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Author: Lee Shanks
Publisher: Clarion Publications, Inc.
Keywords: days
Published: 2008-06-19
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0974085138
ISBN-13: 9780974085135

Author: Daniel Shanks
Publisher: Chelsea Pub. Co
Keywords: theory, number, problems, unsolved, solved
Number of Pages: 258
Published: 1978
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0828402973
ISBN-13: 9780828402972

The investigation of three problems, perfect numbers, periodic decimals, and Pythagorean numbers, has given rise to much of elementary number theory. In this book, Daniel Shanks, past editor of Mathematics of Computation, shows how each result leads to further results and conjectures. The outcome is a most exciting and unusual treatment. This edition contains a new chapter presenting research done between 1962 and 1978, emphasizing results that were achieved with the help of computers.

Author: Daniel Shanks
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Keywords: theory, chel, number, problems, unsolved, solved
Number of Pages: 305
Published: 2002-06
List price: $39.00
ISBN-10: 082182824X
ISBN-13: 9780821828243

The investigation of three problems, perfect numbers, periodic decimals, and Pythagorean numbers, has given rise to much of elementary number theory. In this book, Daniel Shanks, past editor of Mathematics of Computation, shows how each result leads to further results and conjectures. The outcome is a most exciting and unusual treatment. This edition contains a new chapter presenting research done between 1962 and 1978, emphasizing results that were achieved with the help of computers.

Author: Thomas G. Shanks
Publisher: ACS Pubns
Keywords: atlas, international
Number of Pages: 430
Published: 2004-12-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0935127887
ISBN-13: 9780935127881

The definitive reference for latitudes, longitudes and time change information. This reference book includes latitudes and longitudes, time changes and time zone information for the entire world (with the exception of the United States) since 1850. The longitude, latitude and longitude time equivalent from the Greenwich meridian are given for each location. The complete clock-setting history of every major city (and many minor cities) in the world is included. This complete and comprehensive summary combines information from many sources into one easy to use volume. Tables are simple and

Author: Thomas G. Shanks
Publisher: Astro Communications Services
Keywords: expanded, atlas, american
Number of Pages: 636
Published: 1996-01-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0935127380
ISBN-13: 9780935127386

Contains data for over 150,000 locations, with time zones from 1850 to 2000, and the complete clock setting history of every city in the U.S. large enough to have a post office. This supercedes all previous sources and has easy to follow tables, which makes The American Atlas, 5th Edition, the most comprehensive reference for daylight savings time, war time, latitudes, and longitudes.

Author: Pete Shanks
Publisher: Nation Books
Keywords: skeptics, perplexed, activists, guide, genetic, engineering, human
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2005-05-10
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1560256958
ISBN-13: 9781560256953

The debate over human Genetic Engineering (GE) is about to go mainstream. Not as a one-day wonder about cloning or a theological disagreement about embryos, but as a major political issue, driven in part by a grassroots movement of opposition. Human Genetic Engineering is a highly readable and entertaining guide. It explains in accessible language for a popular audience the essential questions that will arise in the future debates: What is human GE? Will it work? What perspectives should we remember? Who is doing what, and why?

Author: Melanie Shanks
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Keywords: hero, named, mouse
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2005-07-12
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0595362133
ISBN-13: 9780595362134

A small, brown mouse born in Mr. Pajolly’s Pet Shop has an incredible gift for escaping. He is trained by his Pappy to escape from every cage in the pet shop. One day, the mouse is adopted by a small human with tight blond curls and is given a name, Hero. Desperate to let his family know that he is okay, Hero travels through the ventilation system of the building. However, his escape does not go unnoticed. Three black rats of the RPFF—Revolutionary Pet Freedom Fighters—a secret organization that frees mistreated household pets—enlist Hero’s help to save other animals from cruel, sens
  
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