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Discrete Structures and Their Interactions

By: Jason I. Brown

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Discrete Structures and Their Interactions

By: Jason I. Brown

Discover the Connections between Different Structures and FieldsDiscrete Structures and Their Interactions highlights the connections among various discrete structures, including graphs, directed graphs, hypergraphs, partial orders, finite topologies, and simplicial complexes. It also explores their relationships to classical areas of mathematics,

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1466579420

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9781466579422

Mathematics for the Liberal Arts

By: Jason I. Brown

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Mathematics for the Liberal Arts

By: Jason I. Brown

This textbook teaches everyday mathematics topics to non-math majors at the undergraduate level. Through numerous examples and more than 600 exercises, students learn how to use math seamlessly in a variety of practical areas, from conversion factors, statistics, visualization, money, and risk to games, art, music, and humor. The text develops a logical, real-world approach to data and reasoning. Real-life stories in each chapter capture students' interest and motivate them to work through the math. Ancillaries are available on the author's website.

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146659358X

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9781466593589

Our Days Are Numbered

How Mathematics Orders Our Lives

By: Jason Brown

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Our Days Are Numbered

How Mathematics Orders Our Lives

By: Jason Brown

A revealing and entertaining look at the world, as viewed through mathematical eyeglasses. From the moment our feet touch the floor in the morning until our head hits the pillow, numbers are everywhere. And yet most of us go through each day unaware of the mathematics that shapes our lives. In fact, many people go through life fearing and avoiding mathematics, making choices that keep it at arm’s length or further. Even basic math — like arithmetic — can seem baffling. In Our Days Are Numbered, Jason Brown leads the reader through a typical day, on a fascinating journey. He shows us the world through a mathematician's eyes and reveals the huge role that mathematics plays in our lives. It lies hidden within the electronics we use, the banking we do, and even the leisure activities we enjoy. Whether we’re putting a down payment on a new car, reading the financial pages, or listening to our favourite songs, math is behind it all. At once entertaining and informative, Our Days Are Numbered covers an array of mathematic concepts and explores the hidden links between mathematics and everyday life. Brown reveals that a basic understanding of math can make us more creative in the way we approach the world.

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Emblem Editions

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0771016735

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Looming Civil War

How Nineteenth-Century Americans Imagined the Future

By: Jason Phillips

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Looming Civil War

How Nineteenth-Century Americans Imagined the Future

By: Jason Phillips

How did Americans imagine the Civil War before it happened? The most anticipated event of the nineteenth century appeared in novels, prophecies, dreams, diaries, speeches, and newspapers decades before the first shots at Fort Sumter. People forecasted a frontier filibuster, an economic clash between free and slave labor, a race war, a revolution, a war for liberation, and Armageddon. Reading their premonitions reveals how several factors, including race, religion, age, gender, region, and class, shaped what people thought about the future and how they imagined it. Some Americans pictured the future as an open, contested era that they progressed toward and molded with their thoughts and actions. Others saw the future as a closed, predetermined world that approached them and sealed their fate. When the war began, these opposing temporalities informed how Americans grasped and waged the conflict. In this creative history, Jason Phillips explains how the expectations of a host of characters-generals, politicians, radicals, citizens, and slaves-affected how people understood the unfolding drama and acted when the future became present. He reconsiders the war's origins without looking at sources using hindsight, that is, without considering what caused the cataclysm and whether it was inevitable. As a result, Phillips dispels a popular myth that all Americans thought the Civil War would be short and glorious at the outset, a ninety-day affair full of fun and adventure. Much more than rational power games played by elites, the war was shaped by uncertainties and emotions and darkened horizons that changed over time. Looming Civil War highlights how individuals approached an ominous future with feelings, thoughts, and perspectives different from our sensibilities and unconnected to our view of their world. Civil War Americans had their own prospects to ponder and forge as they discovered who they were and where life would lead them. The Civil War changed more than America's future; it transformed how Americans imagined the future and how Americans have thought about the future ever since.

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Oxford University Press

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0190868171

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9780190868178

Showbiz

A Novel

By: Jason Anderson

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Showbiz

A Novel

By: Jason Anderson

A comedian’s career is ended after a presidential assassination, and a journalist tries to track him down decades later, in this darkly humorous novel. In 1963, Jimmy Wynn was the second most famous man in America. The comedian’s uncanny impression of the president made him a star. But when the genuine article died in a hail of bullets on a sunny afternoon in New Orleans, Jimmy’s career met a fate almost as grisly. What happened to the funny man afterward was a mystery no one cared to solve. Nearly twenty-five years later, Nathan Grant, an ambitious young journalist, discovers the trail Jimmy cut through the entertainment netherworld. He soon comes to realize that this forgotten court jester may have played a very serious part in the country’s favorite conspiracy theory. His strange and increasingly dangerous odyssey takes him from a dingy New York record store to the showrooms of Las Vegas, a ghost town in the Mojave Desert, and even a dinner theatre in Niagara Falls, in a dark comedy about the cost of fame, the story of a man who became a punchline and a writer who is desperate to find out how the rest of the joke goes. “A weird and hilarious trek through American faux-history.” —Richard Scrimger, author of Mystical Rose “An amazing feat of invention and imagining. In the alternate reality of Showbiz, things are funny, touching, and very true.” —Paul Quarrington, author of King Leary

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1554905494

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Discrete Structures and Their Interactions

Discrete Structures and Their Interactions

Mathematics for the Liberal Arts

Mathematics for the Liberal Arts

Our Days Are Numbered

Our Days Are Numbered

Looming Civil War

Looming Civil War

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