Math Art

No Calculator? No Problem! Mastering Mental Math , award-winning professor of mathematics and celebrated “mathemagician” Arthur T. Benjamin delivers 10 fun-filled lessons on how to do math in your head with confidence, accuracy, and speed - sometimes faster than a calculator. By the end of Professor Benjamin’s lessons, you’ll be able to add, subtract, multiply, and divide numbers faster than ever before. And with your newfound skills, you’ll soon find yourself amazing other people and, perhaps more important, yourself.

Are you ready to unlock the doors to endless opportunities and take control of your future? Look no further than our comprehensive GED Test Prep & Study Guide, designed to guide you towards triumph in the General Education Development (GED) examination. Whether you're a high school dropout seeking a second chance or an adult learner aiming to expand your horizons, this book is your essential companion on the road to success.

We are often told that hard work is the key to success. But success isn’t about hard work - it’s about shortcuts. Shortcuts allow us to solve one problem quickly so that we can tackle an even bigger one. They make us capable of doing great things. And according to Marcus du Sautoy, math is the very art of the shortcut. Thinking Better is a celebration of how math lets us do more with less.

A counting book that follows the construction of a building, from one plan to twelve stories.

A brilliant research mathematician reveals math to be a creative art form on par with painting, poetry, and sculpture, and rejects the standard anxiety-producing teaching methods used in most schools today. Witty and accessible, Paul Lockhart's controversial approach will provoke spirited debate among educators and parents alike, altering the way we think about math forever.

A pattern is a repeated design that is found everywhere in our world and even in outer space. All around you are both simple patterns and complicated patterns. The spiral of a seashell is very complex. But, there are patterns more complicated than a seashell. When did humans discover or invent patterns? There are cave paintings that are around 10,000 years old. They show hands in a pattern with 5 fingers.

In 2021, when the gavel fell at Christie’s on the sale of Mike Winkelmann’s Everydays series—a compilation of 5,000 digital artworks—it made a thunderous announcement: Non-fungible tokens had arrived. The ludicrous world of CryptoKitties and Bored Apes had just produced a piece of art worth $69.3 million (at least according to the highest bidder). On that day, the traditional art market—the largest unregulated market in the world—put its stamp of approval on a very new and carnivalesque digital reality. But what did it mean for these two worlds to collide?

From Leonardo Da Vinci to John Dee and Comenius, from George Eliot to Oliver Sacks and Susan Sontag, polymaths have moved the frontiers of knowledge in countless ways. But history can be unkind to scholars with such encyclopaedic interests. All too often these individuals are remembered for just one part of their valuable achievements. In this engaging, erudite account, renowned cultural historian Peter Burke argues for a more rounded view.

 The Art of Unit Testing, Second Edition guides you step-by-step from writing your first simple tests to developing robust test sets that are maintainable, readable, and trustworthy. You'll master the foundational ideas and quickly move to high-value subjects like mocks, stubs, and isolation, including frameworks such as Moq, FakeItEasy, and Typemock Isolator. 

In this engaging and intriguing work, renowned Japanese psychologist Hayao Kawai examines his own personal experience of how a Japanese became a Jungian psychoanalyst and how the Buddhism in him gradually reacted to it.

Math is not only the game of numbers but also the language of nature. As a matter of fact, it has been established through research that the more we understand our universe, the more we discover interesting mathematical connections. For instance, flowers have spirals that are carefully lined up in a special sequence of numbers commonly referred to as Fibonacci numbers. This sequence can be studied, understood, and generated.

Does it drive you crazy how quickly time seems to disappear? One minute you’re flowing through your workload and then all of a sudden, 20 minutes later, you catch yourself scrolling on Instagram. Today’s world is one of constant hyperactivity, new information, and yes - distraction. With all the news and social media applications constantly buzzing in your ear it’s no wonder that you can’t get anything done.

The life you want comes from the way you think - you need to learn how to think intentionally. The Art of Intentional Thinking is a guide on transformation. This audiobook takes a deep look into how people tend to think and how exactly they should subtly reframe their thoughts to feel confident, powerful, happy, and in charge of their own life.   

Emotional intelligence. What is it? How does it affect my life? Do I need emotional intelligence? All are great questions, and this audiobook has some great answers on the subject. This book also has some great answers regarding hypnosis and its past, along with its capabilities.

Savez-vous ce qu'est la Zététique ? L'art du doute nourri par la méthode scientifique. Le refus de toute affirmation dogmatique, mais aussi une autodéfense contre les idées reçues, les fausses évidences, les illusions sensorielles, les duperies du langage, les raisonnements erronés..., tous ces pièges que nous tend notre cerveau.

Laurent Lacherez, thérapeute en PNL et auteur de plusieurs best-sellers, propose aux auditeurs une conférence synthétique sur le "Lâcher-Prise", sa définition, en quoi il est si difficile à mettre en œuvre et des conseils pour y parvenir.

After Math retails what becomes of the cast of characters introduced in Art, Mystery, joint and severally pursuing an erotic Rinascimento statuette attributed to Antonio Pollaiuolo, a pursuit that lands them in court. On the way, their collective and singular fates are unfolded and accounted for, the consequences of the truth of matters for them are brought to bear and a kind of rough justice is seen to have been done, as is appropriate in rough trade.

Survival Math is both a personal reckoning and a vital addition to the national conversation about race. Mitchell explores the Portland of his childhood, tracing the ways in which his family managed their lives in and around drugs, prostitution, gangs, and imprisonment as members of a tiny black population in one of the country’s whitest cities. He discusses sex work and serial killers, gangs and guns, near-death experiences, composite fathers, the concept of “hustle,” and the destructive power of drugs and addiction on family.

There is a world of communication that is far beyond simply speaking to one another. It is one where the true nature of others is better understood, if you know what to look for. Body language seldom lies to us. We can be deceived successfully by people who tell us lies when they speak, but to lie with the body is far harder, and when we understand it, we are better placed to make critical decisions.

Do you want to learn how to read, analyze and influence other people? The truth is...our bodies say many things about us, before we even speak a word. By looking at somebody’s facial expressions, hand gestures, and body language you can understand his feelings, the motives behind his actions, and sometimes even his thoughts. If you want to learn how to read people, understand their behavior, and influence them, this is the book for you. In this book, you’ll learn how to analyze people on the spot using science-based techniques.