Encyclopedia effect

Stripe press

Stewart Brand selects books from his library, photo by Alexander Rose Long Now’s Founding Board Member Stewart Brand suggested more than 70 volumes for our Manual for Civilization collection. The Manual will be housed within The Interval at Long Now, our new public space which opens to the pub

It’s the revolutionary study guide series just for middle school students from the brains behind Brain Quest. The BIG FAT NOTEBOOK series is built on a simple and irresistible conceit—borrowing the notes from the smartest kid in class. There are five books in all, and each is the only book you need for each main subject taught in middle school: Math, Science, American History, English Language Arts, and World History. Inside the reader will find every subject’s key concepts, easily digested and summarized: Critical ideas highlighted in neon colors. Definitions explained. Doodles that illuminate tricky concepts in marker. Mnemonics for memorable shortcuts. And quizzes to recap it all. The BIG FAT NOTEBOOKS meet Common Core State Standards, Next Generation Science Standards, and state history standards, and are vetted by National and State Teacher of the Year Award–winning teachers. They make learning fun and are the perfect next step for every kid who grew up on Brain Quest. #BigFatNotebooks ON SALE NOW | $14.95 Download a Printable Sample! Amazon | B&N | Indiebound | Workman Everything You Need to Ace Math. . . covers everything to get a student over any math hump: fractions, decimals, and how to multiply and divide them; […]

When I was a kid my mother had a visual encyclopedia I explored again and again as we watched TV in the evening. As an adult I’ve come to understand how perfect it was for me, and how formati…

As a cofactor in numerous enzymatic reactions, magnesium fulfils various intracellular physiological functions. Thus, imbalance in magnesium status—primarily hypomagnesaemia as it is seen more often than hypermagnesaemia—might result in ...

You’d need to send a Merck Manual or an organic/general chemistry book too

Adams 101 Books by Peter Archer, Amy Blacklock, and Brian Boone - Learn about the Adams 101 Books: New Releases, upcoming books, video, excerpts and special features

Working book. Read 417 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Studs Terkel records the voices of America. Men and women from every walk ...

Chinese character viz

Explore live radio by rotating the globe.

DataIsBeautiful is for visualizations that effectively convey information. Aesthetics are an important part of information visualization, but...

Erudite and entertaining overview follows development of mathematics from ancient Greeks to present. Topics include logic and mathematics, the fundamental concept, differential calculus, probability theory, much more. Exercises and problems.

I’m on a roll today. Another thing I won’t do: encourage the publication of any more Routledge-y “handbooks.” I won’t write for them, review them, buy them. It’s become an absolute racket.— Shannon Mattern (@shannonmattern) April 8, 2021

Learned a new word from Mathias Grote: handbuchwissenschaft, for the process of assembling 'teutonic tomes' to which many (seemingly especially German) scientists devote careers. Refers to @GordinMichael on Beilstein. Cf @Physhist 's talk earlier today #hss19— Michael J Barany (@MBarany) July 24, 2019

@alexqgb This might be the best one yet. It’s like a mega-synthesis of all the others. Massive overview effect.

An incredible visualisation of global shipping traffic, created by Kiln.digital and the UCL Energy Institute.

If you work with anything that can be modeled mathematically, you most likely know that many things you work can be expressed with algebras. However, if you are not a graduate of a computer science course or similar you might not know how ubiquitous they are and how often you rely on some of them. (And I don’t mean F-algebras and FP-concepts). So what are algebras and where can we meet some most common of them?

Explore the Ocean of Books to find your favourite authors’ islands and discover similar ones near them.

Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Read, borrow, and discover more than 3M books for free.