Author : Michael Fortescue
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 19,62 MB
Release : 2017-03-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1326969021
Each of the prose poems that constitute the first part of this volume juxtaposes at least two widely different images and ways of reading them. The result - an either/or choice between incompatibles - can be surprising. Those of the second part are based on more free-wheeling association and word play. All good fun.
Author : Peter Watts
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 16,33 MB
Release : 2006-10-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429955198
Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Robert Ludlum
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 46,81 MB
Release : 2008-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312945152
In this spine-tingler, Paul Janson finds himself marked for death and his only hope is to uncover a truth that has the power to change history.
Author : William Sleator
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 25,4 MB
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1613122136
Isaac is the new kid in town. His mother, Vera, is in the hospital with a mysterious illness, and the only person left to care for Isaac is his distant grandfather. Friendless and often alone, Isaac loses himself in his collection of optical illusions, including a strange mirror box that he finds in his new house, left behind by the previous tenants. Designed for amputees, it creates the illusion of a second limb. Lonely Isaac wishes someone would reach out to him, and then someone does—a phantom limb within the mirror box! It signs to Isaac about a growing danger: someone who has murdered before and is out to get Vera next. The only way Isaac can solve the mystery and save his mother is with the help of the mirror box. But can he trust the phantom limb?
Author : Cy Twombly
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 49,12 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Abstract expressionism
ISBN :
Author : Durand R. Begault
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,28 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Computer sound processing
ISBN :
Author : William Dunham
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 39,40 MB
Release : 1991-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Like masterpieces of art, music, and literature, great mathematical theorems are creative milestones, works of genius destined to last forever. Now William Dunham gives them the attention they deserve. Dunham places each theorem within its historical context and explores the very human and often turbulent life of the creator — from Archimedes, the absentminded theoretician whose absorption in his work often precluded eating or bathing, to Gerolamo Cardano, the sixteenth-century mathematician whose accomplishments flourished despite a bizarre array of misadventures, to the paranoid genius of modern times, Georg Cantor. He also provides step-by-step proofs for the theorems, each easily accessible to readers with no more than a knowledge of high school mathematics. A rare combination of the historical, biographical, and mathematical, Journey Through Genius is a fascinating introduction to a neglected field of human creativity. “It is mathematics presented as a series of works of art; a fascinating lingering over individual examples of ingenuity and insight. It is mathematics by lightning flash.” —Isaac Asimov
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 35,49 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : Karl Groos
Publisher :
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 42,2 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Play
ISBN :
Author : Mary E. Malainey
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 38,61 MB
Release : 2010-09-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1441957049
Many archaeologists, as primarily social scientists, do not have a background in the natural sciences. This can pose a problem because they need to obtain chemical and physical analyses on samples to perform their research. This manual is an essential source of information for those students without a background in science, but also a comprehensive overview that those with some understanding of archaeological science will find useful. The manual provides readers with the knowledge to use archaeological science methods to the best advantage. It describes and explains the analytical techniques in a manner that the average archaeologist can understand, and outlines clearly the requirements, benefits, and limitations of each possible method of analysis, so that the researcher can make informed choices. The work includes specific information about a variety of dating techniques, provenance studies, isotope analysis as well as the analysis of organic (lipid and protein) residues and ancient DNA. Case studies illustrating applications of these approaches to most types of archaeological materials are presented and the instruments used to perform the analyses are described. Available destructive and non-destructive approaches are presented to help archaeologists select the most effective technique for gaining the target information from the sample. Readers will reach for this manual whenever they need to decide how to best analyze a sample, and how the analysis is performed.
