Start with a single shape. Repeat it in some way - translation, reflection over a line, rotation around a point - and you have created symmetry. Symmetry is a fundamental phenomenon in art, science, and nature that has been captured, described, and analyzed using mathematical concepts for a long time. Inspired by the geometric intuition of Bill Thurston and empowered by his own...(展开全部)

Start with a single shape. Repeat it in some way - translation, reflection over a line, rotation around a point - and you have created symmetry. Symmetry is a fundamental phenomenon in art, science, and nature that has been captured, described, and analyzed using mathematical concepts for a long time. Inspired by the geometric intuition of Bill Thurston and empowered by his own...(展开全部)

This book explores the border zones between life and non-life as represented in cinema from the end of the nineteenth century, when France led the global film industry, to the first decades of the twenty-first century, when world film markets are dominated by Hollywood. Informed by both the Internet of Things and the Parliament of Things, The Cinema of Things examines cinematic...(展开全部)

The diversity of contemporary London is extraordinary, and begs to be better understood. Never before have so many people from such diverse backgrounds been free to mix and not to mix in close proximity to each other. But increasingly people's lives take place behind the closed doors of private houses. How can we gain an insight into what those lives are like today? Not televis...(展开全部)

The seminal Epicurean text, in a brilliant new translation The Epicureans of ancient Rome discarded the ideas of life after death and of an interventionist God in favor of the tactile pleasures of nature. In The Nature of Things , Lucretius celebrates with wit and sharp perception the extraordinary breadth of the Epicurean belief system, ranging from the indestructibility ...(展开全部)

The seminal Epicurean text, in a brilliant new translation The Epicureans of ancient Rome discarded the ideas of life after death and of an interventionist God in favor of the tactile pleasures of nature. In The Nature of Things , Lucretius celebrates with wit and sharp perception the extraordinary breadth of the Epicurean belief system, ranging from the indestructibility ...(展开全部)

An exhilarating new book from the author of the worldwide bestseller "The Tulip." "The Naming of Names "traces the search for order in the natural world, a search that for hundreds of years occupied some of the most brilliant minds in Europe. Redefining man's relationship with nature was a major pursuit during the Renaissance. But in a world full of poisons, there was also an u...(展开全部)

安娜·帕福德，英国《独立报》园艺版记者，《观察家》、《乡村生活》和《Elle装潢》等多家杂志的专栏作家，曾写作《郁金香》、《花坛全书》、《植物拍档》等八部作品，其中《郁金香》最为畅销。她是英国古迹保护组织成员、古代园林及建筑修缮工作的负责人，曾耗时近三十年参与重新修复了原属该地区首席神父的花园。近年来，她又开始了另一处花园的修葺。

An exhilarating new book from the author of the worldwide bestseller "The Tulip." "The Naming of Names "traces the search for order in the natural world, a search that for hundreds of years occupied some of the most brilliant minds in Europe. Redefining man's relationship with nature was a major pursuit during the Renaissance. But in a world full of poisons, there was also an u...(展开全部)

安娜·帕福德，英国《独立报》园艺版记者，《观察家》、《乡村生活》和《Elle装潢》等多家杂志的专栏作家，曾写作《郁金香》、《花坛全书》、《植物拍档》等八部作品，其中《郁金香》最为畅销。她是英国古迹保护组织成员、古代园林及建筑修缮工作的负责人，曾耗时近三十年参与重新修复了原属该地区首席神父的花园。近年来，她又开始了另一处花园的修葺。