wyszukanych pozycji: 9
Buffalo Man
ISBN: 9781479135646 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A love story set in the turbulent and chaotic West of 1846, Buffalo Man is a fictional account set against the historically accurate events of the time. Anna Sinclair is a fourteen-year-old Mormon joining the great Mormon migration to the Salt Lake Valley with her family when her father is killed by anti-Mormon raiders. Wes Hamlin is a sixteen-year-old non-Mormon who runs off to the Indian Territories after being accused of the murder. Wes takes an assumed name and partners with a cantankerous trapper named Crocker Sloan who introduces the boy to trapping beaver and accompanies him through a...
A love story set in the turbulent and chaotic West of 1846, Buffalo Man is a fictional account set against the historically accurate events of the tim...
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82,13 zł |
Buffalo Man
ISBN: 9780578030043 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 470 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Set in the West of 1846, Buffalo Man is a love story between a young non-Mormon boy and a Mormon girl. Anna Sinclair is only fourteen-years-old when she leaves Nauvoo with her family for the trek west to the Great Salt Lake Valley. Wes Hamlin is a sixteen-year-old non-Mormon who is falsely accused of killing a Mormon. He runs from the law and hitches up with an old cantankerous mountain man, Crocker Sloan, who introduces him to trapping and living with the Lakota Indians. Over the next three years the two youngsters experience numerous adventures as they move west, occasionally meeting and...
Set in the West of 1846, Buffalo Man is a love story between a young non-Mormon boy and a Mormon girl. Anna Sinclair is only fourteen-years-old when s...
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242,27 zł |
Silky and Walt: Adventures on The Great Plains
ISBN: 9781477615843 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Return to a time in America when millions of buffalo roamed the Great Plains, Native Americans lived free and trappers sought their fortunes by overcoming tremendous obstacles in their search of the beaver. Walt Thornley, a seventeen-year-old farm boy, and Silky Hanson, a thirty-seven-year-old farm hand, become convinced they can find riches in the western Indian Territories of 1840 by trapping beaver and taking buffalo hides. Leaving Independence, Missouri in early May they stop for one last beer in Westport Landing where they meet Jerome, an easygoing alcoholic drifter who convinces the two...
Return to a time in America when millions of buffalo roamed the Great Plains, Native Americans lived free and trappers sought their fortunes by overco...
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54,67 zł |
Mathematical Mysteries: The Beauty and Magic of Numbers
ISBN: 9780738202594 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Why seemingly unrelated mathematical truths are connected in simple and beautiful equations continues to stump even mathematicians. This recreational math book takes the reader on a fantastic voyage into the world of natural numbers. From the earliest discoveries of the ancient Greeks to various fundamental characteristics of the natural number sequence, Clawson explains fascinating mathematical mysteries in clear and easy prose. He delves into the heart of number theory to see and understand the exquisite relationships among natural numbers, and ends by exploring the ultimate mystery of...
Why seemingly unrelated mathematical truths are connected in simple and beautiful equations continues to stump even mathematicians. This recreational ...
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146,55 zł |
Mathematical Sorcery: Revealing the Secrets of Numbers
ISBN: 9780306460036 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. There are two kinds of people: those who can do mathematics, and then there's the rest of us.Math is boring.Females have no facility for mathematics (and really don't need it, anyway).For many people who do not like math, these myths ring true.Calvin Clawson, the celebrated author of Mathematical Mysteries, has a unique talent for opening the door for the uninitiated to the splendors of mathematics. A writer in love with his subject, Clawson offers readers the perfect antidote to the phobias and misconceptions surrounding mathematics in MATHEMATICAL SORCERY . Contending that the...
There are two kinds of people: those who can do mathematics, and then there's the rest of us.Math is boring.Females have no facility for mathematics (...
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194,52 zł |
The Mathematical Traveler: Exploring the Grand History of Numbers
ISBN: 9780738208350 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Back in print at last, this classic work by Calvin Clawson examines the remarkable co-evolution of numbers and human culture. From the early clay beads and ropes that our ancestors used as primitive counting tools to the influence of fractals and complex number systems on chaos theory, The Mathematical Traveler takes us on a journey over continents and through time to discover how mathematics has become an integral part of our world. We stop at ancient Sumeria, China, Greece, Italy, and England, where we learn about the discovery of our current counting system, the golden mean, pi, irrational...
Back in print at last, this classic work by Calvin Clawson examines the remarkable co-evolution of numbers and human culture. From the early clay bead...
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140,45 zł |
Mathematical Mysteries: The Beauty and Magic of Numbers
ISBN: 9780306454042 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Why seemingly unrelated mathematical truths are connected in simple and beautiful equations continues to stump even mathematicians. This recreational math book takes the reader on a fantastic voyage into the world of natural numbers. From the earliest discoveries of the ancient Greeks to various fundamental characteristics of the natural number sequence, Clawson explains fascinating mathematical mysteries in clear and easy prose. He delves into the heart of number theory to see and understand the exquisite relationships among natural numbers, and ends by exploring the ultimate mystery of...
Why seemingly unrelated mathematical truths are connected in simple and beautiful equations continues to stump even mathematicians. This recreational ...
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194,52 zł |
Mathematical Sorcery
ISBN: 9780738204963 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The secret of constellations, the enigma of the golden mean, and the brilliance of a proof-these are just some of the wonders Clawson explores with unbridled delight in this recreational math book. Throughout the book he divulges the wisdom of the ancient Greeks, Sumerians, Babylonians, and Egyptians, whose stunning revelations still have deep meaning today.Transporting us beyond mere appreciation, Clawson urges us to tackle functions, tangents, and the concept of infinity. He helps us intuitively comprehend these and other building blocks of mathematics through explaining their discovery and...
The secret of constellations, the enigma of the golden mean, and the brilliance of a proof-these are just some of the wonders Clawson explores with un...
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140,45 zł |
The Mathematical Traveler: Exploring the Grand History of Numbers
ISBN: 9780306446450 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 307 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. The story of numbers is a rich, sweeping history that shows how our mathematical achievements contributed to the greatest innovations of civilization. Calvin Clawson, acclaimed author of Conquering Math Phobia, weaves a story of numbers that spans thousands of years. As Clawson so clearly shows, numbers are not only an intrinsic and essential thread in our modern lives, but have always been an integral part of the human psyche - knit into the very fabric of our identity as humans. Clawson travels back through time to the roots of the history of numbers. In exploring early human fascination...
The story of numbers is a rich, sweeping history that shows how our mathematical achievements contributed to the greatest innovations of civilization....
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194,52 zł |