Scientific American Volumes 254 and 255 1986

Multiple Contributors

Verlag: Scientific American, Inc., New York, NY, 1986

Beschreibung

All twelve issues bound in heavy-duty hardcover library binding with gilt lettering on the spine including previous owner's name. The volume is structurally sound. There are occasional minor marks, smudges or soiling on covers and pages but generally very clean. Very little wear. The book will be bubble-wrapped and carefully packed in a sturdy box to ensure safe transit. This is a very heavy volume that will require extra funds for shipping outside of the United States. This volume includes: "How Close Encounters with Star Clusters are Achieved with a Computer Telescope"; "Space Science, Space Technology and the Space Station"; "Growth, Differentiation and the Growth of Malignancy"; "The Structure of Comet Tails"; "Applications of Optical Phase Conjugation"; "The Chemical Defenses of Higher Plants"; "Mineral Deposits from Sea-Floor Hot Springs"; "Kin Recognition in Tadpoles"; "An Inexpensive Homemade Polarimeter can Analyze Optically Active Compounds"; "Radiocarbon Dating by Accelerator Mass Spectrometry"; "The King (a Chess Program) is Dead, Long Live the King (a Chess Machine)"; "The T Cell and Its Receptor"; "Dioxin"; "Quantum Chemical Reactions in the Deep Cold"; "The Heart as an Endocrine Gland"; "Reconstructing Bird Phylogeny by Comparing DNAs"; "Inca Stonemasonry"; "William Herschel and the Making of Modern Astronomy"; "Seismic Images of Plate Boundaries"; "A Homemade Device for Testing Particle Scattering: Experiments in Zero Gravity"; "How a Pair of Dull-Witted Programs can Look like Geniuses on I.Q. Tests"; "Rethinking Nuclear Power"; "The Earth's Magnetotail"; "The Molecular Genetics of Hemophilia"; "The Superconducting Supercollider"; "Computer-Simulated Plant Evolution"; "Mental Imagery and the Visual System"; "Crop Storage at Assiros"; "Methods and Optics of Perceiving Color in a Black-and-White Grating"; "Athletic Clothing"; "A Program for Rotating Hypercubes Induces Four-Dimensional Dementia"; "Can the U.S. Trust the U.S.S.R.?"; "The Quantized Hall Effect"; "The Dynamics of Proteins"; "Islamic Astronomy"; "Internal Rhythms in Bird Migration"; "The 'Stress' of Being Born"; "Optical Gyroscopes"; "Playing the Baroque Trumpet"; "Wonders with the Retroreflector, a Mirror that Removes Distortion from a Light Beam"; "Branching Phylogenies of the Paleozoic and the Fortunes of English Family Names"; "Sudden Cardiac Death"; "Glycosphingolipids"; "The Climate of Mars"; "Aqueous Foams"; "The Cheetah in Genetic Peril"; "Superconducting Tunnel Detectors in Radioastronomy"; "Wire that 'Remembers' Its Shape is Put to Work Running an Engine"; "Casting a Net on a Checkerboard and Other Puzzles of the Forest"; "Beyond the Era of Materials"; "Fibronectins"; "Is Nature Supersymmetric?"; "El Nino"; "The Heart as a Suction Pump"; "Sexual Selection in Bowerbirds"; "The Perception of Apparent Motion"; "Mirrors Make a Maze so Bewildering that the Explorer Must Rely on a Map"; "Modern Windmills"; "A Sublime Flight of Fancy over a Deserted Data Base"; "Potential New Crops"; "Very Large Structures in the Universe"; "Anti-idiotypes and Immunity"; "The Structure of Mountain Ranges"; "Exotic Atomic Nuclei"; "Space, Time and Touch"; "Flight Simulation"; "The Arthropod Cuticle"; "Exotic Patterns Appear in Water when It is Freezing or Melting"; "Digital Prestidigitation: The Fine Art of Magic and Illusion by Computer"; "The Strategic Nuclear Forces of Britain and France"; "Quasicrystals"; "Transplantation in the Central Nervous System"; "Progress in Laser Fusion"; "The Origin of Corn"; "The Solar Cycle in Precambrian Time"; "Thermal Niches of Striped Bass"; "The Emergence of Maya Civilization"; "Retracing the Steps by which Aluminum Metal was initially Purified back in 1886"; "Wallpaper for the Mind: Computer Images that are Almost but Not Quite, Repetitive"; "The Microwave Problem"; "Predicting Chemistry from Topology"; "Superstrings"; "The Blood-Brain Barrier"; "The Colors of Things"; "The Sun and the Interstellar Medium"; and more. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABH6546

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Scientific American Volumes 254 and 255 1986

Verlag: Scientific American, Inc., New York, NY

Erscheinungsdatum: 1986

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket As Issued