, and principles are progressively being applied to help understand and optimize sports systems.Human Factors and Ergonomics in Sport: ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Knots, Low-Dimensional Topology and Applications

    Knots in Hellas, International Olympic Academy, Greece, July 2016

    Edited by Colin C. Adams, Cameron McA. Gordon, Vaughan F.R. Jones, Louis H. Kauffman, Sofia Lambropoulou, Kenneth C. Millett, Jozef H. Przytycki, Renzo Ricca, Radmila Sazdanovic ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This proceedings volume presents a diverse collection of high-quality, state-of-the-art research and survey articles written by top experts in low-dimensional topology and its applications.The focal topics include the wide range of historical and contemporary invariants of knots and links and related topics such as three- and four-dimensional manifolds, braids, virtual knot theory, quantum ... Read more

    $218.99 CAD

  • What a waste

    Outsourcing and how it goes wrong

    Edited by Andrew Bowman, Ismail Ertürk, Peter Folkman, Julie Froud, Colin Haslam, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver, Mick Moran, Nick Tsitsianis, Karel Williams ...
    Series series Manchester Capitalism
    This is the first ever book to analyse outsourcing – contracting out public services to private business interests. It is an unacknowledged revolution in the British economy, and it has happened quietly, but it is creating powerful new corporate interests, transforming the organisation of government at all levels, and is simultaneously enriching a new business elite and creating numerous fiascos ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • A Mobile Century?

    Changes in Everyday Mobility in Britain in the Twentieth Century

    by Colin G. Pooley, Jean Turnbull, Mags Adams ...
    Series series Transport and Mobility
    For most people in the developed world, the ability to travel freely on a daily basis is almost taken for granted. Although there is a large volume of literature on contemporary mobility and associated transport problems, there are no comprehensive studies of the ways in which these trends have changed over time. This book provides a detailed empirical analysis of mobility change in Britain over ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Truth About These Strange Times

    by Adam Foulds ...
    Narrated by Colin Moody ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 54 min

    Saul Dawson-Smith can memorise the sequence of a shuffled deck of cards in under a minute; he can recite pi to a thousand decimal places and he remembers every conversation he's ever had. He is 10-years-old. Howard McNamee is 28: lonely, overweight and poorly-educated. He lives in the north of England, far from the scene of his difficult Glasgow childhood, in the home he shared with his mother ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD