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The Mining Laws of the United States, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona (Hardcover): Charles S Wilson The Mining Laws of the United States, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona (Hardcover)
Charles S Wilson
R775 Discovery Miles 7 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Practical Tool-Maker and Designer: Herbert S. Wilson The Practical Tool-Maker and Designer
Herbert S. Wilson
R917 Discovery Miles 9 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Modern Art of Making Love - a Complete Manual of Etiquette, Love, Courtship and Matrimony ... (Hardcover): James S. Wilson The Modern Art of Making Love - a Complete Manual of Etiquette, Love, Courtship and Matrimony ... (Hardcover)
James S. Wilson
R809 Discovery Miles 8 090 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Effects of Relativity in Atoms, Molecules and the Solid State - Meeting Proceedings (Hardcover, New): S.Wilson Rutherford,... The Effects of Relativity in Atoms, Molecules and the Solid State - Meeting Proceedings (Hardcover, New)
S.Wilson Rutherford, B. L. Gyorffy
R2,486 Discovery Miles 24 860 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Relativistic Effects on Periodic Trends.- Atoms.- Relativistic Atomic Structure and Electron-Atom Collisions.- On the Accuracy of Oscillator Strengths.- Atomic Structure Calculations in Breit-Pauli Approximation.- Relativistic Calculations of Parity Non-Conserving Effects in Atoms.- High Precision Relativistic Atomic Structure Calculations Using the Finite Basis Set Approximation.- Relativistic Calculations of Electron Impact Ionisation Cross-Sections of Highly Charged Ions.- Molecules.- Nonsingular Relativistic Perturbation Theory and Relativistic Changes of Molecular Structure.- Basis Set Expansion Dirac-Fock SCF Calculations and MBPT Refinement.- Comments.- Polyatomic Molecular Dirac-Hartree-Fock Calculations with Gaussian Basis Sets.- Open Shell Relativistic Molecular Dirac-Hartree-Fock SCF-Program.- General Contraction in Four-Component Relativistic Hartree-Fock Calculations.- Accurate Relativistic Dirac-Fock and MBPT Calculations on Argon with Basis Sets of Contracted Gaussian Functions.- Comments.- Relativistic Many-Body Perturbation Theory of Atomic and Molecular Electronic Structure.- Solid State.- Relativistic Density-Functional Theory for Electrons in Solids.- Influence of Relativistic Effects on the Magnetic Moments and Hyperfine Fields of 5d-Impurity Atoms Dissolved in Ferromagnetic Fe.- Relativistic Spin-Polarized Density-Functional Theory: Simplified Method for Fully Relativistic Calculations.- Theory of Magnetocrystalline Anisotropy.- The Spin Polarized Photoemission from Non-Magnetic Metals.- Theory of Magnetic X-Ray Dichroism.- Participants.

Politics of Identity in Small Plural Societies - Guyana, the Fiji Islands, and Trinidad and Tobago (Hardcover): S. Wilson Politics of Identity in Small Plural Societies - Guyana, the Fiji Islands, and Trinidad and Tobago (Hardcover)
S. Wilson
R1,463 Discovery Miles 14 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In small plural societies, cultural differences can be exaggerated, exploited and intensified during political contests. The survival of these societies as democracies - or even at all - hangs in the balance.

The Russo-Japanese War in Cultural Perspective, 1904-05 (Hardcover): D. Wells, S. Wilson The Russo-Japanese War in Cultural Perspective, 1904-05 (Hardcover)
D. Wells, S. Wilson
R2,786 Discovery Miles 27 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05 has been widely seen as a historical turning-point. For the first time in modern history an Asian and a European country competed on equal terms, overturning the prevailing balance of power. Based on a wide range of original source material in Russian, Japanese and other languages, this book goes beyond the military and international political grand narratives to examine the war's social, cultural, literary and intellectual impact in their historical context. In Japan the war reinforced the country's self-image as a 'coming' nation, while in Russia, combined with the revolution of 1905 and later political and social upheaval, it was seen as separating the old regime from the new. Throughout the world, 'spirit' was seen to be a decisive factor, and cultural considerations determined the war's interpretation. Featuring contributions by established scholars in the fields of military history and the history and literature of both Russia and Japan, this book offers for the first time a comparative perspective on the symbolic meaning of the conflict.

