Author: Lawrence W. JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
The History, Highlights, and outcome of the Michigan-Wisconsin Echo Lake Cosmic Ray Program, 1965-1972: an Informal Review
Author: Lawrence W. JonesInnovation was Not Enough
Author: Lawrence William JonesPublisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9812832831
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
MURA was responsible for a number of important contributions to the science of particle accelerators, including the invention of fixed field alternating gradient accelerators (FFAG). This title presents a history of the Midwestern Universities Research Association (MURA) during its lifetime from the early 1950s to the late 1960s.
The Interactions of Charged Cosmic Ray Hadrons of Energy Greater Than 70 GeV in a Carbon Target
Author: Richard Jeffrey WilkesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Archaeology, Anthropology, and Interstellar Communication
Author: National Aeronautics AdministrationPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781501081729
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Addressing a field that has been dominated by astronomers, physicists, engineers, and computer scientists, the contributors to this collection raise questions that may have been overlooked by physical scientists about the ease of establishing meaningful communication with an extraterrestrial intelligence. These scholars are grappling with some of the enormous challenges that will face humanity if an information-rich signal emanating from another world is detected. By drawing on issues at the core of contemporary archaeology and anthropology, we can be much better prepared for contact with an extraterrestrial civilization, should that day ever come.
Taming Liquid Hydrogen
Author: Virginia Parker DawsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Centaur rocket
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Innovation with Purpose
Author: Lockheed MartinPublisher:
ISBN: 9781882771394
Category : Aerospace industries
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Critical issues in the history of spaceflight
Author: Steven J. DickPublisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160877537
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Complexity
Author: M. Mitchell WaldropPublisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 150405914X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
“If you liked Chaos, you’ll love Complexity. Waldrop creates the most exciting intellectual adventure story of the year” (The Washington Post). In a rarified world of scientific research, a revolution has been brewing. Its activists are not anarchists, but rather Nobel Laureates in physics and economics and pony-tailed graduates, mathematicians, and computer scientists from all over the world. They have formed an iconoclastic think-tank and their radical idea is to create a new science: complexity. They want to know how a primordial soup of simple molecules managed to turn itself into the first living cell—and what the origin of life some four billion years ago can tell us about the process of technological innovation today. This book is their story—the story of how they have tried to forge what they like to call the science of the twenty-first century. “Lucidly shows physicists, biologists, computer scientists and economists swapping metaphors and reveling in the sense that epochal discoveries are just around the corner . . . [Waldrop] has a special talent for relaying the exhilaration of moments of intellectual insight.” —The New York Times Book Review “Where I enjoyed the book was when it dove into the actual question of complexity, talking about complex systems in economics, biology, genetics, computer modeling, and so on. Snippets of rare beauty here and there almost took your breath away.” —Medium “[Waldrop] provides a good grounding of what may indeed be the first flowering of a new science.” —Publishers Weekly
The Company of Strangers
Author: Paul SeabrightPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691118215
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
This is a wonderful book, very well written and accessible to a wide audience.
Anthropologies of Revolution
Author: Igor CherstichPublisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520343794
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. What can anthropological thinking contribute to the study of revolutions? The first book-length attempt to develop an anthropological approach to revolutions, Anthropologies of Revolution proposes that revolutions should be seen as concerted attempts to radically reconstitute the worlds people inhabit. Viewing revolutions as all-embracing, world-creating projects, the authors ask readers to move beyond the idea of revolutions as acts of violent political rupture, and instead view them as processes of societal transformation that penetrate deeply into the fabric of people’s lives, unfolding and refolding the coordinates of human existence.