Crystal Fire

Author : Michael Riordan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393041248
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crystal Fire written by Michael Riordan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's hard to imagine any device more crucial to modern life than the microchip and the transistor from which it sprang. Every waking hour of every day people benefit from its use in cellular phones, computers, radios, TVs, and ATMs. This eloquent retelling of the story behind the invention of the transistor recounts how pride and jealousy coupled with scientific aspirations ignited the greatest technological explosion in history. Photos & drawings.

Author : Michael Riordan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393318517
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crystal Fire written by Michael Riordan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work tells the human story of the process of invention that led to the invention of the transistor.

Author : Kathleen Morgan
Publisher : Leisure Books
ISBN 13 : 9780843932850
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crystal Fire written by Kathleen Morgan and published by Leisure Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A futuristic romance that Janelle Taylor calls, "a unique and magical tale". Marissa frees the daring warrior Brace from unjust imprisonment to use as a pawn in exchange for her sister's freedom. But as the danger-filled days and the long cold nights pass, Marissa knows her mission is doomed. For how can she save her sister by betraying the man she loves?

Author : Michael Riordan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324074841
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crystal Fire: The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age written by Michael Riordan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Without the invention of the transistor, I'm quite sure that the PC would not exist as we know it today."—Bill Gates On December 16, 1947, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, physicists at Bell Laboratories, jabbed two electrodes into a sliver of germanium. The power flowing from the germanium far exceeded what went in; in that moment the transistor was invented and the Information Age was born. No other devices have been as crucial to modern life as the transistor and the microchip it spawned, but the story of the science and personalities that made these inventions possible has not been fully told until now. Crystal Fire fills this gap and carries the story forward. William Shockley, Bell Labs' team leader and co-recipient of the Nobel Prize with Brattain and Bardeen for the discovery, grew obsessed with the transistor and went on to become the father of Silicon Valley. Here is a deeply human story about the process of invention — including the competition and economic aspirations involved — all part of the greatest technological explosion in history. The intriguing history of the transistor — its inventors, physics, and stunning impact on society and the economy — unfolds here in a richly told tale."—Science News "Thoroughly accessible to lay readers as well as the techno-savvy. . . . [A] fine book."—Publishers Weekly

Author : Dash Hoffman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578715803
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mrs. Perivale and the Blue Fire Crystal written by Dash Hoffman and published by . This book was released on 2017-03 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 International Best Seller! 73yo Mrs. Perivale embarks on a dangerous adventure with her 7 charismatic cats, her stab-tastic knitting needles, and a devoted butler who makes sure she takes her pills on time! She must fulfill a prophecy and save the magical world of Corevé from treacherous evil before it is destroyed! Granny & cats to the rescue!

Author : Jordan Dane
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 0373210930
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crystal Fire written by Jordan Dane and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gabriel Stewart and his team of teen psychics resolve to end a plot by the obsessed leader of a fanatical church whose followers are brainwashing and torturing all psychic children in order to destroy them.

Author : Alicia Rades
Publisher : Crystallite Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 0991469356
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fire in Frost written by Alicia Rades and published by Crystallite Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2017-01-19 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CRYSTAL FROST tells herself she isn’t crazy, but sane people don’t see ghosts. As her psychic abilities manifest, Crystal discovers she can see into the future, witness the past, and speak with the dead. Add blackmail to the list of things she never thought would happen to her, and you basically have her sophomore year covered. After spotting her first ghost, secrets from her family, friends, and classmates begin to surface. Uncovering secrets can be dangerous, but giving up means someone will get hurt. Again.

Author : Sherry Petersik
Publisher : Artisan
ISBN 13 : 1579656765
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Young House Love written by Sherry Petersik and published by Artisan. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This New York Times bestselling book is filled with hundreds of fun, deceptively simple, budget-friendly ideas for sprucing up your home. With two home renovations under their (tool) belts and millions of hits per month on their blog YoungHouseLove.com, Sherry and John Petersik are home-improvement enthusiasts primed to pass on a slew of projects, tricks, and techniques to do-it-yourselfers of all levels. Packed with 243 tips and ideas—both classic and unexpected—and more than 400 photographs and illustrations, this is a book that readers will return to again and again for the creative projects and easy-to-follow instructions in the relatable voice the Petersiks are known for. Learn to trick out a thrift-store mirror, spice up plain old roller shades, "hack" your Ikea table to create three distinct looks, and so much more.

Author : Alan Dean Foster
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504067762
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nor Crystal Tears written by Alan Dean Foster and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A first-contact novel written from an alien perspective by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Star Trek Into Darkness. Ryo is one of the Thranx, a race of social arthropods. From his larval years to now, his life has been normal, though his love of learning and insatiable curiosity set him apart. He has settled into his work as an agriculture specialist and is premated to a lovely female. Yet Ryo still feels something is missing from his life, and when he heroically defends his colony from the Thranx’s reptilian nemesis, Ryo gets a taste of excitement that’s hard to forget. Then his premate shares a garbled message from her starship-captain cousin—one that hints at the discovery of a completely new, completely alien space-going intelligence. Even when the captain backtracks and denounces the experience as a deep-space nightmare, Ryo can’t let it go. He becomes obsessed, leaving his colony and family behind to chase rumors of a murderous alien race, horrible beyond imagining. And when he finally makes it to an isolated military outpost rumored to harbor the captured aliens, he comes face-to-face with . . . humanity. Praise for Alan Dean Foster “One of the most consistently inventive and fertile writers of science-fiction and fantasy.” —The Times (London) “Alan Dean Foster is a master of creating alien worlds.” —SFRevu.com “Foster knows how to spin a yarn.” —Starlog “Alan Dean Foster is the modern day Renaissance writer, as his abilities seem to have no genre boundaries.” —Bookbrowser

Author : David F. Channell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351977407
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Technoscience written by David F. Channell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-06-14 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are science and technology independent of one another? Is technology dependent upon science, and if so, how is it dependent? Is science dependent upon technology, and if so how is it dependent? Or, are science and technology becoming so interdependent that the line dividing them has become totally erased? This book charts the history of technoscience from the late nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century and shows how the military–industrial–academic complex and big science combined to create new examples of technoscience in such areas as the nuclear arms race, the space race, the digital age, and the new worlds of nanotechnology and biotechnology.