Pilgrims and Popes (Hardcover): Tobias Brandner Pilgrims and Popes (Hardcover)
Tobias Brandner; Foreword by Henry S. Wilson, Limuel R Equina
R1,524 R1,209 Discovery Miles 12 090 Save R315 (21%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Myths and Fairy Tales in Contemporary Women's Fiction - From Atwood to Morrison (Hardcover): S. Wilson Myths and Fairy Tales in Contemporary Women's Fiction - From Atwood to Morrison (Hardcover)
S. Wilson
R1,464 Discovery Miles 14 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Myths and Fairy Tales in Contemporary Women's Fiction" explores contemporary feminist, postmodernist, and postcolonial women writers' use and revisions of fairy tales and myths. With close readings of works ranging from Margaret Atwood to Doris Lessing to Toni Morrison, Wilson examines meanings of myths and fairy tales as well as their varying techniques, images, intertexts, and genres. Although the writers represent several different nationalities and racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds, they employ a type of postcolonial literature that urges readers and societies beyond colonization. Wilson argues that the use of myths and fairy tales generally convey characters' transformation from alienation and symbolic amputation to greater consciousness, community, and wholeness, and it is in and through story that characters construct a hybrid way of establishing themselves in the larger world.

The Russo-Japanese War in Cultural Perspective, 1904-05 (Hardcover, 1999 ed.): D. Wells, S. Wilson The Russo-Japanese War in Cultural Perspective, 1904-05 (Hardcover, 1999 ed.)
D. Wells, S. Wilson
R2,786 Discovery Miles 27 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5 has been widely seen as a historical turning point. This book goes beyond the military and world political grand narratives to examine the war's social, cultural, literary, and intellectual impact. Containing contributions by established scholars in the fields of military history and the history and literature of both Russia and Japan, it offers for the first time in English a comparative perspective on symbolic meaning of the conflict.

Quantum Systems in Chemistry and Physics, Part II, Volume 32 (Hardcover): Per Olov Lowden Quantum Systems in Chemistry and Physics, Part II, Volume 32 (Hardcover)
Per Olov Lowden; Series edited by Michael C. Zerner, John R. Sabin; Volume editing by Y. G. Smeyers, R Mcweeny, …
R6,019 Discovery Miles 60 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The description of quantum systems is fundamental to an understanding of many problems in chemistry and physics. This volume records a representative slection of the papers delivered at the second European Workshop on Quantum Systems in Chemistry and Physics which was held at Jesus College, Oxford, April 6-9, 1997. The purpose of this international Workshop was to bring together chemists and physicists with a common interest--the quantum mechanical many-body problem--and to encourage collaboration and exchange of ideas on the fundamentals by promoting innovative theory and conceptual development rather than improvements in computatorial techniques and routine applications.
Key Features
* Covers the following topics:
* Density matrices and density functional theory
* Electron correlation
* Relativistic effects
* Valence theory
* Nuclear motion
* Response theory
* Condensed matter
* Chemical reactions

Beyond Anitkabir: The Funerary Architecture of Ataturk - The Construction and Maintenance of National Memory (Hardcover, New... Beyond Anitkabir: The Funerary Architecture of Ataturk - The Construction and Maintenance of National Memory (Hardcover, New Ed)
Christopher S. Wilson
R4,405 Discovery Miles 44 050 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

There have been five different settings that at one time or another have contained the dead body of Mustafa Kemal AtatA1/4rk, organizer of the Turkish War of Independence (1919-1923) and first president of the Republic of Turkey. Narrating the story of these different architectural constructions - the bedroom in DolmabahAe Palace, Istanbul, where he died; a temporary catafalque in this same palace; his funeral stage in Turkey's new capital Ankara; a temporary tomb in the Ankara Ethnographic Museum; and his permanent and monumental mausoleum in Ankara, known in Turkish as 'Anitkabir' (Memorial Tomb) - this book also describes and interprets the movement of AtatA1/4rk's body through the cities of Istanbul and Ankara and also the nation of Turkey to reach these destinations. It examines how each one of these locations - accidental, designed, temporary, permanent - has contributed in its own way to the construction of a Turkish national memory about AtatA1/4rk. Lastly, the two permanent constructions - the DolmabahAe Palace bedroom and Anitkabir - have changed in many ways since their first appearance in order to maintain this national memory. These changes are exposed to reveal a dynamic, rather than dull, impression of funerary architecture.

