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Mr g

Author : Alan Lightman
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030774485X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Mr g written by Alan Lightman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan Lightman, the internationally bestselling author of Einstein's Dreams, presents Mr g, a celebration of the highs and lows of existence, on the grandest possible scale: the story of Creation, as told by God. Once before time existed, Mr g woke up from a nap and decided to create the universe. In the shimmering Void, where he lives with his Aunt Penelope and Uncle Deva, he creates time, space, and matter. Soon follow stars, planets, animate matter, consciousness,and intelligent beings with moral dilemmas. But the creation of space and time has unintended consequences, including the arrival of Belhor, a clever and devious rival. Belhor delights in needling Mr g, demanding explanations for the inexplicable, offering his own opinions on the fledgling universes, and maintaining the necessity of evil. As Mr g’s favorite universe grows, he discovers how an act of creation can change everything in the world—including the creator himself.

Atom

Author : Lawrence M. Krauss
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
ISBN 13 : 0759523215
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (595 download)

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Download or read book Atom written by Lawrence M. Krauss and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2001-04-11 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of matter and the history of the cosmos from the perspective of a single oxygen atom, told with the insight and wit of one of the most dynamic physicists and writers working today. Through this astonishing work, he manages to stoke wonder at the powers and unlikely events that conspired to create our solar system, our ecosystem, and us.

Atoms and Eden

Author : Steve Paulson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199781508
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Atoms and Eden written by Steve Paulson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is an unprecedented collection of twenty freewheeling and revealing interviews with major players in the ongoing--and increasingly heated--debate about the relationship between religion and science. These lively conversations cover the most important and interesting topics imaginable: the Big Bang, the origins of life, the nature of consciousness, the foundations of religion, the meaning of God, and much more. In Atoms and Eden, Peabody Award-winning journalist Steve Paulson explores these topics with some of the most prominent public intellectuals of our time, including Richard Dawkins, Karen Armstrong, E. O. Wilson, Sam Harris, Elaine Pagels, Francis Collins, Daniel Dennett, Jane Goodall, Paul Davies, and Steven Weinberg. The interviewees include Christians, Buddhists, Jews, and Muslims, as well as agnostics, atheists, and other scholars who hold perspectives that are hard to categorize. Paulson's interviews sweep across a broad range of scientific disciplines--evolutionary biology, quantum physics, cosmology, and neuroscience--and also explore key issues in theology, religious history, and what William James called ''the varieties of religious experience.'' Collectively, these engaging dialogues cover the major issues that have often pitted science against religion--from the origins of the universe to debates about God, Darwin, the nature of reality, and the limits of human reason. These are complex, intellectually rich discussions, presented in an accessible and engaging manner. Most of these interviews were originally published as individual cover stories for Salon.com, where they generated a huge reader response. Public Radio's "To the Best of Our Knowledge" will present a major companion series on related topics this fall. A feast of ideas and competing perspectives, this volume will appeal to scientists, spiritual seekers, and the intellectually curious.

Boltzmanns Atom

Author : David Lindley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501142674
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Boltzmanns Atom written by David Lindley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-12-19 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1900 many eminent scientists did not believe atoms existed, yet within just a few years the atomic century launched into history with an astonishing string of breakthroughs in physics that began with Albert Einstein and continues to this day. Before this explosive growth into the modern age took place, an all-but-forgotten genius strove for forty years to win acceptance for the atomic theory of matter and an altogether new way of doing physics. Ludwig Boltz-mann battled with philosophers, the scientific establishment, and his own potent demons. His victory led the way to the greatest scientific achievements of the twentieth century. Now acclaimed science writer David Lindley portrays the dramatic story of Boltzmann and his embrace of the atom, while providing a window on the civilized world that gave birth to our scientific era. Boltzmann emerges as an endearingly quixotic character, passionately inspired by Beethoven, who muddled through the practical matters of life in a European gilded age. Boltzmann's story reaches from fin de siècle Vienna, across Germany and Britain, to America. As the Habsburg Empire was crumbling, Germany's intellectual might was growing; Edinburgh in Scotland was one of the most intellectually fertile places on earth; and, in America, brilliant independent minds were beginning to draw on the best ideas of the bureaucratized old world. Boltzmann's nemesis in the field of theoretical physics at home in Austria was Ernst Mach, noted today in the term Mach I, the speed of sound. Mach believed physics should address only that which could be directly observed. How could we know that frisky atoms jiggling about corresponded to heat if we couldn't see them? Why should we bother with theories that only told us what would probably happen, rather than making an absolute prediction? Mach and Boltzmann both believed in the power of science, but their approaches to physics could not have been more opposed. Boltzmann sought to explain the real world, and cast aside any philosophical criteria. Mach, along with many nineteenth-century scientists, wanted to construct an empirical edifice of absolute truths that obeyed strict philosophical rules. Boltzmann did not get on well with authority in any form, and he did his best work at arm's length from it. When at the end of his career he engaged with the philosophical authorities in the Viennese academy, the results were personally disastrous and tragic. Yet Boltzmann's enduring legacy lives on in the new physics and technology of our wired world. Lindley's elegant telling of this tale combines the detailed breadth of the best history, the beauty of theoretical physics, and the psychological insight belonging to the finest of novels.

