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An Atomic Empire
A Technical History of the Rise and Fall of the British Atomic Energy Programme
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Britain was the first country to exploit atomic energy on a large scale, and at its peak in the mid-1960s, it had generated more electricity from nuclear power than the rest of the world combined.
The civil atomic energy programme grew out of the military programme which produced plutonium...
Intrinsic Sustainable Development
Epistemes, Science, Business and Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
Sustainable development sets the agenda for the 21st century. Human technological capability and needs mean that nature is and will be challenged and damaged in many ways. Whilst many social and technological innovations are being made to improve our survival prospects, they are likely to be insufficient...
by Peter Rowlands
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
This book looks at how Newton's theories can be linked to modern day problems and solutions in physics. Newton created an abstract system of theorizing which has been applied to all aspects of the physical world, however he had difficulties in persuading his contemporaries of its unique merits. A...
The Quantum Adventure
Does God Play Dice?
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Quantum theory revolutionized physics at the beginning of the last century. Einstein was one of its originators, but as the implications of the theory emerged, he began to have doubts. Are the most basic physical processes based on probability? Is the Universe governed by chance? Do physical objects...
by Michael Mark Woolfson
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Two models for the origin of the Solar System, the Nebula Theory and the Capture Theory, are discussed by protagonists, Simon and Steven respectively, in the presence of Solomon, who oversees the discussions. Modelled on Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, this book provides...
Breaches and Bridges
German Foreign Policy in Turbulent Times
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Breaches and Bridges — German Foreign Policy in Turbulent Times features an agenda-setting speech by the Federal President of Germany, Dr Frank-Walter Steinmeier, delivered as a GIGA Distinguished Speaker Lecture in June 2016, when he served as the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs.
This...
Shifting Sands
Essays on Sports and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
The Middle East and North Africa are experiencing the most fundamental transition in their post-colonial history. It is a transition that is changing the borders of nation states as well as their political and social structures. Conflicting visions of what those structures should look like have ensured...
by Thomas E Novotny, Ilona Kickbusch, Michaela Told
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Global health diplomacy begins with a recognition that the most effective international health interventions are carried out with sensitivity to historical, political, social, economic, and cultural differences. It focuses on the interplay of globalization, economic interdependence, social justice,...
Around the World with Nephrology
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
This is the story of a boy raised up in a village in Poland during World War II, with his father deported to concentration camps throughout the war. Some years after he graduated from medical school, he serendipitously entered the then developing field of dialysis, and he eventually embarked on a...
Doing Mathematics
Convention, Subject, Calculation, Analogy
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Doing Mathematics discusses some ways mathematicians and mathematical physicists do their work and the subject matters they uncover and fashion. The conventions they adopt, the subject areas they delimit, what they can prove and calculate about the physical world, and the analogies they discover and...
A Computable Universe
Understanding and Exploring Nature as Computation
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
This volume, with a foreword by Sir Roger Penrose, discusses the foundations of computation in relation to nature.
It focuses on two main questions:
What is computation?
How does nature compute?
The contributors are world-renowned experts who have helped shape a cutting-edge computational...
What Makes a Champion!
Over Fifty Extraordinary Individuals Share Their Insights
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
What drives great and successful individuals — be they athletes, artists, or scientists — or businesses, to achieve the extraordinary?
Over fifty champions from all walks of life, brought together by Allan Snyder, draw on their experiences to explore the secrets of success in this inspiring,...
by Mo-Lin Ge, Rong-Gen Cai, Yu-Xiao Liu
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
Yi-Shi Duan (1927–2016) was one of the world-renowned pioneers in the study of gauge field theory and general relativity. Trained in the former Soviet Union, Prof. Duan returned to China in 1957 to work in Lanzhou University for 60 years. In 1963, he came up with a general co-variant form of the...
by Wilhelm Kohler
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
This volume is a collection of papers that apply general equilibrium theory in order to obtain policy relevant insights on topical issues of international trade and migration. The first set of papers focuses on European integration, applying dynamic numerical general equilibrium methods to quantify...