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The Harvest of a Century: Discoveries in Modern Physics in 100 Episodes

Oxford University Press, 2009

Physics was the leading science of the twentieth century and the book retraces important discoveries, made between 1895 and 2001, in 100 self-contained Episodes. Each is a short story of the scientists involved, their time and their work. Together, they formed a mosaic of modern physics: formulating relativity and quantum mechanics, finding the...

Restlet in Action: Developing RESTful web APIs in Java

Manning Publications, 2012

When I had a chance to use the Mosaic web browser way back in 1994, I fell in love with the web at first sight and became interested in HTML and the way the W3C was driving the growth of the web along with the IETF. A year later, I discovered Java by reading Sun’s white paper and was convinced that it would...

97 Things Every Programmer Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts

O'Reilly, 2010

Programmers have a lot on their minds . Programming languages, programming techniques, development environments, coding style, tools, development process, deadlines, meetings, software architecture, design patterns, team dynamics, code, requirements, bugs, code quality. And more. A lot. There is an art, craft, and science to programming that...

Astronomy with a Home Computer (The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series)

Springer, 2010

Here is a one-volume guide to just about everything computer-related for amateur astronomers!

Today’s amateur astronomy is inextricably linked to personal computers. Computer-controlled "go-to" telescopes are inexpensive. CCD and webcam imaging make intensive use of the technology for capturing and processing...

Essentials of Programming Languages, 3rd Edition

MIT Press, 2008

This book brings you face-to-face with the most fundamental idea in computer programming:

The interpreter for a computer language is just another program. It sounds obvious, doesn’t it? But the implications are profound. If you are a computational theorist, the interpreter idea recalls Gödel’s discovery of...

Biophysics DeMYSTiFied

McGraw-Hill, 2010

Learn BIOPHYSICS without expending a lot of ENERGY!

Interested in unraveling the physics of living things? Here's your starting point. Biophysics Demystified is the fast and easy way to understand this fascinating topic.

Written in a step-by-step format, this practical guide begins with an introduction to...

Handbook of Data Visualization (Springer Handbooks of Computational Statistics)

Springer, 2008

Visualizing the data is an essential part of any data analysis. Modern computing developments have led to big improvements in graphic capabilities and there are many new possibilities for data displays. This new volume in the series Springer Handbooks of Computational Statistics gives an overview of modern data visualization methods, both in theory...

Nickel and the Skin: Absorption, Immunology, Epidemiology, and Metallurgy (Dermatology: Clinical & Basic Science)

Informa Healthcare, 2002

From the viewpoint of immunotoxicology, hazards associated with nickel primarily derive from its type-IV immunogenic properties, as it consistently ranks as the premier anthropogenic allergen among the general population in industrialized countries. Thus, immunology of nickel represents the major part of reviews addressing...

Inside Cyber Warfare: Mapping the Cyber Underworld

O'Reilly, 2009

During his campaign for reelection in 1996, the Internet-savvy President Bill Clinton used the slogan “Building a Bridge to the 21st Century.” It turns out that the bridge is operated and maintained in cyber form, and that malevolent actors can practice their black arts to disrupt or destroy the bridge, its cyber traffic, and all...

Historic Floors: Their History and Conservation (Butterworth - Heinemann Series in Conservation and Museology)

Butterworth-Heinemann, 1998

Leading authorities, archaeologists, architects and archivists consider the latest methods of recording and repairing cathedral floors, including those of cathedrals, country houses, the monumental tiled pavements of the Palace of Westminster and other public buildings. Management policies to protect outstanding floors in over-visited sites are...

E-Habits: What You Must Do to Optimize Your Professional Digital Presence

McGraw-Hill, 2010

What Does the Digital You Look Like?

What you read • Where you shop • How you communicate with coworkers, friends, and strangers • Whom you interact with on social networking sites . . . these are just a few of the things that make up the Digital You.

"The Digital You is a complex mosaic of...

Ludic Proof: Greek Mathematics and the Alexandrian Aesthetic

Cambridge University Press, 2009

This book represents a new departure in science studies: an analysis of a scientific style of writing, situating it within the context of the contemporary style of literature. Its philosophical significance is that it provides a novel way of making sense of the notion of a scientific style. For the first time, the Hellenistic mathematical corpus -...

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