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Growing Up Godless - Anna Strhan

Growing Up Godless - Anna Strhan

How children’s non-belief and non-religion are formed in everyday lifeThe number of those identifying as “non-religious” has risen rapidly in Britain and many other parts of Europe and North America. Although non-religion and non-belief are especially prevalent among younger people, we know little about the experience of children who are growing up without religion. In Growing Up Godless, Anna Strhan and Rachael Shillitoe fill this scholarly gap, examining how, when, where, and with whom children..

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Summing It Up - From One Plus One to Modern Number Theory - Avner Ash

Summing It Up - From One Plus One to Modern Number Theory - Avner Ash

\In Summing It Up, Ash and Gross, with their customary charm and clarity, build an impressive tower from the most basic mathematical story imaginable. They start by adding up finite sequences and whole numbers before journeying to the upper reaches of contemporary developments in number theory.\--Jordan Ellenberg, author of How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking\With joy and reflection, Summing It Up encourages readers to work alongside the authors to engage in simple computations..

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Up from the Depths - Professor Aaron Sachs

Up from the Depths - Professor Aaron Sachs

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography A double portrait of two of America's most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between them--and their uncanny relevance to our age of crisis Up from the Depths tells the interconnected stories of two of the most important writers in American history--the novelist and poet Herman Melville (1819-1891) and one of his earliest biographers, the literary critic and historian Lewis Mumford (1895-1990). Deftly cutting..

DKK 198.95
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Up to Heaven and Down to Hell - Colin Jerolmack

Up to Heaven and Down to Hell - Colin Jerolmack

The United States is the only country in the world where property rights commonly extend \up to heaven and down to hell,\ which means that landowners have the exclusive right to lease their subsurface mineral estates to petroleum companies. Colin Jerolmack spent eight months living with rural communities outside of Williamsport as they confronted the tension between property rights and the commonwealth. In this deeply intimate book, he reveals how the decision to lease brings financial rewards..

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Power-Up - Unlocking the Hidden Mathematics in Video Games - Matthew Lane

Power-Up - Unlocking the Hidden Mathematics in Video Games - Matthew Lane

A fun and lively look at the mathematical ideas concealed in video gamesDid you know that every time you pick up the controller to your PlayStation or Xbox, you are entering a world steeped in mathematics? Matthew Lane reveals the hidden mathematics in many of today''s most popular video gamesΓÇöand explains why mathematical learning doesn''t just happen in the classroom. He discusses how gamers are engaging with the traveling salesman problem when they play Assassin''s Creed, why it is mathematically..

DKK 178.95
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Digging Up Armageddon - The Search for the Lost City of Solomon - Eric H. Cline

Digging Up Armageddon - The Search for the Lost City of Solomon - Eric H. Cline

In 1925, James Henry Breasted, famed Egyptologist and director of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, sent a team of archaeologists to the Holy Land to excavate the ancient site of Megiddo--Armageddon in the New Testament--which the Bible says was fortified by King Solomon. Their excavations made headlines around the world and shed light on one of the most legendary cities of biblical times, yet little has been written about what happened behind the scenes. Digging Up Armageddon..

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How to Walk on Water and Climb up Walls - Animal Movement and the Robots of the Future - David Hu

How to Walk on Water and Climb up Walls - Animal Movement and the Robots of the Future - David Hu

Insects walk on water, snakes slither, and fish swim. Animals move with astounding grace, speed, and versatility: how do they do it, and what can we learn from them? How to Walk on Water and Climb up Walls takes readers on a wondrous journey into the world of animal motion. From basement labs at MIT to the rain forests of Panama, David Hu shows how animals have adapted and evolved to traverse their environments, taking advantage of physical laws with results that are startling and ingenious. In turn,..

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Contact: Art and the Pull of Print - Jennifer L. Roberts

Contact: Art and the Pull of Print - Jennifer L. Roberts

A leading art historian presents a new grammar for understanding the meaning and significance of print In process and technique, printmaking is an art of physical contact. From woodcut and engraving to lithography and screenprinting, every print is the record of a contact event: the transfer of an image between surfaces, under pressure, followed by release. Contact reveals how the physical properties of print have their own poetics and politics and provides a new framework for understanding the intelligence..

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The Beauty of Falling - Claudia de Rham

The Beauty of Falling - Claudia de Rham

A world-renowned physicist seeks gravity's true nature and finds wisdom in embracing its force in her life Claudia de Rham has been playing with gravity her entire life. As a diver, experimenting with her body's buoyancy in the Indian Ocean. As a pilot, soaring over Canadian waterfalls on dark mornings before beginning her daily scientific research. As an astronaut candidate, dreaming of the experience of flying free from Earth's pull. And as a physicist, discovering new sides to gravity's irresistible..

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Protestants Abroad - How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America - David A. Hollinger

Protestants Abroad - How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America - David A. Hollinger

They sought to transform the world, and ended up transforming twentieth-century AmericaBetween the 1890s and the Vietnam era, tens of thousands of American Protestant missionaries were stationed throughout the non-European world. They expected to change the peoples they encountered abroad, but those foreign peoples ended up changing the missionaries. Missionary experience made many of these Americans critical of racism, imperialism, and religious orthodoxy. When they returned home, the missionaries..

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