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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Ironically, the loss of Challenger in January 1986 fired my interest in space exploration more than any other single event. I was nine years old. My parents were, at the time, midway through moving house and, luckily, the TV was one of the few domestic items still to be packed. I watched the entire horror unfold live on all of the network stations. Admittedly, my fascination with rockets and astronauts, stars and planets had begun several years earlier, but Challenger's destruction turned it from an occasional hobby to a fascination which has remained with me ever since. In September 1988, aged 11,1 came home from school to watch STS-26 return the Shuttle fleet to orbital operations. Five years later, I gave a speech on the STS-51L disaster to my teacher as part of my GCSE English assessment. Another decade passed and, now a teacher myself, I returned to my school one cold Monday morning to explain to my pupils what had happened to Challenger's sister ship, Columbia, a few days earlier. In some ways, the loss of Columbia affected me more deeply than Challenger. 290 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Ironically, the loss of Challenger in January 1986 fired my interest in space exploration more than any other single event. I was nine years old. My parents were, at the time, midway through moving house and, luckily, the TV was one of the few domestic items still to be packed. I watched the entire horror unfold live on all of the network stations. Admittedly, my fascination with rockets and astronauts, stars and planets had begun several years earlier, but Challenger's destruction turned it from an occasional hobby to a fascination which has remained with me ever since. In September 1988, aged 11,1 came home from school to watch STS-26 return the Shuttle fleet to orbital operations. Five years later, I gave a speech on the STS-51L disaster to my teacher as part of my GCSE English assessment. Another decade passed and, now a teacher myself, I returned to my school one cold Monday morning to explain to my pupils what had happened to Challenger's sister ship, Columbia, a few days earlier. In some ways, the loss of Columbia affected me more deeply than Challenger. 290 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book will take readers back to a time when the Space Shuttle represented the dawn of a new age in space travel, a time when the fabled final frontier was drawing inexorably closer as each year passed. It details the stories of Challenger's missions from the points of view of the astronauts, engineers, and scientists who flew and knew her and the managers, technicians, and ground personnel who designed her and nursed her from humble beginnings as a structural test article into one of the most capable Shuttles in NASA's service. Coverage combines technical esoterica with interviews, stories, and anecdotes from the lifetime of this remarkable spacecraft. Challenger veterans, including Gordon Fullerton and Vance Brand, describe their experiences and the differences between Challenger and her sister ships. The development of Challenger herself is explored in detail, including her design, development, construction, and preparation for missions.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Ironically, the loss of Challenger in January 1986 fired my interest in space exploration more than any other single event. I was nine years old. My parents were, at the time, midway through moving house and, luckily, the TV was one of the few domestic items still to be packed. I watched the entire horror unfold live on all of the network stations. Admittedly, my fascination with rockets and astronauts, stars and planets had begun several years earlier, but Challenger's destruction turned it from an occasional hobby to a fascination which has remained with me ever since. In September 1988, aged 11,1 came home from school to watch STS-26 return the Shuttle fleet to orbital operations. Five years later, I gave a speech on the STS-51L disaster to my teacher as part of my GCSE English assessment. Another decade passed and, now a teacher myself, I returned to my school one cold Monday morning to explain to my pupils what had happened to Challenger's sister ship, Columbia, a few days earlier. In some ways, the loss of Columbia affected me more deeply than Challenger.