Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1708
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Unweaving the Rainbow
Author: Richard Dawkins
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0547347359
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
From the New York Times–bestselling author of Science in the Soul. “If any recent writing about science is poetic, it is this” (The Wall Street Journal). Did Sir Isaac Newton “unweave the rainbow” by reducing it to its prismatic colors, as John Keats contended? Did he, in other words, diminish beauty? Far from it, says acclaimed scientist Richard Dawkins; Newton’s unweaving is the key too much of modern astronomy and to the breathtaking poetry of modern cosmology. Mysteries don’t lose their poetry because they are solved: the solution often is more beautiful than the puzzle, uncovering deeper mysteries. With the wit, insight, and spellbinding prose that have made him a bestselling author, Dawkins takes up the most important and compelling topics in modern science, from astronomy and genetics to language and virtual reality, combining them in a landmark statement of the human appetite for wonder. This is the book Dawkins was meant to write: A brilliant assessment of what science is (and isn’t), a tribute to science not because it is useful but because it is uplifting. “A love letter to science, an attempt to counter the perception that science is cold and devoid of aesthetic sensibility . . . Rich with metaphor, passionate arguments, wry humor, colorful examples, and unexpected connections, Dawkins’ prose can be mesmerizing.” —San Francisco Chronicle “Brilliance and wit.” —The New Yorker
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0547347359
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
From the New York Times–bestselling author of Science in the Soul. “If any recent writing about science is poetic, it is this” (The Wall Street Journal). Did Sir Isaac Newton “unweave the rainbow” by reducing it to its prismatic colors, as John Keats contended? Did he, in other words, diminish beauty? Far from it, says acclaimed scientist Richard Dawkins; Newton’s unweaving is the key too much of modern astronomy and to the breathtaking poetry of modern cosmology. Mysteries don’t lose their poetry because they are solved: the solution often is more beautiful than the puzzle, uncovering deeper mysteries. With the wit, insight, and spellbinding prose that have made him a bestselling author, Dawkins takes up the most important and compelling topics in modern science, from astronomy and genetics to language and virtual reality, combining them in a landmark statement of the human appetite for wonder. This is the book Dawkins was meant to write: A brilliant assessment of what science is (and isn’t), a tribute to science not because it is useful but because it is uplifting. “A love letter to science, an attempt to counter the perception that science is cold and devoid of aesthetic sensibility . . . Rich with metaphor, passionate arguments, wry humor, colorful examples, and unexpected connections, Dawkins’ prose can be mesmerizing.” —San Francisco Chronicle “Brilliance and wit.” —The New Yorker
Clouded Rainbow
Author: Jonathan Sturak
Publisher: Pendan Publishing
ISBN: 0982589409
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
A man searches for his wife in the city after a car accident separates them.
Publisher: Pendan Publishing
ISBN: 0982589409
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
A man searches for his wife in the city after a car accident separates them.
Rainbows End
Author: Vernor Vinge
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 1429991895
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Four time Hugo Award winner Vernor Vinge has taken readers to the depths of space and into the far future in his bestselling novels A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky. Now, he has written a science-fiction thriller set in a place and time as exciting and strange as any far-future world: San Diego, California, 2025. Robert Gu is a recovering Alzheimer's patient. The world that he remembers was much as we know it today. Now, as he regains his faculties through a cure developed during the years of his near-fatal decline, he discovers that the world has changed and so has his place in it. He was a world-renowned poet. Now he is seventy-five years old, though by a medical miracle he looks much younger, and he's starting over, for the first time unsure of his poetic gifts. Living with his son's family, he has no choice but to learn how to cope with a new information age in which the virtual and the real are a seamless continuum, layers of reality built on digital views seen by a single person or millions, depending on your choice. But the consensus reality of the digital world is available only if, like his thirteen-year-old granddaughter Miri, you know how to wear your wireless access—through nodes designed into smart clothes—and to see the digital context—through smart contact lenses. With knowledge comes risk. When Robert begins to re-train at Fairmont High, learning with other older people what is second nature to Miri and other teens at school, he unwittingly becomes part of a wide-ranging conspiracy to use technology as a tool for world domination. In a world where every computer chip has Homeland Security built-in, this conspiracy is something that baffles even the most sophisticated security analysts, including Robert's son and daughter-in law, two top people in the U.S. military. And even Miri, in her attempts to protect her grandfather, may be entangled in the plot. As Robert becomes more deeply involved in conspiracy, he is shocked to learn of a radical change planned for the UCSD Geisel Library; all the books there, and worldwide, would cease to physically exist. He and his fellow re-trainees feel compelled to join protests against the change. With forces around the world converging on San Diego, both the conspiracy and the protest climax in a spectacular moment as unique and satisfying as it is unexpected. This is science fiction at its very best, by a master storyteller at his peak. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 1429991895
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Four time Hugo Award winner Vernor Vinge has taken readers to the depths of space and into the far future in his bestselling novels A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky. Now, he has written a science-fiction thriller set in a place and time as exciting and strange as any far-future world: San Diego, California, 2025. Robert Gu is a recovering Alzheimer's patient. The world that he remembers was much as we know it today. Now, as he regains his faculties through a cure developed during the years of his near-fatal decline, he discovers that the world has changed and so has his place in it. He was a world-renowned poet. Now he is seventy-five years old, though by a medical miracle he looks much younger, and he's starting over, for the first time unsure of his poetic gifts. Living with his son's family, he has no choice but to learn how to cope with a new information age in which the virtual and the real are a seamless continuum, layers of reality built on digital views seen by a single person or millions, depending on your choice. But the consensus reality of the digital world is available only if, like his thirteen-year-old granddaughter Miri, you know how to wear your wireless access—through nodes designed into smart clothes—and to see the digital context—through smart contact lenses. With knowledge comes risk. When Robert begins to re-train at Fairmont High, learning with other older people what is second nature to Miri and other teens at school, he unwittingly becomes part of a wide-ranging conspiracy to use technology as a tool for world domination. In a world where every computer chip has Homeland Security built-in, this conspiracy is something that baffles even the most sophisticated security analysts, including Robert's son and daughter-in law, two top people in the U.S. military. And even Miri, in her attempts to protect her grandfather, may be entangled in the plot. As Robert becomes more deeply involved in conspiracy, he is shocked to learn of a radical change planned for the UCSD Geisel Library; all the books there, and worldwide, would cease to physically exist. He and his fellow re-trainees feel compelled to join protests against the change. With forces around the world converging on San Diego, both the conspiracy and the protest climax in a spectacular moment as unique and satisfying as it is unexpected. This is science fiction at its very best, by a master storyteller at his peak. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1708
