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Books narrated by David Renaud

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Generality in Mathematics and the Sciences

    Edited by Karine Chemla, Renaud Chorlay, David Rabouin ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Generality is a key value in scientific discourses and practices. Throughout history, it has received a variety of meanings and of uses. This collection of original essays aims to inquire into this diversity. Through case studies taken from the history of mathematics, physics and the life sciences, the book provides evidence of different ways of understanding the general in various contexts. It ... Read more

    $139.19 CAD

  • The Search for the Japanese Fleet

    USS Nautilus and the Battle of Midway

    by David W. Jourdan ...
    In The Search for the Japanese Fleet, David W. Jourdan, one of the world’s experts in undersea exploration, reconstructs the critical role one submarine played in the Battle of Midway, considered to be the turning point of the war in the Pacific. In the direct line of fire during this battle was one of the oldest boats in the navy, USS Nautilus. The actions of Lt. Cdr. William Brockman and his ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Operation Rising Sun

    The Sinking of Japan's Secret Submarine I-52

    by David W. Jourdan, James P. Delgado ...
    In 1944 Allied codebreakers learned the Imperial Japanese Navy had dispatched the cargo submarine I-52 to occupied France with tons of military supplies and payment - in gold - for German assistance. I-52 undertook the mission as part of the Yanagi missions, a military program meant to alleviate Japan's desperate need for military material and technical knowledge. After tracking I-52 from Asia to ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Last Man Down

    USS Nautilus and the Undersea War in the Pacific

    by David W. Jourdan ...
    SS-168—the USS Nautilus—was the flagship of Submarine Division 12 operating out of Pearl Harbor throughout World War II. It was commissioned July 1, 1930, before international naval treaties limited future submarine size, and thus was among the largest submarines in the U.S. fleet. Over a football field in length and displacing 4,000 tons submerged, the boat was able to carry a large crew, ample ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Operation Rising Sun

    The Sinking of Japan's Secret Submarine I-52

    by David W. Jourdan ...
    In 1944 Allied codebreakers learned the Imperial Japanese Navy had dispatched the cargo submarine I-52 to occupied France with tons of military supplies and payment—in gold—for German assistance. I-52 undertook the mission as part of the Yanagi missions, a military program meant to alleviate Japan’s desperate need for military material and technical knowledge. After tracking I-52 from Asia to the ... Read more

    $49.49 CAD

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  • Is God a Mathematician?

    by Mario Livio ...
    Bestselling author and astrophysicist Mario Livio examines the lives and theories of history’s greatest mathematicians to ask how—if mathematics is an abstract construction of the human mind—it can so perfectly explain the physical world.Nobel Laureate Eugene Wigner once wondered about “the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics” in the formulation of the laws of nature. Is God a Mathematician? ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • A Certain Ambiguity

    A Mathematical Novel (New in Paper)

    by Gaurav Suri, Hartosh Singh Bal ...
    While taking a class on infinity at Stanford in the late 1980s, Ravi Kapoor discovers that he is confronting the same mathematical and philosophical dilemmas that his mathematician grandfather had faced many decades earlier--and that had landed him in jail. Charged under an obscure blasphemy law in a small New Jersey town in 1919, Vijay Sahni is challenged by a skeptical judge to defend his belief ... Read more

    $23.09 CAD

  • Philosophical Devices: Proofs, Probabilities, Possibilities, and Sets

    Proofs, Probabilities, Possibilities, and Sets

    by David Papineau ...
    This book is designed to explain the technical ideas that are taken for granted in much contemporary philosophical writing. Notions like 'denumerability', 'modal scope distinction', 'Bayesian conditionalization', and 'logical completeness' are usually only elucidated deep within difficult specialist texts. By offering simple explanations that by-pass much irrelevant and boring detail, ... Read more

    $20.89 CAD

  • The March Up

    Taking Baghdad with the United States Marines

    by Bing West, Ray L. Smith ...
    BONUS: This edition contains excerpts from Bing West's No True Glory and The Strongest Tribe.With unprecedented access and previously unreported detail, here is a first hand account of the 22-day march to Baghdad that takes you behind the scenes and to the front line...No one reporting on the war in Iraq had the unique battlefield clearance afforded the authors of this dramatic eyewitness account. ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Battleground Atlantic

    How the Sinking of a Single Japanese Submarine Assured the Outcome of WW II

    by Richard N. Billings ...
    The true story of a German-Japanese scheme to turn much of America into a radioactive wasteland.In the early hours of June 24, 1944, U.S. Navy warplanes patrolling the Atlantic attacked a Japanese submarine known as the I-52. But this was more than the sinking of one more enemy warship. It was an event of enormous strategic importance. For the I-52’s mission was to return to Japan with the lethal ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Causality

    Philosophical Theory meets Scientific Practice

    by Phyllis Illari, Federica Russo ...
    Head hits cause brain damage - but not always. Should we ban sport to protect athletes? Exposure to electromagnetic fields is strongly associated with cancer development - does that mean exposure causes cancer? Should we encourage old fashioned communication instead of mobile phones to reduce cancer rates? According to popular wisdom, the Mediterranean diet keeps you healthy. Is this belief ... Read more

    $53.59 CAD

  • Sea of Thunder

    Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign 1941-1945

    by Evan Thomas ...
    Sea of Thunder is a taut, fast-paced, suspenseful narrative of the Pacific War that culminates in the battle of Leyte Gulf, the greatest naval battle ever fought.Told from both the American and Japanese sides, through the eyes of commanders and sailors of both navies, Thomas's history adds an important new dimension to our understanding of World War II.Drawing on oral histories, diaries, ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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