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The Music of the Big Bang: The Cosmic Microwave Background and the New Cosmology (Astronomers' Universe)
The Music of the Big Bang: The Cosmic Microwave Background and the New Cosmology (Astronomers' Universe)
The cosmic microwave background radiation is the afterglow of the big bang: a tenuous signal, more than 13 billion years old, which carries the answers to many of the questions about the nature of our Universe. It was serendipitously discovered in 1964, and thoroughly investigated in the last four decades by a large number of experiments. Two...
Howzzat?
Howzzat?
Sherlock Holmes with his fancy hat, magnifying glass and pipe always fascinated me. I was glued to every clue Perry Mason worked on. I would read with anticipation as Ganesh (Vasanth) reconstructed a crime with a seemingly simple object. The way these celebrated detectives worked was really captivating— piecing clues...
Gamma: Exploring Euler's Constant
Gamma: Exploring Euler's Constant
Among the myriad of constants that appear in mathematics, p, e, and i are the most familiar. Following closely behind is g, or gamma, a constant that arises in many mathematical areas yet maintains a profound sense of mystery.

In a tantalizing blend of history and mathematics, Julian Havil takes the reader on a journey through...

HTML5 and JavaScript Web Apps
HTML5 and JavaScript Web Apps
HTML5 and JavaScript Web Apps is about building web applications with HTML5 and W3C specifications that are widely supported across all devices and browsers. It is intended for programmers who are facing the challenges of moving more code to the frontend with JavaScript, CSS, and HTML, while at the same time...
Developing Games on the Raspberry Pi: App Programming with Lua and LÖVE
Developing Games on the Raspberry Pi: App Programming with Lua and LÖVE

Learn to set up a Pi-based game development environment, and then develop a game with Lua, a popular scripting language used in major game frameworks like Unreal Engine (BioShock Infinite), CryEngine (Far Cry series), Diesel (Payday: The Heist), Silent Storm Engine (Heroes of Might and Magic V) and many others. More importantly,...

The Great Design: Particles, Fields, and Creation
The Great Design: Particles, Fields, and Creation
Although modern physics surrounds us and its concepts are constantly referred to in every newspaper, even educated nonscientists find the subject intimidating in the extreme. Most attempts to explain physics to general readers are either obscured by masses of mathematics or gross oversimplifications written by laymen. Here at last is a...
PCs All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies
PCs All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies
What’s the definition of a reference book? Well, I like to think of this book as a snapshot. Sure, it’s a very heavy photograph, weighing in at over 700 pages — but nevertheless, it captures the current state of today’s PCs, including hardware, the most popular applications, and of course, the latest and...
New Theories of Everything
New Theories of Everything
"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
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21st Century Astronomy (Full Fourth Edition)
21st Century Astronomy (Full Fourth Edition)

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...

Ultimate Explanations of the Universe
Ultimate Explanations of the Universe

We humans are collectively driven by a powerful - yet not fully explained - instinct to understand. We would like to see everything established, proven, laid bare. The more important an issue, the more we desire to see it clarified, stripped of all secrets, all shades of gray. What could be more important than to understand the Universe and...

The Making of History's Greatest Star Map (Astronomers' Universe)
The Making of History's Greatest Star Map (Astronomers' Universe)

From prehistoric times, mankind has looked up at the night sky, and puzzled at the changing positions of the stars. How far away they are is a question that has confounded scientists for centuries. Over the last few hundred years, many scientific careers – and considerable resources – have been devoted to measuring their positions...

Pro .NET 4 Parallel Programming in C# (Expert's Voice in .NET)
Pro .NET 4 Parallel Programming in C# (Expert's Voice in .NET)

Parallel programming has been revolutionised in .NET 4 providing, for the first time, a standardised and simplified method for creating robust, scalable and reliable multi-threaded applications. The Parallel Programming features of .NET 4 allow the programmer to create applications that harness the power of multi-core and multi-processor...

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