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The latter half of the 20 ...
Author : Francesco Berto
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 28,38 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0198812795
The latter half of the 20 ...
Author : Abel Quezada
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 37,70 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Cartoons and caricatures
ISBN :
"Brilliant satire by Mexico's leading cartoonist on the men, machines and madness of our modern civilization"--cover.
Author : Raymond Bradley
Publisher : Indianapolis : Hackett Publishing Company
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 41,31 MB
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780915144594
Sermons by a noted German theologian discuss what the Bible says about freedom, political power, fear, unity, and human rights
Author : Boris Christian Kment
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 49,46 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199604681
Argues that the concepts of necessity and possibility originate in a common type of thought experiment, counterfactual reasoning, that allows us to investigate explanatory connections and is colsely related to the controlled experiments of empirical science.
Author : Paul Steinhardt
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,11 MB
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 147672993X
*Shortlisted for the 2019 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize* One of the most fascinating scientific detective stories of the last fifty years, an exciting quest for a new form of matter. “A riveting tale of derring-do” (Nature), this book reads like James Gleick’s Chaos combined with an Indiana Jones adventure. When leading Princeton physicist Paul Steinhardt began working in the 1980s, scientists thought they knew all the conceivable forms of matter. The Second Kind of Impossible is the story of Steinhardt’s thirty-five-year-long quest to challenge conventional wisdom. It begins with a curious geometric pattern that inspires two theoretical physicists to propose a radically new type of matter—one that raises the possibility of new materials with never before seen properties, but that violates laws set in stone for centuries. Steinhardt dubs this new form of matter “quasicrystal.” The rest of the scientific community calls it simply impossible. The Second Kind of Impossible captures Steinhardt’s scientific odyssey as it unfolds over decades, first to prove viability, and then to pursue his wildest conjecture—that nature made quasicrystals long before humans discovered them. Along the way, his team encounters clandestine collectors, corrupt scientists, secret diaries, international smugglers, and KGB agents. Their quest culminates in a daring expedition to a distant corner of the Earth, in pursuit of tiny fragments of a meteorite forged at the birth of the solar system. Steinhardt’s discoveries chart a new direction in science. They not only change our ideas about patterns and matter, but also reveal new truths about the processes that shaped our solar system. The underlying science is important, simple, and beautiful—and Steinhardt’s firsthand account is “packed with discovery, disappointment, exhilaration, and persistence...This book is a front-row seat to history as it is made” (Nature).
Author : Melissa Beattie
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 45,30 MB
Release : 2010-02-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1443820466
The successful regeneration of Doctor Who in the twenty-first century has sparked unprecedented popular success and renewed interest within the academy. The ten essays assembled in this volume draw on a variety of critical approaches—from cultural theory to audience studies, to classical reception and musicology—to form a wide-ranging interdisciplinary discussion of Doctor Who, classic and new, and its spin-off series, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures. With additional contributions from Andrew Pixley, Robert Shearman, Barnaby Edwards, and Matt Hills, the volume is intended to be accessible to everyone, from interested academics in relevant fields to the general public.
Author : Abel Quezada
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 28,26 MB
Release : 1963
Category :
ISBN :
Author : John Gribbin
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 47,99 MB
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 0262043238
“An elegant and accessible” investigation of quantum mechanics for non-specialists—“highly recommended” for students of the sciences, sci-fi fans, and anyone interested in the strange world of quantum physics (Forbes) Rules of the quantum world seem to say that a cat can be both alive and dead at the same time and a particle can be in two places at once. And that particle is also a wave; everything in the quantum world can described in terms of waves—or entirely in terms of particles. These interpretations were all established by the end of the 1920s, by Erwin Schrödinger, Werner Heisenberg, Paul Dirac, and others. But no one has yet come up with a common sense explanation of what is going on. In this concise and engaging book, astrophysicist John Gribbin offers an overview of six of the leading interpretations of quantum mechanics. Gribbin calls his account “agnostic,” explaining that none of these interpretations is any better—or any worse—than any of the others. Gribbin presents the Copenhagen Interpretation, promoted by Niels Bohr and named by Heisenberg; the Pilot-Wave Interpretation, developed by Louis de Broglie; the Many Worlds Interpretation (termed “excess baggage” by Gribbin); the Decoherence Interpretation (“incoherent”); the Ensemble “Non-Interpretation”; and the Timeless Transactional Interpretation (which theorized waves going both forward and backward in time). All of these interpretations are crazy, Gribbin warns, and some are more crazy than others—but in the quantum world, being more crazy does not necessarily mean more wrong.
Author : Aaron Sigmond
Publisher : Assouline Publishing
Page : 3 pages
File Size : 47,64 MB
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1614287848
In the highly anticipated new volume in Assouline’s bestselling Ultimate Collection, The Impossible Collection of Cigars envisions the ultimate humidor brimming with the most remarkable cigars of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries from the most prestigious makers. Like the pop of the Champagne cork, the flick of the lighter or the strike of the match and the first draw of the smoke are synonymous with celebration, relaxation, and comradery. A luxurious pause from the world around, an exceptional, hand-rolled cigar has cemented itself as a civilized passion and genteel hobby over the course of centuries.
Author : Peter Chiykowski
Publisher : Chizine Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,96 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Flash fiction, Canadian
ISBN : 9781771484671
Postcards From Impossible Worlds collects 88 dazzling micro-stories written as postcards from strange and beautiful worlds that run parallel to our own.