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Definitely a book to read and reread!.......1999-08-27

I picked up this book in a bookstore, started reading it, went back to work and shut my door to continue reading it throughout the afternoon! It's full of good advice for anyone who works for someone else - lots of motivating, common sense tactics to get along in the business world. Perpaps business schools should offer a course on "Real Business 101" and use this book as a text!

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The economists who began using statistics to analyze financial markets in the 1950s have been credited with revolutionizing the scholarship of investing and with inaugurating modern financial economics. By examining the work of economists who used statistics to analyze financial markets before 1950, Donald Stabile provides evidence about the forerunners of modern financial economics. In studying these predecessors, this innovative book reveals that, starting around 1900, there were economists in the United States who believed that changes in stock prices could be treated as a random variable to be analyzed with statistical methods, and who used early versions of the efficient markets theory to justify their belief. Although they did not call themselves Bayesians, the author explores how they adhered to a philosophy consistent with Bayesian statistics. A concluding epilogue considers the linkages between the forerunners of modern finance, its innovators and modern successors. An original work in the history of economic thought, Forerunners of Modern Financial Economics will be of great interest to both economists and historians interested in the development of statistical finance and economic thought, as well as to statisticians, financial analysts, and advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying financial economics.

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Security Protocols, held in Cambridge, UK, in April 2002.

The 16 revised full papers presented together with transcriptions of the discussions following the presentations have passed through two rounds of reviewing, revision, and selection. Also included are abstracts and summaries of an introduction and a keynote, as well as a concluding discussion and statement. Among the topics addressed are authentication, mobile ad-hoc network security, secure distributed document processing, access control, confidentiality, protocol attacks, delegation, certified transfer servers, intrusion tolerance, multi-party communication protocols, IPv6 security, and others.

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These creatures are relatively long-lived with life-spans of up to 20 years or more, as well as hardy and easy to maintain with the proper information. This book presents an overview of methods for the husbandry of a variety of tarantulas and scorpions. Selection, housing & maintenance, feeding, molting, handling, breeding, raising babies and more. 78 pp. B&W photos.

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Good book for everyone!.......2000-06-22

This is probably the best book I have come across on tarantulas and scorpions. It is easy to read and understand, with lots of information that is useful for both beginners and experienced hands alike. Philippe De Vosjoli has a knack for making his book interesting with his style of writing. This book is definitely worth its price!

Scorpion Vs. Tarantula (Animals Head to Head)

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Scorpion Vs. Tarantula (Animals Head to Head)
Isabel Thomas
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This book pits scary scorpions against terrifying tarantulas, awarding points for survival skills such as strength, size, hunting ability, and camouflage. At the end of the book, the points are added up to discover the overall winner. But which animal will it be? Read this book to find out!

The scorpion and the tarantula; the struggle to control atomic weapons, 1945-1949

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The scorpion and the tarantula; the struggle to control atomic weapons, 1945-1949
Joseph I. Lieberman
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Tarantulas & Scorpions (Reptiles and Amphibians)

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Tarantulas & Scorpions (Reptiles and Amphibians)
Wayne Rankin , and Jerry G. Walls
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Tarantulas And Scorpions in Captivity (Professional Breeders) (Professional Breeders)

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Tarantulas And Scorpions in Captivity (Professional Breeders) (Professional Breeders)
Russ Gurley
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In this book successful keepers share their knowledge and expertise in the fast growing movement of keeping and breeding tarantulas and scorpions in captivity. Chapters provide information on housing, diet, reproduction, and care of the young. Individual species accounts provide common and scientific names, country of origin, housing, diet, sexing, breeding, and more. Full-color photographs.

Tarantulas, Scorpions and Other Invertebrates (Herpetocultural Library)

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Tarantulas, Scorpions and Other Invertebrates (Herpetocultural Library)
Philippe De Vosjoli
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In recent years there has been a marked increase in funding and employment in river restoration. Methods in Fluvial Geomorphology provides an integrated approach to the interdisciplinary nature of the subject and offers guidance for researchers and professionals on the tools available to answer questions on river management on very difference scales.

