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“mickael launay”

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  • It All Adds Up

    The Story of People and Mathematics

    by Mickael Launay ...
    Translated by Stephen S. Wilson ...
    ‘Fascinating … so enlightening that suddenly maths doesn’t seem so fearsome as it once did’ SIMON WINCHESTERFrom Aristotle to Ada Lovelace: a brief history of the mathematical ideas that have forever changed the world and the everyday people and pioneers behind them. The story of our best invention yet.From our ability to calculate the passing of time to the algorithms that control computers and ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    It All Adds Up

    The Story of People and Mathematics

    by Mickael Launay ...
    Narrated by Oliver Hembrough ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 12 min

    ‘Fascinating … so enlightening that suddenly maths doesn’t seem so fearsome as it once did’ SIMON WINCHESTERFrom Aristotle to Ada Lovelace: a brief history of the mathematical ideas that have forever changed the world and the everyday people and pioneers behind them. The story of our best invention yet.From our ability to calculate the passing of time to the algorithms that control computers and ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

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    Unabridged

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    Comet begins with a breathtaking journey through space astride a comet. Pulitzer Prize-winning astronomer Carl Sagan, author of Cosmos and Contact, and writer Ann Druyan explore the origin, nature, and future of comets, and the exotic myths and portents attached to them. The authors show how comets have spurred some of the great discoveries in the history of science and raise intriguing questions ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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    When Einstein Walked with Gödel

    Excursions to the Edge of Thought

    by Jim Holt ...
    Narrated by David Stifel ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 19 min

    From Jim Holt, New York Times bestselling author of Why Does the World Exist?, comes When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought,** an entertaining and accessible audiobook guide to the most profound scientific and mathematical ideas of recent centuriesDoes time exist? What is infinity? Why do mirrors reverse left and right but not up and down? In this scintillating collec.. ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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    Code Warriors

    NSA's Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union

    by Stephen Budiansky ...
    Narrated by Mark Deakins ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 35 min

    A sweeping, in-depth history of NSA, whose famous “cult of silence” has left the agency shrouded in mystery for decadesThe National Security Agency was born out of the legendary codebreaking programs of World War II that cracked the famed Enigma machine and other German and Japanese codes, thereby turning the tide of Allied victory. In the postwar years, as the United States developed a new enemy ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

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    Evolution for Everyone

    How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives

    by David Sloan Wilson ...
    Narrated by René Ruiz ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 57 min

    With stories that entertain as much as they inform, renowned evolutionist David Sloan Wilson outlines the basic principles of evolution and shows how, when properly understood, they can illuminate the length and breadth of creation, from the origin of life to the nature of religion.What is the biological reason for gossip? For laughter? For the creation of art? Why do dogs have curly tails? What ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

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    Evolution

    The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory

    by Edward J. Larson ...
    Narrated by John McDonough ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 41 min

    Edward J. Larson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and eminent science historian. This marvelously readable, yet sumptuously erudite work traces the development of the scientific theory of evolution. From Darwin's essential trip to the GalApagos, to the most contemporary studies in sociobiology, this work takes listeners both into the field and laboratories of the world's greatest evolutionary ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Cave and the Light

    Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization

    by Arthur Herman ...
    Narrated by Paul Hecht ...

    Unabridged

    25 hours 26 min

    Arthur Herman has now written the definitive sequel to his New York Times bestseller, How the Scots Invented the Modern World, and extends the themes of the book—which sold half a million copies worldwide—back to the ancient Greeks and forward to the age of the Internet. The Cave and the Light is a magisterial account of how the two greatest thinkers of the ancient world, Plato and Aristotle, laid ... Read more

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    A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe

    Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art, and Science

    by Michael S. Schneider ...
    Narrated by Al Kessel ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 48 min

    Michael Schneider leads us on a spectacular, lavishly illustrated journey along the numbers one through ten to explore the mathematical principles made visible in flowers, shells, crystals, plants, and the human body, expressed in the symbolic language of folk sayings and fairy tales, myth and religion, art and architecture. This is a new view of mathematics, not the one we learned at school but a ... Read more

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    Amity and Prosperity

    One Family and the Fracturing of America

    by Eliza Griswold ...
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    Unabridged

    10 hours 35 min

    *Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction*Prize-winning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold’s Amity and Prosperity is an expose on how fracking shattered a rural Pennsylvania town, and how one lifelong resident brought the story into the national spotlight. This is an incredible true account of investigative journalism and a devastating indictment of energy politics in America.Stacey ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

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    Hacking Darwin

    Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity

    by Jamie Metzl ...
    Narrated by Eric Jason Martin ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 27 min

    "A gifted and thoughtful writer, Metzl brings us to the frontiers of biology and technology, and reveals a world full of promise and peril." **—**Siddhartha Mukherjee MD, New York Times bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The GeneA groundbreaking exploration of genetic engineering and its impact on the future of our species from leading geopolitical expert and technology futurist ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

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    Time Travel

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    by James Gleick ...
    Narrated by Rob Shapiro ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours

    “A time-jumping, head-tripping odyssey.” —The Millions“A bracing swim in the waters of science, technology and fiction.” —Washington Post“A thrilling journey of ideas.” —Boston GlobeFrom the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, here is a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on o... ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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