Under The Microscope

Author : Pat Shaughnessy
Publisher : No Starch Press
ISBN 13 : 1593275277
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ruby Under a Microscope written by Pat Shaughnessy and published by No Starch Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An under-the-hood look at how the Ruby programming language runs code. Extensively illustrated with complete explanations and hands-on experiments. Covers Ruby 2.x"--

Author : Alexandre Borovik
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 0821847619
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mathematics Under the Microscope written by Alexandre Borovik and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author's goal is to start a dialogue between mathematicians and cognitive scientists. He discusses, from a working mathematician's point of view, the mystery of mathematical intuition: why are certain mathematical concepts more intuitive than others? To what extent does the ``small scale'' structure of mathematical concepts and algorithms reflect the workings of the human brain? What are the ``elementary particles'' of mathematics that build up the mathematical universe? The book is saturated with amusing examples from a wide range of disciplines--from turbulence to error-correcting codes to logic--as well as with just puzzles and brainteasers. Despite the very serious subject matter, the author's approach is lighthearted and entertaining. This is an unusual and unusually fascinating book. Readers who never thought about mathematics after their school years will be amazed to discover how many habits of mind, ideas, and even material objects that are inherently mathematical serve as building blocks of our civilization and everyday life. A professional mathematician, reluctantly breaking the daily routine, or pondering on some resisting problem, will open this book and enjoy a sudden return to his or her young days when mathematics was fresh, exciting, and holding all promises. And do not take the word ``microscope'' in the title too literally: in fact, the author looks around, in time and space, focusing in turn on a tremendous variety of motives, from mathematical ``memes'' (genes of culture) to an unusual life of a Hollywood star. --Yuri I. Manin, Max-Planck Institute of Mathematics, Bonn, and Northwestern University

Author : Thomas Hager
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307352285
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Demon Under the Microscope written by Thomas Hager and published by Crown. This book was released on 2006-09-19 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Demon Under the Microscope, Thomas Hager chronicles the dramatic history of sulfa, the first antibiotic and the drug that shaped modern medicine. The Nazis discovered it. The Allies won the war with it. It conquered diseases, changed laws, and single-handedly launched the era of antibiotics. Sulfa saved millions of lives—among them those of Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.—but its real effects are even more far reaching. Sulfa changed the way new drugs were developed, approved, and sold; transformed the way doctors treated patients; and ushered in the era of modern medicine. The very concept that chemicals created in a lab could cure disease revolutionized medicine, taking it from the treatment of symptoms and discomfort to the eradication of the root cause of illness. A strange and colorful story, The Demon Under the Microscope illuminates the vivid characters, corporate strategy, individual idealism, careful planning, lucky breaks, cynicism, heroism, greed, hard work, and the central (though mistaken) idea that brought sulfa to the world. This is a fascinating scientific tale with all the excitement and intrigue of a great suspense novel.

Author : Peter Bull
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134964048
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Communication Under the Microscope written by Peter Bull and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social interaction in recent years has become the focus of systematic scientific research in a wide variety of academic disciplines. In Communication under the Microscope, Peter Bull shows how communication has become an object of study in its own right, which can be dissected in the finest detail through the use of film and recording technology. In so doing he provides a clear and valuable introduction into the theory and practice of microanalysis. Bull argues that microanalysis is both a distinctive methodology and a distinctive way of thinking about communication. He then focuses on the two principal elements of face-to-face communication: speech and non-verbal behaviour. Communication in particular social contexts is also addressed with related chapters on gender and politics. Finally, the practical aspects of microanalysis are discussed. This unique and thorough review of microanalysis integrates different approaches and draws together research literature which is often diverse and disparate. Presented in a clear and focused style, this book will be of interest to psychologists, social scientists and all students and researchers in the field of communication. Communication is central to many aspects of human life, yet it has only recently become the focus of systematic scientific investigation within a wide variety of academic disciplines. Communication has now become an object of study in its own right, and can be dissected in the finest detail with the use of recording technology (film, audiotape and videotape). This approach has become known as 'microanalysis', and forms the principal theme of Communication under the Microscope.

Author : Jerry Cowhig
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 9780517120446
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World Under the Microscope written by Jerry Cowhig and published by Crown. This book was released on 1974 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores cell structure, bacteria and viruses, and fungi and algae as well as higher plant and animal and human organs

Author : Jeremy Burgess
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521399401
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Under the Microscope written by Jeremy Burgess and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1990-07-12 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A celebration of the hidden beauty & variety of microscopic imagery."--Back cover.

Author : Soraya de Chadarevian
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022668511X
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heredity under the Microscope written by Soraya de Chadarevian and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-07-02 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By focusing on chromosomes, Heredity under the Microscope offers a new history of postwar human genetics. Today chromosomes are understood as macromolecular assemblies and are analyzed with a variety of molecular techniques. Yet for much of the twentieth century, researchers studied chromosomes by looking through a microscope. Unlike any other technique, chromosome analysis offered a direct glimpse of the complete human genome, opening up seemingly endless possibilities for observation and intervention. Critics, however, countered that visual evidence was not enough and pointed to the need to understand the molecular mechanisms. Telling this history in full for the first time, Soraya de Chadarevian argues that the often bewildering variety of observations made under the microscope were central to the study of human genetics. Making space for microscope-based practices alongside molecular approaches, de Chadarevian analyzes the close connections between genetics and an array of scientific, medical, ethical, legal, and policy concerns in the atomic age. By exploring the visual evidence provided by chromosome research in the context of postwar biology and medicine, Heredity under the Microscope sheds new light on the cultural history of the human genome.

Author : William J. Croft
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9810237812
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Under the Microscope written by William J. Croft and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2006 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a brief history of the development of microscopy, from the use of beads and water droplets in ancient Greece, through the simple magnifying glass, to the modern compound microscope. The technology and optical theory are developed in a straightforward manner, and this leads to a description and explanation of the most modern technologies in electron microscopy, and scanning electron microscopy as well as the new scanning probe microscopies. A series of very interesting applications of the various microscopic techniques are described. The most recent pioneering techniques in near field and confocal optical microscope technologies are described and evaluated for their future importance.

Author : Jeremy Burgess
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Under the Microscope written by Jeremy Burgess and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 0 pages
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