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Gisin, Nicolas |
Quantum Chance |
I06362 |
2014 |
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Piazza, Roberto |
Soft Matter |
I06172 |
2011 |
eBook |
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van Pelt, Michel |
Space Invaders |
I06082 |
2007 |
eBook |
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Bennett, James T |
The Doomsday Lobby |
I05654 |
2010 |
eBook |
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Longuski, James |
The Seven Secrets of How to Think Like a Rocket Scientist |
I05495 |
2007 |
eBook |
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Schmitt, Harrison |
Return to the Moon |
I05397 |
2006 |
eBook |
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Pelt, Michel van |
Space Tourism |
I05389 |
2005 |
eBook |
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Bernstein, Jeremy |
Secrets of the Old One |
I05386 |
2006 |
eBook |
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Aschenbach, Bernd |
The Invisible Sky |
I02914 |
1998 |
eBook |
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Gennes, Pierre-Gilles de |
Fragile Objects |
I00478 |
1996 |
eBook |
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| Title | Quantum Chance : Nonlocality, Teleportation and Other Quantum Marvels |
| Author(s) | Gisin, Nicolas |
| Publication | Cham, 1. Imprint: Copernicus
2. Springer International Publishing, 2014. |
| Description | XXIII, 109 p. 12 illus., 3 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Quantum physics, which offers an explanation of the world on??the smallest??scale, has fundamental implications that pose a serious challenge to ordinary logic. Particularly counterintuitive is the notion of entanglement, which has been explored for the past 30 years and posits an ubiquitous randomness capable of manifesting itself simultaneously in more than one place. This amazing 'non-locality' is more than just an abstract??curiosity or paradox: it has entirely down-to-earth applications in cryptography, serving for example??to protect financial information; it also has enabled the demonstration of 'quantum teleportation', whose infinite possibilities even science-fiction writers can scarcely imagine. This delightful and concise??exposition does not??avoid the??deep logical difficulties of quantum physics, but gives the reader the insights needed to appreciate them??. From 'Bell's Theorem' to experiments in quantum entanglement, the reader will gain a??solid understanding of one of the most fascinating areas of contemporary physics |
| ISBN,Price | 9783319054735 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Data structures (Computer science)
2. Data Structures and Information Theory
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
6. PHYSICS
7. QUANTUM COMPUTERS
8. Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics
9. QUANTUM PHYSICS
10. SPINTRONICS
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| Title | Soft Matter : The stuff that dreams are made of |
| Author(s) | Piazza, Roberto |
| Publication | Dordrecht, 1. Imprint: Copernicus
2. Springer Netherlands, 2011. |
| Description | XIV, 280 p. 61 illus., 35 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | ???Soft matter may, as Roberto Piazza puts it, be the stuff of dreams, but it is also the stuff of life. That is what makes this book so engaging ??? because it shows the ingenuity that both nature and humankind have invested in the bendy, stretchy, fragile, tough and adaptable substances we find all around us. There is plenty of hard science in this soft matter, and Piazza offers an urbane and eloquent tour through it.??? Philip Ball, multi-award winning science writer. This book takes you for a leisurely walk through the ???middle earth??? that scientists call soft matter -- much smaller than what we observe with the naked eye, but not as remote as the esoteric realm of molecules, atoms and fundamental particles. From toys to trainers, our civilization would be very different if we did not have plastic. From milk to paint, what would we do without colloids? We ourselves fall into the category of soft matter, made as we are of a molecular origami of proteins, DNA and other biological compounds. This fascinating exploration reveals what these materials have in common and which aspects of their behavior make them useful in our everyday life.?? Understanding more about their physical properties will make you marvel at the ???soft??? things that surround us. With a Foreword by Professor Henk Lekkerkerker, Utrecht University, the Netherlands Roberto Piazza trained as a physicist at the school of Vittorio Degiorgio, and is now a professor of Condensed Matter Physics at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy, Associate Editor of the European Physical Journal E and coordinator of the European Space Agency's Topical Team for "Applications of colloids in microgravity" of the European Space Agency. He has made important contributions to research on nanoparticle suspensions, polymer and surfactant solutions and?? biological macromolecules. He is not only a gifted physicists, but equally well versed in history and literature |
| ISBN,Price | 9789400705852 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Amorphous substances
2. Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics
3. BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS
4. BIOPHYSICS
5. Complex fluids
6. EBOOK
7. EBOOK - SPRINGER
8. Materials???Surfaces
9. Polymer Sciences
10. Polymers????
11. Popular Science, general
12. Popular works
13. Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics
14. Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films
15. THIN FILMS
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| Title | Space Invaders : How Robotic Spacecraft Explore the Solar System |
| Author(s) | van Pelt, Michel |
| Publication | New York, NY, 1. Imprint: Copernicus
2. Springer New York, 2007. |
| Description | XIII, 312 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Manned space programs attract the most media attention, and it is not hard to understand why-the danger, the heroism, the sheer adventure we as earthbound observers can imagine when humans are involved. But robotic missions deserve a respectful and detailed history and analysis of their own, and this book provides it. Focusing on future modern spacecraft, Michel van Pelt explains the exciting life of unmanned space explorers, making the technology, design, development, operation and results of modern space probe missions understandable by lay readers. Instead of describing one specific spacecraft or mission, Michel van Pelt offers a "behind the scenes" look at the life of a space probe: from its first conceptual design to the analysis of the scientific data returned by the spacecraft. While most popular books on space concentrate on manned spaceflight, this book shows that unmanned space exploration is just as exciting. It demonstrates to the reader just what it takes to send a robotic spacecraft to another planet and what fascinating insight and knowledge we have gained from these probes. **Offers an insight into the life of a space probe from concept through design to return and analysis of scientific data. **Explains what it takes to send a robotic space probe to another planet. **Demonstrates that unmanned space exploration can be as exciting as manned exploration. **Provides the reader with a view of how the fascinating images and knowledge are obtained from these probes. **Focuses on modern spacecraft and the future, rather than the history of past projects |
| ISBN,Price | 9780387688800 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTRONOMY
2. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
3. Astronomy???Observations
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. Observations, Astronomical
7. Popular Science in Astronomy
8. SPACE SCIENCES
9. Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)
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| Title | The Doomsday Lobby : Hype and Panic from Sputniks, Martians, and Marauding Meteors |
| Author(s) | Bennett, James T |
| Publication | New York, NY, 1. Imprint: Copernicus
2. Springer New York, 2010. |
| Description | VII, 200 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | From the race-to-space in the 1950s to the current furor over global warming, James Bennett traces the subtle and not-so-subtle ways in which government has co-opted scientific research and reinforced a culture in which challengers to proscribed wisdom are frozen out. Ripped from the headlines, Bennett offers a compelling, entertaining, and thought-provoking perspective on political influence in scientific research and its implications for a democratic society. Praise for The Doomsday Lobby "During the Nineteenth Century, almost entirely on private funding, American science grew from practically nothing to world class. Now, however, over fifty percent of American science is funded by the federal government. Dr. Bennett traces the path, "crisis" after "crisis," by which American science became practically an arm of the federal government. His tale is a cautionary one, warning against future "crisis mongers" who would extend the government's already majority control of American science even further. His warning is a timely one, and it should be heeded." Joseph P. Martino, author of Science Funding: Politics and Porkbarrel "Bennett's latest book offers a challenging interpretation of the rise of the American federal science establishment since World War II. Focusing primarily on the growth of the space program, Bennett argues that crisis, real or imagined, is the source of state power and state funding for science. The Doomsday Lobby offers what no doubt will be viewed as a controversial contribution to the history of American science policy, and more broadly to an understanding of the role of the state in society." James D. Savage, Professor of Politics, University of Virginia, and author of Funding Science in America James T. Bennett is Eminent Scholar and William P. Snavely Professor of Political Economy and Public Policy at George Mason University, and Director of The John M. Olin Institute for Employment Practice and Policy. He is the author or editor of over a dozen books, including Unhealthy Charities, The Politics of American Feminism, Stifling Political Competition, and Not Invited to the Party |
