wyszukanych pozycji: 29
Mathematics for the Imagination
ISBN: 9780198604600 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Mathematics for the Imagination provides an accessible and entertaining investigation into mathematical problems in the world around us. From world navigation, family trees, and calendars to patterns, tessellations, and number tricks, this informative and fun new book helps you to understand the maths behind real-life questions and rediscover your arithmetical mind.
This is a follow-up to the popular Mathematics for the Curious, Peter Higgins's first investigation into real-life mathematical problems. This is a highly involving book which encourages the reader to enter into the spirit... Mathematics for the Imagination provides an accessible and entertaining investigation into mathematical problems in the world around us. From world na...
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87,33 zł |
Dragon Heart
ISBN: 9781473212176 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. For readers of Cormac McCarthy and Justin Cronin, this is the story of one family's battle for survival in a world where evil has already won.
For readers of Cormac McCarthy and Justin Cronin, this is the story of one family's battle for survival in a world where evil has already won.
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50,87 zł |
Radiant State
ISBN: 9780575130654 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The concluding part of the most original science fantasy of recent years. Works perfect for fans of China Mieville and Gene Wolfe.
The concluding part of the most original science fantasy of recent years. Works perfect for fans of China Mieville and Gene Wolfe.
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54,55 zł |
Professor Higgins's Problem Collection
ISBN: 9780198755470 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. What can you do with your maths? You can use it to thoroughly understand all manner of things that cannot be dealt with in any other way. This book serves up a variety of problems and shows how mathematics answers them. Topics range from cracking codes to the persistence of recessive genes; from logic puzzles to classical geometry; and from planetary motion questions to predicting the market share of competing companies. And there are other problems where the mathematics itself is intrinsically surprising and interesting.
What can you do with your maths? You can use it to thoroughly understand all manner of things that cannot be dealt with in any other way. This book se...
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124,18 zł |
Wolfhound Century
ISBN: 9781473211094 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A thousand miles east of Mirgorod, the great capital city of the Vlast, deep in the ancient forest, lies the most recent fallen angel, its vast stone form half-buried and fused into the rock by the violence of impact. As its dark energy leeches into the crash site, so a circle of death expands around it, slowly - inexorably - killing everything it touches. Alone in the wilderness, it reaches out with its mind. The endless forest and its antique folk lore are no concern to Inspector Vissarion Lom, summoned to the capital in order to catch a terrorist - and ordered to report directly to the...
A thousand miles east of Mirgorod, the great capital city of the Vlast, deep in the ancient forest, lies the most recent fallen angel, its vast stone ...
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60,01 zł |
Wolfhound Empire
ISBN: 9781473210646 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 976 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Peter Higgins' Vlast is a superbly imagined 'other' Russia, an epic land of trackless forest, sentient rain and powers deep in the Earth.
Peter Higgins' Vlast is a superbly imagined 'other' Russia, an epic land of trackless forest, sentient rain and powers deep in the Earth.
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103,69 zł |
Truth and Fear
ISBN: 9780575130609 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A new edition with glorious new cover art. Peter Higgins' Vlast is a superbly imagined 'other' Russia, an epic land of trackless forest, sentient rain and deep powers in the Earth. Its capital Mirgorod is home both to a brutal dictatorship centuries old and fleeting glimpses of the houses and streets of another city. Compared to the works of of both China Mieville and John Le Carre WOLFHOUND CENTURY was a hugely original creation. Now Peter Higgins returns to that world. Investigator Lom returns to Mirgorod and finds the city in the throes of a crisis. The war against the Archipelago is not...
A new edition with glorious new cover art. Peter Higgins' Vlast is a superbly imagined 'other' Russia, an epic land of trackless forest, sentient rain...
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49,09 zł |
Truth and Fear
ISBN: 9780316219716 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Investigator Lom returns to Mirgorod and finds the city in the throes of a crisis. The war against the Archipelago is not going well. Enemy divisions are massing outside the city, air raids are a daily occurrence and the citizens are being conscripted into the desperate defense of the city.
But Lom has other concerns. The police are after him, the mystery of the otherworldly Pollandore remains and the vast Angel is moving, turning all of nature against the city. But will the horrors of war overtake all their plans? Investigator Lom returns to Mirgorod and finds the city in the throes of a crisis. The war against the Archipelago is not going well. Enemy divisions ...
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108,90 zł |
Wolfhound Century
ISBN: 9780575130555 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A thousand miles east of Mirgorod, the great capital city of the Vlast, deep in the ancient forest, lies the most recent fallen angel, its vast stone form half-buried and fused into the rock by the violence of impact. As its dark energy leeches into the crash site, so a circle of death expands around it, slowly - inexorably - killing everything it touches. Alone in the wilderness, it reaches out with its mind. The endless forest and its antique folk lore are no concern to Inspector Vissarion Lom, summoned to the capital in order to catch a terrorist - and ordered to report directly to the...
A thousand miles east of Mirgorod, the great capital city of the Vlast, deep in the ancient forest, lies the most recent fallen angel, its vast stone ...
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49,09 zł |
Untitled Higgins 3 of 3
ISBN: 9781473212220 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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92,77 zł |
Wolfhound Century
ISBN: 9780316219693 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Investigator Vissarion Lom has been summoned to the capital in order to catch a terrorist --- and ordered to report directly to the head of the secret police.
