The Universe And The Teacup

Author : K. C. Cole
Publisher : HMH
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-15
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780547546148

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The Universe and the Teacup by K. C. Cole Pdf

From the acclaimed Los Angeles Times science writer, a wise, witty, and elegant study of how math provides practical solutions to everyday problems. Are the secrets of the universe written in words—or is it all about the digits? K.C. Cole follows up her paean to the power of physics, Sympathetic Vibrations, with this engaging and accessible guide to the might and majesty of mathematics. The Universe and the Teacup uses relatable examples, humorous prose, and whimsical line drawings to demonstrate math’s ability to “translate the complexity of the world into manageable patterns.” Cole shows how mathematical concepts illuminate everything from human risk-taking behavior to astronomical investigation, game theory to logic problems—not to mention the very structure of the universe itself. Brimming with trivia stressing the importance of math throughout history, this is a book both math nerds and the “innumerate” everyday person can enjoy in equal measure. “Cole writes clearly, simply and vividly,” noted The New York Times. “She so obviously likes mathematics, the reader can't help liking it too.” Filled with “a thousand fascinating facts and shrewd observations (Martin Gardner, Los Angeles Times), this book demonstrates how the truth and beauty of everything, from relativity to rainbows, is all in the numbers.

Author : Helen Czerski
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780393248975

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Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life by Helen Czerski Pdf

“[Czerski’s] quest to enhance humanity’s everyday scientific literacy is timely and imperative.”—Science Storm in a Teacup is Helen Czerski’s lively, entertaining, and richly informed introduction to the world of physics. Czerski provides the tools to alter the way we see everything around us by linking ordinary objects and occurrences, like popcorn popping, coffee stains, and fridge magnets, to big ideas like climate change, the energy crisis, or innovative medical testing. She provides answers to vexing questions: How do ducks keep their feet warm when walking on ice? Why does it take so long for ketchup to come out of a bottle? Why does milk, when added to tea, look like billowing storm clouds? In an engaging voice at once warm and witty, Czerski shares her stunning breadth of knowledge to lift the veil of familiarity from the ordinary.

Author : Linda Seger, Th.D
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781456856816

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The Better Way To Win by Linda Seger, Th.D Pdf

The Better Way to Win is about the movement from linear, competitive thinking to a new way of thinking, which Seger calls “Web thinking” based on the dual images of the spider web and the World Wide Web. In this provocative book, Seger shows that Web thinking is not only more humane but also more effective and more likely to bring lasting success. “The metaphor that shapes our thinking is being transformed by the technologies we use, and by the growing power of women in the world. Linda Seger shows us how to build upon this fundamental shift to create more richly satisfying and connected lives.” --- Sally Helgesen, author of The Web of Inclusion “This book is a small gem! If this were required reading for managers and taught in MBA, the world would become a better place! Web Thinking is a key business philosophy and lifestyle paradigm for twenty-fi rst century information societies.” --- Hazel Henderson, author of Beyond Globalization

Author : John Merritt,Raena Merritt
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781506723976

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Tentacle Kitty: Tales Around the Teacup by John Merritt,Raena Merritt Pdf

The world according to Tentacle Kitty! Join "The Pink One" and friends as the whole tentacle kitty gang regales us with tales of action and adventure over tea! From hunting down cotton candy mice, to pirate hijinks, and mega convention run ins, this tome features stories for all readers, told only as a Tentacle Kitty can! From the creators of Tentacle Kitty John and Raena Merritt, joined by artist Jean-Claudio Vinci, this is Tentacle Kitty: Tales Around the Teacup! You will not want to miss this tentacled anthology!

Author : Rebecca Young
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780735227866

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Teacup by Rebecca Young Pdf

A stunning picture book that addresses life’s big journeys with hope, beauty, and reassurance School Library Journal [STARRED REVIEW!] “[A] moving, allegorical tale… inspiring reflection and empathy” Kirkus Reviews [STARRED REVIEW!] “A potent discussion starter… Enchanting, beautiful, and full of hope. “ Booklist [STARRED REVIEW!] “A lyrical tale of leaving home and finding a new one…Thought-provoking and arrestingly beautiful.” A boy must leave his home and find another. He brings with him a teacup full of earth from the place where he grew up, and sets off to sea. Some days, the journey is peaceful, and the skies are cloudless and bright. Some days, storms threaten to overturn his boat. And some days, the smallest amount of hope grows into something glorious. At last, the boy finds land, but it doesn't feel complete . . . until another traveler joins him, bearing the seed to build a new home. With lyrical text and gorgeous artwork, this poignant picture book is perfect for discussing all of life’s toughest challenges—a big move, a divorce, long-distance separation, or even the current refugee crisis—in a way that’s reassuring and inspiring for children and adults alike.