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Each chapter is organised to cover everything from general concepts to specific techniques
Topics covered include evolution of methods, guiding concepts, a framework for deciding when to apply specific tools, advantages and limitation of the tools, sources of data, equipment and supplies needed, and a summary table
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TOOLS IN FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY
G.M. KONDOLF
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Tools in Fluvial Geomorphology
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Tools in Fluvial Geomorphology
G.M. KONDOLF
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This textbook is intended for undergraduate and graduate students taking an intermediate or advanced course in electromagnetism. It presents electromagnetism as a classical theory, based, like mechanics, on principles that are independent of the atomic constitution of matter. This book is unique amongst electrodynamics texts in its treatment of the precise manner in which electromagnetism is linked to mechanics and thermodynamics. Thus a clear distinction is maintained between such concepts as field and force, or radiation and heat. Applications include radiation from charged particles, electromagnetic wave propagation and guided waves, thermoelectricity, magnetohydrodynamics, piezoelectricity, ferroelectricity, paramagnetic cooling, ferromagnetism and superconductivity. There are 225 worked examples of dynamical and thermal effects of electromagnetic fields, and of effects resulting from the motion of bodies. The concise, methodological approach of this book will be valuable to students and will make it of special interest to tutors and lecturers.

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electromagnetism from continuum mechanics point of view.......2000-05-01

This is a good book on classical electrodynamics. It is on about the same level as Jackson or the fine recent book by Schwinger et al. even if it perhaps attempts to be more elementary.

In stark contrast to Schwinger (and Jackson) it takes a continuum mechanics point of view as fundamental. There are no atoms and no averageing is used to find macroscopic fields from microscopic. This has some advantages but, in my opinion, hides the fact that in vacuum there are only two fields while in media two polarization fields must be added.

Many things are very pedagogical and clear in Kovetz book and it is probably a good book to learn from. The book uses SI-units and is unusual in that it discusses thermodynamics and continua more thourougly than its competitors.

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Analyzing the "democratic" features and institutions of the Athenian democracy in the fifth century B.C., Martin Ostwald traces their development from Solon's judicial reforms to the flowering of popular sovereignty, when the people assumed the right both to enact all legislation and to hold magistrates accountable for implementing what had been enacted.

From Popular Sovereignty to the Sovereignty of Law: Law, Society and Politics in Fifth-Century Athens

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From Popular Sovereignty to the Sovereignty of Law: Law, Society and Politics in Fifth-Century Athens
Martin Ostwald
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Ken's review.......2007-09-25

But it, buy it, but it! This is a great book and will help anyone understand better the sayings of Jesus in their context. Can't say enough about this book. I have used some of the material in my Bible class and it has worked well for me.

Help in Understanding the World of Jesus.......2003-09-18

The world of Jesus Christ was hardly static. Uprisings, rebellions, and subversive groups popped up all of the time, especially in Jewish lands where Roman occupation was equal to slavery in the eyes of most Jewish people. This made rebellion almost a religious duty even though many of the religious authorities did not share this point of view. Some of the rebellious groups had limited success, others had disastrous ends. Bandits, Prophets, and Messiahs helps the reader understand the different movements in the days of Jesus and help modern readers understand why Jesus' message was so controversial, not just in terms of content, but politically and socially as well. The author looks at the historical realities of the Jewish people and the connection with religious and political figures that sprung up in the Roman Empire, particularly in Palestine, in the days of Jesus Christ and in the early New Testament days. Readers are able to distinguish those who might be "rebels without a cause" so to speak, and legitimate groups that had serious religious and/or political objectives. The author culled much of the information from lectures given to students which gives the work a scholarly feel in an accessible manner. The book contains a scripture cited index which will help readers who may be students researching a topic, preachers preparing a sermon or homily, or person who is fascinated by the background to the Bible.

