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  • How Round Is Your Circle?

    Where Engineering and Mathematics Meet

    by John Bryant, Chris Sangwin ...
    "Part magic show, part history lesson, and all about geometry, How Round Is Your Circle? is an eloquent testimonial to the authors' passion for numbers." — Civil EngineeringHow do you draw a straight line? How do you determine if a circle is really round? These may sound like simple or even trivial mathematical problems, but to an engineer the answers can mean the difference between success and ... Read more

    $23.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Great Australian Motorcycle Stories

    by John Bryant ...
    A bumper collection of yarns from motorcyclist enthusiasts around Australia.Get out on the highway and into this new collection of all-Australian motorcycle stories - the latest addition to ABC Books' bestselling Great Australian series. Edited by John Bryant and full of laconic Aussie humour, the collection features 40 stories that capture the freedom, fun, independence and adventure that comes ... Read more

    Was $8.99 USD Now $6.99 USD

  • Typee

    A Peep at Polynesian Life

    by Herman Melville, John Bryant ...
    Melville's first and most popular novel during his lifetime, Typee is a provocative and lively account of his exploits in the exotic South Seas during the early 1840s, where he journeyed as a young sailor. This edition includes notes on the text. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • The Table at the End of the World

    Christ's Regard for Those in Despair

    by John Bryant ...
    This book is about the regard we give to others. Regard doesn't save people, the Good News does. But regard is our most tender, basic and visible sign that this News is true.We go out and see people where they are, in the places where they do their sitting and their eating and their living and their dying, and this regard is our song to them. Our most tender, basic, and visible sign of the reality ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Herman Melville

    A Half Known Life

    by John Bryant ...
    A comprehensive exploration of Melville's formative years, providing a new biographical foundation for today's generations of Melville readersHerman Melville: A Half Known Life, Volumes 1 and 2, follows Herman Melville's life from early childhood to his astonishing emergence as a bestselling novelist with the publication of Typee in 1846. These volumes comprise the first half of a comprehensive ... Read more

    $298.00 USD

  • The Confidence-Man

    by Herman Melville ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    “In The Confidence-Man,” writes John Bryant in his Introduction, “Melville found a way to render our tragic sense of self and society through the comic strategies of the confidence game. He puts the reader in the game to play its parts and to contemplate the inconsistencies of its knaves and fools.” Set on a Mississippi steamer on April Fool’s Day and populated by a series of shape-shifting con ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Programmed Cell Death in Animals and Plants

    Edited by John Bryant, Jeff Garland, S.G. Hughes ...
    Series series Society for Experimental Biology
    This title, the 52nd in symposium series, presents a comprehensive review of apoptosis and features contributions from many internationally recognised authors. The book is the first to integrate programmed cell death in plants, invertebrates and vertebrates. Rapid publication ensures that the very latest research is included. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • A Quiet Mind to Suffer With

    Mental Illness, Trauma, and the Death of Christ

    by John Bryant ...
    Publishers Weekly starred review · Christianity Today Book Award Winner · ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award Winner · Illumination Book Awards Gold Medal Winner · Southwestern Journal of Theology Book of the Year Honorable Mention"This is a stunning book, so rare and so beautiful. I cannot recommend it highly enough." --Matthew A. LaPineSuffering has been made holy by Christ's proximity to it.This is ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • 26.2 - The Incredible True Story of the Three Men Who Shaped The London Marathon

    by John Bryant ...
    This is the thrilling account of heroism, ambition and scandal of three remarkable men whose actions at the 1908 Olympics overshadowed the first London Olympic Games…. A diminutive Italian, Dorando Pietri, who fell five times, and was practically carried across the finish line. Scottish sprinter, Wyndham Halswelle and American competitor, Johnny Hayes who were drawn into a dispute between the ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • Bayesian Demographic Estimation and Forecasting

    by John Bryant, Junni L. Zhang ...
    Series series Chapman & Hall/CRC Statistics in the Social and Behavioral Sciences
    Bayesian Demographic Estimation and Forecasting presents three statistical frameworks for modern demographic estimation and forecasting. The frameworks draw on recent advances in statistical methodology to provide new tools for tackling challenges such as disaggregation, measurement error, missing data, and combining multiple data sources. The methods apply to single demographic series, or to ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The Marathon Makers

    by John Bryant ...
    **With a foreword by Sebastian Coe ** At the 1908 Summer Olympics, one of the contenders in the marathon was the diminutive Italian Dorando Pietri. After leading the pack at a grueling pace, Pietri staggered into the stadium, turned the wrong direction, and fell five times, after which two officials took him by the arms and brought him across the finish line. The American team lodged a complaint, ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • Beyond Human?

    Science and the changing face of humanity

    by Professor John Bryant ...
    As the news constantly reminds us, recent advances in the biomedical sciences have brought within reach things that were unthinkable only a few years ago: designer babies, genetically enhanced athletes, human clones, stem cell treatment, medical technology, transhumanism. All these issues raise huge questions. Our power to intervene in the natural course of human life is immense: but what should ... Read more

    $11.99 USD