Author : Martin Gardner
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001-07-18
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781439864098

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A Gardner's Workout by Martin Gardner Pdf

For many decades, Martin Gardner, the Grand Master of mathematical puzzles, has provided the tools and projects to furnish our all-too-sluggish minds with an athletic workout. Gardner's problems foster an agility of the mind as they entertain. This volume presents a new collection of problems and puzzles not previously published in book form. Marti

Author : K. C. Cole
Publisher : HMH
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780544079557

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The Hole in the Universe by K. C. Cole Pdf

“A compelling, enjoyable, and widely accessible exploration of one of the most fundamental scientific issues of our age” (Brian Greene, author of The Elegant Universe). In The Hole in the Universe, an award-winning science writer “provides an illuminating slant on physics and mathematics by exploring the concept of nothing” (Scientific American). Welcome to the world of cutting-edge math, physics, and neuroscience, where the search for the ultimate vacuum, the point of nothingness, the ground zero of theory, has rendered the universe deep, rich, and juicy. Every time scientists and mathematicians think they have reached the ultimate void, something new appears: a black hole, an undulating string, an additional dimension of space or time, repulsive anti-gravity, universes that breed like bunnies. Cole’s exploration at the edge of everything is “as playfully entertaining as it is informative” (San Jose Mercury News). “A strong and sometimes mind-blowing introduction to the edges of modern physics.” —Salon.com “Comprising an expansive set of topics from the history of numbers to string theory, the big bang, even Zen, the book’s chapters are broken into bite-sized portions that allow the author to revel in the puns and awkwardness that comes with trying to describe a concept that no one has fully grasped. It is an amorphous, flowing, mind-bending discussion, written in rich, graceful prose. As clear and accessible as Hawking’s A Brief History of Time, this work deserves wide circulation, not just among science buffs.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “Here we have the definitive book about nothing, and who would think that nothing could be so interesting . . . not only accessible but compelling reading.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Author : Cat Rambo,Rachel Pollack,William Meikle,Charity Tahmaseb,Seth Chambers
Publisher : Fantasy Scroll Press LLC
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780991661930

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Fantasy Scroll Magazine Issue #4 by Cat Rambo,Rachel Pollack,William Meikle,Charity Tahmaseb,Seth Chambers Pdf

Fantasy Scroll Magazine is an online, quarterly publication featuring science fiction, fantasy, horror, and paranormal short-fiction. The magazine’s mission is to publish high-quality, entertaining, and thought-provoking speculative fiction. With a mixture of short stories, flash fiction, and micro-fiction, Fantasy Scroll Magazine aims to appeal to a wide audience. Issue #4 includes 12 short stories: "Circus in the Bloodwarm Rain" — Cat Rambo "Forever" — Rachel Pollack "The Dragonmaster's Ghost" — Henry Szabranski "Restart" — William Reid "Feeling All Right" — Richard Zwicker "Universe in a Teacup" — Seth Chambers "Skipping Stones" — Erin Cole "Incriminating Evidence" — Charity Tahmaseb "Posthumous" — James B. Willard "Your Cities" — Anaea Lay "Seaside Sirens, 1848" — Anna Zumbro "#Dragonspit" — William Meikle In the non-fiction section, this issue features: -Interview With Author Cat Rambo -Interview With Author Charity Tahmaseb -Interview With Author William Meikle -Interview With Editor Lynne Thomas -Artist Spotlight: Kuldar Leement -Book Review: Half a King (by Joe Abercrombie) -Movie Review: Interstellar (2014) (Christopher Nolan) The magazine is open to most sub-genres of science fiction, including hard SF, military, apocalyptic & post-apocalyptic, space opera, time travel, cyberpunk, steampunk, and humorous. Similarly for fantasy, we accept most sub-genres, including alternate world, dark fantasy, heroic, high or epic, historical, medieval, mythic, sword & sorcery, urban fantasy, and humorous. The magazine also publishes horror and paranormal short fiction.

Author : Iulian Ionescu
Publisher : Fantasy Scroll Press LLC
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780996889100

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Dragons, Droids & Doom: Year One by Iulian Ionescu Pdf

Wanna date a dragon? How about defend yourself in court with an orc as your lawyer? Or maybe you want to just sit in your loft and have a couple beers with your imaginary friend, or follow Merlin on his final days as he fights to stay alive. No seriously, what if your girlfriend’s skin was stolen by a hag? Or if you found sheet music to a song to end the world… what would you do? Dragons, Droids & Doom: Year One is a collection of all the stories published online by Fantasy Scroll Magazine in its first year. It includes a wide range of speculative short stories from fantasy to science fiction to horror. Some stories deal with death, others will leave you laughing to death. It’s all here, and it’s fantastic. Take a look; you won’t be disappointed.

