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Sundials

Their Construction and Use

By: Robert Newton Mayall,Margaret Walton Mayall

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Sundials

Their Construction and Use

By: Robert Newton Mayall,Margaret Walton Mayall

Clear instructions for constructing a sundial on almost any surface and in virtually any position, with information on materials, Standard Time dials, laying out hour lines, and more. 150 illustrations.

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Courier Corporation

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048641146X

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9780486411460

Best Science and Technology Reference Books for Young People

By: Harold Robert Malinowsky

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Best Science and Technology Reference Books for Young People

By: Harold Robert Malinowsky

Guide lists reference books in physical, applied, and natural sciences and technology for readers from elementary school age to young adults. Includes prices, where reviewed, annotations, and subject terms.

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236

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Greenwood

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0897745809

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9780897745802

The Sceptical Chymist

By: Robert Boyle

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The Sceptical Chymist

By: Robert Boyle

This 1661 classic defines the term "element" and asserts that all natural phenomena can be explained by the motion and organization of primary particles. 1911 edition.

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260

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Courier Corporation

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0486166570

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9780486166575

Mathematics of the Incas

Code of the Quipu

By: Marcia Ascher,Robert Ascher

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Mathematics of the Incas

Code of the Quipu

By: Marcia Ascher,Robert Ascher

Unique, thought-provoking study discusses quipu, an accounting system employing knotted, colored cords, used by Incas. Cultural context, mathematics involved, and even how to make a quipu. Over 125 illustrations.

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180

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Courier Corporation

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0486152707

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9780486152707

Describing the Hand of God

Divine Agency and Augustinian Obstacles to the Dialogue between Theology and Science

By: Robert Brennan

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Describing the Hand of God

Divine Agency and Augustinian Obstacles to the Dialogue between Theology and Science

By: Robert Brennan

The question of divine agency in the world remains one important unresolved underlying obstacle in the dialogue between theology and science. Modern notions of divine agency are shown to have developed out of the interaction of three factors in early modernity. Two are well known: late medieval perfect-being theology and the early modern application of the notion of the two books of God's revelation to the understanding of the natural order. It is argued the third is the early modern appropriation of theAugustinian doctrine of inspiration. This assumes the soul's existence and a particular description of divine agency in humans, which became more generally applied to divine agency in nature. Whereas Newton explicitly draws the parallel between divine agency in humans and that in nature, Darwin rejects its supposed perfection and Huxley raises serious questions regarding the traditional understanding of the soul. This book offers an alternative incarnational description of divine agency, freeing consideration of divine agency from being dependent on resolving the complex issues of perfect-being theology and the existence of the soul. In conversation with Barth's pneumatology, this proposal is shown to remain theologically coherent and plausible while resolving or avoiding a range of known difficulties in the science-theology dialogue.

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302

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James Clarke & Company

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0227905326

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9780227905326

Mechanism and Materialism

British Natural Philosophy in An Age of Reason

By: Robert E. Schofield

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Mechanism and Materialism

British Natural Philosophy in An Age of Reason

By: Robert E. Schofield

Robert Schofield explores the rational elements of British experimental natural philosophy in the 18th century by tracing the influence of two opposing concepts of the nature of matter and its action—mechanism and materialism. Both concepts rested on the Newtonian interpretation of their proponents, although each developed more or less independently. By integrating the developments in all the areas of experimental natural philosophy, describing their connections and the influences of Continental science, natural theology, and to a lesser degree social and institutional changes, the author demonstrates that mechanistic concepts dominated interpretations from about 1687 to 1740, when they were replaced by materialistic concepts. A revival of the mechanistic approach early in the next century made England a fertile field for ideas on the dynamic interaction of forces. Originally published in 1970. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400871026

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9781400871025

Economics, Enlightenment, and Canadian Nationalism

By: Robert W. Wright

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Economics, Enlightenment, and Canadian Nationalism

By: Robert W. Wright

Orthodox economics has played a role in the gradual narrowing of the concept of man from a being involved with the fullness of life to "economic man" an efficiently functioning mechanism within present-day technological society. The current subservience to economic and technological efficiency has produced a spiritual malaise that Wright believes must be challenged. He argues that the reconstruction of "economic man" involves the recuperation of both "universal" knowledge from the past and "local" knowledge from within one's own culture. Citing the Bible as the text for universal knowledge for the West, Wright examines the work of Blake, Kierkegaard, and Tillich as representative figures who have challenged the narrow scientism of the "idea of progress" and "economic man." For local knowledge, he turns to the work of Margaret Atwood, Harold Innis, and Alex Colville representative figures who speak to the dissonant tensions that lie at the heart of Canadian culture. Each has identified the main features of Canadian existence and potential and, in spite of the diversity of their intellectual orientation, shares the view that we are burdened with bias and domination men over women, civilization over nature, space over time, foreign control over nationalism, and centre over margin. Wright believes it is imperative to have a positive theory of Canadian nationalism available if the free-trade agreement begins to collapse, and argues that Canadians would recognize the enormously privileged position of their country if they could only summon the political will to go beyond the narrow confines of "economic man" and abandon their acceptance of the debilitating pursuit of the "idea of progress." The book includes six paintings by Alex Colville reproduced in black and white.