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book will take readers back to a time when the Space Shuttle represented the dawn of a new age in space travel, a time when the fabled final frontier was drawing inexorably closer as each year passed. It details the stories of Challenger's missions from the points of view of the astronauts, engineers, and scientists who flew and knew her and the managers, technicians, and ground personnel who designed her and nursed her from humble beginnings as a structural test article into one of the most capable Shuttles in NASA's service. Coverage combines technical esoterica with interviews, stories, and anecdotes from the lifetime of this remarkable spacecraft. Challenger veterans, including Gordon Fullerton and Vance Brand, describe their experiences and the differences between Challenger and her sister ships. The development of Challenger herself is explored in detail, including her design, development, construction, and preparation for missions.Springer Nature Customer Service Center GmbH, Europaplatz 3, 69115 Heidelberg 290 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - n the following pages, Dr. Greenberg delineates the complex forces at Iplay within patients who are newly ill or disabled, within physicians who do their best to guide patients through those debilities, and in the inter- tion that patient-physician dyads perform thousands of times daily to try to make sense of the patient's plight. As a physician and medical educator who thinks about how to enhance communication between patients and physicians, I often view commu- cation challenges as arising from divergent cultural experiences. Each patient has a unique method of experiencing, deriving meaning from, and coping with a new or chronic illness. This approach is necessarily filtered through the patient's family and social contexts and the patient's current living situation. Physicians, too, bring psychosocial upbringing and current social c- text into their clinical practice settings. We have also been inculcated into a medical culture that takes its bright, impressionable, idealistic young and shapes them, sometimes brutally, into diagnosticians and proceduralists. We are just now beginning to understand the many components of the 'hidden curriculum' of many medical schools - unspoken but powerful influences in training that undercut the humanity of trainees and turn them into poorer communicators than when they first started.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book will take readers back to a time when the Space Shuttle represented the dawn of a new age in space travel, a time when the fabled final frontier was drawing inexorably closer as each year passed. It details the stories of Challenger's missions from the points of view of the astronauts, engineers, and scientists who flew and knew her and the managers, technicians, and ground personnel who designed her and nursed her from humble beginnings as a structural test article into one of the most capable Shuttles in NASA's service. Coverage combines technical esoterica with interviews, stories, and anecdotes from the lifetime of this remarkable spacecraft. Challenger veterans, including Gordon Fullerton and Vance Brand, describe their experiences and the differences between Challenger and her sister ships. The development of Challenger herself is explored in detail, including her design, development, construction, and preparation for missions. 290 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -performing rms were curtailed following the stock market decline and the subsequent economic slowdown of 2001 and 2002. The Federal Government was once the main source of the nation's R&D funds, funding as much as 66. 7 percent of all U. S. R&D in 1964. The Federal share rst fell below 50 percent in 1979, and after 1987 it fell steadily, dr- ping from 46. 3 percent in that year to 25. 1 percent in 2000 (the lowest it has ever been since 1953). Adjusting for in ation, Federal support decreased 18 percent from 1987 to 2000, although in nominal terms, Federal support grew from $58. 5 billion to $66. 4 billion during that period. Growth in industrial funding generally outpaced growth in Federal support, leading to the decline in Federal support as a proportion of the total. Fig. 2. Doctorates awarded in Engineering, Physics, and Mathematics: 1995-2002 [Source: National Science Foundation NSF 04-303 (October 2003)] Figure 1 explains the most signi cant change in the industry which occurred in the early sixties. The industry, with pressure from Wall Street, could not nance long-range and risky basic research. The objective of basic research is to gain more comprehensive knowledge or understanding of the subject under study without speci c applications in mind. Basic research advances scienti c knowledge but does not have speci c immediate commercial objectives. Basic research can fail and often will not bring results in a short period of time. 404 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -performing rms were curtailed following the stock market decline and the subsequent economic slowdown of 2001 and 2002. The Federal Government was once the main source of the nation's R&D funds, funding as much as 66. 