History & Philosophy
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Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
$32.50 Read moreFrom the cubit to the kilogram, the humble inch to the speed of light, measurement is a powerful tool that humans invented to make sense of the world. In this revelatory work of science and social his
- Author: Vincent, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1324035854
- Language: English
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The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John Von Neumann
$20.00 Add to cartThe smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nuclear weapons and self-replicating spacecrafts. All bear the fingerprints of one remar
- Author: Bhattacharya, Ananyo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1324050500
- Language: English
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Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
$19.00 Add to cartPopular math at its most entertaining and enlightening. “Zero is really something”-Washington Post
A New York Times Notable Book. The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshipe- Author: Seife, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0140296476
- Language: English
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Digital SAT Math Prep for Dummies, 3rd Edition: Book + 4 Practice Tests Online, Updated for the New Digital Format
$24.99 Read moreHone your math skills to score well on the SAT
Digital SAT Math Prep For Dummies is a jam-packed study guide to the section of the SAT students struggle with most. This update covers major changes to
- Author: Zegarelli, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1394207387
- Language: English
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The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy’s View of History – Second Edition
$12.95 Add to cart“The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” This ancient Greek aphorism, preserved in a fragment from the poet Archilochus, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin’s maste
- Author: Berlin, Isaiah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 02 2013
- ISBN10: 069115600X
- Language: English
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Islamic Design: A Genius for Geometry
$8.95 Add to cartAcross the Islamic world, illuminating Korans from Morocco to Malaysia, and adorning mosques, mausoleums and palaces, are hidden some of the most exquisite geometrical devices ever conceived by man. I… [more below]
- Series: Wooden Books North America Editions
- Author: Sutton, Daud
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: March 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1952178053
- Language: English
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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
$19.99 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestseller
The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space–a powerful, revel
- Author: Shetterly, Margot Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 0062677284
- Language: English
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Fibonacci’s Rabbits: Fifty Breakthroughs That Revolutionized Mathematics
$19.99 Add to cartThe word ‘mathematics’ comes from the Greek word mathema, meaning knowledge or learning. And indeed mathematics is at the heart of almost all processes and patterns that occur in the modern world. Ye
- Series: Great Experiments in Science
- Author: Hart-Davis, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 26, 2023
- ISBN10: 1627951881
- Language: English
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Math in Drag
$24.95 Add to cartUnleash your inner math diva.
Join sensational drag queen Kyne Santos on an extraordinary journey through the glamorous world of . . . math?
This sassy book is your VIP pass, taking you behind the scen
- Author: Santos, Kyne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1421448742
- Language: English
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The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past
$19.98 Add to cartWhat is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a science? One of the most accomplished historians at work today, John Lewis Gaddis, answers these and… [more below]
- Author: Gaddis, John Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 08 2004
- ISBN10: 0195171578
- Language: English
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Between Past and Future: Eight Exercises in Political Thought
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem and The Origins of Totalitarianism, “a book to think with through the political impasses and cultural confusions of our day” (Harper’s Magazine)
Hannah Arendt- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Arendt, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 1, 2006
- ISBN10: 0143104810
- Language: English
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Euclid’s Elements
$29.95 Add to cartThe classic Heath translation, in a completely new layout with plenty of space and generous margins. An affordable but sturdy student and teacher sewn softcover edition in one volume, with minimal not… [more below]
- Author: Euclid, Au
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 529
- Publish Date: January 1, 2002
- ISBN10: 1888009195
- Language: English
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The Big Bang of Numbers: How to Build the Universe Using Only Math
$22.00 Add to cartOur universe has multiple origin stories, from religious creation myths to the Big Bang of scientists. But if we leave those behind and start from nothing–no matter, no cosmos, not even empty space–
- Author: Suri, Manil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1324065931
- Language: English
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Starborn: How the Stars Made Us (and Who We Would Be Without Them)
$30.00 Add to cartAn astronomer “who writes like a poet” (Wall Street Journal) gives a sweeping, “beautifully written” (Nature) inquiry into how the night sky has shaped human history
For as long as humans have lived- Author: Trotta, Roberto
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 7, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541674774
- Language: English
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Quadrivium: The Four Classical Liberal Arts of Number, Geometry, Music, & Cosmology
$26.00 Read moreThe quadrivium-the classical curriculum-comprises the four liberal arts of number, geometry, music, and cosmology. It was studied from antiquity to the Renaissance as a way of glimpsing the nature of
- Series: Wooden Books
- Author: Lundy, Miranda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 409
- Publish Date: November 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0802778135
- Language: English
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In Pursuit of Zeta-3: The World’s Most Mysterious Unsolved Math Problem
$21.95 Add to cart- Author: Nahin, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0691247641
- Language: English
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Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature
$0.00 Read moreA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
“An absolute joy to read!” –Steven Levitt, New York Times bestse
“Wide-ranging and thoroughly winning.” –Jordan Ellenberg, The New York Times Book Review- Author: Hart, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 1250850886
- Language: English
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Five Equations That Changed the World: The Power and Poetry of Mathematics
$21.99 Add to cartA Publishers Weekly best book of 1995!
Dr. Michael Guillen, known to millions as the science editor of ABC’s Good Morning America, tells the fascinating stories behind five mathematical equations.
As
- Author: Guillen, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 12, 1996
- ISBN10: 0786881879
- Language: English
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How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
$19.00 Add to cart“Witty, compelling, and just plain fun to read . . .” —Evelyn Lamb, Scientific American
The Freakonomics of math–a math-world superstar unveils the hidden beauty and logic of the world and puts its- Author: Ellenberg, Jordan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 26 2015
- ISBN10: 0143127535
- Language: English
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Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World
$20.00 Add to cart#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
The book-length answer to anyone who ever put their hand up in math class and asked, “When am I ever going to use this in the real world?”
AN ADAM SAVAGE BOOK CLUB PICK- Author: Parker, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 19 2021
- ISBN10: 0593084691
- Language: English
