Alex Bellos 74191

Alex Through the Looking Glass. How Life Reflects Numbers, and Numbers Reflect Life

Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015. Paperback. Pp: 352. From triangles, rotations and power laws, to fractals, cones and curves, bestselling author Alex Bellos takes you on a journey of mathematical discovery with his signature wit, engaging stories and limitless enthusiasm. As he narrates a series of eye-opening encounters with lively personalities all over the world, Alex demonstrates how numbers have come to be our friends, are fascinating and extremely accessible, and how they have changed our world. He turns even the dreaded calculus into an easy-to-grasp mathematical exposition, and sifts through over 30,000 survey submissions to reveal the world's favourite number. In Germany, he meets the engineer who designed the first roller-coaster loop, whilst in India he joins the world's highly numerate community at the International Congress of Mathematicians. He explores the wonders behind the Game of Life program, and explains mathematical logic, growth and negative numbers. Stateside, he hangs out with a private detective in Oregon and meets the mathematician who looks for universes from his garage in Illinois. Read this captivating book, and you won't realise that you're learning about complex concepts. Alex will get you hooked on maths as he delves deep into humankind's turbulent relationship with numbers, and proves just how much fun we can have with them. ISBN: 9781408845721. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Book number: 1874439

Catalogue: Wetenschap

Keywords: 9781408845721

Lewis Carroll 11584

Alice Through the Looking-glass

Candlewick Press, 2005. Hardcover. Pp: 224. Welcome back to the world of Helen Oxenbury's Alice! An exuberant edition of the Lewis Carroll masterpiece, lavishly illustrated by one of the most beloved children's book artists of our time. Helen Oxenbury's ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND set a new standard for contemporary editions of Lewis Carroll's beloved classic. And now she has illustrated its companion, ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING- GLASS, with equal intimacy, warmth, and charm. Here again is Alice, dressed in her bright blue jumper and ready for adventure like any modern child. All it takes is a bit of curiosity about the room reversed in the mirror and suddenly Alice is in the Looking-Glass world with all manner of comical and magical characters " Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the lion and the unicorn, and a whole game board of chess pieces come to life. On page after page, Helen Oxenbury's incomparable line drawings, sepia illustrations, and full-color paintings give today's children their own utterly accessible view into Lewis Carroll's timeless nonsense. ISBN: 9780763628925. Cond./Kwaliteit: Als nieuw.

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Book number: 2378162

Catalogue: Literatuur anderstalig

Keywords: 9780763628925

Lewis Carroll 11584

Alice through the looking glass (ill. by tony ross)

Andersen Press. Paperback. Pp: 116. "Oh, Kitty, if only we could get through into Looking-glass House!"A perfect companion to last year's celebratory 150th anniversary edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, once again we follow Alice's escapades with some of the most famous characters in literature, like Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee, in a world where nothing is ever quite as it seems. Perfectly capturing the humour and nonsense of the original story, this edition is carefully abridged for younger readers and gloriously illustrated by world-famous author and illustrator Tony Ross. ISBN: 9781783444120. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Book number: 2208663

Catalogue: Kinderboeken algemeen

Keywords: 9781783444120

Alan Fletcher 42056

The Art of Looking Sideways

Phaidon Press, 2001. Hardcover. Pp: 534. The Art of Looking Sideways is a primer in visual intelligence, an exploration of the workings of the eye, the hand, the brain and the imagination. It is an inexhaustible mine of anecdotes, quotations, images, curious facts and useless information, oddities, serious science, jokes and memories, all concerned with the interplay between the verbal and the visual, and the limitless resources of the human mind. Loosely arranged in 72 chapters, all this material is presented in a wonderfully inventive series of pages that are themselves masterly demonstrations of the expressive use of type, space, colour and imagery.This book does not set out to teach lessons, but it is full of wisdom and insight collected from all over the world. Describing himself as a visual jackdaw, master designer Alan Fletcher has distilled a lifetime of experience and reflection into a brilliantly witty and inimitable exploration of such subjects as perception, colour, pattern, proportion, paradox, illusion, language, alphabets, words, letters, ideas, creativity, culture, style, aesthetics and value.The Art of Looking Sideways is the ultimate guide to visual awareness, a magical compilation that will entertain and inspire all those who enjoy the interplay between word and image, and who relish the odd and the unexpected. ISBN: 9780714834498. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Book number: 796793

Catalogue: Kunst

Keywords: 9780714834498

The Artist's Eye - David Hockney. Looking at pictures in a book

National Gallery, 1981. Paperback. Pp: 28. 25 page book with the full set of 8 postcards. Cond./Kwaliteit: Redelijk.

