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Author: Rosa Shand Publisher: ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 266
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"Fidelity is strained in the heated atmosphere that surrounds the expatriates who teach at the college in Kampala in the '70s. ... An attractive new arrival captures Agnes' imagination; the distance from her imagination to her heart is not far. The locals observe, sympathizing and despising. While looming over all is the imminent ascension to power of General Idi Amin."--Jacket.
Author: Rosa Shand Publisher: ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 266
Book Description
"Fidelity is strained in the heated atmosphere that surrounds the expatriates who teach at the college in Kampala in the '70s. ... An attractive new arrival captures Agnes' imagination; the distance from her imagination to her heart is not far. The locals observe, sympathizing and despising. While looming over all is the imminent ascension to power of General Idi Amin."--Jacket.
Author: SOLATLE LU Publisher: American Academic Press ISBN: 1631814281 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 421
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LIGHT, the primordial, eternal, pure, almighty energy, is the brightest as well as darkest riddle that has been puzzling to all earthlings for millennia. Whoever truly knows light has already cracked the greatest mystery of the cosmos. Surprisingly! This riddle has been actually cracked independently by three thinkers of different ages. Heraclitus, the Hellenic thinker 2500 years ago, is the first cracker of the riddle with his doctrines that things are constantly changing (universal flux), that opposites coincide, and that fire is the source and nature of all things—We just decode his Fire into LIGHT. 2400 years later, there comes the second cracker Nikola Tesla, the modern Heraclitus, who, in 1899, explicitly declares that Everything is LIGHT. Matter is created from the original and eternal energy that we know as LIGHT. Solatle Lu is the third cracker, the first narrator of the riddle. He explicitly declares, in 2019 in his An Outline of Force Cosmology, that All particles are derived from photons and live forever, substantially honors LIGHT as the Creator of all things, hence elevates the common idea of the three to the Highest Knowledge of 21st century, the Primary Cause, the First Principle. This event marks a great leap in the continuous rational movement of mankind, a new start.
Author: Marcus Chown Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1681775948 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 256
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Why the force that keeps our feet on the ground holds the key to understanding the nature of time and the origin of the universe. Gravity is the weakest force in the everyday world yet it is the strongest force in the universe. It was the first force to be recognized and described yet it is the least understood. It is a "force" that keeps your feet on the ground yet no such force actually exists. Gravity, to steal the words of Winston Churchill, is "a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma." And penetrating that enigma promises to answer the biggest questions in science: what is space? What is time? What is the universe? And where did it all come from? Award-winning writer Marcus Chown takes us on an unforgettable journey from the recognition of the "force" of gravity in 1666 to the discovery of gravitational waves in 2015. And, as we stand on the brink of a seismic revolution in our worldview, he brings us up to speed on the greatest challenge ever to confront physics.
Author: David Mills Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9781429203036 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 292
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The manual, prepared by David Mills, professor emeritus at the College of the Redwoods in California, provides solutions for selected odd-numbered end-of-chapter problems in the textbook and uses the same side-by-side format and level of detail as the Examples in the text.
Author: Jim Baggott Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0191077828 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 320
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Everything around us is made of 'stuff', from planets, to books, to our own bodies. Whatever it is, we call it matter or material substance. It is solid; it has mass. But what is matter, exactly? We are taught in school that matter is not continuous, but discrete. As a few of the philosophers of ancient Greece once speculated, nearly two and a half thousand years ago, matter comes in 'lumps', and science has relentlessly peeled away successive layers of matter to reveal its ultimate constituents. Surely, we can't keep doing this indefinitely. We imagine that we should eventually run up against some kind of ultimately fundamental, indivisible type of stuff, the building blocks from which everything in the Universe is made. The English physicist Paul Dirac called this 'the dream of philosophers'. But science has discovered that the foundations of our Universe are not as solid or as certain and dependable as we might have once imagined. They are instead built from ghosts and phantoms, of a peculiar quantum kind. And, at some point on this exciting journey of scientific discovery, we lost our grip on the reassuringly familiar concept of mass. How did this happen? How did the answers to our questions become so complicated and so difficult to comprehend? In Mass Jim Baggott explains how we come to find ourselves here, confronted by a very different understanding of the nature of matter, the origin of mass, and its implications for our understanding of the material world. Ranging from the Greek philosophers Leucippus and Democritus, and their theories of atoms and void, to the development of quantum field theory and the discovery of a Higgs boson-like particle, he explores our changing understanding of the nature of matter, and the fundamental related concept of mass.
Author: John A. Eddy Publisher: Government Printing Office ISBN: 9780160838088 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 316
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" ... Concise explanations and descriptions - easily read and readily understood - of what we know of the chain of events and processes that connect the Sun to the Earth, with special emphasis on space weather and Sun-Climate."--Dear Reader.
Author: John Hawk Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers ISBN: 1035810077 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 82
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Sunlight and Us by Professor John Hawk offers an enlightening journey into the profound and diverse effects of sunlight on human health and the environment. Drawing from his extensive career in dermatological photobiology, Hawk delves into the origins of sunlight, its vital role in our lives, and its dual nature as both a giver of life and a potential hazard. Through engaging narratives and scientific insights, Hawk navigates the complexities of sunlight’s impact on skin health, the intricacies of Vitamin D synthesis, and the global challenge of climate change. This work not only pays homage to the sun’s omnipresent influence but also underscores the delicate balance humanity must maintain with this powerful star.
Author: Peter D. Ward Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780805075120 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 260
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Planet Earth is middle-aged. Science has worked hard to piece together the story of the evolution of our world up to this point, but only recently have we developed the understanding and the tools to describe the entire life cycle of a planet. Ward and Brownlee, a geologist and an astronomer respectively, combine their knowledge of how the critical sustaining systems of our planet evolve through time with their understanding of the life cycles of stars and solar systems, to tell the story of the second half of Earth's life. The process of evolution will essentially reverse itself: life as we know it will subside until only the simplest forms remain. Eventually, they too will disappear. The oceans will evaporate, the atmosphere will degrade, and, as the sun slowly expands, Earth itself will eventually meet a fiery end. --From publisher description.
Author: Andy Weir Publisher: Ballantine Books ISBN: 0593135229 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 497
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of The Martian, a lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this “propulsive” (Entertainment Weekly), cinematic thriller full of suspense, humor, and fascinating science—in development as a major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling. HUGO AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF THE YEAR’S BEST BOOKS: Bill Gates, GatesNotes, New York Public Library, Parade, Newsweek, Polygon, Shelf Awareness, She Reads, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal • “An epic story of redemption, discovery and cool speculative sci-fi.”—USA Today “If you loved The Martian, you’ll go crazy for Weir’s latest.”—The Washington Post Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it’s up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery—and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species. And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he’s got to do it all alone. Or does he? An irresistible interstellar adventure as only Andy Weir could deliver, Project Hail Mary is a tale of discovery, speculation, and survival to rival The Martian—while taking us to places it never dreamed of going.
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