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Hatamoto
Samurai Horse and Foot Guards 1540–1724
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Each great samurai warlord, or daimyo, had a division of troops known as the Hatamoto, 'those who stand under the flag'. The Hatamoto included the personal bodyguards, the senior generals, the standard bearers and colour-guard, the couriers, and the other samurai under the warlord's personal command....
Becoming Beside Ourselves
The Alphabet, Ghosts, and Distributed Human Being
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2008
Becoming Beside Ourselves continues the investigation that the renowned cultural theorist and mathematician Brian Rotman began in his previous books Signifying Nothing and Ad Infinitum...The Ghost in Turing’s Machine: exploring certain signs and the conceptual innovations and subjectivities that...
Voices of Unbelief: Documents from Atheists and Agnostics
Documents from Atheists and Agnostics
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
Voices of Unbelief: Documents from Atheists and Agnostics is the first anthology to provide comprehensive, annotated readings on atheism and unbelief expressly for high school and college students. This diverse compilation brings together letters, essays, diary entries, book excerpts, blogs, monologues,...
by JP Tate
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
"All God Worshippers Are Mad: a little book of sanity" seeks to demonstrate in a logical common sense manner that the fundamental beliefs held by all monotheists are incomprehensible and lunatic. It attempts to show that god worshippers themselves do not understand the things they claim...
by Peter Godfrey-Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
This is a concise, comprehensive, and accessible introduction to the philosophy of biology written by a leading authority on the subject. Geared to philosophers, biologists, and students of both, the book provides sophisticated and innovative coverage of the central topics and many of the latest developments...
Earth in Human Hands
Shaping Our Planet's Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
For the first time in Earth's history, our planet is experiencing a confluence of rapidly accelerating changes prompted by one species: humans. Climate change is only the most visible of the modifications we've made--up until this point, inadvertently--to the planet. And our current behavior threatens...
by Julia Fischer
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
In the high-pressure world today, it’s easy not to notice the natural world’s beauty. Our world seems quite distant from the world of our ancestors, where nature and humans were as one, with the existence of both intertwined in life’s natural cycles. So meet Wicca, the Way of the Craft. Its...
Martin Gardner's Science Magic
Tricks and Puzzles
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
Make an eggshell turn a somersault, spin a coin so that it lands on "heads," teach a bear to climb a string, and perform other acts of scientific wizardry! Martin Gardner, the master of mathematical puzzles, shares more than 80 of his finest magic tricks, teaching children and adults the...
by TARR, M., SAMSON
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Oxygen free radicals and other reactive oxygen species are being postulated as causal agents in an increasing number of pathological conditions. Indeed, some investigators are suggesting that highly destructive reactive oxygen species are the final common path lead ing to tissue damage following...
by Richard A. Neuhaus
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
The Neuhaus Science Projects Guide, How to Use a Spectrophotometer, is written for the average high school student in grades 9 through 12.
This guide booklet is written to help students succeed with science projects that require the use of a spectrophotometer. It provides details on the use...
by TempleofMysteries.com
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2012
IntroductionThe first doubts about the official version were raised by Professor Spann's autopsy, which suggested that Rudolf Hess had been strangled with the cable, rather than hanging himself with it - which of course means that somebody else was involved.Background - The prisoner of...
Robot Ethics 2.0
From Autonomous Cars to Artificial Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
The robot population is rising on Earth and other planets. (Mars is inhabited entirely by robots.) As robots slip into more domains of human life--from the operating room to the bedroom--they take on our morally important tasks and decisions, as well as create new risks from psychological to physical....
Lucky Planet
Why Earth is Exceptional-and What That Means for Life in the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Why Earth’s life-friendly climate makes it exceptional-and what that means for the likelihood of finding intelligent extraterrestrial life
We have long fantasized about finding life on planets other than our own. Yet even as we become aware of the vast expanses beyond our solar system, it...
The Application of Neural Networks in the Earth System Sciences
Neural Networks Emulations for Complex Multidimensional Mappings
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
This book brings together a representative set of Earth System Science (ESS) applications of the neural network (NN) technique. It examines a progression of atmospheric and oceanic problems, which, from the mathematical point of view, can be formulated as complex, multidimensional, and nonlinear mappings....