What makes a bridge wobble when it's not meant to? Billions of dollars mysteriously vanish into thin air? A building rock when its resonant frequency matches a gym class leaping to Snap's 1990 hit I've Got The Power? The answer is maths. Or, to be precise, what happens when maths goes wrong in the real world. As Matt Parker shows us, our modern lives are built on maths: computer programmes,...

A scintillating, encyclopaedic history, rich in detail from the arcane to the familiar...a veritable tour de force Richard Overy, New Statesman Transnational history at its finest ...social, political and cultural themes swirl together in one great canvas of immense detail and beauty Gerard DeGroot, The Times Dazzlingly erudite and entertaining Dominic Sandbrook, The Sunday Times A masterpiece...

'Astonishing ... an amazing book ... absolutely chocker full of things that we need to know' Chris Evans THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER TLS, OBSERVER, SUNDAY TIMES, FT, GUARDIAN, DAILY MAIL AND EVENING STANDARD BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 Sleep is one of the most important aspects of our life, health and longevity and yet it is increasingly neglected in twenty-first-century society, with...

How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods, nations and human rights; to trust money, books and laws; and to be enslaved by bureaucracy, timetables and consumerism? And what will our world be like in the millennia to come?

This book is a voice in the ongoing discussion on the communicative nature and consequences of content and language integrated learning (CLIL). The innovative character of the present study rests upon its context on the one hand, and its perspective on the other. The numerous accounts available in international research literature on this topic typically concern naturally bilingual...

Rising '44 is a brilliant narrative account of one of the most dramatic episodes in 20th century history, drawing on Davies' unique understanding of the issues and characters involved. In August 1944 Warsaw offered the Wehrmacht the last line of defence against the Red Army's march from Moscow to Berlin. When the Red Army reached the river Vistula, the people of Warsaw believed that...

A collection of essays dealing with issues connected with Church’s Thesis from both the philosophical and logical perspectives. The Reader will learn about the problems present in the theory of computability, with a particular emphasis being placed on the role of Church’s Thesis and the various attempts at its proving it. The contributions also concern the intuitive notion of computable...

This landmark photographic encyclopedia of the animal kingdom is revised with new species, images, and the latest scientific knowledge on all things animal!DK's Animal features stunning wildlife photography of more than 2,000 of the world's most important wild mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, insects, and other invertebrates, written by 70 natural history specialists. Each animal...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Filmwissenschaft, Note: 1,0, Universität der Künste Berlin, 28 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: „How did they ever make a movie of Lolita?" Mit dieser Frage wurde 1962 auf den Filmplakaten geworben und ihr möchte ich in meiner Hausarbeit nachgehen. Als Einleitung sollen ein zusammenfassender Abriss der...

A la croisée de nos vies et du monde dans lequel elles se déroulent, les événements sont ce qui en ponctue le cours et nous marque nous formant et déformant a la mesure de ce qu'ils nous font. Parmi eux, certains passeront inaperçus et seront vite oubliés, d'autres seront promus a com-mémoration, faisant échec au temps jusqu'a envahir les mémoires, de façon localisée ou plus globale :...

This book explores how mythical monsters, present in children’s and young adult culture, become perceived as symbols for various groups that communities tend to exclude because of their lack of conformity. It also questions whether the excluded characters, once symbolically re-created as monsters, are more likely to emancipate and gain a voice or feel condemned to isolation, aware that a...

International Security and State Borders. Series: Securitas et Societas

Enthusiasm for research on the quantum Hall effect (QHE) is unbounded. The QHE is one of the most fascinating and beautiful phenomena in all branches of physics. Tremendous theoretical and experimental developments are still being made in this sphere. Composite bosons, composite fermions and anyons were among distinguishing ideas in the original edition.In the 2nd edition, fantastic...

Tom 4 „Język – Wiedza – Media” jest księgą jubileuszową i tym samym wyrazem głębokiej wdzięczności wobec prof. Gerda Antosa za jego osiągnięcia naukowe, przyjacielskie kontakty z polskimi germanistami oraz prawdziwie humanistyczne podejście do nauki. Język: Komunikacja językowa znajduje się w centrum rozważań naukowych Jubilata. „Teflon-Wörter”, „Tarnkappen-Rhetorik” oraz...

A collection of essays assessing the origins of various rule-based systems including, but not limited to, morality, rationality and justice from the perspectives of both philosophy and psychology. The Reader will learn about diverse cognitive and neurocognitive phenomena responsible for the emergence of these normative orders such as imitation, time preferences and the dual-processing mind....

Questions concerning the sense of man and the sense of the unvierse are closely related. In fact, they constitute one Big Question. Man is genetically connected to the universe and the origins of man have their roots in the history of the universe. If the universe has sense then it most probably embraces man since he is a part or, even more, an element of the structure of the universe. Would...

Philosophy in science should be sharply distinguished from the philosophy of science. The latter offers a philosophical reflection on the method of science; the former, on the contrary, is expected to concentrate on the mutual influence between the philosophical ideas and scientific theories and practice. The papers collected in this volume explore both the methodological niveau of the...

Tom szósty Studiów z filozofii prawa poświęcony jest zagadnieniu normatywności prawa. Jest to jedno z najbardziej kontrowersyjnych zagadnień w filozofii prawa. Było ono przedmiotem gorącej dyskusji w XIX w., a przez ostatnie sto lat, badanie normatywności przybierało różne kształty i formy: od dualizmu Kelsena, poprzez redukcjonizm proponowany przez realistów prawnych, aż do stanowisk...

From the acclaimed author of Japan Story, this is the history of Japan, distilled into the stories of twenty remarkable individuals. The vivid and entertaining portraits in Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book take the reader from the earliest written accounts of Japan right through to the life of the current empress, Masako. We encounter shamans and warlords, poets and...

Preface 1. Preliminaries 1.1. Short LMS Algorithm History 1.2. Random Processes 1.3. Stability and Convergence 1.4. Linear Optimum Filtering 1.5. Least MEan Squares Algorithm 1.6. Partial Update Algorithms 2. Classic Stability and Convergence Analysis 2.1. Introduction 2.2. Small-Step-Size Theory ...