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Navigation
Language: en
Pages: 153
Authors: James A. Bennett
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Looking at the long history of navigation at sea, Jim Bennett discusses the scientific and technological developments that have enabled the accurate measurement
Navigation: A Very Short Introduction
Language: en
Pages: 144
Authors: Jim Bennett
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-02-10 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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From the Bronze Age mariners of the Mediterranean to contemporary sailors using satellite-based technologies, the history of navigation at sea, the art of findi
Navigation by Judgment
Language: en
Pages: 240
Authors: Dan Honig
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-03-29 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Foreign aid organizations collectively spend hundreds of billions of dollars annually, with mixed results. Part of the problem in these endeavors lies in their
Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction
Language: en
Pages: 172
Authors: Timothy Gowers
Categories: Mathematics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-08-22 - Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks

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The aim of this volume is to explain the differences between research-level mathematics and the maths taught at school. Most differences are philosophical and t
Galileo: A Very Short Introduction
Language: en
Pages: 161
Authors: Stillman Drake
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-02-22 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

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In a startling reinterpretation of the evidence, Stillman Drake advances the hypothesis that Galileo's trial and condemnation by the Inquisition was caused not