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Beyond human nature : how culture and experience shape the human mind / by Prinz, Jesse J.(CARDINAL)666416;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-387) and index.

Subjects: Mind and body.; Thought and thinking.;

Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4

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Animals and men : their relationship as reflected in Western art from prehistory to the present day / by Clark, Kenneth,1903-1983,author.(CARDINAL)151645; William Morrow and Company,publisher.(CARDINAL)745520;

Subjects: Animals in art.;

Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3

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Antonio Gaudí : master architect / by Bassegoda Nonell, Juan.(CARDINAL)724247; Levick, Melba.(CARDINAL)771539;

Subjects: Gaudí, Antoni, 1852-1926; Eclecticism in architecture;

Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1

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The joy of thinking [videorecording] : the beauty and power of classical mathematical ideas / by Burger, Edward B.,1963-(CARDINAL)702196; Starbird, Michael.(CARDINAL)733893; Perlmutter, Alvin H.(CARDINAL)684227; Teaching Company.(CARDINAL)349444;

Part 1: Great ideas that bring our world into focus ; How many? Counting surprises ; Fermat's last theorem and the allure of number ; Pining for nature's numbers ; Sizing up the Fibonacci numbers ; Sexiest rectangle ; Hidden beauty of the golden rectangle lecture ; Pythagorean theorem and geography of ellipses ; Not-so-platonic relationships in platonic solids ; Hunting for a sixth platonic solid ; Is there a fourth dimension? Can we see it? ; Invisible art of the fourth dimension -- Part 2: A twisted idea : the Mobius band ; One-sided, sealed surface : the Klein bottle ; Ordinary origami : creating beautiful patterns ; Unfolding paper to reveal a fiery fractal ; Fractals : infinitely complex creations ; Fractal frauds of nature ; Chance surprises : measuring uncertainty ; Door number two or door number three? ; Great expectations--weighing the uncertain future ; Random thoughts : randomness in our world ; How surprising are surprising coincidences? ; Life lessons learned from mathematical thinking.Lecturers: Dr. Edward B. Burger of Williams College and Michael Seabird of University of Texas at Austin.Discover classical mathematics as an artistic and creative realm that contains some of the greatest ideas of human history, ideas that have shaped cultures. Explore the fourth dimension, coincidences, fractals, the allure of number and geometry, in understandable terms. No formulas, problems, equations, techniques and drills that remind us of school, but thinking that opens doors and minds and become an endless frontier of ideas to explore.DVD.

Subjects: Video recordings.; Mathematics.;

Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3

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Chaos : making a new science / by Gleick, James.(CARDINAL)188262;

Bibliography: pages 318-340.1160L

Subjects: Chaotic behavior in systems.;

Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 5

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Who built the moon? / by Butler, Alan,1951-(CARDINAL)705608; Knight, Christopher,1950-(CARDINAL)211337;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-257) and index.The dawn of awareness -- The science of the ancients -- The origin of the Moon -- Walking on the Moon -- The bringer of life -- The living Earth -- The incubator of intelligence -- External intelligence -- The potential message -- The impossible accident -- Childhood's end -- Extra terrestrials -- The Möbius Principle -- The Möbius Mission."The authors of Civilization One return, bringing new evidence about the Moon that will shake up our world. Christopher Knight and Alan Butler realized that the ancient system of geometry they presented in their earlier, breakthrough study works as perfectly for the Moon as it does the Earth. They found a consistent sequence of integer numbers that they can apply to every major aspect of the Moon; no such pattern emerges for any other planet or moon in the solar system. In addition, Knight and Butler discovered that the Moon possesses few or no heavy metals and has no core-something that should not be possible. Their persuasive conclusion: if higher life only developed on Earth because the Moon is exactly what it is and where it is, it becomes unreasonable to cling to the idea that the Moon is a natural object-an idea with profound implications." --Publisher's description.

