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12 produkter
Ice Balloon
Häftad, 2013
139 kr
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The story of the only person to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon, and the golden age of Polar Exploration.In August 1930 a Norwegian sloop sailing in the Arctic Ocean moored at a remote island. Here, the crew members found a body leaning against a rock. When they saw a large monogram ‘A’ …
A Divine Language: Learning Algebra, Geometry, and Calculus at the Edge of Old Age
Häftad, 2023
267 kr
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Ice Balloon
E-bok, 2012
159 kr
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The story of the only person to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon, and the golden age of Polar Exploration.In August 1930 a Norwegian sloop sailing in the Arctic Ocean moored at a remote island. Here, the crew members found a body leaning against a rock. When they saw a large monogram `A’ …
Protest Singer
E-bok, 2009
196 kr
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A spirited and intimate look at American icon and activist Pete Seeger. Throughout his life, Pete Seeger transformed a classic American musical style into a form of peaceful protest against war, segregation, and nuclear weapons. Drawing on his extensive talks with Seeger, Alec Wilkinson delivers a …
The Ice Balloon: S. A. Andree and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration
Häftad, 2013
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
285 kr
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Divine Language
Learning Algebra, Geometry, and Calculus at the Edge of Old Age
E-bok, 2022
211 kr
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A New York Times Book Review Editors'' Choice "Wilkinson has accomplished something more moving and original, braiding his stumbling attempts to get better at math with his deepening awareness that there’s an entire universe of understanding that will, in some fundamental sense, forever lie outside …
Happiest Man in the World
E-bok, 2009
144 kr
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Poppa Neutrino is a philosopher of movement, a vernacular Buddhist, a San Francisco bohemian, a polymath, a pauper, a football strategist for the Red Mesa Redskins of the Navajo Nation, and a mariner who built a raft from materials he found on the streets of New York and sailed across the North …
Midnights
A Year with the Wellfleet Police
Häftad, 2023
163 kr
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“Midnights is both a comedy of errors and an affectionate portrait of small-town police, those beleaguered souls charged with the task of keeping their neighbors in line....A reminder that those assigned to protect are often vulnerable and quietly heroic.”—TimeFunny, touching, revealing, here is …
Un lenguaje divino
Aprender álgebra, geometría y cálculo a las puertas de la vejez
E-bok, 2025
149 kr
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La crónica de un viaje muy personal a un mundo nuevo: el universo infinito de los números.Tras una larga carrera como escritor y periodista, y al borde del otoño de la vida, Alec Wilkinson se enfrenta a un reto que arrastra desde su infancia: aprender matemáticas. Lo que comienza como un desafío …
Polarexpeditionen : Andrée och jakten på Nordpolen
E-bok, 2014
190 kr
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Det sena 1800-talets upptäckariver drev över tusen polarforskare till det ogästvänliga landskapet. En av dem var den visionäre svenske upptäcktsresanden S.A. Andrée som år 1897 gjorde ett uppmärksammat försök att tillsammans med två kollegor flyga till nordpolen i vätgasballongen Örnen. Sedan blev …
