Category: Science

By G. Krabbes (auth.), J. P. van der Eerden, O. S. L. Bruinsma (eds.)

ISBN-10: 9401040621

ISBN-13: 9789401040624

ISBN-10: 940110137X

ISBN-13: 9789401101370

1. The 9th overseas summer season college on Crystal development. ISSCG IX a whole conception of crystal development establishes the complete dependence of crystal dimension, form and constitution on exterior parameters like temperature, strain, composition, purity, progress cost and stirring of the mummy part, implicitly constructing how the corresponding fields range in area and time. any such idea doesn't exist, even though. hence apparatus to develop crystals is constructed at the foundation of partial wisdom. ability, event and creativity nonetheless are of vital significance for the good fortune o~ a crystal development procedure. during this publication we accumulated contributions from the lecturers of the 9th overseas summer time college on Crystal development ISSCG IX, held 11-16 june 1995 at Papendal, the nationwide activities centre of the Netherlands. those contributions have been used in the course of the lectures. The authors have attempted to give their paintings in any such approach that in basic terms simple actual wisdom is needed to appreciate the papers. The booklet can be utilized as an advent to varied very important sub disciplines of the technology and expertise of crystal development. because, but the info content material significantly exceeds a lecture notice point and touches the current limits of realizing, it truly is an up-to-the-minute instruction manual as well.

By Steven Connor

ISBN-10: 1861897669

ISBN-13: 9781861897664

Reviews:

'a vagrant examine that incorporates digressions on fuel lights, seances, explosions, our nonsensical worry of draughts and the Victorian controversy over cremation. but none of those wanderings detracts from a coherent account of the technological know-how of air ... within the subject of Air, we're consistently respiring the ambience of various kinds of wisdom or event straight away, and the result's inspiring.' - day-by-day Telegraph

By Daniel M. Oppenheimer (ed.), Christopher Y. Olivola (ed.)

ISBN-10: 1848728859

ISBN-13: 9781848728851

Americans donate over three hundred billion money a yr to charity, however the mental components that govern no matter if to provide, and what kind of to provide, are nonetheless now not good understood. Our realizing of charitable giving is predicated essentially upon the intuitions of fundraisers or correlational information which can't determine causal relationships. in contrast, the chapters during this e-book examine charity utilizing experimental tools within which the variables of curiosity are experimentally manipulated. for this reason, it turns into attainable to spot the causal components that underlie giving, and to layout potent intervention courses that could aid bring up the chance and quantity that folks give a contribution to a reason. For charitable companies, this e-book examines the efficacy of fundraising options well-known via nonprofits and makes concrete innovations approximately how you can make capital campaigns extra effective and potent. in addition, a couple of novel components that effect giving are pointed out and explored, establishing the door to fascinating new avenues in fundraising. For researchers, this booklet breaks novel theoretical floor in our figuring out of the way charitable judgements are made. whereas the chapters specialise in functions to charity, the emotional, social, and cognitive mechanisms explored herein all have extra common implications for the examine of psychology and behavioral economics. This e-book highlights one of the most fascinating, dazzling, and enlightening experimental reviews with regards to donation habit, beginning up intriguing pathways to cross-cutting the divide among thought and perform.

By Jessika Sobanski

ISBN-10: 1576854043

ISBN-13: 9781576854044

Visible Math has been designed to permit rookies to "see" why math is sensible. by way of combining logical math innovations with images, formerly doubtful photographs will fade and math will all of sudden click on for you. photographs, graphs, and diagrams assist you comprehend math questions within the components of quantity ideas and homes, fractions and decimals, ratios and proportions, percents, algebra, geometry, and lots more and plenty extra. Designed specially for college kids who've trouble with traditional math principles, this ebook offers step-by step directions with images that will help you remedy math difficulties.

By Edmund Cooper

ISBN-10: 0399107223

ISBN-13: 9780399107221

Technological know-how fiction novel

By Isaac Asimov

ISBN-10: 0449900207

ISBN-13: 9780449900208

The grasp of technological know-how fiction speculates approximately existence on different planets...

