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PHP 5 in Practice

Sams Publishing, 2006

With the release of PHP 5 web developers need a guide to developing with PHP 5 to both learn its complex new features and more fully implement the long-standing features on which PHP's success is built. PHP 5 in Practice is a reference guide that provides developers with easy-to-use and easily extensible code...

Mapping Antarctica: A Five Hundred Year Record of Discovery (Springer Praxis Books)

Springer, 2013

Antarctica was to be the greatest discovery of them all! It was never to be a tripping over of a piece of useless land: the Greek philosophers had predicted a polar land- mass of geophysical importance! The question was rather whether or not man could bridge the "torrid equatorial zone" that was thought to separate the...

The Jesuits, The Padroado and East Asian Science (1552-1773) (History of Mathematical Sciences: Portugal and East Asia III)

World Scientific Publishing, 2008

One significant outcome of the missionary efforts of the Society of Jesus was the transmission of some of the mathematical sciences from early modern Europe to East Asia. Following the Padroado (1493-1494), Portugal became the patron of all missions in that part of the world. This book brings together important new data and analyses by a reputed...

Observer's Guide to Star Clusters (The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series)

Springer, 2013

This book helps readers find objects in the night sky with small-, medium-, and large-aperture telescopes. It provides comprehensive coverage for identifying and locating star clusters in all relevant constellations in the northern and southern hemispheres.

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Calculus: Single and Multivariable

John Wiley & Sons, 2012

This Sixth Edition of Calculus continues the effort to promote courses in which understanding and computation reinforce each other. Calculus: Single and Multivariable 6th Edition reflects the many voices of users at research universities, four-year colleges, community colleges, and secondary schools. This new edition has been streamlined to...

Complete General Science for IAS: Includes physics, chemistry and biology by sifox publication.

Independent Publishers Group, 2017

Science is valued mostly for its practical advantages though it is also valued of gratifying disinterested curiosity and as an object of great aesthetic charm. It is quite obvious that the bulk of mankind, value science, chiefly for the practical advantages it brings with it. PART – I PHYSICS Sl. No. TOPICS PAGE No. 1. Wave Theory...

Choosing and Using a New CAT: Getting the Most from Your Schmidt Cassegrain or Any Catadioptric Telescope

Springer, 2008

Since you’re reading this, I’m guessing you have made an exciting decision: You want a telescope. Specifically, you want a telescope for looking at the sky, a telescope that will open the depths of space to your gaze and allow you to visit the Moon, the planets, and all the strange and distant wonders of our magnificent universe. And...

Stability and Chaos in Celestial Mechanics (Springer Praxis Books / Astronomy and Planetary Sciences)

Springer, 2009

Alessandra Celletti’s proposed book presents classical celestial mechanics and its interplay with dynamical systems in a way that would be suitable for advance level undergraduate students as well as postgraduate students and researchers. First she uses paradigmatic models, such as the logistic map or the standard map, to introduce the...

Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing "Hoax"

John Wiley & Sons, 2002

Advance praise for Philip Plaits Bad Astronomy

"Bad Astronomy is just plain good! Philip Plait clears up every misconception on astronomy and space you never knew you suffered from." —Stephen Maran, Author of Astronomy for Dummies and editor of The Astronomy and Astrophysics Encyclopedia

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New Theories of Everything

Oxford University Press, 2007

"A fascinating journey."--Kirkus Reviews
"He acknowledges the limitations of seeking a formula to describe the emotional aspects of experience and the necessity of incorporating these variables into the long-sought-after theory of everything."--Science News
"Recommended for general readers; lower-division...

Pattern Recognition: An Algorithmic Approach (Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science)

Springer, 2012

Our main aim in writing this book is to make the concepts of pattern recognition clear to undergraduate and postgraduate students of the subject. We will not deal with pre-processing of data. Rather, assuming that patterns are represented using some appropriate pre-processing techniques in the form of vectors of numbers, we will...

21st Century Astronomy (Full Fourth Edition)

W W Norton, 2013

Teaches students to think like scientists.

Authors Laura Kay and Stacy Palen have developed pedagogy that helps students understand the process of science, and how physical principles are used to discover the origins of the universe. The authors emphasize how we know what we know in the figures, text, and...

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