Duckworth (W.E.)Livre Rare Book
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1973Cyb-2624Dunod Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1973 Book condition, Etat : Bon broché, sous couverture éditeur imprimée grand In-8 1 vol. - 320 pages
1954Cyb-5332Dunod , L'Economie d'Entreprise Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1954 Book condition, Etat : Bon relié, pleine toile éditeur grise, sous jaquette papier imprimée crème foncé grand In-8 1 vol. - 550 pages
1970na1454O.C.D.L. Dos agrafé 1970 In-8 (17,5 x 22,5 cm), dos agrafé, 63 pages ; très bon état général. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande.
1960243396Lodz, 1960. 62 S. (Prace 3,65).
19141203610Leipzig, 1914. 80 S. Br. (angestaubt).
1878158393Leipzig, Metzger & Wittig, 1878. 38 S., 1 Bl. Br. Ohne Umschl. Rücken m. Kleberest v. ehemaliger Bind. Teils minimal stockfl.
1875135742Wien, 1875. M. 1 Taf. 32 S. OBr. Umschl. teils angeschmutzt sowie m. St. u. Sign. Ebenso St. u. Sign. a. S. 1.
193970320Gauthier-Villars , Mémorial des Sciences Mathématiques Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1939 Book condition, Etat : Bon broché, sous couverture imprimée éditeur rose grand In-8 1 vol. - 90 pages
194763247Librairie Vuibert Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1947 Book condition, Etat : Bon broché, sous couverture imprimée éditeur grand In-8 1 vol. - 111 pages
1987100164Editions du Choix Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1987 Book condition, Etat : Moyen broché, sous couverture imprimée éditeur blanche, illustrée d'une figure noire sur fond jaune In-8 1 vol. - 184 pages
1989100177Dover Publications , Dover Books on Mathematics Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1989 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's blue printed wrappers, illustrated by a geometrical figure in colours In-8 1 vol. - 220 pages
1960234492Buenos Aires, 1960. M. 2 Abb. 57 S. (Contrib. cientificas de la Facultad de Ciencias exactas y Naturales del Univ. de Buenos Aires/Ser.
1988900687(London), Thames a. Hudson, (1988). M. 176 Abb. 176 S.
1991100294Dover Publications , Dover Books on Advanced Mathematics Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1991 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's brown and orange wrappers, illustrated by a curve In-8 1 vol. - 142 pages
1980244383Warszawa, 1980. 59 S. (Diss. mathem. 169).
193470334Gauthier-Villars , Mémorial des Sciences Mathématiques Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1934 Book condition, Etat : Bon broché, sous couverture imprimée éditeur rose grand In-8 1 vol. - 64 pages
8vo, hardcover in dj, ex-library, but internally good, 264pp. Synopsis: Few would question the truism that humankind is the crowning achievement of evolution; that the defining thrust of life's history yields progress over time from the primitive and simple to the more advanced and complex; that the disappearance of .400 hitting in baseball is a fact to be bemoaned; or that identifying an existing trend can be helpful in making important life decisions. Few, that is, except Stephen Jay Gould who, in his new book Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin, proves that all of these intuitive truths are, in fact, wrong. "All of these mistaken beliefs arise out of the same analytical flaw in our reasoning, our Platonic tendency to reduce a broad spectrum to a single, pinpointed essence," says Gould. "This way of thinking allows us to confirm our most ingrained biases that humans are the supreme being on this planet; that all things are inherently driven to become more complex; and that almost any subject can be expressed and understood in terms of an average." In Full House, Gould shows why a more accurate way of understanding our world (and the history of life) is to look at a given subject within its own context, to see it as a part of a spectrum of variation rather than as an isolated "thing" and then to reconceptualize trends as expansion or contraction of this "full house" of variation, and not as the progress or degeneration of an average value, or single thing. When approached in such a way, the disappearance of .400 hitting becomes a cause for celebration, signaling not a decline in greatness but instead an improvement in the overall level of play in baseball; trends become subject to suspicion, and too often, only a tool of those seeking to advance a particular agenda; and the "Age of Man" (a claim rooted in hubris, not in fact) more accurately becomes the "Age of Bacteria." "The traditional mode of thinking has led us to draw many conclusions that don't make satisfying sense," says Gould. "It tells us that .400 hitting has disappeared because batters have gotten worse, but how can that be true when record performances have improved in almost any athletic activity?" In a personal eureka!, Gould realized that we were looking at the picture backward, and that a simple conceptual inversion would resolve a number of the paradoxes of the conventional view. While Full House deftly reveals the shortcomings of the popular reasoning we apply to everyday life situations, Gould also explores his beloved realm of natural history as well. Whether debunking the myth of the successful evolution of the horse (he grants that the story still deserves distinction, but as the icon of evolutionary failure); presenting evidence that the vaunted "progress of life" is really random motion away from simple beginnings, not directed impetus toward complexity; or relegating the kingdoms of Animalai and Plantae to their proper positions on the genealogical chart for all of life (as mere twigs on one of the three bushes), Full House asks nothing less than that we reconceptualize our view of life in a fundamental way. Review: The human mind has a trusty device for simplifying a complex world: reduce to averages and identify trends. Although valuable, the risk is that we ignore variations and end up with a skewed view of reality. In evolutionary terms, the result is a view in which humans are the inevitable pinnacle of evolutionary progress, instead of, as Stephen Jay Gould patiently argues, "a cosmic accident that would never arise again if the tree of life could be replanted." The implications of Gould's argument may threaten certain of our philosophical and religious foundations but will in the end provide us with a clearer view of, and a greater appreciation for, the complexities of our world. Ex-Library
18871511492Stuttgart, Gebr. Kröner, 1887. 51 S. OBr.
194870318Gauthier-Villars , Mémorial des Sciences Mathématiques Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1948 Book condition, Etat : Bon broché, sous couverture imprimée éditeur rose grand In-8 1 vol. - 58 pages
1969244478Warszawa, 1969. 50 S. (Rozprawy matem. 63).
1933120428Berlin, Teubner, 1933. 31 S. OBr. Unaufgeschn. Ex. (Schriften d. math. Sem. u. d. Inst. f. angew. Math. d. Univ. Bln. 1/7).
1951213690Berlin, Akad.-Vlg. 1951. 4°. 22 S. OBr. Umschlag lichtrandig, mit Randläsuren und berieben. Papier nachgedunkelt (Abhandl. der Deutschen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin Kl. Mathe. u. allg. Naturwiss 1951/1).
1952607204Berlin, Akad.-Vlg. 1952. 4°. 19 S. OBr. Umschlag lichtrandig, angestaubt, mit Randläsuren und berieben. (Abhandl. der Deutschen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin Kl. Mathe. u. allg. Naturwiss 1951/2).
1955607202Berlin, Akad.-Vlg. 1955. 4°. 70 S. OBr. Umschlag lichtrandig u. berieben. (Abhandl. d. Deutschen Akad. d. Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Kl. f. allg. Mathem. u. Naturwiss. 1954/4)
1975117800Berlin, Akad.-Vlg. 1975. 29 S. OBr. Umschlag lichtrandig u. leicht braunfl. (Sitzungsberichte der sächsischen Akademie der Wiss. zu Leipzig Math.-naturwiss. Kl. 111/3).