The Golden Ratio: the Story of PHI, the World's Most Astonishing Number 9780767908160, 9780307485526, 0767908163, 0307485528

The Golden Ratio: the Story of PHI, the World's Most Astonishing Number 9780767908160, 0767908163, 9780307485526, 0307485528

Throughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to theologians have pondered the mysterious relationship between number

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e: The Story of a Number: The Story of a Number [Core Textbook ed.] 9781400832347

The interest earned on a bank account, the arrangement of seeds in a sunflower, and the shape of the Gateway Arch in St.

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The Golden Ratio: The Divine Beauty of Mathematics [Illustrated] 163106486X, 9781631064869

The Golden Ratio examines the presence of this divine number in art and architecture throughout history, as well as its

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The Golden Bees: The story of the Bonapartes

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The Golden Bees: The story of the Bonapartes

Napoleon III, being accused on one occasion of having nothing of the Great Napoleon about him, replied with as much exas

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The Golden Ratio: The Divine Beauty of Mathematics [Illustrated] 163106486X, 9781631064869

The Golden Ratio examines the presence of this divine number in art and architecture throughout history, as well as its

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Genome: The Story of the Most Astonishing Scientific Adventure of Our Time—the Attempt to Map All the Genes in the Human Body 9781497607538, 1497607531

An “invaluable [and] highly readable” account of the quest to map our DNA, the blueprint for life—and what it means for

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Kо̄lea: The Story of the Pacific Golden Plover 9780824844950

The Kolea (Pacific Golden Plover) leads a double life. From May to August it nests and raises its young on Alaska's

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Cold Rush: The Astonishing True Story of the New Quest for the Polar North 9781350985773, 9781838608156

The Arctic is heating up. While China, the US and Russia are militarizing the North pole - sending submarines and ice-br

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Cold Rush: The Astonishing True Story of the New Quest for the Polar North 9780773554412

A fascinating narrative on the global militarization of the Arctic. A fascinating narrative on the global militarizati

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