The SHADOW Volume 44

Author : Maxwell Grant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781608770403
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The SHADOW Volume 44 written by Maxwell Grant and published by . This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shadow's alter egos of Lamont Cranston and Henry Arnaud take center stage in two thrillers from the Golden Age of Pulp Fiction. First, The Shadow is captured by the inventor of a deadly atomic disintegrator ray, in a novel that reintroduces the real Lamont Cranston. Then, the truth behind a fatal automobile accident is concealed by Buried Evidence. Can The Shadow unearth the million-dollar secret and prevent more murder? This instant collector's item showcases both color pulp covers by George Rozen, the classic interior illustrations by Tom Lovell and Edd Cartier and commentary by popular-culture historian Will Murray. (Sanctum Books) Softcover, 7x10. 128 pages, B&W, $14.95

Death & Sex

Author : Tyler Volk
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603582460
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Death & Sex written by Tyler Volk and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On DEATH . . . What is shared by spawning Pacific salmon, towering trees, and suicidal bacteria? In his lucid and concise exploration of how and why things die, Tyler Volk explains the intriguing ways creatures-including ourselves-use death to actually enhance life. Death is not simply the end of the living, though even in that aspect the Grim Reaper has long been essential to natural selection. Indeed, the exquisite schemes and styles of death that have emerged from evolution have been essential to the great story from life's beginnings in tiny bacteria nearly four thousand million years ago to ancient human rituals surrounding death and continuing to the existential concerns of human culture and consciousness today. Volk weaves together autobiography, biology, Earth history, and results of fascinating studies that show how thoughts of our own mortality affect our everyday lives, to prove how an understanding of what some have called the ultimate taboo can enrich the celebration of life. . . . and SEX In Sex, Dorion Sagan takes a delightful, irreverent, and informative romp through the science, philosophy, and literature of humanity's most obsessive subject. Have you ever wondered what the anatomy and promiscuous behaviors of chimpanzees and the sexual bullying of gorillas tell us about ourselves? Why we lost our hair? What amoebas have to do with desire? Linking evolutionary biology to salacious readings of the lives and thoughts of such notables as the Marquis de Sade and Simone de Beauvoir, and discussing works as varied as The Story of O and Silence of the Lambs, Sex touches on a potpourri of interrelated topics ranging from animal genitalia to sperm competition, the difference between nakedness and nudity, jealousy's status as an aphrodisiac and the origins of language, Casanova and music, ovulation and clothes, mother-in-law jokes and alpha females, love and loneliness. A brief, wonderfully entertaining, highly literate foray into the origins and evolution of sex. Two books in one cover, Death & Sex unravel and answer some of life's most fundamental questions.

The Encyclopaedia of Death and Life in the Spirit-world

Author : John Reynolds Francis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopaedia of Death and Life in the Spirit-world written by John Reynolds Francis and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Modern Book of the Dead

Author : Ptolemy Tompkins
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451616538
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book The Modern Book of the Dead written by Ptolemy Tompkins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern, all-encompassing exploration of what happens after death combines spirituality with philosophy, history, and science, all of which guide readers toward the timeless truth that human consciousness lives on after death.

Harper's Monthly Magazine

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1254 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Harper's Monthly Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ernest Rutherford

Author : J. L. Heilbron
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195123786
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Ernest Rutherford written by J. L. Heilbron and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-12 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging biography that captures the excitement of the early days of nuclear physics, Ernest Rutherford tells the story of the down-to-earth New Zealander who became one of the foremost pioneers of subatomic physics. Rutherford's achievements were numerous and included:* Inventing a detector for electromagnetic waves* Discovering the existence of alpha and beta rays in uranium radiation* Creating (with Frederick Soddy) the "disintegration theory" of radioactivity, which regards radioactive phenomena as atomic -- not molecular -- processes* Demonstrating that the inner structures of elements correspond with a group of lines that characterize them, which could then be assigned an atomic number and, more important, the properties of each element could be defined by this number* And his greatest contribution of all - he discovered that the atom had a nucleus and that it contained the positively charged protonFrom his early days as a scholarship student to the end of his life as he continued to work in his lab, Ernest Rutherford reveals the life and times of one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century.