Author : K. C. Cole
Publisher : HMH
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780544080140

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First You Build a Cloud by K. C. Cole Pdf

This clearly written and compelling look at physics and physicists offers “thousands of new ways to see our daily world more richly” (Douglas Hofstadter, author of Gödel, Escher, Bach). For many of us, physics has always been a thing of mystery and complexity. K. C. Cole, an award-winning science writer, specializes in making its wonders accessible to the everyday reader. This book uses lively prose, metaphors, and anecdotes to allow us to comprehend the nuances of physics: gravity and light, color and shape, quarks and quasars, particles and stars, force and strength. It also shows us how the physical world is so deeply intertwined with the ways we think about culture, poetry, and philosophy, and explores the workings of such legendary scientific minds as Richard Feynman, Victor Weisskopf, brothers Frank Oppenheimer and J. Robert Oppenheimer, Philip Morrison, Vera Kistiakowsky, and Stephen Jay Gould. “An exemplary science writer . . . For readers without scientific background, Cole gracefully introduces relativity, quantum theory, optics, astrophysics, and other significant disciplines, never getting bogged down in unnecessary explanation. Thus, you may not learn all about thermodynamics from reading her chapter on it, but you will learn enough to think seriously about the entropy in your own life. Cole sprinkles her text with comments from famous scientists—‘Space is blue, and birds fly in it,’ said Heisenberg, and Faraday said, ‘Nothing is too wonderful to be true’—that are not only delightful in themselves but perfectly suited to her own text. No review of Cole’s book could be too wonderful to be true.” —Booklist

Author : Anne Haas Dyson,Celia Genishi
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807775387

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On the Case by Anne Haas Dyson,Celia Genishi Pdf

Author : Stephon Alexander
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780465098507

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The Jazz of Physics by Stephon Alexander Pdf

More than fifty years ago, John Coltrane drew the twelve musical notes in a circle and connected them by straight lines, forming a five-pointed star. Inspired by Einstein, Coltrane put physics and geometry at the core of his music. Physicist and jazz musician Stephon Alexander follows suit, using jazz to answer physics' most vexing questions about the past and future of the universe. Following the great minds that first drew the links between music and physics-a list including Pythagoras, Kepler, Newton, Einstein, and Rakim-The Jazz of Physics reveals that the ancient poetic idea of the Music of the Spheres," taken seriously, clarifies confounding issues in physics. The Jazz of Physics will fascinate and inspire anyone interested in the mysteries of our universe, music, and life itself.

Author : Rick Yancey
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781101599013

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The Infinite Sea by Rick Yancey Pdf

The riveting follow-up to the New York Times bestselling The 5th Wave, hailed by Justin Cronin as “wildly entertaining.” How do you rid the Earth of seven billion humans? Rid the humans of their humanity. Surviving the first four waves was nearly impossible. Now Cassie Sullivan finds herself in a new world, a world in which the fundamental trust that binds us together is gone. As the 5th Wave rolls across the landscape, Cassie, Ben, and Ringer are forced to confront the Others’ ultimate goal: the extermination of the human race. Cassie and her friends haven’t seen the depths to which the Others will sink, nor have the Others seen the heights to which humanity will rise, in the ultimate battle between life and death, hope and despair, love and hate. Praise for The 5th Wave “Just read it.”—Entertainment Weekly “A modern sci-fi masterpiece.”—USA Today “Wildly entertaining . . . I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough.”—Justin Cronin, The New York Times Book Review “Nothing short of amazing.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Gripping!”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Everyone I trust is telling me to read this book.”—The Atlantic Wire

Author : Conal Boyce
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780557527939

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The Chemistry Redemption by Conal Boyce Pdf

The book's focus is basic chemistry, but along the way it branches out into full-length chapters/appendices on particle physics, mathematics, information theory, probability and philosophy-of-science. In the end, it is more philosophical treatise than chemistry text, although it does include a number of hands-on kitchen chemistry experiments, as an integral part of the advocated philosophy.

Author : Marc Sumerak
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006-07
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1599612224

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Mind Over Matter by Marc Sumerak Pdf

Young superheroes Alex, Julie, Jack, and Katie Power team up with X-Men's The Beast to discover why their father is acting strangely.