A fascinating and inspirational look at the vital link between the hidden geometrical order of the universe, geometry in nature, and the geometry of the man-made world."The Da Vinci Code" has awakened the public to the powerful and very ancient idea that religious truths and mathematical principles are intimately intertwined. "Sacred Geometry" offers an accessible way of unders...(展开全部)

Geometry is one of a group of special sciences - Number, Music and Cosmology are the others - found identically in nearly every culture on earth. In this small volume, Miranda Lundy presents a unique introduction to this most ancient and timeless of universal sciences."Sacred Geometry" demonstrates what happens to space in two dimensions - a subject last flowering in the art, s...(展开全部)

幾何、數字、音樂和宇宙學是最古老的四門學問，它們是基本共通語言的基礎，且幾乎可以在每個已知文化中發現它們的蹤跡。《典雅的幾何》正是這四門學問的縮影，在談論二維形狀與三維立體的同時，也揭露出這些古老學問之間的關連。 三角形、拱形、六角形及螺旋形雖隨處可見，卻蘊含著極大的學問，從瓷磚、教堂窗戶到偉大的金字塔，這些建築設計高度展現了幾何之美。圓球是五種柏拉圖立體和十三種阿基米得立體的基礎，這十八種立體不僅構成建材形狀，也是化學和原子物理的核心。自古至今，這些立體賦予了任何對科學、設計和數學感興趣的人源源不絕的靈感！

The master of the new "noir," Dennis Lehane brilliantly interweaves beauty and violence, integrity and evil in this thrilling, powerfully resonant novel. A beautiful, grief-stricken woman has vanished without a trace. So has the detective hired to find her. And a lot of money. Enter saavy, tough-nosed private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro. Rooted in the no-non...(展开全部)

Synopsis A blasphemous outcast, Matthew Paris boards the “Liverpool Merchant” as ship’s doctor as it embarks on a mercantile voyage in the slave trade. An illness breaks out among the slaves and crew between Guinea and the West Indies, and slaves are ordered to be tossed overboard in order to claim the insurance. Illness gives rise to mutiny, the captain is killed, and, with Pa...(展开全部)

This book is the winner of the 1992 Booker prize. 'Gripping..."Sacred Hunger" covers a period between 1752 and 1765...it concerns the entangled and conflicted fortunes of two cousins: Erasmus Kemp, the son of a Lancashire merchant, and Matthew Paris, a scholar and surgeon just released from prison for 'denying Holy Writ'...the Liverpool Merchant is the vessel on which the whole...(展开全部)

"Sacred Ecology" examines bodies of knowledge held by indigenous and other rural peoples around the world, and asks how we can learn from this knowledge and ways of knowing. Berkes explores the importance of local and indigenous knowledge as a complement to scientific ecology, and its cultural and political significance for indigenous groups themselves. This second edition is e...(展开全部)

Synopsis A blasphemous outcast, Matthew Paris boards the “Liverpool Merchant” as ship’s doctor as it embarks on a mercantile voyage in the slave trade. An illness breaks out among the slaves and crew between Guinea and the West Indies, and slaves are ordered to be tossed overboard in order to claim the insurance. Illness gives rise to mutiny, the captain is killed, and, with Pa...(展开全部)

This book is the winner of the 1992 Booker prize. 'Gripping..."Sacred Hunger" covers a period between 1752 and 1765...it concerns the entangled and conflicted fortunes of two cousins: Erasmus Kemp, the son of a Lancashire merchant, and Matthew Paris, a scholar and surgeon just released from prison for 'denying Holy Writ'...the Liverpool Merchant is the vessel on which the whole...(展开全部)