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Zoo Do's and Don'ts
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Zoo Do's and Don'ts

What should you do when you go to the zoo? Do brush your hair with a lion / Don't braid his mane. Do take a nap with a hippo / Don't let him steal all the covers.
 
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Tags: steal, covers, hippo, braid, brush
Silver Wire Jewelry: Projects to Coil, Braid & Knit
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Silver Wire Jewelry: Projects to Coil, Braid & KnitSilver Wire Jewelry: Projects to Coil, Braid & Knit

With a coil, braid, and twist, plus other ingeniously easy techniques, these magnificent silver bracelets, necklaces, and earrings take lovely shape. Each of the 99 projects, illustrated with color photos and diagrams, shows exactly why wire jewelry has become today's hot craft. All that's needed are very basic tools and this helpful advice on making coils, plying wires, stretching out the coils to form graceful waves, joining rings to make elegant chains, fashioning wire into figure eights, incorporating beads, or creating crocheted adornments. 
 
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Tags: coils, waves, graceful, joining, elegant, Silver, Braid, Jewelry, Projects
Gödel, Escher, Bach - An Eternal Golden Braid
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Gödel, Escher - Bach: An Eternal Golden BraidGödel, Escher - Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Twenty years after it topped the bestseller charts, Douglas R. Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid is still something of a marvel. Besides being a profound and entertaining meditation on human thought and creativity, this book looks at the surprising points of contact between the music of Bach, the artwork of Escher, and the mathematics of Gödel. It also looks at the prospects for computers and artificial intelligence (AI) for mimicking human thought. For the general reader and the computer techie alike, this book still sets a standard for thinking about the future of computers and their relation to the way we think.
 
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Tags: Escher, Golden, Eternal, Braid, human
A Study of Braids
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A Study of BraidsA Study of Braids

This book provides a comprehensive exposition of the theory of braids, beginning with the basic mathematical definitions and structures. Among the many topics explained in detail are: the braid group for various surfaces; the solution of the word problem for the braid group; braids in the context of knots and links (Alexander's theorem); Markov's theorem and its use in obtaining braid invariants; the connection between the Platonic solids (regular polyhedra) and braids; the use of braids in the solution of algebraic equations.
 
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Tags: braids, braid, problem, group, solution, theorem, Study