"Intriguing"--Publishers Weekly 

By Charles M. Wynn, Arthur W. Wiggins

Astrology...poltergeists and ghosts...firewalking...spontaneous human combustion...psychic surgery...ESP. this can be the stuff of tabloid headlines. yes, many of us locate them laughable, yet ponder that those papers are all staying in company simply because everyone is purchasing them-and usually believing of their outrageous tales, even labeling all of it technology. actually that no longer all "science" is created both. certainly, a few "science" isn't technological know-how in any respect yet is basically downright bogus-in different phrases, pseudoscience. notwithstanding, isolating the wheat from the chaff may not be as effortless as you think that when you think about what number of people are seduced by means of the headlines that encompass them within the grocery store line. UFOs and creationism definitely have their advocates between clever and trained humans. occasionally, notwithstanding, wrongly held ideals can get you into actual difficulty. think of the proclamation via Marshall Applewhite: "Planet Earth approximately to be recycled. Your probability to survive-leave with us."In April 1997, 39 people-believing simply that-committed suicide of their communal domestic in Rancho Sante Fe, California. They was hoping to shed their earthly "containers" and be whisked away by way of extraterrestrials to a spaceship and, finally, the next point of lifestyles. regrettably, their tragically faulty trust within the pseudoscientific declare of Marshall Applewhite rate them their lives. "Quantum Leaps within the flawed Direction" takes us on a journey of the main infamous situations of pseudoscience and units the checklist instantly. to obviously show what's wrong with this model of ersatz technology, the authors glance heavily at what's correct approximately actual technological know-how, after which evaluate the real medical process with that of pseudoscience. Readers research that science's most elementary price is that every one rules approximately truth are topic to checking out by way of test and problem through serious, rational thought.Scientifically literate thinkers settle for principles tentatively. They base their recognition on facts instead of on authority. those people who are no longer scientifically literate usually tend to settle for principles completely. they're extra liable to poor or phony rules. "Quantum Leaps within the flawed Direction" attracts the road among what's solid technology and what isn't even relatively technology in any respect. the foundation for the ebook starts off with the exam of the 5 most generally believed pseudoscientific rules: UFOs, out-of-body stories, astrology, creationism, and ESP those rules are reviewed intimately to determine simply how good they face up to clinical scrutiny. Cleverly illustrated with cartoons through the well known Sidney Harris, "Quantum Leaps within the unsuitable Direction" is either marvelous enjoyable in addition to illuminating science.Although many technology themes can look mysterious, particularly in case you rather get into the main points, ultimately its equipment and ideas are remarkably elementary. "Quantum Leaps within the mistaken Direction" takes this methodical method of dissect the worst within the box. enormously witty, disarmingly enjoyable, it is a publication for anyone-especially for these folks that payment their horoscope daily.

By George Pólya

ISBN-10: 069111966X

ISBN-13: 9780691119663

A perennial bestseller through eminent mathematician G. Polya, easy methods to clear up it is going to exhibit someone in any box the right way to imagine instantly. In lucid and attractive prose, Polya unearths how the mathematical approach to demonstrating an evidence or discovering an unknown should be of assist in attacking any challenge that may be “reasoned” out—from development a bridge to successful a online game of anagrams. Generations of readers have relished Polya’s deft—indeed, brilliant—instructions on stripping away irrelevancies and going immediately to the center of the matter.

By Christopher Hill, Leon M. Lederman

ISBN-10: 1616148020

ISBN-13: 9781616148027

Two best physicists speak about the significance of the Higgs Boson, the way forward for particle physics, and the mysteries of the universe but to be unraveled.

On July four, 2012, the long-sought Higgs Boson--aka "the God Particle"--was chanced on on the world's biggest particle accelerator, the LHC, in Geneva, Switzerland. On March 14, 2013, physicists at CERN proven it. This elusive subatomic particle types a box that permeates the total universe, developing the loads of the hassle-free debris which are the elemental construction blocks of every little thing within the recognized world--from viruses to elephants, from atoms to quasars.

Starting the place Nobel Laureate Leon Lederman's bestseller The God Particle left off, this incisive new e-book explains what's subsequent. Lederman and Hill talk about key questions that might occupy physicists for future years:

* Why have been scientists confident that whatever just like the "God Particle" needed to exist?
* What new debris, forces, and legislation of physics lie past the "God Particle"?
* What robust new accelerators are actually wanted for the USA to recapture a management function in technology and to arrive "beyond the God Particle," akin to Fermilab's deliberate Project-X and the Muon Collider?

utilizing considerate, witty, daily language, the authors exhibit how all of those fascinating questions are major scientists ever deeper into the cloth of nature. Readers of The God Particle won't are looking to pass over this significant sequel.

By Giles Sparrow

Released to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the 1st house flight, this illustrated ebook in regards to the historical past of people in house covers the interesting quest for the ultimate frontier, from the 1st house flight to today's missions and beyond.

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