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150

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773563792

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9780773563797

Anaximander in Context

New Studies in the Origins of Greek Philosophy

By: Dirk L. Couprie,Robert Hahn,Gerard Naddaf

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Anaximander in Context

New Studies in the Origins of Greek Philosophy

By: Dirk L. Couprie,Robert Hahn,Gerard Naddaf

Promoting a new, broadly interdisciplinary horizon for future studies in early Greek philosophy, Dirk L. Couprie, Robert Hahn, and Gerard Naddaf establish the cultural context in which Anaximander's thought developed and in which the origins of Greek philosophy unfolded in its earliest stages. In order to better understand Anaximander's achievement, the authors call our attention to the historical, social, political, technological, cosmological, astronomical, and observational contexts of his thought. Anaximander in Context brings to the forefront of modern debates the importance of cultural context, and the indispensability of images to clarify ancient ideologies.

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State University of New York Press

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0791487784

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9780791487785

A Time for War

The United States and Vietnam, 1941-1975

By: Robert D. Schulzinger

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A Time for War

The United States and Vietnam, 1941-1975

By: Robert D. Schulzinger

Even after two decades, the memory of the Vietnam War seems to haunt our culture. From Forrest Gump to Miss Saigon, from Tim O'Brien's Pulitzer Prize-winning Going After Cacciato to Robert McNamara's controversial memoir In Retrospect, Americans are drawn again and again to ponder our long, tragic involvement in Southeast Asia. Now eminent historian Robert D. Schulzinger has combed the newly available documentary evidence, both in public and private archives, to produce an ambitious, masterful account of three decades of war in Vietnam--the first major full-length history of the conflict to be based on primary sources. In A Time for War, Schulzinger paints a vast yet intricate canvas of more than three decades of conflict in Vietnam, from the first rumblings of rebellion against the French colonialists to the American intervention and eventual withdrawal. His comprehensive narrative incorporates every aspect of the war--from the military (as seen in his brisk account of the French failure at Dienbienphu) to the economic (such as the wage increase sparked by the draft in the United States) to the political. Drawing on massive research, he offers a vivid and insightful portrait of the changes in Vietnamese politics and society, from the rise of Ho Chi Minh, to the division of the country, to the struggles between South Vietnamese president Diem and heavily armed religious sects, to the infighting and corruption that plagued Saigon. Schulzinger reveals precisely how outside powers--first the French, then the Americans--committed themselves to war in Indochina, even against their own better judgment. Roosevelt, for example, derided the French efforts to reassert their colonial control after World War II, yet Truman, Eisenhower, and their advisers gradually came to believe that Vietnam was central to American interests. The author's account of Johnson is particularly telling and tragic, describing how president would voice clear headed, even prescient warnings about the dangers of intervention--then change his mind, committing America's prestige and military might to supporting a corrupt, unpopular regime. Schulzinger offers sharp criticism of the American military effort, and offers a fascinating look inside the Nixon White House, showing how the Republican president dragged out the war long past the point when he realized that the United States could not win. Finally, Schulzinger paints a brilliant political and social portrait of the times, illuminating the impact of the war on the lives of ordinary Americans and Vietnamese. Schulzinger shows what it was like to participate in the war--as a common soldier, an American nurse, a navy flyer, a conscript in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, a Vietcong fighter, or an antiwar protester. In a field crowded with fiction, memoirs, and popular tracts, A Time for War will stand as the landmark history of America's longest war. Based on extensive archival research, it will be the first place readers will turn in an effort to understand this tragic, divisive conflict.

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Oxford University Press

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0199879362

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9780199879366

The Dark Matter Problem

A Historical Perspective

By: Robert H. Sanders

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The Dark Matter Problem

A Historical Perspective

By: Robert H. Sanders

Most astronomers and physicists now believe that the matter content of the Universe is dominated by dark matter: hypothetical particles which interact with normal matter primarily through the force of gravity. Though invisible to current direct detection methods, dark matter can explain a variety of astronomical observations. This book describes how this theory has developed over the past 75 years, and why it is now a central feature of extragalactic astronomy and cosmology. Current attempts to directly detect dark matter locally are discussed, together with the implications for particle physics. The author comments on the sociology of these developments, demonstrating how and why scientists work and interact. Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND), the leading alternative to this theory, is also presented. This fascinating overview will interest cosmologists, astronomers and particle physicists. Mathematics is kept to a minimum, so the book can be understood by non-specialists.

