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Management of educational projects
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
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Les plus grandes erreurs de la science
A l'origine des plus importantes découvertes scientifiques
Language: French
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Les plus grandes découvertes scientifiques qui n'auraient jamais dû voir le jour !Saviez-vous qu’une observation astronomique d’un très sérieux père jésuite est à l’origine de la croyance en l’existence d’extraterrestres ? Saviez-vous que, déjà au XVIIe siècle, des médecins ont tenté...
by Percival Lowell
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
An American businessman, author, mathematician, andastronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars. He founded the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, and formed the beginning of the effort that led to the discovery of Pluto fourteen...
by Yakov Perelman
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
This book intends to arouse the reader’s interest in geometry especially teens who see it as a cold abstract area of mathematics. Through simple problems, illustrative examples, and interesting stories, the author uses geometric notions to address situations one may face in the open air. This includes...
by John Timbs
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Humboldt, in his Cosmos, gives the following beautiful illustrative proofs of this phenomenon:
If, for a moment, we imagine the acuteness of our senses preternaturally heightened to the extreme limits of telescopic vision, and bring together events separated by wide intervals of time, the apparent...
TIME 100 New Scientific Discoveries
Fascinating, Momentous and Mind-Expanding Breakthroughs
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
In the latest of TIME's extraordinary volumes on scientific discoveries, this special edition curates the 100 most impactful recent breakthroughs across 10 disciplines. Through sharp photos and TIME's peerless reporting, readers will explore the most captivating news and revelations in technology,...
The Complete Book of Holograms
How They Work and How to Make Them
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
"I predict that Kasper and Feller will become a standard reference on holography for students and interested laymen." — James A. Van Allen.
For most nonscientists, holograms are an intriguing — if not mesmerizing — mystery. How are these seemingly magical images created and what makes...
Baffin Island
Field Research and High Arctic Adventure, 1961-67
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
A geographer with extensive research experience in the Canadian North, Jack D. Ives has written a lively and informative account of several expeditions to Baffin Island during the “golden age” of federal research. In the 1960s, scientists from the Geographical Branch of Canada’s Department of...
The Hungry Scientist Handbook
Electric Birthday Cakes, Edible Origami, and Other DIY Projects for Techies, Tinkerers, and Foodies
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Inventive, (mostly) edible DIY gadgets and projects guaranteed to captivate
The Hungry Scientist Handbook brings DIY technology into the kitchen and onto the plate. It compiles the most mouthwatering projects created by mechanical engineer Patrick Buckley and his band of intrepid techie friends,...
Mars, planète habitable
Entretien avec Alexandre Mangeot
Language: French
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Fouler la « Planète Rouge », un rêve qui deviendra bientôt réalité Alors qu’il était encore au collège, Alexandre Mangeot affirmait sans ciller à ses camarades de classe : « Un jour, j’irai sur Mars ! » Le jeune homme, qui n’a jamais dévié de sa route, finit aujourd’hui un post-doctorat...
500 jours pour Mars
Entretien avec Romain Charles
Language: French
Release Date: February 9, 2016
L’homme est-il psychologiquement capable d’endurer le confinement d’un voyage sur Mars ?Un an et demi enfermé dans un grand bunker coupé de la lumière du jour, au service de la recherche scientifique et sans aucun contact possible avec l’extérieur ; voilà en quelques mots l’expérience...
Journeys Through the Precision Frontier: Amplitudes for Colliders
TASI 2014Proceedings of the 2014 Theoretical Advanced Study Institute in Elementary Particle Physics
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
This volume is a compilation of the lectures at TASI 2014. The coverage focuses on modern calculational techniques for scattering amplitudes, and on the phenomenology of QCD in hadronic collisions. Introductions to flavor physics, dark matter, and physics beyond the Standard Model are also provided....
by CD Moulton
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
These are all the free offerings by C. D. Moulton in one book. fact and fiction