7 percent of all U. S. R&D in 1964. The Federal share rst fell below 50 percent in 1979, and after 1987 it fell steadily, dr- ping from 46. 3 percent in that year to 25. 1 percent in 2000 (the lowest it has ever been since 1953). Adjusting for in ation, Federal support decreased 18 percent from 1987 to 2000, although in nominal terms, Federal support grew from $58. 5 billion to $66. 4 billion during that period. Growth in industrial funding generally outpaced growth in Federal support, leading to the decline in Federal support as a proportion of the total. Fig. 2. Doctorates awarded in Engineering, Physics, and Mathematics: 1995-2002 [Source: National Science Foundation NSF 04-303 (October 2003)] Figure 1 explains the most signi cant change in the industry which occurred in the early sixties. The industry, with pressure from Wall Street, could not nance long-range and risky basic research. The objective of basic research is to gain more comprehensive knowledge or understanding of the subject under study without speci c applications in mind. Basic research advances scienti c knowledge but does not have speci c immediate commercial objectives. Basic research can fail and often will not bring results in a short period of time. 404 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Catalysts,heterogeneous,homogeneous,andenzyme,areusuallynanoparticles.These areofvitalforthefunctioningofthehumanbody,forphotosynthesis,andforproducing fuels and chemicals in the petroleum and chemical industries. Interest in nanoscience and in nanotechnology in recent years has focused attention on the opportunity to develop catalysts that exhibit 100% selectivity for a desired product, thus removing byproducts and eliminating waste. This type of selective process is often called green chemistry or green technology. This book is the third Volume of Nanotechnology in Catalysis. It is mainly based on the symposium on Nanotechnology in Catalysis III which was held in fall 2004 at th the ACS 228 National Meeting in Philadelphia, PA. Several chapters were also from the authors who did not attend the symposium. We invited a few experts in the eld to write on a topic which we see is needed to make the book comprehensive. It has been about 2 years since Volumes 1 and 2 were published. Many new c- tributions and breakthroughs have been made by researchers worldwide, showing the dynamics in the area of nanotechnology in catalysis.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In his book, Compendium of Chemical Warfare Agents, author Steven L. Hoenig provides all the necessary information that First Responders, Hospitals, HazMat Teams, Fire and Rescue Services, and other First Responders need to know when dealing with dangerous chemical agents.Coverage includes health effects, physical characteristics, hazards from reactivity, protection of personnel, and general first aid for each agent. The book provides quick and easy access to critical data on chemical warfare agents, both at the scene of release and in the laboratory.Today, highly lethal chemicals such as nerve agents, vesicants and other chemical warfare agents may be the new weapons of choice among terrorist groups throughout the world and the latest addition to the 'poor man's arsenal of opportunity' - a grave concern for all First Responders and Emergency Management personnel. Compendium of Chemical Warfare Agents furnishes the critical information to deal with this threat.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When basic researchers started working on semiconductors during the late nineteen thirties and on integrated circuits at the end of the nineteen fifties, they did not know that their work would change the lives of future generations. Very few people at that time recognized the significance of, perhaps, the most important invention of the century. Historians have assigned the invention of integrated circuits to Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce. In this book, the author argues that the group of inventors was much larger. This richly illustrated account is a personal recollection of the development of integrated circuits and personalities such as Russell Ohl, Karl Lark-Horovitz, William Shockley, Carl Frosch, Lincoln Derick, Calvin Fuller, Kurt Lehovec. Jean Hoerni, Sheldon Roberts, Jay Last, Isy Haas, Bob Norman, Dave Allison, Jim Nall, Tom Longo, Bob Widlar, Dave Talbert, Frank Wanlass, and Federico Faggin. Here is the first comprehensive behind-the-scenes account of the history of the