'Quantum mechanics for real. This is the good stuff, the most mysterious aspects of how reality works, set out with crystalline clarity. The place to start' Sean Carroll, physicist, California Institute of Technology, author of The Particle at the End of the Universe This is the ultimate practical introduction to quantum mechanics. World-renowned physicist Leonard Susskind and...

Stop waiting for the network team!If basic TCP/IP was hard, network administrators couldn’t do it. Servers give sysadmins a incredible visibility into the network—once they know how to unlock it. Most sysadmins don’t need to understand window scaling, or the differences between IPv4 and IPv6 echo requests, or other intricacies of the TCP/IP protocols. You need only enough to deploy your own...

According to Xenophon, Socrates tried to persuade his associate Aristippus to moderate his excessive indulgence in wine, women, and food, arguing that only hard work can bring happiness. Aristippus wasn't convinced. Instead, he and his followers espoused the most radical form of hedonism in ancient Western philosophy. Before the rise of the better known but comparatively ascetic Epicureans,...

Die kommunale Feuerwehrbedarfsplanung gehort zu den unverzichtbaren und in vielen Bundeslandern gesetzlich vorgeschriebenen Planungsinstrumenten einer Kommune, um die bedarfsgerechte Dimensionierung ihrer Feuerwehr zu verwirklichen. Dabei sind der technische, personelle und organisatorische Bedarf des Einsatzdienstes, Anspruche der Feuerwehr-Angehorigen und Anforderungen der...

**From BBC presenter and journalist Ros Atkins, creator of the viral 'Ros Atkins on...' explainer videos and host of the forthcoming BBC Radio 4 podcast 'Communicating with Ros Atkins'** 'A great read for polishing your communication skills' FORBES 'For all those who want their audiences to listen and understand' JEREMY BOWEN 'Precision, deftness and a calming...

SEASON 2 OF THE ACCLAIMED SILO SERIES ― BASED ON BOOK 1, WOOL ― NOW ON APPLE TV+ In this Silo series prequel, the second volume in the New York Times best-selling dystopian series, Hugh Howey describes the catastrophic events that led to the creation of the silo― and the beginning of the end In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the...

Seit dem 7. Jahrhundert dehnt sich die Christianisierung immer weiter uber die noch heidnischen Gebiete Europas aus, wahrend es nach dem Tod Karls des Grossen 814 und dem Zerfall des Frankenreiches zu den grossen Reichsbildungen kommt. In der westlichen Reichshalfte entsteht seither das spatere Frankreich, in der Osthalfte bildet sich das Ostfrankenreich heraus. Wikinger fallen ein, im Suden...

Populist rage, ideological fracture, economic and technological shocks, war, and an international system studded with catastrophic risk―the early decades of the twenty-first century may be the most revolutionary period in modern history. But it is not the first. Humans have lived, and thrived, through more than one great realignment. What are these revolutions, and how can they help us to...

'It all starts with waking up... to what our bodies are expressing and our minds are suppressing'

Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. An ambitious synthesis of history, biology, ecology and linguistics, Guns, Germs and Steel remains a...

Für kaum eine Gruppe von Piloten ist das Wetter und das entsprechende Wissen darüber so entscheidend wie für Segelflieger. Kann ein Motorflieger kritisches Wetter kurzerhand um- oder überfliegen, muss ein Segelflieger sich damit arrangieren und ganz anders auseinandersetzen. Doch Wetter bedeutet nicht automatisch nur Gefahr - wer das Wettergeschehen richtig "lesen" kann, der ist auch im...

‘The very grubby coalface of foreign policy … I found the entire book most horribly addictive’ Independent ‘One of the unexpected responses to reading this masterful study is amazement at the efforts the British and French each put into undermining the other’ Spectator A fascinating insight into the untold story of how British-French rivalry drew the...

From an award-winning financial historian comes the gripping, character-driven story of venture capital and the world it made Innovations rarely come from "experts." Jeff Bezos was not a bookseller; Elon Musk was not in the auto industry. When it comes to innovation, a legendary venture capitalist told Sebastian Mallaby, the future cannot be predicted, it can only be discovered. Most...

There is an entrenched relationship between the consulting industry and the way business and government are managed today which must change. Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington show that our economies' reliance on companies such as McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Company, PwC, Deloitte, KPMG and EY stunts innovation, obfuscates corporate and political accountability and...

This is a book about TRUTH – and all the ingenious ways, throughout history, that we’ve managed to avoid it. We live in a ‘post-truth’ age, we’re told. The US has a president who openly lies on a daily basis (or who doesn’t even know what’s true, and doesn’t care). The internet has turned our everyday lives into a misinformation battleground. People don’t trust experts any more. But was...

A wave of optimism is sweeping through the international aid and development industry, championed by leaders such as Jeffrey Sachs and Jim Yong Kim, who believe that poverty eradication could be within our grasp. Yet in stark opposition come those who believe that all international development intervention is hegemonic, paternalistic, and neocolonialist and must be done away with. In this...

Chosen 16 times as a 'Book of the Year' - the top non-fiction pick of 2012'The best work of modern history I have ever read' A. N. Wilson, Financial TimesAt the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union unexpectedly found itself in control of a huge swathe of territory in Eastern Europe. Stalin and his secret police set out to convert a dozen radically different countries to a completely...

A mesmerizing trip to the strange new world of white holes, from Carlo Rovelli, the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics Let us journey into the heart of a black hole. Let us slip beyond its boundary, the horizon, and tumble - on and on - down this crack in the universe. As we plunge, we'll see geometry fold, we'll feel the equations draw tight around us. Eventually, we'll...

What you actually need to know to succeed in the film industry. Packed with practical, hard-working tips and advice, this book is a no-nonsense guide on how to get the best out of your film-school education, how to navigate some of the most frustrating moments in an artist's life, and how to keep the inspiration going as you battle your way through the indie filmmaking world. With a fresh...

Are you a human? Do you have a mind? Then this book is for you. Nothing is more familiar and yet less understood than the human mind. It defines the experience of being human, and yet its workings contain some of the deepest mysteries ever encountered. Written by one of the world's greatest teachers of psychology, The Human Mind provides a masterful and riveting guide to all that we have...