A totalitarian state, worn down by an endless war, must be seen to crush home-grown insurgents with an iron fist. But Lom discovers Mirgorod to be more corrupted than he imagined: a murky world of secret police and revolutionaries, cabaret clubs and doomed artists. Lom has been chosen because he is an outsider, not involved in the struggle for power within the party. And because of the sliver of angel stone implanted in his... Investigator Vissarion Lom has been summoned to the capital in order to catch a terrorist --- and ordered to report directly to the head of the secret...
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95,82 zł |
Radiant State
ISBN: 9780316219655 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Peter Higgins's superb and original creation, a perfect melding of fantasy, myth, SF and political thriller, reaches its extraordinary conclusion.
The Vlast stands two hundred feet tall, four thousand tons of steel ready to be flung upwards on the fire of atom bombs. Ready to take the dream of President-Commander of the New Vlast General, Osip Rizhin, beyond the bounds of this world. But not everyone shares this vision. Vissarion Lom and Maroussia Shaumian have not reached the end of their story, and in Mirgorod a woman in a shabby dress carefully unwraps a sniper rifle. And all the... Peter Higgins's superb and original creation, a perfect melding of fantasy, myth, SF and political thriller, reaches its extraordinary conclusion.
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95,82 zł |
Numbers: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 9780199584055 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Numbers are integral to our everyday lives and factor into almost everything we do. In this Very Short Introduction, Peter M. Higgins, a renowned popular-science writer, unravels the world of numbers, demonstrating its richness and providing an overview of all the number types that feature in modern science and mathematics. Indeed, Higgins paints a crystal-clear picture of the number world, showing how the modern number system matured over many centuries, and introducing key concepts such as integers, fractions, real and imaginary numbers, and complex numbers. Higgins sheds light on such...
Numbers are integral to our everyday lives and factor into almost everything we do. In this Very Short Introduction, Peter M. Higgins, a renowned popu...
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45,78 zł |
Untitled Higgins 2 of 3
ISBN: 9781473212190 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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92,77 zł |
Immigration Justice
ISBN: 9780748670260 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. What moral standards ought nation-states abide by when selecting immigration policies? Peter Higgins argues that immigration policies can only be judged by considering the inequalities that are produced by the institutions - such as gender, race and class - that constitute our social world.Higgins challenges conventional positions on immigration justice, including the view that states have a right to choose whatever immigration policies they like, or that all immigration restrictions ought to be eliminated and borders opened. Rather than suggesting one absolute solution, he argues that a...
What moral standards ought nation-states abide by when selecting immigration policies? Peter Higgins argues that immigration policies can only be judg...
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518,70 zł |
Number Story: From Counting to Cryptography
ISBN: 9781848000001 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 323 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Peter Higgins distills centuries of work into one delightful narrative that celebrates the mystery of numbers and explains how different kinds of numbers arose and why they are useful. Full of historical snippets and interesting examples, the book ranges from simple number puzzles and magic tricks, to showing how ideas about numbers relate to real-world problems. This fascinating book will inspire and entertain readers across a range of abilities. Easy material is blended with more challenging ideas. As our understanding of numbers continues to evolve, this book invites us to rediscover... Peter Higgins distills centuries of work into one delightful narrative that celebrates the mystery of numbers and explains how different kinds of n... |
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115,36 zł |
Number Story: From Counting to Cryptography
ISBN: 9781447168515 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 323 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. |
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76,74 zł |
Das Kleine Buch Der Zahlen: Vom Abzählen Bis Zur Kryptographie
ISBN: 9783827430151 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2012 / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Seit Jahrhunderten sind Menschen fasziniert von Zahlen. Zahlen sind jedem vertraut und bilden ein wesentliches Fundament fur unser Verstandnis der Welt. Und doch ist uns das Zahlensystem nicht einfach so gegeben, sondern es hat sich uber Jahrtausende entwickelt. Trotz aller Fortschritte kann auch heute noch jedes Kind Fragen in Bezug auf Zahlen stellen, die niemand beantworten kann. Viele ungeloste Probleme im Zusammenhang mit Zahlen erscheinen wie skurrile Seltsamkeiten von geringem Nutzen, andere wiederum behindern den grundlegenden Fortschritt in wichtigen Forschungsbereichen der... Seit Jahrhunderten sind Menschen fasziniert von Zahlen. Zahlen sind jedem vertraut und bilden ein wesentliches Fundament fur unser Verstandnis der ... |
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71,74 zł |
Techniques of Semigroup Theory
ISBN: 9780198535775 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book introduces recently developed ideas and techniques in semigroup theory to provide a handy reference guide previously unavailable in a single volume. The opening chapter provides sufficient background to enable the reader to follow any of the subsequent chapters, and would by itself be suitable for a first course in semigroup theory. The second chapter gives an account of free inverse semigroups leading to proofs of the McAlister P-theorems. Subsequent chapters have the underlying theme of diagrams and mappings, and the new material includes the theory of biordered sets of...
This book introduces recently developed ideas and techniques in semigroup theory to provide a handy reference guide previously unavailable in a single...
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192,98 zł |
Buried In Georgetown: A Brief Look At Cemeteries and Burial Grounds in Georgetown, Washington, D.C.
ISBN: 9781735123868 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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114,16 zł |