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A delightful collection of articles about people who claim they have achieved the mathematically impossible (squaring the circle, duplicating the cube); people who think they have done something they have not (proving Fermat's Last Theorem); people who pray in matrices; people who find the American Revolution ruled by the number 57; people who have in common eccentric mathematical views, some mild (thinking we should count by 12s instead of 10s),...
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A House for My Mother features twenty-five houses designed in a 35-year period by currently practicing architects for their mothers, fathers, and other close relatives. Included are the well-known works of recognized designers, and early works from promising young architects. Extensive interviews with the architects and their parents reveal the joys and difficulties of these most personal commissions. Affordable and innovative finishes, creative small-house...
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"The project selection in this volume offers a comprehensive overview of housing developments catering to wheelchairs and children's pushers, through senior-friendly fit-outs, to modernization of existing constructions. Plans and concepts are foremost in the presentation. Constructional detailing, which is of particular relevance to the planning of unrestricted dwellings, is also presented here in large-scale drawings." "As in the previous volume...
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This book provides ideas and strategies that will help children at the elementary and middle school level develop an awareness of and appreciation for other cultures while enjoying physical activity. Easy and fun to use, the book features 75 games from 43 countries or cultures on six continents.
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"Commonsense Architecture depicts indigenous architecture's responsiveness to human needs and to the environment, with examples from all parts of the world. The book is not a treatise against technology, but rather a catalogue of commonsense principles that can help us use technology as an efficient tool instead of as a cloak for inefficient designs." --
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"The poster - inexpensive, colorful, and immediate - was an ideal medium for delivering messages about Americans' duties on the home front during World War II." "Design for Victory presents more than 150 of these stunning images - many never reproduced since their first issue - culled from the collections of the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution." "William L. Bird, Jr. and Harry R. Rubenstein delve beneath the surface of...
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Examines the great architectural styles, the background to their evolutions, and the means by which the buildings within them were achieved. The many superb pieces of specially commissioned cut-away artwork, researched with the aid of computer techniques, provide an intriguing and informative study of the world's greatest structures from the Great Pyramid of Cheops to examples of modern architectural styles, and, together with the clear and informative...
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Reveals the extraordinary dimensions of new mathematical insights about the nature of physical reality; explores the powerful applications of these symmetry concepts in physics, chemistry, music, and the visual arts. Includes such areas as deterministic chaos and strange attractors, iterated mappings, nonlinear dynamics, Cayley trees, cellular automata, random fractals and related topics.
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Each period in the history of costume has produced its own characteristic line and silhouette, derived from a cut and construction which varies considerably from age to age. Here are patterns taken from actual dresses, many of them rare museum specimens, illustrated by sketches of the dresses. There are notes on the production of women's dress, with references to early technical books and journals, together with diagrams from some of them. Numerous...
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This collections of essays reveal the scientific challenges so daunting that only "crazy scientists would take them on" and as a result, turned out to have been extremely usefull in the fields of biology, biotechnology, genetics, and chemistry. This book demonstrates that science is a cultural activity rich and varied, as well as fun.
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Game-Changing Strategies explains the reasons behind this puzzle and presents practical ideas on how established firms could not only discover new radical business models but also grow them next to their existing business models. The challenge for established firms is not the discovery of a new business model - the real challenge is how to make two business models coexist. This book offers advice on how established firms can implement structures and...
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