Succint but thorough.......2002-03-29

When studying the New Testament you will run across books that deal with Pharisees, Sadducees, Scribes and Essenes and seeing there is such a glut of info on these it is amazing to realize that they comprised a very small segment of the population. What the ordinary citizenry of the time were doing is not usually reflected in the writings of these religious elites and this book delves into that area of popular movements surrounding the insulated lives of the rich and powerful that led to change and ultimately to the revolt of AD 66- 70. Within this context you will learn, among other things, of the Messianic expectations of the general populace that led to "false prophets" spoken of by Jesus. This book helps flesh out the bare-bones accounts within the Gospels by describing the backdrop wherein everything was played out in the first century AD.

This is a moderately difficult read that I found very, very informative (I have highlighted quite a few passages for further study). Succinct but thorough. -- Moza

A Voice for the Average (1st Century) Palestinian Peasant.......2001-01-21

An old maxim claims that, "History is written by the winners." That may be true, but it is also true that history is written by the literate elite of every society. Those with enough knowledge, motivation, and leisure time write the histories that inform the attitudes and opinions of the rest of us.

Unfortunately, the bulk of humanity does not consist of articulate, highly motivated, and independent elites. Thus, most histories end up biased in favor of society's masters, and against the proletariat.

One quick survey of the average New Testament history will demonstrate our fascination with kings (e.g.: Caesar), priests (e.g.: Ananus and Caiaphus), ethnarchs (e.g.: Herod Archelaus), tetrarchs (e.g.: Herod Philip and Herod Antipas), governors (e.g.: Pontius Pilate), prophets (e.g.: John the Baptist), pharisees (e.g.: Paul), sadducees (e.g.: Jonathan, son of Ananus), philosophers (e.g.: Philo of Alexandria), historians (e.g.: Josephus), rabbis (e.g.: Jesus), and other people of note. Very seldom do we examine the lives of the ordinary people who left little, or no, written records of their experience. Too quickly our image of first century, Palestinian life becomes colored by the proclaimed experiences of the elites. Too quickly we forget or dismiss the experiences of the illiterate majority, barely eaking out an existence in a subsistence economy.

By focusing his attentions on the miserable lives lived by the majority of the peasants, Professor Horsley gives us a more balanced view of Palestine in the time of Jesus and the earliest Church. He shows us a peasantry, not only resentful about Roman occupation and taxation, but also deeply distrustful of their own political and sacerdotal institutions. He shows us subsistence farmers pushed off their land, or ever more deeply into debt, by Roman and Jewish over-taxation. He places before our eyes people whose lives could end instantly and violently on the whim of a king, governor, or ordinary Roman soldier. He shows us a people yearning for their ancient and legitimate kings. He brilliantly paints the picture of a people pushed to the edge of life, and made ready for revolution, whether that be the political revolution of 66 a.d., or the revolutionary preaching of Good News by an itinerant Galilean rabbi.

Professor Horsley helps all of us to see first century Palestine more clearly: more honestly. For that alone, this book is worth reading.

Magnificent account of outrageous religious turmoil........1997-01-18

Chaos abounds between ancient Palestine and Rome in this historic look at early Christianity. Out of desperation due to oppresive Roman rule, Jewish Palestine revolts in a variety of unique ways. The proliferation of bandits is only the first indication of this troubled time. A host of diviners and self-made holy leaders gain following in Palestine as people seek a way out of the horrific situation. This book gives a stunning look at the incredible measures and actions a group will take when their way of life is being destroyed.

