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  • The Nuraghes and the Pleiades

    An extraordinary hypothesis on the layout of a group of Bronze Age monuments in Sardinia

    by Marco Sanna, Augusto Mulas, Cristina Murroni ...
    Series Book 49 - Pósidos
    A symbolization of Heaven on Earth as a supreme religious tribute by the Nuraghic people or just a mere coincidence? The “visual similarity” of the position of the nuraghes as compared to the Open star cluster Messier 45 (known as the Pleiades) is absolutely striking.The daily life of ancient societies was very much influenced by the movements of the sun, moon, planets and specific stars and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Golden Ratio

    The Story of PHI, the World's Most Astonishing Number

    by Mario Livio ...
    Throughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to theologians have pondered the mysterious relationship between numbers and the nature of reality. In this fascinating book, Mario Livio tells the tale of a number at the heart of that mystery: phi, or 1.6180339887...This curious mathematical relationship, widely known as "The Golden Ratio," was discovered by Euclid more than two thousand years ago ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Golden Ratio

    The Divine Beauty of Mathematics

    by Gary B. Meisner ...
    This enlightening and gorgeously illustrated book explores the beauty and mystery of the divine proportion in art, architecture, nature, and beyond.From the pyramids of Giza, to quasicrystals, to the proportions of the human face, the golden ratio has an infinite capacity to generate shapes with exquisite properties. Author Gary Meisner has spent decades researching the subject, investigating and ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How to Travel with a Salmon

    And Other Essays

    by Umberto Eco ...
    "Impishly witty and ingeniously irreverent" essays on topics from cell phones to librarians, by the author of The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum ( The Atlantic Monthly).A cosmopolitan curmudgeon the Los Angeles Times called "the Andy Rooney of academia"—known for both nonfiction and novels that have become blockbuster New York Times bestsellers—Umberto Eco takes readers on "a delightful ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mammoth Books presents Wang's Carpets

    by Greg Egan ...
    Series Book 251 - Mammoth Books
    Far in the distant, post-human future, the Cater-Zimmermann community set out to refute the theory that the universe is created exclusively for mankind by cloning themselves a thousand times over and sending each copy to a different star within the galaxy. One of the copies of Cater-Zimmermann, Paolo Venetti, arrives at Orpheus; a water-world inhabited by floating mats that perform as a Turing ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Math and the Mona Lisa

    The Art and Science of Leonardo da Vinci

    by Bulent Atalay ...
    Leonardo da Vinci was one of history's true geniuses, equally brilliant as an artist, scientist, and mathematician. Readers of The Da Vinci Code were given a glimpse of the mysterious connections between math, science, and Leonardo's art. Math and the Mona Lisa picks up where The Da Vinci Code left off, illuminating Leonardo's life and work to uncover connections that, until now, have been known ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Greatest Invention

    A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts

    by Silvia Ferrara ...
    Translated by Todd Portnowitz ...
    In this exhilarating celebration of human ingenuity and perseverance—published all around the world—a trailblazing Italian scholar sifts through our cultural and social behavior in search of the origins of our greatest invention: writing.The L where a tabletop meets the legs, the T between double doors, the D of an armchair’s oval backrest—all around us is an alphabet in things. Bu... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Apollo's Eye

    A Cartographic Genealogy of the Earth in the Western Imagination

    by Denis Cosgrove ...
    This award-winning science history explores our evolving image of the globe—and how it has shifted our relationship to the world.Long before we had the ability to photograph the earth from space—to see our planet as it would be seen by the Greek god Apollo—images of the earth as a globe had captured popular imagination. In Apollo's Eye, geographer Denis Cosgrove examines the historical ... Read more

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  • The Holy Place

    Saunière and the Decoding of the Mystery of Rennes-le-Château

    by Henry Lincoln ...
    From the coauthor of Holy Blood, Holy Grail-a basis for The Da Vinci Code-comes a deeper exploration of the secrets of Rennes-le-Château. In 1982, Henry Lincoln, along with colleagues Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, published Holy Blood, Holy Grail, which became an immediate international bestseller. It investigated Rennes-le-Château, a small town in France where, in the late nineteenth century ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Golden Thread of Time

    A Quest for the Truth and hidden knowledge of the Ancients

    by Crichton E.M. Miller ...
    Time is the most important commodity on Earth, we live by it and we die by it, it gives order to our lives and we control all of our modern society using time and its modern instruments. We think we have mastered time, what if we are wrong?We are told in the Bible in Genesis 1 verse 14, that our ancestors measured time by the stars and moon and we are told by evolutionists that ancient people used ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wonders Beyond Numbers

    A Brief History of All Things Mathematical

    by Johnny Ball ...
    In this book, Johnny Ball tells one of the most important stories in world history – the story of mathematics.By introducing us to the major characters and leading us through many historical twists and turns, Johnny slowly unravels the tale of how humanity built up a knowledge and understanding of shapes, numbers and patterns from ancient times, a story that leads directly to the technological ... Read more

    $15.49 USD

  • The Book of Circles

    Visualizing Spheres of Knowledge

    by Manuel Lima ...
    In this follow-up to his hugely popular The Book of Trees and Visual Complexity, Manuel Lima takes us on a lively tour through millennia of circular information design. Three hundred detailed and colorful illustrations from around the world cover an encyclopedic array of subjects—architecture, urban planning, fine art, design, fashion, technology, religion, cartography, biology, astronomy, and ... Read more

    $23.09 USD