Antonio Padilla's Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them is a fun, dazzling exploration of the strange numbers that illuminate the ultimate nature of reality

It was still pretty useful now, when I have no little one asking me questions, except for my own 4-year old self that is still inside my head wondering, occasionally, what all this stuff is. The great thing about a young one asking you questions, of course, is that it helps you to remember to look around and think about these things again, and now that there are more books available than ever, you can more often than not find out the answer.A plain explanation of every day engineering . . . [with] enough detail to satisfy even a lot of detailed questions about infrastructure.” With colorful, and mostly clear illustrations showing lots and lots of details about the way things -- dams, roadways, wind turbines, etc. -- are designed to work, this book supplied me with a large dollop of information about public engineering. It's a really nice effort. Our servers are getting hit pretty hard right now. To continue shopping, enter the characters as they are shown

From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask. Overall I liked this book. Being a fan of this type of stuff (and Grady's YouTube channel) I was familiar with a lot of what the booked covered, but still found interesting tidbits throughout. A "file MD5" is a hash that gets computed from the file contents, and is reasonably unique based on that content. All shadow libraries that we have indexed on here primarily use MD5s to identify files.MD5 of a better version of this file (if applicable). Fill this in if there is another file that closely matches this file (same edition, same file extension if you can find one), which people should use instead of this file. If you know of a better version of this file outside of Anna’s Archive, then please upload it. Quantum physicist, New York Times bestselling author, and BBC host Jim Al-Khalili offers a fascinating and illuminating look at what physics reveals about the world An outstanding resource on a wide range of civil engineering subjects for all readers. Wonderful for browsing, reading, or researching."

Please report metadata errors at the source library. If there are multiple source libraries, know that we pull metadata from top to bottom, so the first one might be sufficient. In the tradition of Guns, Germs, and Steel and Sapiens, a winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books shows h ow four tools enabled has us humans to control the destiny of our species This is a 'Bob the Builder' guide for young adults and older who are curious about common miracles of engineering. From asphalt to voltage regulators, they'll never look at the world the same."

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An outstanding resource on a wide range of civil engineering subjects for all readers. Wonderful for browsing, reading, or researching.”