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How Music Works
The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds, from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010
What makes a musical note different from any other sound? How can you tell if you have perfect pitch? Why do 10 violins sound only twice as loud as one? Do your Bob Dylan albums sound better on CD or vinyl? John Powell, a scientist and musician, answers these questions and many more in HOW MUSIC WORKS,...
by Peter Kattan
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
This concise article of twenty pages takes you on a short tour of MATLAB. The article covers briefly some selected MATLAB commands. The presentation is made in the form of solved examples showing the exact MATLAB commands used and the output. At the end of the article, there are about 19 unsolved...
Physics of the Impossible
A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
Teleportation, time machines, force fields, and interstellar space ships—the stuff of science fiction or potentially attainable future technologies? Inspired by the fantastic worlds of Star Trek, Star Wars, and Back to the Future, renowned theoretical physicist and bestselling author Michio Kaku...
Storytelling with Data
A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
Don't simply show your data—tell a story with it!
Storytelling with Data teaches you the fundamentals of data visualization and how to communicate effectively with data. You'll discover the power of storytelling and the way to make data a pivotal point in your story. The lessons in this illuminative...
The Half-Life of Facts
Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
New insights from the science of science
Facts change all the time. Smoking has gone from doctor recommended to deadly. We used to think the Earth was the center of the universe and that the brontosaurus was a real dinosaur. In short, what we know about the world is constantly changing.
Samuel...
The End of Average
How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Are you above average? Is your child an A student? Is your employee an introvert or an extrovert? Every day we are measured against the yardstick of averages, judged according to how closely we come to it or how far we deviate from it.
The assumption that metrics comparing us to an average—like...
by Brian Clegg, Scientific American
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Scientific American's daily Sixty-Second Science podcast was such an unexpected success, with millions of downloads, that a spin-off site was created around the concept of bite-sized science. This new series of books will tackle the biggest topics in science by breaking them up into quick and easy...
by Rory Miller
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Drawing on extensive experience with unstable, violent, intoxicated and mentally ill people, former Corrections Sergeant Rory Miller delivers a street-level guide to building rapport, taking command and avoiding force.
An altered state of consciousness can be caused by many things--...
Bold
How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
“A visionary roadmap for people who believe they can change the world—and invaluable advice about bringing together the partners and technologies to help them do it.” —President Bill Clinton
A radical, how-to guide for using exponential technologies, moonshot thinking, and crowd-powered...
Abundance
The Future Is Better Than You Think
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Providing abundance is humanity’s grandest challenge—this is a book about how we rise to meet it.
We will soon be able to meet and exceed the basic needs of every man, woman and child on the planet. Abundance for all is within our grasp. This bold, contrarian view, backed up by exhaustive...
Flourish
A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
From the bestselling author of Learned Optimism and Authentic Happiness comes “a relentlessly optimistic guidebook on finding and securing individual happiness” (Kirkus Reviews).
With this unprecedented promise, internationally esteemed psychologist Martin Seligman begins Flourish, his...
Making Habits, Breaking Habits
Why We Do Things, Why We Don't, and How to Make Any Change Stick
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Say you want to start going to the gym or practicing a musical instrument. How long should it take before you stop having to force it and start doing it automatically?
The surprising answers are found in Making Habits, Breaking Habits, a psychologist's popular examination of one of the most...
Grit
How to Keep Going When You Want to Give Up
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
Tempted to Give Up? Here’s How to Keep Going
If you browse through the interviews with some of the most successful people on Earth, you’ll find one common piece of advice shared by virtually all of them:
They never give up on their big goals.
Research shows that grit is...
The Resilience Factor
7 Keys to Finding Your Inner Strength and Overcoming Life's Hurdles
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2003
Resilience is a crucial ingredient–perhaps the crucial ingredient–to a happy, healthy life. More than anything else, it's what determines how high we rise above what threatens to wear us down, from battling an illness, to bolstering a marriage, to carrying on after a national crisis. Everyone...