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Alex Through the Looking-Glass: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life by Alex Bellos
$50.00 NZD
Category: No Category
From triangles, rotations and power laws, to fractals, cones and curves, bestselling author Alex Bellos takes you on a journey of mathematical discovery with his signature wit, engaging stories and limitless enthusiasm. As he narrates a series of eye-opening encounters with lively personalities all over ...Show more
Alex Through the Looking-glass: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life by Alex Bellos
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
From triangles, rotations and power laws, to fractals, cones and curves, bestselling author Alex Bellos takes you on a journey of mathematical discovery with his signature wit, engaging stories and limitless enthusiasm. As he narrates a series of eye-opening encounters with lively personalities all over ...Show more
Alex's Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
The world of maths can seem mind-boggling, irrelevant and, let's face it, boring. This groundbreaking book reclaims maths from the geeks. Mathematical ideas underpin just about everything in our lives: from the surprising geometry of the 50p piece to how probability can help you win in any casino. In se ...Show more
Alex's Adventures in Numberland - Despatches from the wonderful world of mathematics by Alex Bellos
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
In this richly entertaining and accessible book, Alex Bellos explodes the myth that maths is best left to the geeks. Covering subjects from adding to algebra, from set theory to statistics, and from logarithms to logical paradoxes, he explains how mathematical ideas underpin just about everything in our ...Show more
Can You Solve My Problems?: A casebook of ingenious, perplexing and totally satisfying puzzles by Alex Bellos
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Are you smarter than a Singaporean ten-year-old? Can you beat Sherlock Holmes? If you think the answer is yes - I challenge you to solve my problems. Here are 125 of the world's best brainteasers from the last two millennia, taking us from ancient China to medieval Europe, Victorian England to modern-da ...Show more
Football School Epic Heroes by Alex Bellos
$17.00 NZD
Category: Children and Young Adult
Celebrate the greatest names and teams in football history with this collection of 50 true stories. Discover the greatest football moments of all time in this collection of 50 exciting stories, perfect for fans of Football School: Star Players. Discover the incredible stories of heroes such as Messi, Ro ...Show more
Futebol: The Brazilian Way of Life - Updated Edition by Alex Bellos
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
The Brazilian football team is one of the wonders of the modern world and legendary names like Pele, Garrincha and Ronaldo inspire awe in football-lovers everywhere. But in Latin America's largest country, football also symbolises racial harmony, the madness of love and the flamboyance of youth - it's a ...Show more
Pele : the Autobiography by Pele with Orlando Duarte & Alex Bellos (tr from Portuguese Dabiel Hahn)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Sports Biography
Even people who don't know football know Pele. The best of a generation of Brazilian players universally acknowledged as the most accomplished and attractive group of footballers ever to play the game, he won the World Cup three times and is Brazil's all-time record goalscorer. But how did this man - ...Show more
Snowflake, Seashell, Star: Colouring Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos
$23.00 NZD
Category: Design
This book offers a joyful contemplation of mathematical patterns has long been part of the human experience, from the philosophers of Ancient Greece to the artists of the Renaissance, via Islamic design and Hindu mandalas. Now, Alex Bellos, the bestselling author of Alex's Adventures in Numberland, take ...Show more
So You Think You've Got Problems?: Surprising and rewarding puzzles to sharpen your mind by Alex Bellos
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
This is a collection of ingenious and satisfying puzzles drawn from across the ancient and modern world. You will be imprisoned by a sadistic logician; thrown in an arena with a famished lion; and balancing along an ever-expanding elastic band. Implausible scenarios in daily life, perhaps. But in puzzle ...Show more
Where Football Rules the World (Football School Season #1) by Alex Bellos & Ben Lyttleton
$16.99 NZD
Category: Children Non-Fiction | Series: Football School
A groundbreaking new series from two bestselling writers that teaches you about the world through the prism of football. The first book is packed with awesome true stories, real science and fascinating facts and will make you laugh loads. When do footballers poo? Can you play football on Mars? What is a ...Show more
Where Football Saves the World (Football School Season #2) by Alex Bellos
$17.00 NZD
Category: Children Non-Fiction
The second book in the groundbreaking new series from two bestselling writers that teaches you about the world through football. This book is packed with awesome true stories, real science and fascinating facts and will make you laugh loads - and it's all about football. What is a vomitory? When do foot ...Show more
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