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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1742
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Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1742
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Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
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Languages : en
Pages : 922
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Author: Pamela Fiori
Publisher: Editions Assouline
ISBN: 9781614282136
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Symbolizing luxury and old-fashioned glamour, Monte Carlo is a glorious Eden, perfectly manicured and architecturally grand. From its ancient Phoenician origins to its burgeoning power as a global financial center, this gorgeous volume chronicles the Grimaldi dynasty, the artists and socialists who first put the Principality on the map and how Hollywood darling Grace Kelly attracted the celebrity spotlight, the vibrant arts and culture scene, legendary Grand Prix race, and the controversial metamorphosis of the cityscape"--Jacket.
Author: Amir D. Aczel
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466879106
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 199
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“A captivating story, not just an intellectual quest but a personal one . . . gripping [and] filled with the passion and wonder of numbers.” —The New York Times Virtually everything in our lives is digital, numerical, or quantified. But the story of how and where we got these numerals, which we so depend on, has for thousands of years been shrouded in mystery. Finding Zero is the saga of Amir Aczel’s lifelong obsession: to find the original sources of our numerals, perhaps the greatest abstraction the human mind has ever created. Aczel has doggedly crisscrossed the ancient world, scouring dusty, moldy texts, cross-examining so-called scholars who offered wildly differing sets of facts, and ultimately penetrating deep into a Cambodian jungle to find a definitive proof. Here, he takes the reader along for the ride. The history begins with Babylonian cuneiform numbers, followed by Greek and Roman letter numerals. Then Aczel asks: Where do the numbers we use today, the so-called Hindu-Arabic numerals, come from? It is this search that leads him to explore uncharted territory on a grand quest into India, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and ultimately into the wilds of Cambodia. There he is blown away to find the earliest zero—the keystone of our entire system of numbers—on a crumbling, vine-covered wall of a seventh-century temple adorned with eaten-away erotic sculptures. While on this odyssey, Aczel meets a host of fascinating characters: academics in search of truth, jungle trekkers looking for adventure, surprisingly honest politicians, shameless smugglers, and treacherous archaeological thieves—who finally reveal where our numbers come from. “A historical adventure that doubles as a surprisingly engaging math lesson . . . rip-roaring exploits and escapades.” —Publishers Weekly
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Author: Sir Richard Temple
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Languages : en
Pages : 592
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Author: William Henry Parr Greswell
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Category : South Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Pages : 646
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Author: Patience Edensor Sinnett
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Category : Theosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 708
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A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