Quantum Systems in Chemistry and Physics, Part I, Volume 31 (Hardcover): Per Olov Lowden Quantum Systems in Chemistry and Physics, Part I, Volume 31 (Hardcover)
Per Olov Lowden; Series edited by Michael C. Zerner, Erkki J. Brandas; Volume editing by R Mcweeny, P.J. Grout, …
R6,019 Discovery Miles 60 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The description of quantum systems is fundamental to an understanding of many problems in chemistry and physics. This volume records a representative slection of the papers delivered at the second European Workshop on Quantum Systems in Chemistry and Physics which was held at Jesus College, Oxford, April 6-9, 1997. The purpose of this international Workshop was to bring together chemists and physicists with a common interest--the quantum mechanical many-body problem--and to encourage collaboration and exchange of ideas on the fundamentals by promoting innovative theory and conceptual development rather than improvements in computatorial techniques and routine applications.
Key Features
* Covers the following topics:
* Density matrices and density functional theory
* Electron correlation
* Relativistic effects
* Valence theory
* Nuclear motion
* Response theory
* Condensed matter
* Chemical reactions

Mathematical Understanding for Secondary Teaching - A Framework and Classroom-Based Situations (Hardcover): M.Kathleen Heid,... Mathematical Understanding for Secondary Teaching - A Framework and Classroom-Based Situations (Hardcover)
M.Kathleen Heid, Patricia S. Wilson, Glendon W. Blume
R2,974 Discovery Miles 29 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A perennial discussion about teacher development is the optimal content background for teachers. In recent years, that discussion has taken center stage in the work of mathematics education researchers, mathematicians, mathematics professional developers, and mathematics education policymakers. Much of the existing and prior work in this area has been directed toward mathematical knowledge for teaching at the elementary level. The work described in this volume takes a sometimes-neglected approach, focusing on the dynamic nature of mathematical understanding rather than on a stable description of mathematical knowledge, and on mathematics for secondary teaching rather than mathematics for teaching at the elementary level. The work reported in Mathematical Understanding for Secondary Teaching: A Framework and Classroom-Based Situations is a practice-based response to the question of what mathematical understandings secondary teachers could productively use in their teaching. For each of more than 50 events, our team of almost 50 mathematics educators who were experienced mathematics teachers developed descriptions of the mathematics that teachers could use-each of those descriptions (consisting of the event and the mathematics related to the event) is what we call a Situation. We developed our Framework for Mathematical Understanding for Secondary Teaching (MUST) based on an analysis of our entire set of Situations. We call the work practice-based because the MUST framework is based on actual events that we witnessed in our observations of secondary mathematics practice. Groups of mathematics teachers can use this volume to enhance their own understandings of secondary mathematics. School leaders and professional developers in secondary mathematics will find our MUST Framework and Situations useful as they work with teachers in enhancing and deepening their understanding of secondary mathematics. Mathematics teacher educators and mathematicians who teach mathematics to prospective and in-service secondary teachers will be able to couch their mathematical discussions in the Situations-examples that arise from secondary mathematics classrooms. They will be able to use this volume as they design courses and programs that enhance mathematics from the perspectives identified in the MUST framework. Policymakers and researchers can use our MUST framework as they consider the mathematics background needed by teachers.

Twelve Ordinary Men - The Lives of the Apostles Companion Workbook and Study Guide (Paperback, Revised edition): John F... Twelve Ordinary Men - The Lives of the Apostles Companion Workbook and Study Guide (Paperback, Revised edition)
John F Macarthur, Greg Asimakoupoulos, David Veerman, Neil S Wilson
R457 R343 Discovery Miles 3 430 Save R114 (25%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Who were these men?

They weren't saints. They weren't scholars. They weren't even religious sages. What is most amazing about the disciples is that Jesus ever selected them at all. Among them, a handful of common fishermen, a hated tax collector, and an impulsive political zealot.

