Stephen Hawking: The Life of the World's Most Famous Scientist by Charles River Editors
English | April 15, 2015 | ISBN: 1511731079 | 55 pages | EPUB | 0.97 Mb
*Includes pictures *Includes Hawking's own quotes about his life and work *Includes footnotes, online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents "My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all." - Stephen Hawking "I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer." - Stephen Hawking In the pantheon of great theoretical physicists that includes the names of such historical luminaries as Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein, it is, perhaps, supremely ironic that the successor to the leading scientific minds of their generations has produced such "groundbreaking work in physics and cosmology" , while at the same time battling one of the world's most insidious and relentless diseases. Dr. Stephen William Hawking, British mathematician, theoretical physicist, and cosmologist, is the face of twenty-first century physics, and yet cannot speak directly to his audience. For verbal communication, he relies on the use of an electronically activated vocal synthesizer. The scientist who has most notably carried the ideas of Einstein and his colleagues forward from the early-to-mid 20th century, whether in terms of explanation, rejection, or confirmation of any given question, is no longer able to move his limbs due to the incapacitating effects of ALS, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. The affliction is better known in the United States as "Lou Gehrig's Disease," named after the great American baseball player. Since 2009, in fact, Hawking can no longer operate his wheelchair. With a failing body but a world-leading mind that has remained active and keen through the years, Dr. Hawking continues to fight for any means of communication that he or his scientific environment can devise, presently placing much of his attention on systems with which to "translate his brain patterns into switch activations." This desperate struggle to stay connected comes at a time in which the amassing of Hawking's theories, developed over the past half-century, seems poised to discover and affirm new solutions to the mysteries of the universe. Occupying a unique place in the history of physics, Hawking, more than Newton or Einstein, lives in the perfect era from which to stand at the threshold of new possibilities for balancing and synchronizing the theories of General Relativity, put forth by his great predecessors, and the newer field of the quantum world, hinted at in the mid-twentieth century but only more recently brought forward by leading proponents. He has devoted the lion's share of his adult life to "probing the space-time described by general relativity and the singularities where it breaks down," and is, in advancing years, more driven than ever by the urge to uncover all he can about the nature of the larger universe. Stephen Hawking: The Life of the World's Most Famous Scientist examines the life and career of the English physicist. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about Stephen Hawking like never before, in no time at all.

James O. Berger, "Statistical Decision Theory and Bayesian Analysis"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 1441930744 | PDF | pages: 632 | 53.4 mb
In this new edition the author has added substantial material on Bayesian analysis, including lengthy new sections on such important topics as empirical and hierarchical Bayes analysis, Bayesian calculation, Bayesian communication, and group decision making. With these changes, the book can be used as a self-contained introduction to Bayesian analysis. In addition, much of the decision-theoretic portion of the text was updated, including new sections covering such modern topics as minimax multivariate (Stein) estimation.

State Immunity and International Investment Law by Zixin Meng
English | PDF | 2022 | 218 Pages | ISBN : 9811927782 | 4.5 MB
The book provides a sophisticated analysis of state immunity from an enforcement perspective. It covers all relevant legal techniques of enforcing an arbitral award against a sovereign state. Besides tackling the plea of state immunity through the courts, this book also covers notable non-judicial remedial measures which may aid the aggrieved investors in satisfying their claims against state parties to a dispute.

Eric Langshur, "Start Here: Master the Lifelong Habit of Wellbeing"
English | 2017 | pages: 336 | ISBN: 1501129139, 1501129082 | EPUB | 2,8 mb
A New York Times Bestseller!

Sql: Advanced Best Practices And Realistic Example by Joshua Navarro
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B5T4R3M3 | 533 pages | EPUB | 45 Mb
Efficient SQL combines sensible services and insights so you can address complicated issues with SQL and layout data sources that streamline information management in the future. It's the only contemporary book that unites progressed finest methods as well as sensible instance code for every one of these variations of SQL: IBM DB2, Microsoft Gain Access To, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle Database, and PostgreSQL.

Jerome Jaglale, "Spring Cookbook : over 100 hands-on recipes to build Spring web applications easily and efficiently"
English | 2015 | pages: 234 | ISBN: 1783985801 | PDF | 10,5 mb
Over 100 hands-on recipes to build Spring web applications easily and efficiently

Marija Grech, "Spectrality and Survivance: Living the Anthropocene "
English | ISBN: 1786614154 | 2022 | 156 pages | PDF | 1290 KB

Edward Hirsch, "Special Orders: Poems"
English | 2010 | pages: 80 | ISBN: 0375711554, 0307266818 | EPUB | 1,7 mb
In these powerful and "achingly beautiful" (Booklist) poems of self-examination and openness from one of the cornerstones of the poetry world, Edward Hirsch assesses "the minor triumphs, the major failures" of his life, and the people and places that have colored it.

Austin Sarat, "Special Issue: Feminist Legal Theory (Studies in Law, Politics, and Society) "
English | ISBN: 1785607839 | 2016 | 264 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Half a century after the beginning of the second wave, feminist legal theorists are still writing about many of the subjects they addressed early on: money, sex, reproduction, and jobs. What has changed is the way that they talk about these subjects. Specifically, these theorists now posit a more complex and nuanced conception of power. Recent scholarship recognizes the complexities of power in contemporary society, the ways in which these complexities entrench sex inequality, and the role that law can play in reducing inequality and increasing agency. The feminist legal theorists in this volume are emblematic of this effort. They carefully examine the relationship between gender, equality, and power across an array of realms: sex, reproduction, pleasure, work, money. In doing so they identify social, political, economic, developmental, and psychological and somatic forces, operating both internally and externally, that complicate the expression and constraint of power. Finally, they give sophisticated thought to the possibilities for legal interventions in light of these more complex notions of power.

Sol-Gel Silica. Properties, Processing and Technology Transfer By Larry L. Hench (Auth.)
1998 | 170 Pages | ISBN: 0815514190 | PDF | 4 MB
Content: Preface, Pages vii-viii1 - The Concept, Pages 1-72 - Sol-Gel Kinetics, Pages 8-233 - Aging, Pages 24-324 - Drying, Pages 33-425 - Stabilization, Pages 43-626 - Densification, Pages 63-697 - Laser Densification, Pages 70-798 - Gel-Silica Optics, Pages 80-969 - Porous Gel-Silica Optical Matrices, Pages 97-11610 - Biological Implications, Pages 117-13211 - Technology Transfer of Gel-Silica Optics, Pages 133-150Acknowledgment, Page 151References, Pages 152-163Index, Pages 164-168