Subjects: Beginning.;

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Spheres / by Olson, Nathan.(CARDINAL)459467;

Includes bibliographical references (page 31) and index.What are 3-D shapes? -- Playing with spheres -- Nature's spheres -- All kinds of spheres -- It's a fat -- Hands on -- Glossary -- Read more -- Internet sites -- Index.Simple text and color photographs introduce sphere shapes and give examples of spheres in the real world.AD610LAccelerated Reader AR

Subjects: Geometry, Solid; Sphere;

Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2

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The crafts of Mexico / by Orellana, Margarita de.(CARDINAL)755455; Ruy Sánchez, Alberto,1951-(CARDINAL)747017; Weinberger, Eliot.(CARDINAL)724120;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 356-357).Seeing and using : art and craftsmanship / Octavio Paz -- A vision of the hand / Alberto Ruy Sánchez -- Visible and invisible hands / Margarita de Orellana -- Terra incognita / Alfonso Alfaro -- Ceramics of the five senses / Alberto Ruy Sánchez -- Earthenware of water and of fire / Gutierre Aceves Piä na -- The world of Talavera / Alberto Ruy Sánchez -- Talavera : its name and manufacture / Luz de Lourdes Velázquez Thierry -- Tradition and fantasy molded in clay / Luis Mario Schneider -- A lover of clay : interview with Tiburcio Soteno / Chloë Sayer -- The alchemy of clay / Bill Gilbert -- The soul of a potter : interview with Juan Quezada / Marta Turok -- How the moon taught us to weave / Lexa Jiménez López -- A weft of voices / Margarita de Orellana -- The textual textile / Marta Turok -- Flower woman / Sna Jolobil -- The anatomy of a textile tradition / Irmgard W. Johnson -- Weavings that protect the soul / Alejandro de Ávila -- Lives spun on Teotitlán looms : interviews with Manuel Bazán Martínez, Isaac Vázquez García and Arnulfo Mendoza / Chloë Sayer -- Origins and forms of lacquerwork / Ruth D. Lechuga -- Nature and geometry / Ana Paulina Gámez -- A humble and ephemeral nature / Gloria Fraser Giffords -- Four tinsmiths speak : interviews with Arturo Sosa, María Luisa Vázquez de Sosa, Ramón Fosado and Víctor Hernández Leyva / Magali Tercero.

Subjects: Handicraft;

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The queen of the sciences [videorecording] : a history of mathematics / by Bressoud, David M.,1950-; Teaching Company.(CARDINAL)349444;

Course workbook includes professor biography, acknowledgments, statement of course scope, lecture outline with suggested readings and questions to consider, timeline, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliography.Producer, Nelson J. Ginebra ; academic content supervisor, Nancy Eskridge ; editor, Dan Shine. ; consultants, Zachary H. Rhoades, Marcy McDonald.Twenty-four thirty minute lectures by Dr. David M. Bressoud, Professor of Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Macalester College.In the 17th century, scientist and mathematician Galileo Galilei noted that the book of nature "cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics ... without which it is not humanly possible to understand a single word of it." The same feeling prompted German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss to call mathematics the "queen of the sciences" because of this success in uncovering the nature of physical reality. For at least 4,000 years of recorded history, humans have engaged in the study of mathematics, and this examination begins in ancient Mesopotamia and leads directly to the Human Genome Project, which uses sophisticated mathematical techniques to decipher the 3 billion letters of the human genetic code. Today quantum physics, string theory, chaos theory, information technology, and other mathematics-intensive disciplines that have transformed the way we understand and deal with the world.DVD.

Subjects: Educational films.; Lectures.; Nonfiction films.; Science films.; Video recordings.; Archimedes.; Euclid.; Hypatia, -415.; Carleson, Lennart.; Descartes, René, 1596-1650.; Escher, M. C. (Maurits Cornelis), 1898-1972.; Euler, Leonhard, 1707-1783.; Fermat, Pierre de, 1601-1665.; Fourier, Charles, 1772-1837.; Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642.; Gauss, Carl Friedrich, 1777-1855.; Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716.; Napier, John, 1550-1617.; Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727.; Ramanujan Aiyangar, Srinivasa, 1887-1920.; Riemann, Bernhard, 1826-1866.; Sylvester, James Joseph, 1814-1897.; Algebra.; Calculus.; Fermat's last theorem.; Geometry, Analytic.; Geometry, Differential.; Logarithms.; Mathematics, Ancient.; Mathematics, Medieval.; Mathematics; Mathematics; Mathematics; Mathematics; Mathematics; Mathematics; Mathematics; Trigonometry.;

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Mathematics and the laws of nature : developing the language of science / by Tabak, John.(CARDINAL)661022;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-210) and index.

Subjects: Mathematics; Science;

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