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From the first Bumper V-2 launch in1950 to the Atlas V vehicles of today, over 55 years of Cape Canaveral history is captured in this exhaustive co...

The task given to the authors of these essays-three scholars from three different continents-was to examine the phenomenon of intelligence. We unde...

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Generations of practical and ingenious Maritimers have given the word great things. Since the mid-nineteenth century, scientists have fanned out in...

H∞ Robust design is an advancing technology which aims to achieve the system design purpose under intrinsic random fluctuation and external disturb...

When alchemy emerged in Roman Egypt, early adepts knew their wisdom came from the Egyptian temples. Yet these deep roots in ancient Egypt have rema...

The mysterious Unipolar Dynamo, so simple that even the earth's core has one, so powerful that it forges metal alloy billets and launches a rail gu...

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A reprint of the Prentice-Hall edition of 1992. Prepared by nine distinguished philosophers and historians of science, this thoughtful reader repre...

A reprint of the Prentice-Hall edition of 1992. Prepared by nine distinguished philosophers and historians of science, this thoughtful reader repre...

This book presents the main results and methods on inverse spectral problems for Sturm-Liouville differential operators and their applications. Inv...

The scope of public ignorance concerning how things work inevitably grows explosively. It is unreasonable to expect widespread or detailed understa...

For a variety of historical, cultural, social, and/or economic reasons, adults may experience the need to continue their mathematics education in s...

There is contrast to the belief that all energy and matter came into existence after the Big Bang. If we wish to understand the way the Greeks and ...

Enter the world of the occultist: where the spirits of the dead dwell amongst us, where the politics of ecstasy are played out, and where magick sp...

The report is divided into seven chapters. Chapter I can be regarded as an overview of certain common problems within the community of science and ...

Communities all over the world are discovering that maps provide a valuable tool for recording local knowledge and discussing land-use issues. In a...

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This volume of Northern Lights originates from the research programme Global Media Cultures. It is concerned with the ways in which media take part...

Based on the mature development of microfabrication technology, micro-scale electrodes, i.e., microelectrodes, for the electrical observation of ac...