Book Description
See how brilliant scientist Bruce Banner was cursed to transform into the rampaging Hulk.
Author : Paul Benjamin
Publisher :
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 33,74 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780785130406
See how brilliant scientist Bruce Banner was cursed to transform into the rampaging Hulk.
Author : James Gleick
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 24,56 MB
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0307379574
From the bestselling author of the acclaimed Chaos and Genius comes a thoughtful and provocative exploration of the big ideas of the modern era: Information, communication, and information theory. Acclaimed science writer James Gleick presents an eye-opening vision of how our relationship to information has transformed the very nature of human consciousness. A fascinating intellectual journey through the history of communication and information, from the language of Africa’s talking drums to the invention of written alphabets; from the electronic transmission of code to the origins of information theory, into the new information age and the current deluge of news, tweets, images, and blogs. Along the way, Gleick profiles key innovators, including Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, Samuel Morse, and Claude Shannon, and reveals how our understanding of information is transforming not only how we look at the world, but how we live. A New York Times Notable Book A Los Angeles Times and Cleveland Plain Dealer Best Book of the Year Winner of the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
Author : Charles Kingsley
Publisher : Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 11,95 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN :
Kingsley's historical romance of the Spanish Main, first published in 1855. From the coral reefs of the Barbados to the jungles and fabled cities of the Orinoco and on to the great sea battle with the Spanish Armada, this vibrant novel captures the daring spirit of Elizabethan adventurers who sailed with Sir Francis Drake. Contains a table of contents and listing of illustrations.
Author : Mary H. Kingsley
Publisher :
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 42,1 MB
Release : 1897
Category : Africa, West
ISBN :
As a dutiful Victorian daughter, the author was thirty before being freed (by her parents' deaths) to do as she chose. She went to West Africa in 1893 and again in 1895, to investigate the beliefs and customs of the inland tribes and also to collect zoological specimens. She was appalled by the 'thin veneer of rubbishy white culture' imposed by British officials and was not afraid to say so.
Author : Bo Göranzon
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,72 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1447119835
This book has an important starting point in the conference held in Stockholm in May-June 1988 on Culture, Language and Artifidal Intelligence. It assembled more than 300 researchers and practitioners in the fields of technology, philosophy, history of ideas, literature, linguistics, sodal science etc. The conference was an initiative from the Swedish Center for Working Life, based on the project AI-Based Systems and the Future of Language, Knowledge and Responsibility in Professions within the COST 13 programme of the European Commission. Partidpants in the conference and researchers related to its aims were chosen to contribute to this book. It is preceded by Knowledge, Skill and Artificial Intelligence (ed. B. Göranzon and I. Josefson, Springer-Verlag, 1988), Artifidal Intelligence, Culture and Language (ed. B. Göranzon and M. Florin, Springer-Verlag, 1990) and Dialogue and Technology: Art and Knowledge (ed. B. Göranzon and M. Florin, Springer-Verlag, 1991). The two latter books have the same conference connection as this one, and their aim is to present the contours of a research field with a multitude of issues that demands thorough investigation. The contributors' thinking in this field varies greatly; so do their styles of writing. For example: contributors have varied in their choice of "he" or "helshe" for the third person. No distinc tion is intended, but chapters have been left with the original usage to avoid extensive changes. Similarly, individual contribu tor's preference as to notes or reference lists have been followed.
Author : Frank Smith
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 25,81 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Education
ISBN :
The first book to warn parents and teachers against a traditional--and destructive--teaching method, this will be important to all who are involved with children's literacy and education in general.
Author : Richard Mitchell
Publisher : Little Brown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 32,74 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780316575089
The illuminating spirit, or evil genius, of modern educationism was Wilhelm Max Wundt, a Hegelian psychologist who established the world's first laboratory for psychological experimentation at the University of Leipzig, where he worked and taught from 1875 to 1920. He dreamed of transforming psychology, a notably soft'' science dealing in vague generalizations and abstract pronouncements, into a hard'' science, like physics.
Author : John T. Flynn
Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 19,99 MB
Release : 1941
Category : Capitalists and financiers
ISBN : 161016329X
Author : Henry Augustin Beers
Publisher :
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 19,15 MB
Release : 1897
Category : American literature
ISBN :
Author : A. Roberts
Publisher : Springer
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 21,26 MB
Release : 2005-11-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0230554652
The History of Science Fiction traces the origin and development of science fiction from Ancient Greece up to the present day. The author is both an academic literary critic and acclaimed creative writer of the genre. Written in lively, accessible prose it is specifically designed to bridge the worlds of academic criticism and SF fandom.