From the pyramids and the Parthenon to the Sydney Opera House and the Bilbao Guggenheim, this book takes readers on an eye-opening tour of the mathematics behind some of the world's most spectacular buildings. Beautifully illustrated, the book explores the milestones in elementary mathematics that e[...]

A Galison Vintage Typewriter pocket planner is handy at the desk, on the go, or even in your laptop bag. Samantha Hahn created the watercolor-look illustrations for this handy journal. Faint entries from a French/English dictionary form a background for the cover and endpaper illustrations of the ty[...]

Serves as an introduction to the programming language, Java. Intended for scientists, engineers, and programmers, this book focuses on how Java, and object-oriented programming, can be used to solve science and engineering problems. It includes many examples from a number of different scientific and[...]

As anyone who has been on one knows big bikes - Harleys, dressers, tourers, cruisers - handle differently to smaller bikes, and for the inexperienced rider the difference can be dramatic and sometimes fatal. This book helps owners and riders of these bikes - with long wheelbases, big engines, and lo[...]

Bestselling author and theologian Scott Hahn views the author of Chronicles as the first biblical theologian. Chronicles offers the first attempt to understand and interpret the entire sweep of Old Testament history from the creation of the world to the Israelites' return from exile.This commentary [...]

What could be more familiar than the Christmas story -- and yet what could be more extraordinary? The cast of characters is strange and exotic: shepherds and magicians, an emperor and a despot, angels, and a baby who is Almighty God. The strangeness calls for an explanation, and this book provides i[...]

Cesare Lombroso is widely considered the founder of the field of criminology. His theory of the 'born' criminal dominated discussions of criminology in Europe and the Americas from the 1880s into the early twentieth century. His book, "La donna delinquente", originally published in Italian in 1893, [...]

Architecturalized Asia explores built environments and visual narratives in Asia via cartography, icons, and symbols in different historical settings. It grows out of a three-year project focusing on cultural exchange in the making of Asia's boundaries as well as its architectural styles and achieve[...]

I was lost and radically confused. Young? Yes. Happy and full of hope? Not even.
--From Chapter One
In twenty-one thought-provoking testimonies, young Catholics talk about their search for truth in a world increasingly free of values and lasting peace. Some hit rock bottom; some wandered in[...]

Scott Hahn's personal introduction to the biblical theology and spirituality of Opus Dei.
Opus Dei is an intriguing and oft-misunderstood organization. To its members, however, Opus Dei is a spiritual path, a way of integrating Jesus' teaching into their everyday lives. In this book, Scott Hahn,[...]

The well-known and very popular Catholic couple, Scott and Kimberly Hahn, have been constantly travelling and speaking all over North America for the last few years about their conversion to the Catholic Church. Now these two outstanding Catholic apologists tell in their own words about the incredib[...]