The "Twelve Ordinary Men Workbook" brings you face-to-face with the disciples as you've never seen them. You'll put yourself in their shoes. You'll understand their doubts and hopes. And you'll hear the power of Jesus' words in a whole new way. The message is clear. If Christ can accomplish His purposes through the lives of common men like these, imagine what He has in store for you

Based on John MacArthur's best-selling book "Twelve Ordinary Men," this workbook is ideal for group or individual study, and includes:

  • Suggestions for further reading
  • Thought-provoking call-out areas
  • Daily life application assignments
  • Focused, relevant prayers
  • Intriguing study questions
  • Additional notes for leading group study
Reframing Berlin - Architecture, Memory-Making and Film Locations (Hardcover, New edition): Christopher S. Wilson, Gul Kacmaz... Reframing Berlin - Architecture, Memory-Making and Film Locations (Hardcover, New edition)
Christopher S. Wilson, Gul Kacmaz Erk
R3,018 Discovery Miles 30 180 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Reframing Berlin is about how architecture and the built environment can reveal the memory of a city, an urban memory, through its transformation and consistency over time by means of 'urban strategies', which have developed throughout history as cities have adjusted to numerous political, religious, economic and societal changes. These strategies are organised on a 'memory spectrum', which range from demolition to memorialisation. It reveals the complicated relationship between urban strategies and their influence on memory-making in the context of Berlin since 1895, with the help of film locations. It utilises cinematic representations of locations as an audio-visual archive to provide a deeper analysis of the issues brought up by strategies and case studies in relation to memory-making. Foreword by Kathleen James-Chakraborty A new volume in the Mediated Cities series from Intellect

The House on Telegraph Hill - Growing Up with Abusive Parents and a Lifetime After (Hardcover): Charles S Wilson The House on Telegraph Hill - Growing Up with Abusive Parents and a Lifetime After (Hardcover)
Charles S Wilson
R671 Discovery Miles 6 710 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The doors of the house inhabited by the Jack Wilson family on Telegraph Hill lead to a terrible secret. Within those walls, Charles S. Wilson and his sisters suffered heartbreaking physical and mental abuse at the hands of their own parents.

Mother Mame was a well-known caretaker in the community, but she also brought strangers into the house and force-fed them until they were sick. Their father Jack, better known as the town drunk, threw Wilson around like a rag doll for the amusement of his drunken friends. And then there were Annabelle and Abigail, Wilson's beloved sisters, whose neglected and tortured lives ended all too soon.

A story of survival, "The House on Telegraph Hill," details the abuse Wilson suffered and sheds light, not only on his own demoralizing experience, but also on the epidemic of child abuse. His brutally honest stories reveal all of the disguises, sugar-coatings, and lies that abusers heap on their victims. By recounting his dreadful upbringing along with his lifelong struggles, Wilson is finally pushing his story to the forefront to help educate others about the horrors and complexities of child abuse.

Visual Heritage: Digital Approaches in Heritage Science (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Eugene Ch'ng, Henry Chapman, Vincent... Visual Heritage: Digital Approaches in Heritage Science (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Eugene Ch'ng, Henry Chapman, Vincent Gaffney, Andrew S. Wilson
R5,391 Discovery Miles 53 910 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

How we understand our shared and individual heritage, interpret and disseminate that knowledge is increasingly central to contemporary society. The emerging context for such development is the field of heritage science. Inherently interdisciplinary, and involving both the Arts and Humanities, engineering, conservation and the digital sciences, the development of heritage science is a driver for change; socially, economically and technically. This book has gathered contributions from leading researchers from across the world and provides a series of themed contributions demonstrating the theoretical, ethical, methodological and technical methods which lie at the heart of heritage science. Archaeology, conservation, museology, the arts, forensic sciences, and heritage management are represented through collaborative research with specialists in applied technologies including object and terrestrial laser scanning, multi-spectral imaging, visualisation, GIS and 3D-printing. Together, the chapters present important case studies to demonstrate the recent advances and best practise within the discipline, highlighting the value of digital transformation across the heritage community that includes objects, monuments, sites and landscapes spanning two million years of natural and cultural history from all over the world. Visual Heritage: Digital Approaches in Heritage Science is aimed at a broad academic and practice-led readership, which extends across many disciplines and will be of considerable value to scholars, practitioners, and students working within heritage and computer science at all levels. The content, which applies heritage science across two million years of cultural history will be appreciated by a general audience, as well as those wishing simply to explore the vast range of potential technical applications across all the disciplines represented in the book.

