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  • The Cave and the Cathedral

    How a Real-Life Indiana Jones and a Renegade Scholar Decoded the Ancient Art of Man

    by Amir D. Aczel ...
    What Are The Ancients Trying To Tell Us?"Why would the Cro-Magnon hunter-gatherers of Europe expend so much time and effort to penetrate into deep, dark, and dangerous caverns, where they might encounter cave bears and lions or get lost and die, aided only by the dim glow of animal fat–burning stone candles, often crawling on all fours for distances of up to a mile or more underground . . . to ... Read more

    $10.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why Science Does Not Disprove God

    by Amir D. Aczel ...
    The bestselling author "wields impressive intellectual weapons in demolishing the New Atheists' claims that science has disproven the existence of God" ( Booklist, starred review).The renowned science writer, mathematician, and bestselling author of Fermat's Last Theorem masterfully refutes the overreaching claims of the "New Atheists," providing millions of educated believers with a clear, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Descartes's Secret Notebook

    A True Tale of Mathematics, Mysticism, and the Quest to Understand the Universe

    by Amir D. Aczel ...
    René Descartes (1596—1650) is one of the towering and central figures in Western philosophy and mathematics. His apothegm “Cogito, ergo sum” marked the birth of the mind-body problem, while his creation of so-called Cartesian coordinates has made our intellectual conquest of physical space possible.But Descartes had a mysterious and mystical side, as well. Almost certainly a member of the occult ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Finding Zero

    A Mathematician's Odyssey to Uncover the Origins of Numbers

    by Amir D. Aczel ...
    "A captivating story, not just an intellectual quest but a personal one . . . gripping [and] filled with the passion and wonder of numbers." — The New York TimesVirtually everything in our lives is digital, numerical, or quantified. But the story of how and where we got these numerals, which we so depend on, has for thousands of years been shrouded in mystery. Finding Zero is the saga of Amir ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Present at the Creation

    Discovering the Higgs Boson

    by Amir D. Aczel ...
    The Large Hadron Collider is the biggest, and by far the most powerful, machine ever built. A project of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, its audacious purpose is to re-create, in a 16.5-mile-long circular tunnel under the French-Swiss countryside, the immensely hot and dense conditions that existed some 13.7 billion years ago within the first trillionth of a second after the ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Strange Wilderness

    The Lives of the Great Mathematicians

    by Amir D. Aczel ...
    “Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost.”-- Mathematics historian W. S. AnglinFrom the internationally bestselling author of Fermats Last Theorem comes a landmark publication on the eccentric lives of the foremost mathematicians in history..From Archimedes eureka moment to Alexander Grothendiecks ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Pendulum

    Leon Foucault and the Triumph of Science

    by Amir D. Aczel ...
    In 1851, struggling, self-taught physicist Léon Foucault performed a dramatic demonstration inside the Panthéon in Paris. By tracking a pendulum's path as it swung repeatedly across the interior of the large ceremonial hall, Foucault offered the first definitive proof -- before an audience that comprised the cream of Parisian society, including the future emperor, Napoleon III -- that the earth ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Jesuit and the Skull

    by Amir Aczel ...
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Fermat?s Last Theorem, ?an extraordinary story?( Philadelphia Inquirer) of discovery, evolution, science, and faith.In 1929, French Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a part of a group of scientists that uncovered a skull that became known as Peking Man, a key evolutionary link that left Teilhard torn between science and his ancient faith, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    The Jesuit and the Skull

    Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution, and the Search for Peking Man

    by Amir D. Aczel ...
    Narrated by Barrett Whitener ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 2 min

    In December 1929, in a cave near Peking, a group of anthropologists and archaeologists that included a young French Jesuit priest named Pierre Teilhard de Chardin uncovered a prehuman skull. The find quickly became known around the world as Peking Man and was acclaimed as the missing link between erect hunting apes and our Cro-Magnon ancestors. It also became a provocative piece of evidence in the ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Uranium Wars

    The Scientific Rivalry that Created the Nuclear Age

    by Amir D. Aczel ...
    Series series MacSci
    Called "one of our best science popularizers" by Publishers Weekly, Amir D. Aczel tackles the cause of one of last century's most destructive events--the scientific discovery of nuclear power.Drawing on his rich storytelling skills, Aczel presents the fascinating and suspenseful story of the scientists who first uncovered the potential of uranium. Uranium Wars takes the reader on a whirlwind tour ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • My Search for Ramanujan

    How I Learned to Count

    by Ken Ono, Amir D. Aczel ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    "The son of a prominent Japanese mathematician who came to the United States after World War II, Ken Ono was raised on a diet of high expectations and little praise. Rebelling against his pressure-cooker of a life, Ken determined to drop out of high school to follow his own path. To obtain his father’s approval, he invoked the biography of the famous Indian mathematical prodigy Srinivasa Ramanujan ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Artist and the Mathematician

    by Amir D Aczel ...
    Nicolas Bourbaki, whose mathematical publications began to appear in the late 1930s and continued to be published through most of the twentieth century, was a direct product as well as a major force behind an important revolution that took place in the early decades of the twentieth century that completely changed Western culture. Pure mathematics, the area of Bourbaki's work, seems on the surface ... Read more

    $9.99 USD