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1708
Book Description
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Author: Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1534
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1534
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A-E
Author: Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1548
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1548
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
Author: Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Publisher:
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Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1688
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Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1688
Book Description
Recent Advancements in Graph Theory
Author: N. P. Shrimali
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1000210189
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
Graph Theory is a branch of discrete mathematics. It has many applications to many different areas of Science and Engineering. This book provides the most up-to-date research findings and applications in Graph Theory. This book focuses on the latest research in Graph Theory. It provides recent findings that are occurring in the field, offers insights on an international and transnational levels, identifies the gaps in the results, and includes forthcoming international studies and research, along with its applications in Networking, Computer Science, Chemistry, and Biological Sciences, etc. The book is written with researchers and post graduate students in mind.
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1000210189
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
Graph Theory is a branch of discrete mathematics. It has many applications to many different areas of Science and Engineering. This book provides the most up-to-date research findings and applications in Graph Theory. This book focuses on the latest research in Graph Theory. It provides recent findings that are occurring in the field, offers insights on an international and transnational levels, identifies the gaps in the results, and includes forthcoming international studies and research, along with its applications in Networking, Computer Science, Chemistry, and Biological Sciences, etc. The book is written with researchers and post graduate students in mind.
Computing and Combinatorics
Author: Joachim Gudmundsson
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3642322417
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 617
Book Description
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th Annual International Conference on Computing and Combinatorics, held in Sydney, Australia, in August 2012. The 50 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 121 submissions. Topics covered are algorithms and data structures; algorithmic game theory and online algorithms; automata, languages, logic, and computability; combinatorics related to algorithms and complexity; complexity theory; computational learning theory and knowledge discovery; cryptography, reliability and security, and database theory; computational biology and bioinformatics; computational algebra, geometry, and number theory; graph drawing and information visualization; graph theory, communication networks, and optimization.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3642322417
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 617
Book Description
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th Annual International Conference on Computing and Combinatorics, held in Sydney, Australia, in August 2012. The 50 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 121 submissions. Topics covered are algorithms and data structures; algorithmic game theory and online algorithms; automata, languages, logic, and computability; combinatorics related to algorithms and complexity; complexity theory; computational learning theory and knowledge discovery; cryptography, reliability and security, and database theory; computational biology and bioinformatics; computational algebra, geometry, and number theory; graph drawing and information visualization; graph theory, communication networks, and optimization.
Mathematical and Computational Intelligence to Socio-scientific Analytics and Applications
Author: Pankaj Srivastava
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811951810
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
This book presents a collection of selected papers presented at the 22nd FAI International Conference on Mathematical, Computational Intelligence and Engineering Approaches to Healthcare, Business and Tourism Analytics (FAI-ICMCIE 2020), held at American College, Madurai, India, from 20–22 December 2020. This book discusses advanced mathematical concepts and computational intelligence approaches for: medical diagnostic approach in cardiac diseases, nano topology in medical diseases, stability of indicators in assessing business development, AI-guided paradigmatic competence in science and spirituality integration, neural network-TOPSIS analytics in hotel service quality, itinerary planning destination ranking tourism analytics, molecular modeling and docking simulation for unraveling medicinal properties, value-oriented approach on commercial banks security, Brownian motion in shares of the bank, internet of things linking to social media and e-commerce, and more, which are discussed by using fuzzy analytics, nano-topology, statistical, TOPSIS and neural network tools.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811951810
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
This book presents a collection of selected papers presented at the 22nd FAI International Conference on Mathematical, Computational Intelligence and Engineering Approaches to Healthcare, Business and Tourism Analytics (FAI-ICMCIE 2020), held at American College, Madurai, India, from 20–22 December 2020. This book discusses advanced mathematical concepts and computational intelligence approaches for: medical diagnostic approach in cardiac diseases, nano topology in medical diseases, stability of indicators in assessing business development, AI-guided paradigmatic competence in science and spirituality integration, neural network-TOPSIS analytics in hotel service quality, itinerary planning destination ranking tourism analytics, molecular modeling and docking simulation for unraveling medicinal properties, value-oriented approach on commercial banks security, Brownian motion in shares of the bank, internet of things linking to social media and e-commerce, and more, which are discussed by using fuzzy analytics, nano-topology, statistical, TOPSIS and neural network tools.