Trade Costs and Facilitation: Open Trade and Economic Development (Hardcover): Jean-Christophe Maur, John S. Wilson Trade Costs and Facilitation: Open Trade and Economic Development (Hardcover)
Jean-Christophe Maur, John S. Wilson
R14,816 Discovery Miles 148 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The need for countries to facilitate trade and to reduce the transactions costs plaguing trade is receiving a lot of interest in policy circles, and in particular in the WTO, where trade facilitation has been one of the few good stories in recent multilateral negotiations. Is this interest justified? What have economic theory and empirical findings to contribute to our understanding of the value of free trade? This authoritative two-volume set, edited by two leading scholars in the field, offers a collection of seminal articles that have led our economic thinking on these issues and encouraged a new and growing literature. This important work, along with an original introduction by the editors, will be of immense value to scholars and practitioners interested in the topic of trade costs and facilitation.

Compendium Of In Vivo Monitoring In Real-time Molecular Neuroscience - Volume 2: Microdialysis And Sensing Of Neural Tissues... Compendium Of In Vivo Monitoring In Real-time Molecular Neuroscience - Volume 2: Microdialysis And Sensing Of Neural Tissues (Hardcover)
George S. Wilson, Adrian C. Michael
R4,359 Discovery Miles 43 590 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Volume 1 of this series focused mainly on small molecules which are intrinsically electroactive. Volume 2 continues to provide current approaches to real time measurements of essential species in the central nervous system. It describes microdialysis, a sampling technique, which facilitates the removal of small volumes of solution containing the analyte(s) of interest which can be subsequently separated by chromatography and analyzed by a range of techniques. These include electrochemistry, UV-Vis spectroscopy, fluorescence and mass spectroscopy. This approach affords the opportunity to measure a range of targets in real-time thus providing access to pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamics measurements affording the possibility of measuring the disappearance of a drug after administration and the subsequent appearance of metabolites. Microdialysis further affords the ability to sample peptides and proteins of neurobiological interest.Consistent with the goals of Volume 1, Volume 2 seeks to provide for scientists in the field of neurobiology a base of bioanalytical techniques that may not be familiar to them. Specific examples are provided and the fundamental basis of the technique is also covered.

Aging and Cultural Diversity - New Directions and Annotated Bibliography (Hardcover): Benjamin Drew, Audrey O. Faulkner, Marsel... Aging and Cultural Diversity - New Directions and Annotated Bibliography (Hardcover)
Benjamin Drew, Audrey O. Faulkner, Marsel A. Heisel, Bonnie McCay, Heather Strange, …
R2,729 Discovery Miles 27 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Compendium Of In Vivo Monitoring In Real-time Molecular Neuroscience - Volume 1: Fundamentals And Applications (Hardcover):... Compendium Of In Vivo Monitoring In Real-time Molecular Neuroscience - Volume 1: Fundamentals And Applications (Hardcover)
George S. Wilson, Adrian C. Michael
R4,074 Discovery Miles 40 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This new volume documents the transition from the development of electrochemical monitoring of brain function, now more than 40 years old, to fundamental neuroscience. This includes the links of molecular neuroscience to biobehavior, to a molecular understanding of neurologically-linked diseases and to the investigation of neuroactive molecules made possible by new detection methodology. This work should be of interest to a broad audience, especially those who are engaged in neuroscience research, for example in drug discovery, but are not familiar with electrochemical methodology.