integrated circuit, the microelectronics industry, and the people closely involved in the development of the transistor and the integrated circuit.'Your book is going to make a major contribution to semiconductor history. You and I agree that, while the world loves a hero, semiconductor progress depended on the efforts and ideas of a large number of people, and that moving forward depended on contributors going back a few decades in some cases. Also, as is the case with most inventions, a number of people with access to the same pool of common knowledge were working independently at the same time to put it all together and to make the necessary extensions to the existing technology and who realized that the time was right for society to accept the new concepts. Your diligent research points all of this out.'Dr. Jay Last, Former Shockley Laboratories employee, co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor, co-founder of Amelco Semiconductor, and manager of Fairchild sgroup which designed and produced the world first planar integrated circuit.'Bo Lojek presents a remarkable document of the most important and significant technical development of our times. He describes in astounding detail the engineering efforts of modern microelectronics. He concentrates on the history of silicon semiconductor devices. California s 'Silicon Valley' is the center of attention, together with its ancestry of transistor invention at Bell Laboratories. He has collected a wealth of illustrative documentation, gives incisive insight into the lives of the main actors and shows the often tragic fates of the engineers and businessmen. He does not hide his firm belief in the individual engineer and warns of the retarding influence of present-day political correctness.'Dr. Hans J. Queisser, Former Shockley Semiconductor scientist and retired director of the Max-Planck-Institute for Solids, Stuttgart, Germany.'The technical history of the semiconductor history rivals the 1849 California Gold Rush as a period filled with excitement and opportunity. Although I cannot first hand validate its complete accuracy, I enthusiastically encourage you to read the collected facts, opinions, and views of an author who was actually part of this amazing period, viewing it as a successful practicing Engineer during this 'gold rush' - like hey-day of the semiconductor industry.For educators and technologists you will find this collection of data, facts, and opinions, collected and observed first hand by the author, fascinating! It is a tough read for others due to the writing experience of the author and its technical focus.'John F. Gifford, Former Fairchild Semiconductor Marketing Manager of Linear Integrated Circuits, co-founder of Advanced Micro Devices, and President and Chief Executive Officer of Maxim Integrated Products.'Bo Lojek gets it right! There are few industries as dynamic as semiconductors and thehistor.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This volume contains a complete systematic treatment of the flowering plant order Asterales. This comprises 12 families with approx. 1,720 genera and about 26,300 species. Identification keys are provided for all genera, and likely phylogenetic relationships are discussed extensively. The wealth of information contained in this volume makes it an indispensable source for all working in the fields of pure and applied plant sciences. 635 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Handbook is intended to be a service to the neuroscience community, to help in finding available and useful information, to point out gaps in our knowledge, and to encourage continued studies. It represents the valuable contributions of the many authors of the chapters and the guidance of the editors and most important, it represents support for research in this discipline. Based on the rapid advances in the years since the second edition.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Chalmers kritische Reflexion über wissenschaftstheoretische Schulen ist zu einem Standardwerk universitärer Lehre avanciert, das inzwischen in über 15 Sprachen übersetzt wurde. Seine Popularität verdankt das Buch der Tatsache, dass es Chalmers gelingt, die komplexe Thematik in eine auch für Laien verständliche Form zu bringen und mit zahlreichen Beispielen zu illustrieren.Chalmers bietet nicht nur einen hervorragenden Überblick über klassische Ansätze der Wissenschaftstheorie, den Induktivismus, den kritischen Rationalismus sowie den Falsifikationismus und stellt die Theorien von K. Popper, I. Lakatos, Th. Kuhn undP. Feyerabend vor, sondern geht auch aufaktuelle wissenschaftstheoretische Entwicklungen ein. Sein besonderes Augenmerk gilt dabeider Bedeutung des Experiments und dem 'Neuen Experimentalismus', dem wahrscheinlichkeitstheoretischen Ansatz von Th. Bayes,dem Wesen naturwissenschaftlicherGesetze und der aktuellen 'Realismus versus Anti-Realismus-Debatte'. 