Learn IT - Books tags scientist

The Book of JavaScript, 2nd Edition: A Practical Guide to Interactive Web Pages

No Starch Press, 2006

The Book of JavaScript teaches readers how to add interactivity, animation, and other tricks to their web sites with JavaScript. Rather than provide a series of cut-and-paste scripts, thau! takes the reader through a series of real world JavaScript code with an emphasis on understanding. Each chapter focuses on a few important JavaScript...

Materials and Innovative Product Development: Using Common Sense

Butterworth-Heinemann, 2009

Harness the power of materials R&D within the design cycle and realize the massive economic benefits of new materials and innovation with traditional materials.

Innovation in product design starts with materials. Developing successful commercial products demands a sound understanding of the materials that go into those...

Pythagoras' Revenge: A Mathematical Mystery

Princeton Press, 2009

The celebrated mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras left no writings. But what if he had and the manuscript was never found? Where would it be located? And what information would it reveal? These questions are the inspiration for the mathematical mystery novel Pythagoras' Revenge. Suspenseful and instructive, Pythagoras'...

Einstein 1905: The Standard of Greatness

Harvard University Press, 2006

This book celebrates Albert Einstein’s 1905. In six months Einstein wrote five papers that deeply influenced the course of twentieth-century science. These papers from the hand of a thenunknown physicist make 1905 one of the most memorable years in the history of science and, without doubt, make the six months from March 17 to September 27...

The World Is Open: How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing Education

Jossey-Bass, 2009

Whether you are a scientist on a ship in Antarctic waters or a young girl in a Philippine village, you can learn whenever and whatever you want from whomever you are interested in learning it from.

As technologies have become more available, even in the most remote reaches of the world, and as more people contribute a wealth of online...

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...

Software & Systems Requirements Engineering: In Practice

McGraw-Hill, 2009

Proven Software & Systems Requirements Engineering Techniques

"Requirements engineering is a discipline used primarily for large and complex applications. It is more formal than normal methods of gathering requirements, and this formality is needed for many large applications. The authors are experienced...

Information Retrieval - SciFinder

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

SciFinder^® is rapidly becoming a preferred means to access scientific information in industry and universities worldwide. It accesses databases which span the chemical, engineering, life, medical, and physical sciences, including five Chemical Abstract Service databases and the National Library of Medicine bibliographic database...

Handbook of Optics, Third Edition Volume II: Design, Fabrication and Testing, Sources and Detectors, Radiometry and Photometry

McGraw-Hill, 2009

The most comprehensive and up-to-date optics resource available

Prepared under the auspices of the Optical Society of America, the five carefully architected and cross-referenced volumes of the Handbook of Optics, Third Edition, contain everything a student, scientist, or engineer requires to actively work in...

Handbook of Optics, Third Edition Volume I: Geometrical and Physical Optics, Polarized Light, Components and Instruments(set)

McGraw-Hill, 2009

The most comprehensive and up-to-date optics resource available

iPhone SDK 3 Programming: Advanced Mobile Development for Apple iPhone and iPod touch

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

Get the expert guidance you need to begin building native applications for Apple's new iPhone 3G as well as the iPod Touch

Apple's iPhone is the hottest mobile device on the planet. More than one million iPhone 3G phones were sold in the first three days of release and millions more are sure to be in the hands of iPhone fans each year....

The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery (Volume 1)

Microsoft Press, 2009

This book presents the first broad look at the rapidly emerging field of data-intensive science, with the goal of influencing the worldwide scientific and computing research communities and inspiring the next generation of scientists. Increasingly, scientific breakthroughs will be powered by advanced computing capabilities that help researchers...

Result Page: 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6