Author: Mary Monica Pulver
Publisher: Walker & Company
Keywords: sin, original
Number of Pages: 202
Published: 1991-01-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0802757707
ISBN-13: 9780802757708

When cousin Evelyn takes a fatal bump on the head during the Brichter family’s Christmas festivities, Sergeant Peter Brichter begins a hard-core investigation among his own guests. Reprint. K.

Author: Siobhan Robert
Publisher: Walker & Company
Keywords: man, saved, geometry, coxeter, donald, infinite, space, king
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2006-09-05
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0802714994
ISBN-13: 9780802714992

Winner of the 2009 Euler Book Prize, awarded by the Mathematical Association of America for an outstanding book about mathematics. The Euler Prize citation reads: "This book by Siobhan Roberts gives an intimate and engaging portrait of one of the most influential mathematicians of the last century. It also provides a mathematical history of those years, including the currents set in motion by Hilbert’s 23 problems, the influence of Bourbaki, and the unexpected applications of mathematics to computer science, communications, information, crystallography, medical research, environmental st

Author: Solomon M. Skolnick
Publisher: Walker & Company
Keywords: citizenship, country, test, own, pass, quiz, american
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2005-02-01
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0802777228
ISBN-13: 9780802777225

Do you know as much about American history and government as an immigrant seeking U. S. citizenship? Each of them has to know the answers to 100 basic questions about America’s history and government—many of which American citizens themselves don’t even know. This little book contains all the questions and answers along with fascinating facts and information about each of them that illuminate our democracy. You’ll know the answers and much more after reading The Great American Citizenship Quiz. Solomon M. Skolnick is the author of a forthcoming book on American history from 1000-200

Author: Kitty Ferguso
Publisher: Walker & Company
Keywords: kepler, tycho
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2002-03-01
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 0802713904
ISBN-13: 9780802713902

On his deathbed in 1601, the greatest naked-eye astronomer, Tycho Brahe, told his young colleague, Johannes Kepler, "Let me not have lived in vain." For more than thirty years, Tycho had made meticulous observations of planetary movements and the positions of the stars, from which he developed his Tychonic system of the universe-a highly original, if incorrect, scheme that attempted to reconcile the ancient belief in an unmoving Earth with Copernicus’s revolutionary re-arrangement of the solar system. Tycho knew that Kepler, the brilliant young mathematician he had engaged to interpret h

Author: Daud Sutton
Publisher: Walker & Company
Keywords: wooden, books, solids, archimedean, amp, platonic
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2002-04-01
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0802713866
ISBN-13: 9780802713865

Whereas Sacred Geometry introduced readers to two-dimensional forms, Platonic & Archimedean Solids presents the world of three dimensions, which was understood as early as neolithic time. Daud Sutton elegantly explores the eighteen forms—from the cube to the octahedron and icosidodecahedron—that are the universal building blocks of three-dimensional space, and shows the fascinating relationships between them. For anyone interested in design, architecture, and mathematics, this will be a delight.

Author: Morris Schwartz
Publisher: Walker & Company
Keywords: remarkable, man, wisdom, life, own, words, morrie
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2008-10-28
List price: $11.00
ISBN-10: 0802717179
ISBN-13: 9780802717177

Preceding the phenomenal success of Mitch Albom’s Tuesdays with Morrie, in which Albom discusses his weekly visits with his mentor, Morrie, as Morrie faces death from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Morrie Schwartz published his own book, Letting Go: Morrie’s Reflections of Living While Dying. Schwartz intended his words to be read by people dying of terminal illnesses with passages titled ,"Living with Physical Limitations," "Grieving for Your Losses," and "Reviewing the Past." Yet, just as in the case in Tuesdays with Morrie, this collection of plainspoken reflections trans

Authors:Andrew Hodges,  Douglas Hofstadter,
Publisher: Walker & Company
Keywords: enigma, turing, alan
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 2000-03-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0802775802
ISBN-13: 9780802775801

Alan Turing died in 1954, but the themes of his life epitomize the turn of the millennium. A pure mathematician from a tradition that prided itself on its impracticality, Turing laid the foundations for modern computer science, writes Andrew Hodges: Alan had proved that there was no "miraculous machine" that could solve all mathematical problems, but in the process he had discovered something almost equally miraculous, the idea of a universal machine that could take over the work of any machine. During World War II, Turing was the intellectual star of Bletchley Park, the secret British cryptog