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Book number: 3461450

Catalogue: Kunst

Brits: Looking Good is Half the Battle, Major Lanoe George Hawker, Major James T. B. McCudden, Major Edward Mannock

U.S.A. Aviation Sales Co. 0. Paperback. Book, Very light wear. Four short tales as a boxed set. Others in the series also available. Very Good.

Rainy Day BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 43121

Catalogue: Military Non-Fiction

Christie's: Looking Forward to the Past: A Curated Evening Sale: New York, Monday 11 May 2015

New York, Christie's. 2015. Paperback. Used, Paperback auction catalogue, sale number 3739. Superficial marks, light scores and edge wear on covers. Minor marks on page block head. Leading edges of early pages are lightly bumped. Pages are clean and contents are clear throughout. Binding is sound. HCW. Good.

PsychoBabel BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 431543

Catalogue: Auction Catalogues

The City of Charlottetown Birthplace of Confederation: Proud of Our Past and Looking to the Future

Canada: City of Charlottetown, 1992. First Edition.. Paperback. Large format, 10 pages, colour illustrations, map.. Very Good .

Philip EmeryProfessional seller

Book number: 83419

Catalogue: Canadian Studies

Keywords: Canada

Kurt Rowland 252873

The Development of Shape. Looking and Seeing - Volume 2

Ginn and Company, 1968. Paperback. Pp: 128. Part 2 of the series: Looking and Seeing. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Book number: 3505668

Catalogue: Kunst

Barbara Maria Stafford 295344

Good looking. Essays on the virtue of images

MIT Press (MA), 1996. Linnen band. Pp: 259. 'Good Looking constitutes an important and permanent contribution to the growing critique of text-driven post-structuralist critical practice as an efficacious tool for talking about visible and visual artifacts in this culture.' - David Hickey, Associate. ISBN: 9780262193696. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Book number: 3457912

Catalogue: Psychologie

Keywords: 9780262193696

John Ringo 39695

Into the Looking Glass

2005. Gekartonneerd. Pp: 278. An investigation into a mammoth explosion that led to the destruction of the the University of Central Florida and much of the surrounding countryside leads physicist William Weaver and Navy SEAL Command Master Chief Robert Miller to the discovery of a series of interdimensional gateways, one of which is disgorging demonic alien visitors intent on. ISBN: 9780743498807. Cond./Kwaliteit: Redelijk.

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Book number: 845678

Catalogue: Fantasy

Keywords: 9780743498807

Alberto Manguel 12267

Into the Looking Glass Wood

Groothandel / BESTEL. Paperback. Provocative and illuminating critique of the nature of books and literature, and the place of writers (and readers) in the modern world. ISBN: 9780747545934. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Book number: 3345357

Catalogue: Over literatuur

Keywords: 9780747545934

Looking in odd mirrors the java sea

Paperback. ISBN: 9789073084063. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Book number: 1644969

Catalogue: Geschiedenis

Keywords: 9789073084063

Michael Lesy 161190

Looking backward. A photographic portrait of the world at the beginning of the twentieth century

Norton. Hardcover. Pp: 256. Haunting views of the early twentieth century's most significant events flank pictures of the last remnants of the premodern world. ISBN: 9780393239737. Cond./Kwaliteit: Ramsj.

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Book number: 2217841

Catalogue: Fotografie

Keywords: 9780393239737

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Looking Back Memories of the Villages of Nether Alderley and Warford

Womens Institute, 1951. Paperback. 35pp, illustrated bound in green card covers; Octavo. Very Good .

Castle Hill BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 054907

Keywords: Cheshire British Topography