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an intriguing internation math tour

Some of the greatest achievements in mathematics

Lofty goals unachieved

Interesting subject, disappointing errors

Tour is actually Discovering the Truth & Beauty of the Holos

A Mathematical Mystery Tour: Discovering the Truth and Beauty of the Cosmos
A. K. Dewdney
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A.K. Dewdney takes readers on a theoretical world tour to answer the question: Did humans make up mathematics, or did mathematics make up everything, including humans? After all, mathematical formulas seem to perfectly govern the cosmos, and the ur-mathematician Pythagoras himself believed that mathematics makes up reality. Dewdney has taken it upon himself to examine this fundamental question, beginning his journey in Miletus, the ancient home of Pythagoras and other deep thinkers. There, he meets the fictional Dr. Petros Pygonopolis, the first of his guides through space and time in search of mathematical meaning in history. His journey continues with stops in the Arabian desert (for insight into ancient Islamic astronomy with Professor al-Flayli), Venice (where Maria Canzoni reveals the mysteries of atomic theory), and England (home of the "engines of thought" in the form of Alan Turing's mind machines, as explained by Sir John Brainard). Dewdney's style is accessible, his knowledge is thorough, and his sense of humor is refreshing, if a bit geeky. A Mathematical Mystery Tour is not a difficult read, although the ideas it attempts to clarify are quite abstract. The fictional tour guides at each port of call are helpful in humanizing the intimidating subject matter. --Adam Fisher

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Praise for A. K. Dewdney Yes, We Have No Neutrons "We need more books like this-especially if they're this much fun to read." -Wired "Dewdney manages to make this catalog of error entertaining as well as instructive; good medicine for both skeptics and true believers." -Kirkus Reviews "Written with wit and a touch of pathos-and sure to please science lovers." -Publishers Weekly 2000f Nothing "It is impossible to read this timely, important book without enjoyment and eye-opening enlightenment." -Martin Gardner "An entertaining, stinging exposé." -Publishers Weekly

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an intriguing internation math tour.......2007-09-21

This virtual odyssey, exploring the historical and cultural roots of mathematics and the mystery of its timeless questions, stimulates learning and wonder in a way no standard math textbook can do.

The book combines the charm of travel adventures with the mystery of ancient mathematics. Interspersed in the entertaining narrative are thoughtful questions on the nature of the universe, questions entertained by Pythagoras himself. The author talks with Greek, Arab, Italian, and English mathematicians, each of whom ponders the question of Pythagoras in his or her own intriguing way.

At the temple of Apollo, Dr. Pygonopolis introduces the fundamental idea of the holos and ponders whether the discoveries of the Pythagorean School could have been made in another culture.

Under the desert sky, Prof. al-Flayli gives a fascinating account of Arabic influence on astronomy and mathematics.

In Venice, under the sound of "Missa Sancta," physicist Maria Canzoni contemplates the holos, the cosmos, and the ultimate reality of menos, or a consciousness beyond the quantum curtain.

In Oxford, England, Sir John Brainard lectures on the intrinsic simplicity of mathematics and the evidence that computers provide for its independent existence.

Accessible and thought-provoking, this is the most fascinating math book I have read to date.

