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“timothy revell”

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  • The Secret Lives of Numbers

    A Hidden History of Math’s Unsung Trailblazers

    by Kate Kitagawa, Timothy Revell ...
    Shortlisted for the 2024 British Academy Book PrizeA new history of mathematics focusing on the marginalized voices who propelled the discipline, spanning six continents and thousands of years of untold stories."A book to make you love math." —Financial TimesMathematics shapes almost everything we do. But despite its reputation as the study of fundamental truths, the stories we have been told ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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    The Secret Lives of Numbers

    A Hidden History of Math’s Unsung Trailblazers

    by Timothy Revell, Kate Kitagawa ...
    Narrated by Daphne Kouma ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 11 min

    A new history of mathematics focusing on the marginalized voices who propelled the discipline, spanning six continents and thousands of years of untold stories.""A book to make you love math."" —Financial TimesMathematics shapes almost everything we do. But despite its reputation as the study of fundamental truths, the stories we have been told about it are wrong—warped like the sixteenth-century ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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    The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshiped it, and the Church used it to fend off heretics. Now it threatens the foundations of modern physics. For centuries the power of zero savored of the demonic; once harnessed, it became the most important tool in mathematics. For zero, infinity's twin, is not like other numbers. It is both nothing and everything.In Zero, science ... Read more

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    Math-ish

    Finding Creativity, Diversity, and Meaning in Mathematics

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    From Stanford professor, author of Limitless Mind, youcubed.org founder, and leading expert in the field of mathematics education Jo Boaler comes a groundbreaking guide to finding joy and understanding by adopting a diverse approach to learning math.“Every once in a while, someone revolutionizes an approach to a difficult subject and changes it forever. That is what Jo Boaler has done for math. ... Read more

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    The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2024

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    Narrated by Eileen Stevens, Stephen Graybill, Lee Osorio, Gina Daniels ...

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    Award-winning environmentalist, author, and journalist Bill McKibben selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in the previous year.“This was the most anomalous year (so far) in human history,” guest editor Bill McKibben writes, “the year in which the relationship between people and planet showed its most dramatic signs yet of unraveling.” The ... Read more

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    How the World Made the West

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    by Josephine Quinn ...
    Narrated by Alix Dunmore ...

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    **An award-winning Cambridge history professor “makes a forceful argument and tells a story with great verve” (The Wall Street Journal)—that the West is, and always has been, truly global.“Those archaic ‘Western Civ’ classes so many of us took in college should be updated, argues Quinn, [who] invites us to . . . revel in a richer, more polyglot inheritance.”—The Boston Globe**AN ECONOMIST BEST ... Read more

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    The King of Diamonds

    The Search for the Elusive Texas Jewel Thief

    by Rena Pederson ...
    Narrated by Erin Dion ...

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    As a string of high-profile jewel thefts went unsolved during the Swinging Sixties, the press dubbed the elusive thief the King of Diamonds. Like Cary Grant in To Catch a Thief, the King was so bold that he tip-toed into the homes of millionaires while they were home, hiding in their closets and daring to smoke while they were sleeping. Rena Pederson, then a young reporter with UPI, started ... Read more

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    Good Judgment

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    by Richard Davis ...
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    An instant USA Today bestseller • A Globe and Mail Top 10 Business and Management Book of 2024From an experienced organizational psychologist comes a unique guide to learning how to better read and understand people and make improved, more informed business decisions about them—including choosing the right employees, fostering relationships in the workplace, resolving conflicts more effectively, ... Read more

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    Math Mind

    The Simple Path to Loving Math

    by Shalinee Sharma ...
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    Bust the math myths that are holding you and your kids back and learn the importance of numeracy with this one-of-a-kind resource for parents, educators, and policymakersShalinee Sharma is one of the world’s top experts on math learning, but when she was in school, she sat in the back row, unsure if she could ever master the subject. Many of us buy into the idea that some people are innately good ... Read more

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    Award-winning author Michael Walsh celebrates the masculine attributes of heroism that forged American civilization and Western culture by exploring historical battles in which soldiers chose death over dishonor.In our time, men are increasingly denied their heritage as warriors. A survival instinct that’s part of the human condition, the drive to wage war is natural. Without war, neither the ... Read more

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    The Truth and Other Stories

    by Stanislaw Lem ...
    Narrated by David Aaron Baker ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 11 min

    Of these twelve short stories by science fiction master Stanislaw Lem, only three have previously appeared in English, making this the first “new” book of fiction by Lem since the late 1980s. The stories display the full range of Lem’s intensecuriosity about scientific ideas as well as his sardonic approach to human nature, presenting as multifarious a collection of mad scientists as any reader ... Read more

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    by Peter S. Goodman ...
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    By the New York Times’s Global Economics Correspondent, an extraordinary journey to understand the worldwide supply chain—exposing both the fascinating pathways of manufacturing and transportation that bring products to your doorstep, and the ruthless business logic that has left local communities at the mercy of a complex and fragile network for their basic necessities.""A tale that will change ... Read more

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