244 pp. Deutsch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Chalmers kritische Reflexion über wissenschaftstheoretische Schulen ist zu einem Standardwerk universitärer Lehre avanciert, das inzwischen in über 15 Sprachen übersetzt wurde. Seine Popularität verdankt das Buch der Tatsache, dass es Chalmers gelingt, die komplexe Thematik in eine auch für Laien verständliche Form zu bringen und mit zahlreichen Beispielen zu illustrieren.Chalmers bietet nicht nur einen hervorragenden Überblick über klassische Ansätze der Wissenschaftstheorie, den Induktivismus, den kritischen Rationalismus sowie den Falsifikationismus und stellt die Theorien von K. Popper, I. Lakatos, Th. Kuhn undP. Feyerabend vor, sondern geht auch aufaktuelle wissenschaftstheoretische Entwicklungen ein. Sein besonderes Augenmerk gilt dabeider Bedeutung des Experiments und dem 'Neuen Experimentalismus', dem wahrscheinlichkeitstheoretischen Ansatz von Th. Bayes,dem Wesen naturwissenschaftlicherGesetze und der aktuellen 'Realismus versus Anti-Realismus-Debatte'. 244 pp. Deutsch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Chalmers stellt einfach und anschaulich die Grundlagen der Wissenschaftstheorie sowie die wichtigsten Richtungen dieses Fachgebiets dar. Zum Verständnis sind keine spezifischen Vorkenntnisse nötig. Dem Autor gelingt es hervorragend, seine Leser an die klassische und neue wissenschaftstheoretische Diskussion heranzuführen. Im Mittelpunkt seiner Darstellung stehen die Bedeutung des Experiments, die naturwissenschaftlichen Gesetze und die aktuellen Trends der Debatte zwischen 'Realisten' und 'Antirealisten'.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Chalmers stellt einfach und anschaulich die Grundlagen der Wissenschaftstheorie sowie die wichtigsten Richtungen dieses Fachgebiets dar. Zum Verständnis sind keine spezifischen Vorkenntnisse nötig. Dem Autor gelingt es hervorragend, seine Leser an die klassische und neue wissenschaftstheoretische Diskussion heranzuführen. Im Mittelpunkt seiner Darstellung stehen die Bedeutung des Experiments, die naturwissenschaftlichen Gesetze und die aktuellen Trends der Debatte zwischen 'Realisten' und 'Antirealisten'.Springer Nature Customer Service Center GmbH, Europaplatz 3, 69115 Heidelberg 244 pp. Deutsch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Chalmers kritische Reflexion über wissenschaftstheoretische Schulen ist zu einem Standardwerk universitärer Lehre avanciert, das inzwischen in über 15 Sprachen übersetzt wurde. Seine Popularität verdankt das Buch der Tatsache, dass es Chalmers gelingt, die komplexe Thematik in eine auch für Laien verständliche Form zu bringen und mit zahlreichen Beispielen zu illustrieren.Chalmers bietet nicht nur einen hervorragenden Überblick über klassische Ansätze der Wissenschaftstheorie, den Induktivismus, den kritischen Rationalismus sowie den Falsifikationismus und stellt die Theorien von K. Popper, I. Lakatos, Th. Kuhn undP. Feyerabend vor, sondern geht auch aufaktuelle wissenschaftstheoretische Entwicklungen ein. Sein besonderes Augenmerk gilt dabeider Bedeutung des Experiments und dem 'Neuen Experimentalismus', dem wahrscheinlichkeitstheoretischen Ansatz von Th. Bayes,dem Wesen naturwissenschaftlicherGesetze und der aktuellen 'Realismus versus Anti-Realismus-Debatte'.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Untersuchung zum Thema: Anknüpfungspunkte hierfür sind das UN-Übereinkommen über die biologische Vielfalt (CBD) und das Cartagena-Protokoll über die biologische Sicherheit (BSP). Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht und systematisiert spezifische Probleme und den Stand der aktuellen Diskussion um völkervertrags- und völkergewohnheitsrechtliche Haftungsnormen. Auf dieser Basis entwickelt sie Eckwerte für ein mögliches internationales Haftungsregime. 421 pp. Deutsch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Leichtbau ist das Standardwerk dieses Arbeitsgebietes für Luft- und Raumfahrttechnik, Fahrzeugbau, Schiffs- und Meerestechnik, Maschinenbau, Fördertechnik, Stahlbau und Fertigungstechnik.Dieses eingeführte Werk behandelt eines der bedeutendsten Themen der Konstruktionstechnik. Leichtbau ist in allen Anwendungsgebieten wichtig geworden. Jeder Konstrukteur benötigt diesen Erfahrungsschatz.Dieser Reprint der zweiten Auflage ist in den dargestellten grundsätzlichen Methoden weiter auf aktuellem Stand, auch wenn in der Anwendung Fortschritte verzeichnet wurden. Der Reprint umfasst die beiden Einzelbände.Teil 1 beinhandelt Prinzipien und Strukturen des Leichtsbaus, dünnwandige isotrope Flächen und Hautfelder, dünnwandige Profilstäbe, anisotrope Flächen, Sandwichflächen, Flächen mit Einzelsteifen und Kastenträger für Biegung und Torsion. Im Teil 2 werden Kriterien und Verfahren des Entwerfens und Optimierens, der Auswahl und der beanspruchungsgerechten Gestaltung von Bauteilen und Strukturen auf der technologischen Basis aktueller Bauweisen und Werkstoffe, unter Gesichtspunkten der Zuverlässigkeit und der Schadenstoleranz behandelt.