Quantum Systems in Chemistry and Physics. Trends in Methods and Applications (Hardcover, Partly reprinted from MOLECULAR... Quantum Systems in Chemistry and Physics. Trends in Methods and Applications (Hardcover, Partly reprinted from MOLECULAR ENGINEERING, 7:1-2, 1998)
R Mcweeny, Jean Maruani, Y. G. Smeyers, S. Wilson
R4,292 Discovery Miles 42 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Quantum Systems in Chemistry and Physics contains a refereed selection of the papers presented at the first European Workshop on this subject, held at San Miniato, near Pisa, Italy, in April 1996. The Workshop brought together leading experts in theoretical chemistry and molecular physics with an interest in the quantum mechanical many-body problem. This volume provides an insight into the latest research in this increasingly important field. Throughout the Workshop, the emphasis was on innovative theory and conceptual developments rather than on computational implementation. The various contributions presented reflect this emphasis and embrace topics such as density matrices and density functional theory, relativistic formulations, electron correlation, valence theory, nuclear motion, response theory, condensed matter, and chemical reactions. Audience: The volume will be of interest to those working in the molecular sciences and to theoretical chemists and molecular physicists in particular.

Ohio - A History of the Buckeye State (Paperback, New): Kevin F. Kern, Gregory S. Wilson Ohio - A History of the Buckeye State (Paperback, New)
Kevin F. Kern, Gregory S. Wilson
R1,061 R966 Discovery Miles 9 660 Save R95 (9%) Out of stock

Ohio: A History of the Buckeye State explores the breadth of Ohio s past, tracing the course of history from its earliest geological periods to the present day in an accessible, single-volume format. * Features the most up-to-date research on Ohio, drawing on material in the disciplines of history, archaeology, and political science * Includes thematic chapters focusing on major social, economic, and political trends * Amply illustrated with maps, drawings, and photographs Receipient of the Ohio Geneological Society's Henry Howe Award in 2014

Common Bees of Eastern North America (Paperback): Olivia Messinger Carril, Joseph S. Wilson Common Bees of Eastern North America (Paperback)
Olivia Messinger Carril, Joseph S. Wilson
R577 Discovery Miles 5 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The only portable full-color photographic guide to the most commonly seen bees east of the Mississippi River Bees play a vitally important role in the pollination of native plants and agricultural crops around the globe. Common Bees of Eastern North America is the first species-level photographic field guide to the most commonly seen bees in the eastern United States and Canada. Identifying bees to species is challenging even for taxonomists. This book walks you through the process of bee identification using breathtaking high-resolution color photos that highlight the unique characteristics of each species, making identification easier. Full of essential facts about the natural history of these magnificent creatures, this is the must-have field guide for naturalists and backyard gardeners alike. Covers 125 of the most commonly seen species in the eastern United States and Canada Features 500 stunning close-up photos in full color Shows multiple images for each species, with arrows highlighting key identifying marks Provides silhouette images depicting the actual size of each species Describes key identification features, size, phenology, floral preference, nesting, and related species Includes a range map for every species Contains a taxonomic key to the bee genera of the eastern United States and Canada

It All Adds Up - The Story of People and Mathematics (Paperback): Mickael Launay It All Adds Up - The Story of People and Mathematics (Paperback)
Mickael Launay; Translated by Stephen S. Wilson 1
R236 Discovery Miles 2 360 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'Fascinating ... so enlightening that suddenly maths doesn't seem so fearsome as it once did' SIMON WINCHESTER From 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 much else in our lives, numbers are everywhere. They are so indispensable that we forget how fundamental they are to our way of life. In this international bestseller, Mickael Launay mixes history and anecdotes from around the world to reveal how mathematics became pivotal to the story of humankind. It is a journey into numbers with Launay as a guide. In museums, monuments or train stations, he uses the objects around us to explain what art can reveal about geometry, how Babylonian scholars developed one of the first complex written languages, and how 'Arabic' numbers were adopted from India. It All Adds Up also tells the story of how mapping the trajectory of an eclipse has helped to trace the precise day of one of the oldest battles in history, how the course of the modern-day Greenwich Meridian was established, and why negative numbers were accepted just last century. This book is a vital compendium of the great men and women of mathematics from Aristotle to Ada Lovelace, which demonstrates how mathematics shaped the written word and the world. With clarity, passion and wisdom, the author unveils the unexpected and at times serendipitous ways in which big mathematical ideas were created. Supporting the belief that - just like music or literature - maths should be accessible to everyone, Launay will inspire a new fondness for the numbers that surround us and the rich stories they contain.

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