План завоевания Крыма, составленный в царl
by Mihail Nikolaevich Berezhkov
Of all the senses, touch is the most ineffable--and the most neglected in Western culture, all but ignored by philosophers and artists over millennia. Yet it is also the sense that links us most intimately to the world around us, from our mother's caress when we're born to the gentle lowering of our eyelids after death. The Forgotten Sense gives touch its due, addressing it in multifarious ways through a series of six essays. Literary in feel, ambitious in conception, admirable in their range of...
Convinced that methods of classical physics, involving laborious calculations, are of little use in computing and interpreting complex vibratory systems, the author has developed new methods, based on the theory of electrical networks, that he considers far more useful. "A theory of vibrations that does not make full use of these modern methods of network theory," he remarks in the introduction, "would be similar to a treatise on physics that stops whenever calculus is required."After discussing...
Das Aceton (The R.A.M.S. Library of Alchemy, #14)
by Christian a Becker
Охридская рукопись Апостола конца XII века
by С.М. Кульбакин
World-Building and the Early Modern Imagination
The early modern period was rife with attempts to re-imagine the world and the human place within it. This volume looks at natural philosophers, playwrights, historians, and other figures in the period 1500-1700 as a means of accessing the plethora of world models that circulated in Europe during this era.
Mike Hulme has been studying climate change for over thirty years and is today one of the most distinctive and recognisable voices speaking internationally about climate change in the academy, in public and in the media. The argument that he has made powerfully over the last few years is that climate change has to be understood as much as an idea situated in different cultural contexts as it is as a physical phenomenon to be studied through universal scientific practices. Climate change at its c...
История о невинном заточении ближнего боя
by Н. И. Новиков
Thomas Edison's great achievements have transformed the lives of everyone in the modern world. Mark Essig here details his role in the one invention to which he never referred - the electric chair.
The Periodic Table and a Missed Nobel Prize
by Professor Ulf Lagerkvist
Альбом проектов
by Г. Судейкин
Gamblers have been trying to figure out how to game the system since our ancestors first made wagers over dice fashioned from knucklebones: in revolutionary Paris, the 'martingale' strategy was rumoured to lead to foolproof success at the roulette table; now, in the 21st century, professional gamblers are using cutting-edge techniques to tilt the odds further in their favour. At the roulette wheel, card table or racecourse, science is giving us the competitive edge over opponents, casinos and b...
This unique book presents the story of the pioneering manufacturing company Ferranti Ltd. - producer of the first commercially-available computers - and of the nine end-user organisations who purchased these machines with government help in the period 1951 to 1957. The text presents personal reminiscences from many of the diverse engineers, programmers and marketing staff who contributed to this important episode in the emergence of modern computers, further illustrated by numerous historical ph...