| ISBN,Price | 9781441966858 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTRONOMY
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. POLITICAL SCIENCE
5. Popular Science in Astronomy
6. Popular Science, general
7. Popular works
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| Title | The Seven Secrets of How to Think Like a Rocket Scientist |
| Author(s) | Longuski, James |
| Publication | New York, NY, 1. Imprint: Copernicus
2. Springer New York, 2007. |
| Description | X, 174 p. 8 illus : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Would you like to know the methods that rocket scientists use???expressed in a way that you could apply to your everyday life? The book you are holding does just that. Illustrated are the methods (the 7 secrets) with anecdotes, quotations and biographical sketches of famous scientists, ideas from sci-fi, personal stories and insights, and occasionally a bit of space history. It turns out that rocket science is just common sense applied to the extraordinarily uncommon environment of outer space. (And that rocket scientists are people, too!) |
| ISBN,Price | 9780387682228 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Aerospace engineering
2. Aerospace Technology and Astronautics
3. ASTRONAUTICS
4. ASTRONOMY
5. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
6. Astronomy???Observations
7. ASTROPHYSICS
8. Astrophysics and Astroparticles
9. EBOOK
10. EBOOK - SPRINGER
11. Observations, Astronomical
12. Popular Science in Astronomy
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| Title | Return to the Moon : Exploration, Enterprise, and Energy in the Human Settlement of Space |
| Author(s) | Schmitt, Harrison |
| Publication | New York, NY, 1. Imprint: Copernicus
2. Springer New York, 2006. |
| Description | XVI, 336 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Former NASA Astronaut Harrison Schmitt advocates a private, investor-based approach to returning humans to the Moon???to extract Helium 3 for energy production, to use the Moon as a platform for science and manufacturing, and to establish permanent human colonies there in a kind of stepping stone community on the way to deeper space. With governments playing a supporting role???just as they have in the development of modern commercial aeronautics and agricultural production???Schmitt believes that a fundamentally private enterprise is the only type of organization capable of sustaining such an effort and, eventually, even making it pay off |
| ISBN,Price | 9780387310640 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTRONOMY
2. Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
3. ASTROPHYSICS
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. Popular Science in Astronomy
7. SPACE SCIENCES
8. Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)
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| Title | Space Tourism : Adventures in Earth Orbit and Beyond |
| Author(s) | Pelt, Michel van |
| Publication | New York, NY, 1. Imprint: Copernicus
2. Springer New York, 2005. |
| Description | XIII, 217 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Many scientific papers and popular articles have been written on the topic of space tourism, describing everything from expected market sizes to the rules of 3-dimensional microgravity football. But what would it actually feel like to be a tourist in space, to be hurled into orbit on top of a controlled explosion, to float around in a spacecraft, and to be able to look down on your hometown from above the atmosphere? Space tourism is not science fiction anymore, Michel van Pelt tells us, but merely a logical step in the evolution of space flight. Space is about to be opened up to more and more people, and the drive behind this is one of the most powerful economic forces: tourism. Van Pelt describes what recreational space travel might look like, and explains the required space technology, the medical issues, astronaut training, and the possibilities of holidays to destinations far, far away. This is a book for everyone who has ever dreamed of traveling to space: a dream which, according to van Pelt, may not be so far from becoming a reality |
| ISBN,Price | 9780387270159 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTRONOMY
2. Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
3. ASTROPHYSICS
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. Popular Science in Astronomy
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| Title | Secrets of the Old One : Einstein, 1905 |
| Author(s) | Bernstein, Jeremy |
| Publication | New York, NY, 1. Imprint: Copernicus
2. Springer New York, 2006. |