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214

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Cambridge University Press

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1139485733

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9781139485739

Scrooge's Cryptic Carol

Visions of Energy, Time, and Quantum Nature

By: Robert Gilmore

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Scrooge's Cryptic Carol

Visions of Energy, Time, and Quantum Nature

By: Robert Gilmore

When the destination sign on Scrooges train reads "HEAT DEATH" instead of "HEATHROW," when his dead partner Marleys face appears as a talking head in a department store TV, and when the street lights outside his flat begin acting strangely, it is a sign of a bad night to come. Like his famous ancestor, the modern Scrooge is about to be visited by ghosts. But its not his hard heart that needs opening; its his closed mind. Physicist Robert Gilmore, author of the popular Alice in Quantumland, presents here a delightful takeoff, where the three visitations represent Science Past, Present and Future. For everyone who wants a playful, painless yet surprisingly sophisticated introduction to the ideas of modern physics, this is a brilliant tour de force and a charming read.

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276

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387948007

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9780387948003

Complex Physical, Biophysical and Econophysical Systems

Proceedings of the 22nd Canberra International Physics Summer School, the Australian National University, Canberra, 8-19 December 2008

By: Robert L. Dewar,Frank Detering

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Complex Physical, Biophysical and Econophysical Systems

Proceedings of the 22nd Canberra International Physics Summer School, the Australian National University, Canberra, 8-19 December 2008

By: Robert L. Dewar,Frank Detering

1. Introduction to complex and econophysics systems : a navigation map / T. Aste and T. Di Matteo -- 2. An introduction to fractional diffusion / B. I. Henry, T.A.M. Langlands and P. Straka -- 3. Space plasmas and fusion plasmas as complex systems / R. O. Dendy -- 4. Bayesian data analysis / M. S. Wheatland -- 5. Inverse problems and complexity in earth system science / I. G. Enting -- 6. Applied fluid chaos : designing advection with periodically reoriented flows for micro to geophysical mixing and transport enhancement / G. Metcalfe -- 7. Approaches to modelling the dynamical activity of brain function based on the electroencephalogram / D. T. J. Liley and F. Frascoli -- 8. Jaynes' maximum entropy principle, Riemannian metrics and generalised least action bound / R. K. Niven and B. Andresen -- 9. Complexity, post-genomic biology and gene expression programs / R. B. H. Williams and O. J.-H. Luo -- 10. Tutorials on agent-based modelling with NetLogo and network analysis with Pajek / M. J. Berryman and S. D. Angus.

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399

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World Scientific

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9814277320

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9789814277327

Five Stories High

By: Nina Allan,K. J. Parker,Tade Thompson,Robert Shearman,Sarah Lotz

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Five Stories High

By: Nina Allan,K. J. Parker,Tade Thompson,Robert Shearman,Sarah Lotz

‘They didn’t see the house until they were practically on top of it. A single building emerging from the dark. It didn’t look welcoming. But the front door was open. The door was wide open.’ Irongrove Lodge – a building with history; the very bricks and grounds imbued with the stories of those who have walked these corridors, lived in these rooms. These are the tales of an extraordinary house, a place that straddles our world and whatever lies beyond; a place that some are desperate to discover, and others to flee. At one time an asylum, at another a care home, sometimes simply a home. The residents of Irongrove Lodge will learn that this house will change them, that the stories told here never go away. Of all who enter, only some will leave. Multi-award-winning editor Jonathan Oliver has brought together five extraordinary writers to open the doors, revealing ghosts both past and present in a collection as intriguing as it is terrifying. Along with a linking narrative, this collection features five novellas by Nina Allan, Tade Thompson, K.J. Parker, Robert Shearman and Sarah Lotz.

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Solaris

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1849979294

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9781849979290

Book's by Robert Newton Mayall

Sundials

Sundials

Best Science and Technology Reference Books for Young People

Best Science and Technology Reference Books for Young People

The Sceptical Chymist

The Sceptical Chymist

Mathematics of the Incas

Mathematics of the Incas

Describing the Hand of God

Describing the Hand of God

Mechanism and Materialism

Mechanism and Materialism

Economics, Enlightenment, and Canadian Nationalism

Economics, Enlightenment, and Canadian Nationalism

Anaximander in Context

Anaximander in Context

A Time for War

A Time for War

The Dark Matter Problem

The Dark Matter Problem

Scrooge's Cryptic Carol

Scrooge's Cryptic Carol

Complex Physical, Biophysical and Econophysical Systems

Complex Physical, Biophysical and Econophysical Systems

Five Stories High

Five Stories High

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