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 928 pp. Deutsch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Leichtbau ist das Standardwerk dieses Arbeitsgebietes für Luft- und Raumfahrttechnik, Fahrzeugbau, Schiffs- und Meerestechnik, Maschinenbau, Fördertechnik, Stahlbau und Fertigungstechnik.Dieses eingeführte Werk behandelt eines der bedeutendsten Themen der Konstruktionstechnik. Leichtbau ist in allen Anwendungsgebieten wichtig geworden. Jeder Konstrukteur benötigt diesen Erfahrungsschatz.Dieser Reprint der zweiten Auflage ist in den dargestellten grundsätzlichen Methoden weiter auf aktuellem Stand, auch wenn in der Anwendung Fortschritte verzeichnet wurden. Der Reprint umfasst die beiden Einzelbände.Teil 1beinhandelt Prinzipien und Strukturen des Leichtsbaus, dünnwandige isotrope Flächen und Hautfelder, dünnwandige Profilstäbe, anisotrope Flächen, Sandwichflächen, Flächen mit Einzelsteifen und Kastenträger für Biegung und Torsion. Im Teil 2werden Kriterien und Verfahren des Entwerfens und Optimierens, der Auswahl und der beanspruchungsgerechten Gestaltung von Bauteilen und Strukturen auf der technologischen Basis aktueller Bauweisen und Werkstoffe, unter Gesichtspunkten der Zuverlässigkeit und der Schadenstoleranz behandelt.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Many books have been written about the Big Bang and how the universe became the way it is today. But what about the future of the universe What will happen to the Earth and solar system What about our galaxy Indeed, how long will the universe as we recognize it survive The Future of the Universe takes the reader on a journey through space and time, beginning with a long look at the Earth and solar system, voyaging to the outermost galaxies, and finishing with speculations about the life and fate of the entire universe. 196 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Galaxies are perhaps the most popular of all visual targets that are sought after by visual observers. At present the only way to get up-to-date information, is to query various (often highly technical) speciality books or digging deeply into the Internet. This can be a time consuming and often frustrating task, as the data aren't often compatible. This book satisfies the need for a modern, comprehensive review in combining the three major aspects: the physical background on the nature and data of galaxies, the relevant instrumentation and viewing techniques, and finally the targets and their individual appearance in telescopes of various apertures. To illustrate the latter, a comprehensive sample of galaxies, including quasars, groups and clusters of galaxies is presented. This combination of theoretical knowledge and practical information guarantees successful observing sessions. The book could become a standard source on galaxy observing for all kinds of amateur observers, from the beginner to the experienced. 260 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Thesmallrefractingtelescopewithitssimpledirectdesignandconstructionand permanently aligned optics is the time tested standard for personal use. Easily portable, it can be taken out of the house and set up at a moment's notice. Or, it can be packed conveniently into a small car for traveling to a dark observing site. With moderate care and minimal maintenance, the telescope and mount canlastforgenerations. These instruments provide sharp, crisp high-contrast images of the Moon and planets. They are less susceptible to the effects of unstable air than larger ones, and because of their low maintenance and durability they are ideal for the parent educator or lifelong learner. Until recently, however, the high cost ofsmalltelescopesofsufficientqualityforseriousastronomicalusehaslimited theiraccessibility. During the past decade, innovations in optical design and manufacture have loweredcostandimprovedquality.Currentdevelopmentsinlensdesignmakeit possibletoproduceaffordablerefractingtelescopeswithshortertubelengthsand greater versatility. The once very costly 90-mm Maksutov-Cassegrain, with its optimumcombinationofeffectiveopticsandportability,nowsellsforamodest price. I have often seen small instruments referred to as 'grab and go' or 'quick look,'notworthyofconsiderationforseriousobserving.Imaintaintheycanbe