| Description | VIII, 200 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | In March 1905, at approximately eight week intervals, the Editor of the noted German physics journal, Annalen der Physik, received three hand-written manuscripts from a relatively unknown patent examiner in Bern, Switzerland. This patent examiner was the twenty-six year old Albert Einstein and the three papers would set the agenda for twentieth century physics. A fourth short paper was received in September 1905 and contained Einstein's derivation of the formula E=mc^2. These papers changed our lives in the twentieth century and beyond. While to a professional physicist the mathematics in these papers are quite straight forward, the ideas behind them are not. In fact, none of Einstein's contemporaries fully understood what he had done. In SECRETS OF THE OLD ONE: Einstein, 1905, renowned science writer Jeremy Bernstein makes these ideas accessible to a general reader with a limited background in mathematics. After reading this book, you will understand why 1905 is often designated as Einstein's miracle year |
| ISBN,Price | 9780387259000 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
2. Astronomy???Observations
3. Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. GRAVITATION
7. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
8. Observations, Astronomical
9. PHYSICS
10. Physics, general
11. Popular Science, general
12. Popular works
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| Title | The Invisible Sky : Rosat and the Age of X-Ray Astronomy |
| Author(s) | Aschenbach, Bernd;Hahn, Hermann-Michael;Tr??mper, Joachim |
| Publication | New York, NY, 1. Imprint: Copernicus
2. Springer New York, 1998. |
| Description | 175 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | 7 Astronomy is not confined to the exploration of the "courage of omission" and concentrate on those visible sky: Since the fifties, scientists have opened areas that can be conveyed without substantial more and more new windows to the universe, prerequisites; but we have tried to take into making it possible to study numerous new aspects account all crucial aspects and have striven for of cosmic events. factual correctness. We also used this courage The German science satellite ROSAT, circling of omission when personal contributions of the Earth since June I, 1990, is an important milestone investigators working with ROSAT were involved. on this road. Its data have provided us not While we mention scientists by name in the only with a complete survey of the x-ray sky in historical chapters, we preferred to attribute all several colors, but also with important insights ROSAT results to the satellite itself, as it were?? into normal and exotic cosmic objects. It can be otherwise, the list of names would have grown too said without exaggeration that the entirety of these long, and the danger of forgetting one or the other data has changed our view of the world in which would have been too high. We have tried to find words to describe the we live |
| ISBN,Price | 9781461216285 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
2. Astronomy???Observations
3. ASTROPHYSICS
4. Astrophysics and Astroparticles
5. EBOOK
6. EBOOK - SPRINGER
7. Observations, Astronomical
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| Title | Fragile Objects : Soft Matter, Hard Science, and the Thrill of Discovery |
| Author(s) | Gennes, Pierre-Gilles de;Badoz, Jacques |
| Publication | New York, NY, 1. Imprint: Copernicus
2. Springer New York, 1996. |
| Description | XVI, 189 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Over the past few decades we have learned a great deal about the behavior of such materials as liquid crystals, emulsions and colloids, polymers, and complex molecules. These materials, called "soft matter" ("mati??re fragile" in French), have neither the rigid structure and crystalline symmetry of a solid nor the uniformity and disorder of a fluid or a gas. They have unusual and fascinating properties: some change their viscosity at our beck and call; others form layers of two-dimensional liquids; some are polarized, their molecules all oriented in the same direction and turning in unison at our command; others make up the foams, bubbles, waxes, gums, and many other items we take for granted every day. De Gennes, one of the world's leading experts on these strange forms of matter, here addresses topics ranging from soft-matter physics - the formation of rubber, the nature and uses of gum arabic, the wetting and de-wetting of surfaces, and the mysterious properties of bubbles and foams - to the activities of science: the role of individual or team work, the relation of discovery to correction, and the interplay of conscience and knowledge. In the best tradition of science writing, this book teaches us about both our world and ourselves |
| ISBN,Price | 9781461224105 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. CONDENSED MATTER
2. CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY
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