Some of the greatest achievements in mathematics.......2005-05-24

To explore the great beauty of mathematics, it is always necessary to go back to the ancient Greeks. It was there that the great intellectual breakthrough of abstract mathematics was made. Dewdney begins his mathematical journey at the logical place, Athens, Greece. His first discussions are with Petros Pygonopolis, a specialist in ancient Greek mathematics. Quite fittingly, Pygonopolis is found measuring the stones of an ancient structure with a ruler. This proves to be an excellent starting point for the explanation of the discovery of irrational numbers. Before the great proof that the square root of two was irrational, it was believed that all values were commensurate. This means that by repeating one length a specific number of times and the other length a different number of times, two distances of the same length could be created. The most interesting part of this discussion is the descriptions of how numbers were represented in ancient Greece. In many ways, it is incredible to realize how cumbersome their notation was.
In keeping with the historical development of mathematics, Dewdney then travels to Amman, Jordan to examine the development of mathematics in the Arab world. After the collapse of the Roman Empire, the development of mathematics essentially ceased in Europe. All mathematical progress for centuries after the collapse took place in the Arab world. He meets with Jusuf al-Flayli, an Egyption astronomer who is an expert in the Arab view of the heavens. The naming of the stars is important in Arab culture, and it is clear when you read Dewdney's account. For where else but in the desert would one see the greatest, clearest spectacle of stars.
Venice, Italy is the next stop, for discussions with Maria Canzoni. These discussions are about the development of numerical operations, the new representations and the notations used in the operations. It is difficult to overstate the significance of positional notation. It is hard to see how modern commerce could have ever developed without it. One thing that it is difficult for math students to appreciate is how clean modern mathematical notation is. Even the simple symbols of addition, subtraction and so on abbreviate some very advanced mathematical concepts.
The last stop on the tour is Oxford, England where Dewdney has discussions with Sir John Brainard. The conversation uses nonsense words such as gadzooks, blorgs, semiblorgs, zooks and horping tables. These terms are actually replacements for the words of group theory. Brainard uses this as an example to illustrate the idea put forward by David Hilbert for geometry. Namely that geometry should be constructed so that the terms point, line and plane can be replaced by chair, table and beer mugs. It was quite fun to read and reminded me of some of the writings of Lewis Carol.
There is great beauty in mathematics, sometimes even practitioners fail to appreciate it. Dewdney does an excellent job in describing some of the more significant events in the history of mathematics. Read it and appreciate what some of the great minds have done.

Lofty goals unachieved.......2003-12-12

The book tries to explore some of the more philisophical aspects of mathematics, and cannot be faulted for its failure to reach any real conclusions there. If an answer were easy to come by, it would indicate that the questions were not so philisophical after all.

Unfortunately, the book also fails to achieve secondary goals. Both the historical and mathematical topics it covers could be covered just as well in 1/5 the pages. The extra length comes from trying to work the material into a journey, a technique possibly used in an attempt to make the topics less intimidating or more interesting, but which in fact just makes them boring. If one travels to see and talk to somebody, the travel itself (plane ride, taxi, carrying of the bags) is oftentimes a boring chore needed to get where you are going. Why describe it here? It is not more interesting to read about than to experience.

Instead, this book seems to combine all of the filler material needed to make a fictional story consistant and realistic, but there is not really any story being told here. If one wants a story with some math worked in, try A. K. Doxiadis's "Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture" instead.

When I saw the title of the book, it reminded me of Ivars Peterson's "The Mathematical Tourist", which I have only looked at briefly, but which explores interesting areas of mathematics. If one wants an overview of some interesting math topics, this is a much more appropriate book.

In Dewdney's book, we get a "tourist" book with few points of interest, mathematical, historical, or geographical. Given the interesting people, places, and material covered, it really misses the mark.

Interesting subject, disappointing errors.......2003-06-17

I started reading this book like all others: with anticipation to learn something new and exiting but instead mistakes hit me over my head. On page 85 the author calls the angle between the zenith and a star its declination. Wrong name: It is (90 degrees minus altitude), also called the complementary angle. The declination is the distance from the equator. On page 97 the author gives the impression that the polar star (Polaris) is moving with the seasons; that is not so. Polaris is fixed on the celestial sphere except for a very small daily circle of about 1.5 degree radius. Page 101 makes Kepler a priest which he was not. He just studied Lutheran theology before turning completely to natural philosophy and teaching for a living. Kepler never ignored Copernicus as claimed by Dewdney and neither is the Earth in the middle of the Platonic Solids but the Sun as described in the Mysterium Cosmographicum. On page 103 the author makes us believe that the geographical latitude of Baghdad as measured by the altitude of Polaris is 33 degrees 19 minutes at the beginning of spring; the altitude of Polaris for Baghdad is the same all the time except for that small daily variation mentioned before. On page 110 the author gives the title of Fibonacci's main work as "Algorismus"; there is no work of this title, the common name of his major work is given as "Liber abaci (or abbacy)" - The Book of Abacus. On page 113 the author attributes the spectral lines of the Balmer Series to "vibration" of the atoms. Not so. In Bohr's model the spectral lines are caused by transition of electrons between different levels of energy or different orbits. Vibrations are involved in the spectra of molecules. Finally, why has the author forgotten Mr. Balmer while attributing the different Hydrogen series with changing parameter n to (1) Lyman, (2) Paschen, (3) Brackett and (4) Pfund? The correct attribution is (1) Lyman, (2) Balmer, (3) Paschen, (4) Brackett and (5) Pfund.
I think that I lost my patience reading this book at that point.

