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 The Battle for Barrels: Peak Oil Myths & World Oil Futures
The Battle for Barrels demonstrates that the doom and gloom of the peak oil theory is mistaken. Duncan Clarke rebuts the arguments of peak oil’s adherents and discusses the issues they ignore—rising prices, new or future technologies, potential improved exploration, access to restricted world oil zones, changes in... | | Air and Spaceborne Radar Systems (Radar, Sonar, Navigation and Avionics)
The history of airborne radar is almost as old as that of radar itself. The improvement in detection range provided by an airborne platform was realised early during the Second World War, and the development of the cavity magnetron at almost the same time allowed higher radar frequencies and, hence, directive antennas to be used. Nowadays,... | | Programming Scala (Animal Guide)Learn how to be more productive with Scala, a new multi-paradigm language for the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) that integrates features of both object-oriented and functional programming. With this book, you'll discover why Scala is ideal for highly scalable, component-based applications that support concurrency and distribution.
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Circumcision and Human Rights"There is hardly a reason to circumcise a little boy for medical reasons because those medical reasons don t exist," said Dr. Michael Wilks, Head of Ethics at the British Medical Association, who admitted that doctors have circumcised boys for "no good reason."
In the United States, parts of Africa, the Middle East,... | | Collider: The Search for the World's Smallest Particles"Paul Halpern is a gifted writer who brings science and scientists alive. This is a wonderful introduction to the world of high-energy physics, where gigantic machines and tiny particles meet."
”Kenneth Ford, retired director of the American Institute of Physics and author of The Quantum World: Quantum Physics for Everyone... | | How to Build a Digital Library, Second EditionHow to Build a Digital Library is the only book that offers all the knowledge and tools needed to construct and maintain a digital library, regardless of the size or purpose. It is the perfectly self-contained resource for individuals, agencies, and institutions wishing to put this powerful tool to work in their burgeoning information... |
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Designing InteractionsDigital technology has changed the way we interact with everything from the games we play to the tools we use at work. Designers of digital technology products no longer regard their job as designing a physical objectвДbeautiful or utilitarianвДbut as designing our interactions with it. In Designing Interactions,... | | Light and Dark: An exploration in science, nature, art and technologyEncourages us to take a more careful look at many familiar phenomena, such as the variations in the duration of twilight through the year and the ability of human vision to misinterpret patterns of lines under certain conditions. Aims to be entertaining, instructive, diverse and unusual. Softcover.
In December 2001 Martin Creed was... | | Knowledge, Possibility, and Consciousness (Jean Nicod Lectures)Physicalism is the idea that if everything that goes on in the universe is physical, our consciousness and feelings must also be physical. Ever since Descartes formulated the mind-body problem, a long line of philosophers has found the physicalist view to be preposterous. According to John Perry, the history of the mind-body problem is, in part,... |
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