Learn IT - Books tags universe

Art, Literature, and Passions of the Skies (Analecta Husserliana)

Springer, 2012

Flashes of lightning, resounding thunder, gloomy fog, brilliant sunshine…these are the life manifestations of the skies. The concrete visceral experiences that living under those skies stir within us are the ground for individual impulses, emotions, sentiments that in their interaction generate their own ever-changing...

Altered Universe, HD-1

Lulu.com, 2008

From the formations of civilizations, true leaders have had their own experiences that would guide them to a true knowledge of the way the universe work; this knowledge would help them through the darkest parts of their leaderships. This remains true for those that would change our future worlds. For most of humanities existence there have always...

Pirates of the Digital Millennium: How the Intellectual Property Wars Damage Our Personal Freedoms, Our Jobs, and the World Economy

Prentice Hall, 2004

Digital piracy. It's a global war -- and it's just begun. Pirates of the Digital Millennium chronicles that war. All of it: media conglomerates vs. teenagers, tech companies vs. content providers, artists battling artists, nations vs. nations, law enforcement vs. organized crime. John Gantz and Jack Rochester cover every side and all the...

Solving Fermi's Paradox (Cambridge Astrobiology)

Cambridge University Press, 2019

The search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (SETI) has for sixty years attempted to solve Fermi's paradox: if intelligent life is relatively common in the universe, where is everybody? Examining SETI through this lens, this volume summarises current thinking on the prevalence of intelligent life in the universe, and discusses sixty-six...

Audiovisual Archives: Digital Text and Discourse Analysis (ISTE)

John Wiley & Sons, 2012

Today, audiovisual archives and libraries have become very popular especially in the field of collecting, preserving and transmitting cultural heritage. However, the data in these archives or libraries - videos, images, soundtracks, etc. - constitute as such only potential cognitive resources for a given public (or “target...

DIY Instruments for Amateur Space: Inventing Utility for Your Spacecraft Once It Achieves Orbit

Maker Media, Inc, 2013

What can you measure and what are your limits when orbiting in space? Learn about what physical quantities you can measure and how to design and parameterize your sensor loadout. Learn to go beyond just flying a camera and optimize your mission goals. Explore what you can play with using your own personal satellite.

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The Fourth State of Matter

Taylor & Francis, 2001

A valuable book has become even better. It deserves a large market.
- Professor Falthammar

Many analogies to everyday life liven things up The book is strong on history, not only of plasma, but also of atomic physics and electromagnetism.
- E. Infeld, Journal of Plasma Physics

Plasma physics may hold the...

Cell Biology, Second Edition

Saunders, 2007

Biology is based on the fundamental laws of nature embodied in chemistry and physics, but the origin and evolution of life on earth were historical events. This makes biology more like astronomy than like chemistry and physics. Neither the organization of the universe nor life as we know it had to evolve as it did. Chance played a central...

Black Bodies and Quantum Cats: Tales of Pure Genius and Mad Science

Oneworld Publications, 2006

Physics has the reputation, not entirely undeserved, of being a difficult subject. Books about physics are often avoided, and that’s too bad, because the questions that engage physicists are of interest to anyone with curiosity about the universe we live in.

The story of physics, as played out in the lives of physicists, inventors,...

Road to Reality

Random House, 2004

The purpose of this book is to convey to the reader some feeling for what is surely one of the most important and exciting voyages of discovery that humanity has embarked upon. This is the search for the underlying principles that govern the behaviour of our universe. It is a voyage that has lasted for more than two-and-a-half millennia, so...

Apple Training Series: AppleScript 1-2-3

Peachpit Press, 2009

This book is based on years of hands-on classes and contains many of the scripts developed for those sessions.

But the task of documenting and teaching a technology such as AppleScript is daunting (especially while you’re employed at a busy company like Apple), and it could not have been accomplished without the...

Exoplanets: Finding, Exploring, and Understanding Alien Worlds (Astronomers' Universe)

Springer, 2011

Exoplanets: Finding, Exploring, and Understanding Alien Worlds probes the basis for possible answers to the fundamentals questions asked about these planets orbiting stars other than our Sun. This book examines what such planets might be like, where they are, and how we find them.

Until around ten years ago, the only planets...

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