Название: What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Автор: Randall Munroe
Издательство: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 13 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe’s iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following. Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last?

Название: Screwattack's Video Game Vault: The Best of Nintendo 64
Автор: Craig Skistimas and Bryan Baker
Издательство: Mango
Год: 2016
Формат: PDF
Размер: 51 Мб
Язык: английский / English

It’s been twenty years since every kid growing up in the 90s lost their mind when they received an N64. Whether it was for your birthday, on Christmas morning or your bar mitzvah, the Nintendo 64 changed your life. The folks at ScrewAttack are no exception. To them, the 64 continues to be one of the greatest inventions known to man. With that kind of importance, it only made sense to relaunch the Video Game Vault series with the N64 leading the way. Following in the vein of their hit series "Video Game Vault,” ScrewAttack's debut book takes a look at one of the most important systems in history. The ScrewAttack team covers their favorite games for Nintendo's iconic console while providing quirky personal stories that these games helped create. From the traditional fan-favorites, to the games everyone loved to hate, the Vault is back and it has it all.

Название: Handbook of Biophotonics
Автор: J?rgen Popp, Valery V. Tuchin, Arthur Chiou, Stefan H. Heinemann
Издательство: Wiley
Год: 2011
Формат: PDF
Размер: 50 Мб
Язык: английский / English

This new handbook covers the world of biophotonics not only geographically -- with the editors coming from different continents -- but also in terms of content, since the authors come from the whole spectrum of biophotonic basic and applied research. Designed to set the standard for the scientific community, these three volumes break new ground by providing readers with the physics basics as well as the biological and medical background, together with detailed reports on recent technical advances. The Handbook also adopts an application-related approach, starting with the application and then citing the various tools to solve the scientific task, making it of particular value to medical doctors.

Название: Spaceshots and Snapshots of Projects Mercury and Gemini
Автор: John Bisney and J. L. Pickering
Издательство: University of New Mexico Press
Год: 2015
Формат: PDF
Размер: 262 Мб
Язык: английский / English

This is the story of the people and events of Projects Mercury and Gemini, told through hundreds of unpublished and rare color and black-and-white photographs. Unlike other publications, which have illustrated the Space Race with well-known and easily accessible images, this history draws from the authors' private library of more than 125,000 high-resolution photos of the first two U.S. manned space programs from 1961 to 1966.

Название: Mars One: The Ultimate Reality TV Show?
Автор: Erik Seedhouse
Издательство: Springer
Год: 2016
Формат: PDF
Размер: 11 Мб
Язык: английский / English

This book dissects the hype and hubris of the Mars One venture. Every aspect of the mission design is scrutinized, from the haphazard selection process to the unproven mission architecture. A controversial project, many professional astronauts consider Mars One a reckless attempt, yet it gained popular attention. This go-to reference guide provides the reader with insights into the myriad issues arising from the project's loss of funding, loss of sponsorship, loss of TV rights. It explains what contributed to an overly optimistic assessment of Mars One's mission-specific technology, and what captivated the public and the many willing candidates despite these flaws. From the author of Survival and Sacrifice in Mars Exploration (2015) among many more books on spacefaring, this is yet another up-to-the-minute account of an emerging player in the private space market from an expert on the subject.

b]Название:[/b] SharePoint Apps with LightSwitch
Автор: Paul Ferrill
Издательство: O'Reilly Media
Год: 2012
Формат: PDF
Размер: 10 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Build custom business applications for SharePoint with Visual Studio LightSwitch—including intuitive apps that don’t require a single line of code. This example-driven guide takes non-programmers step-by-step through the process of creating simple apps and utilities, and shows programmers familiar with C# or Visual Basic how to build customized applications with more functionality. Discover how to build and test your applications quickly without a lot of expensive server hardware. Once you get up to speed with LightSwitch, you’ll create quality line-of-business applications tailored to specific customer needs in no time, whether you work in-house or for a vendor.

Название: Car
Автор: Sutton R.
Издательство: DK Publishing
Жанр: Научно-популярная литература
Год издания: 2005
Страниц: 73
ISBN: 978-0-7566-1384-6
Язык: Английский
Формат: PDF
Размер: 16 Мб

Автомобили прошли долгий путь за столетие или около того с момента их изобретения. Эта превосходная коллекция специально заказанных фотографий показывает, как автомобили менялись и развивались, от опасностей ранних моделей-новаторов до сложных современных скоростных автомобилей.

Название: Грани прошедшего
Автор: Литвинов Б.В.
Издательство: М .: ИздАТ
ISBN: 5-86656-185-9
Год: 2006
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 694
Размер: 50.3 MB
Язык: Русский

Создание реальных образцов ядерного оружия в мире произошло по сути дела за время жизни одного поколения людей. И автор этой книги как раз и относится к этому поколению.

Название: Знайте свои гены
Автор: Милунски О.
Издательство: М.: Мир
Год: 1981
Формат: fb2, rtf
Страниц: 394
Размер: 22,2 Mb
Язык: Русский

Популярный рассказ американского ученого и врача-генетика о причинах, распространенности и возможном подходе к лечению ряда наследственных болезней и биохимических нарушений.
Книга рассчитана на широкие круги медицинских работников и читателей, интересующихся проблемами медицинской генетики.

Название: The Phantom Atlas
Автор: Edward Brooke-Hitching
Издательство: Simon & Schuster Ltd
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 432 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The Phantom Atlas is an atlas of the world not as it ever existed, but as it was thought to be. These marvellous and mysterious phantoms, non-existent islands, invented mountain ranges, mythical civilisations and other fictitious geography - were all at various times presented as facts on maps and atlases. This book is a collection of striking antique maps that display the most erroneous cartography, with each illustration accompanied by the story behind it.