Tour is actually Discovering the Truth & Beauty of the Holos.......2002-06-29

Tour is certainly a rare book, one on mathematical philosophy. After all, it is commonly accepted that physics describes the real world, while metaphysics grapples with the questions of what is real? With that being said, Dewdney turns his attention the tools of mathematics that Physics uses in its descriptions, and ponders if there could be the "meta-mathematical." In Tour, he undertakes to answer two questions. First, why is mathematics so amazingly successful in describing the structure of physical reality, and second, is mathematics discovered or is it created? These are not trifling questions. Consider the discovery of the planet Neptune. In 1845, the 23-year old British John Couch Adams completed calculations pinpointing a new planet that he believed was perturbing the orbit of Uranus. That same year, French astronomer Urban Jean LeVerrier independently published his prediction of the position of the new planet, within a degree of Adams. Alone, this proves almost nothing. Given the same set of data from observations, regardless of how complex the celestial mechanics are, the formulae do not change and accurate algebraic answers should agree (although they do provide standalone verification for each other). What happened next though transforms a merely mathematical exercise into Dewdney's quest to understand the true nature of math. On the same night they read of it, Johann Galle and Heinrich d'Arrest at the Berlin Observatory search and see an eighth magnitude "star" right where LeVerrier envisaged it. Dewdney dares asks, "Why is the physical universe determined (or accurately describable) to so great an extent by Mathematical ideas?"
To answer, Dewdney employs what in the preface he describes as "a fictional narrative," that leads from Greece to Arabia to Italy to England. However, his level of detail and his concluding notes in the postscript lead me to question how fictional the four characters are who elucidate on the subject. I suppose that is to be expected in a work of philosophy, blurring the distinction of who is real. There is one other "character," dead some 2,500 years, but whose mystical and mathematical spirit is still felt: Pythagoras. Carl Sagan credits Pythagoras as the first to "use the word Cosmos to denote a well-ordered and harmonious universe, a world amenable to human understanding" (hence the title for Sagan's series; and now you know the rest of the story!) The followers of Pythagoras developed an entire mathematical cult, a sect that sincerely believed that through math they were glimpsing a perfect reality, a nonmaterial higher realm, of which the physical world was a manifestation. The dwellers of Plato's cave were inheritors indirectly of the Pythagoreans: "The stars that decorate the sky, though we rightly regard them as the finest and most perfect of visible things, are far inferior, just because they are visible, to the true realities; that is, to the true relative velocities, in pure number and perfect figures, of the orbits and what they carry in them, which are perceptible to reason and thought but not visible to the eye. (The Republic, Plato, book VII, 529-E)." In his first stop, along the coast of the Aegean, Dewdney encounters the "holos," the place where all of mathematics, known and unknown, exists. The Cosmos is the manifestation, but the holos is the source, so much so that the Tour is actually Discovering the Truth and Beauty of the Holos. But be cautioned though that a proper frame of mind is a prerequisite. Just as Galileo's journals show he observed Neptune in 1612 but failed to recognize it for what it was, so to Tour benefits from a second or third revisit for complete comprehension.

A MATHEMATICAL MYSTERY TOUR : DISCOVERING THE TRUTH AND BEAUTY OF THE COSMOS

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