#170 - Brian Clegg - Light Years and Time Travel

Author or Editor: Brian Clegg
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Published: 2001
Pages: 310
Size: 2.45MB

LIGHT I S SOMETHING THAT WE TAKE FOR GRANTED. It is a fact of everyday life, available at the press of a switch. It is the absence of darkness, the gift of the sun. It is a small part of the physics we are taught at school, a thing of ray diagrams and geometry, without substance. But light is not so easily compartmentalized. Its beguiling combination of fragility and endurance, of delicacy and power, captures the imagination just as it has fascinated scientists through the ages.

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#169 - Andrew Glyn - Capitalism Unleashed

Author or Editor: Andrew Glyn
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Published: 2006
Pages: 234
Size: 1.40MB

Low inflation, quiescent industrial relations, freedom for capital to chase profitable opportunities without restraint and the domination of market-based solutions have become familiar features of the economic landscape of the rich economies. When such a pattern becomes firmly established it soon acquires the status of business as usual. Yet 30 years ago inflation was rising, profits were squeezed, trades unions were bargaining aggressively and parties of the left were actively discussing ideas for deeper state intervention in industry. A huge shift in economic policies and behaviour was needed to launch our economies on their new trajectory. This book provides a short history of how this transformation was achieved and examines the impact on growth, stability and equality of letting free enterprise off the leash.

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#168 - Elaine Walker and Steve Elsworth - Longman's English Grammar Practice for Upper Intermediate Students

Author or Editor: Elaine Walker and Steve Elsworth
Publisher: Pearson Education Limited
Published: 2000
Pages: 204
Size: 1.21MB

This Grammar book has just about everything.The book is divided up into its relevant sections. One for verbs,one for Sentence structure, reported speech etc... The explanations are concise, detailed and clear to understand. Explanations are followed by their relavant test excercises. The book is also a pleasure to read with lots of pictures and interesting conversations and facts. As a foreign learner of English this is really very good to use but some of it is pretty advanced stuff hence the 'upper intermediate title'. It's ideal for Learners of English or those native speakers who want to inprove their language. 200 pages of value.

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#167 - Kathi Jackson - Steven Spielberg: A Biography

Author or Editor: Kathi Jackson
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 2007
Pages: 143
Size: 1.21MB

Unlike actors and singers, there are just a handful of movie directors who are known worldwide and whose very name means success. Add the word “magic” and you have narrowed the list down to two: Walt Disney and Steven Spielberg.

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#166 - Stacy Palen - Theory and Problems of Astronomy

Author or Editor: Stacy Palen
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 2002
Pages: 234
Size: 4.19MB

The purpose of this Outline is to serve as a supplement to a basic astronomy text. Much of the material here is abbreviated, and students should use this book as a guide to the key concepts in modern astronomy, but not as an all-inclusive resource.

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#165 - Jacob E. Safra - Encyclopaedia Britannica Almanac 2009

Author or Editor: Jacob E. Safra
Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc
Published: 2008
Pages: 980
Size: 26.2MB

The biggest surprise from the Supreme Court term that just ended: Barack Obama hearts the Roberts court. At the end of June, the Democratic candidate praised Justice Antonin Scalia’s 5–4 decision striking down the Washington ban on handgun possession, a ruling that recognizes the right to bear arms as an individual right. Two weeks earlier, from the other side of the ideological spectrum, Obama praised Justice Anthony Kennedy’s 5–4 decision allowing enemy combatants to challenge their detentions in federal courts, a rebuke to the Bush administration’s policies toward Guantánamo detainees.

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#164 - Michael White and John Gribbin - Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science

Author or Editor: Michael White and John Gribbin
Publisher: Joseph Henry Press
Published: 2002
Pages: 348
Size: 1.11MB

When Stephen Hawking was involved in a minor road accident in Cambridge city center early in 1991, within twelve hours American TV networks were on the phone to his publisher, Bantam, for a low- down on the story. The fact that he suffered only minor injuries and was back at his desk within days was irrelevant. But then anything about Stephen Hawking is newsworthy. This would never have happened to any other scientist in the world. Apart from the fact that physicists are seen as somehow different from other human beings, existing outside the normal patterns of human life, there is no other scientist alive as famous as Stephen Hawking.

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