much more. Despite their limits in types of observation, 80-mm refractors and 90-mm Maksutovs have sufficient aperture and magnifying power to provide a lifetimeofobservingpleasure.Theyareidealforlunaroccultationmeasurements, tracking the solar activity cycle, observing variable stars and measuring binary ix x Preface stars. Although all the activities described here are equally applicable to larger instruments,noneofthemrequireanaperturelargerthan80mm.Through the use of common digital cameras, the limiting stellar magnitude andimagescaleofsmalltelescopescanbeincreaseddramatically,thusproviding resultsonenormallyexpectsfromlargerinstruments.Muchofthisbookapplies thatprincipletomakinginterestingandusefulastronomicalobservations.Ihave takennovelapproachestoextendingtheuseofsmallinstrumentsforquantitative observations by applying unique methods for the analysis of digital camera photographs. 168 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This Astronomers' Observing Guides are designed for practical amateur astronomers who not only want to observe, but want to know the details of exactly what they are looking at.Nebulae are the places where the stars are born. For amateur astronomers, the many different kinds of nebulae vary from 'easy' targets that can be seen with modest equipment under mediocre skies, to 'challenging' objects that require experienced observers, large telescopes and excellent seeing.The concept of the book - and of the series - is to present an up-to-date detailed description and categorisation (part one); and then (part two) to consider how best to successfully observe and record the large range of astronomical objects that fall under the general heading of 'nebulae'.Nebulae and How to Observe Them is a mine of information for all levels of amateur observers, from the beginner to the experienced. 172 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book serves as a concise introduction to the state-of-the-art of spin glass theory. The collection of review papers are written by leading experts in the field and cover the topic from a wide variety of angles. The book will be useful to both graduate students and young researchers, as well as to anyone curious to know what is going on in this exciting area of mathematical physics. 200 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book looks at answers to the biggest questions in astronomy - the questions of how the planets, stars, galaxies and the universe were formed. Over the last decade, a revolution in observational astronomy has produced possible answers to three of these questions. This book describes this revolution. The one question for which we still do not have an answer is the question of the origin of the universe. In the final chapter, the author looks at the connection between science and philosophy and shows how new scientific results have laid the groundwork for the first serious scientific studies of the origin of the universe. 300 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The outstanding feature of this book is that it provides a unified account of three types of decision problem. It covers the basic ideas of decision theory, classical game theory, and evolutionary game theory in one volume. No background knowledge of economics or biology is required as examples have been carefully selected for their accessibility. Detailed solutions to the numerous exercises are provided at the back of the book, making it ideal for self-study. This introduction to game theory is intended as a first course for undergraduate students of mathematics, but it will also interest advanced students or researchers in biology and economics. 252 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Based on a course given at Oxford over many years, this book is a short and concise exposition of the central ideas of general relativity. The focus is on the chain of reasoning that leads to the relativistic theory from the analysis of distance and time measurements in the presence of gravity, rather than on the underlying mathematical structure. The geometric ideas - which are central to the understanding of the nature of gravity - are introduced in parallel with the development of the theory, the emphasis being on laying bare how one is led to pseudo-Riemannian geometry through a natural process of reconciliation of special relativity with the equivalence principle. At centre stage are the 'local inertial coordinates' set up by an observer in free fall, in which special relativity is valid over short times and distances.In more practical terms, the book is a sequel to the author's Special Relativity in the same series, with some overlap in the treatment of tensors. 232 pp. Englisch.…