Harper's Magazine

Author : Henry Mills Alden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1084 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Harper's Magazine written by Henry Mills Alden and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Important American periodical dating back to 1850.

Death's End

Author : Cixin Liu
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0765377101
Total Pages : 605 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book Death's End written by Cixin Liu and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mutually assured destruction has led to decades of peace between humanity and the Trisolarans, but a new force is awakening and this delicate balance can no longer hold... Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, the uneasy balance of Dark Forest Deterrence keeps the Trisolaran invaders at bay. Earth enjoys unprecedented prosperity due to the infusion of Trisolaran knowledge. With human science advancing daily and the Trisolarans adopting Earth culture, it seems that the two civilizations will soon be able to co-exist peacefully as equals without the terrible threat of mutually assured annihilation. But the peace has also made humanity complacent. Cheng Xin, an aerospace engineer from the early twenty-first century, awakens from hibernation in this new age. She brings with her knowledge of a long-forgotten program dating from the beginning of the Trisolar Crisis, and her very presence may upset the delicate balance between two worlds. Will humanity reach for the stars or die in its cradle? Death's End is the New York Times bestselling conclusion to Cixin Liu's tour-de-force series that began with The Three-Body Problem. "The War of the Worlds for the twenty-first century . . . Packed with a sense of wonder." --The Wall Street Journal "A meditation on technology, progress, morality, extinction, and knowledge that doubles as a cosmos- in-the-balance thriller." --NPR The Remembrance of Earth's Past Trilogy The Three-Body Problem The Dark Forest Death's End Other Books Ball Lightning (forthcoming)

The Work of the Dead

Author : Thomas W. Laqueur
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691180938
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The Work of the Dead written by Thomas W. Laqueur and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The meaning of our concern for mortal remains—from antiquity through the twentieth century The Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beasts to scavenge. Why should he or anyone else care what became of his corpse? In The Work of the Dead, acclaimed cultural historian Thomas Laqueur examines why humanity has universally rejected Diogenes's argument. No culture has been indifferent to mortal remains. Even in our supposedly disenchanted scientific age, the dead body still matters—for individuals, communities, and nations. A remarkably ambitious history, The Work of the Dead offers a compelling and richly detailed account of how and why the living have cared for the dead, from antiquity to the twentieth century. The book draws on a vast range of sources—from mortuary archaeology, medical tracts, letters, songs, poems, and novels to painting and landscapes in order to recover the work that the dead do for the living: making human communities that connect the past and the future. Laqueur shows how the churchyard became the dominant resting place of the dead during the Middle Ages and why the cemetery largely supplanted it during the modern period. He traces how and why since the nineteenth century we have come to gather the names of the dead on great lists and memorials and why being buried without a name has become so disturbing. And finally, he tells how modern cremation, begun as a fantasy of stripping death of its history, ultimately failed—and how even the ashes of the victims of the Holocaust have been preserved in culture. A fascinating chronicle of how we shape the dead and are in turn shaped by them, this is a landmark work of cultural history.

At Home Among the Atoms

Author : John Tate
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book At Home Among the Atoms written by John Tate and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Atomic Accidents

Author : Jim Mahaffey
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480447749
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Atomic Accidents written by Jim Mahaffey and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “delightfully astute” and “entertaining” history of the mishaps and meltdowns that have marked the path of scientific progress (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Radiation: What could go wrong? In short, plenty. From Marie Curie carrying around a vial of radium salt because she liked the pretty blue glow to the large-scale disasters at Chernobyl and Fukushima, dating back to the late nineteenth century, nuclear science has had a rich history of innovative exploration and discovery, coupled with mistakes, accidents, and downright disasters. In this lively book, long-time advocate of continued nuclear research and nuclear energy James Mahaffey looks at each incident in turn and analyzes what happened and why, often discovering where scientists went wrong when analyzing past meltdowns. Every incident, while taking its toll, has led to new understanding of the mighty atom—and the fascinating frontier of science that still holds both incredible risk and great promise.

The Esoteric

Author : Hiram Erastus Butler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Esoteric written by Hiram Erastus Butler and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Atoms of Death

Author : Maxwell Grant
Publisher : Disruptive Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781596542624
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Atoms of Death written by Maxwell Grant and published by Disruptive Pub. This book was released on 2005-10-31 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: