Skyscrapers [DVD]

Building big. Skyscrapers

Building big

Building big.

Big bang machine : searching for the Higgs Boson particle [videorecording]

Nova (Television program)

Categories--on the beauty of physics : essential physics concepts and their companions in art and literature

On the beauty of physics

Essential physics concepts and their companions in art and literature

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How to use this book -- Introductions -- Acceleration -- With an excerpt from Marshall McLuhan's Understanding media -- Edward Hopper's Nighthawks -- Suggested readings by Larry Gonick & Art Huffman, James Gleick, Daniel Keyes -- Angle -- With an excerpt from Hayden White's Tropics of discourse -- Paul Cézanne's Mont Sainte-Victoire -- Suggested reading by Calvin Clawson, Stan Gibilisco, Ian Stewart -- Angular velocity -- With an excerpt from Beowulf -- Alfred Stieglitz's Equivalent -- Suggested readings by Timothy Ferris, Kingfisher Publications, Scientific American -- Antimatter -- With excerpts from Gary Zukav's The dancing Wu Li masters and H.G. Wells' The war of the worlds -- Henri Matisse's Venus -- Suggested readings by Gordon Fraser, Brian Greene -- Suggested film by Joseph McMaster -- Chaos -- With an excerpt from Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn's The gulag archipelago -- Paolo Uccello's The battle of San Romano -- Suggested readings by James Gleick, Benoit Mandelbrot, John Briggs -- Color -- With an excerpt from Vincent Van Gogh's Dear Theo -- Raphael's Madonna del Granduca -- Suggested readings by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Margaret Livingston, Jeanne Heifetz --

Electricity -- g With an excerpt from Benjamin Franklin's The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin -- John Sloan's The city from Greenwich Village -- Suggested readings by Martin Uman, Paul Horowitz & Winfield Hill, Robert Becker & Gary Selden -- Energy -- With an excerpt from Daniel C. Dennett's Consciousness explained -- Gustav Klimt's The kiss -- Suggested readings by Helen Caldicott, Robert March -- Entropy -- With excerpts from Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote and Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ozymandias" -- Leonardo Da Vinci's The last supper -- Suggested readings by Ian Stewart, Rudolf Arnheim, Richard Feynman, Robert Leighton, & Matthew Sands -- Equation -- With an excerpt from Aristotle's The categories : on interpretation : prior analytics -- Piet Mondrian's Composition in color B, 1917 -- Suggested readings by Richard Friedberg, Albrecht Fölsing, Martin Gardner -- Field -- With an excerpt from William Faulkner's The sound and the fury -- Helen Frankenthaler's Madame Matisse -- Suggested readings by Roger Penrose, Albert László Barabási, Fritjof Capra --

Force -- With an excerpt from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh -- Pablo Picasso's The tragedy -- Suggested readings by I. Bernard Cohen & Richard Westfall, Sir Isaac Newton, T.L. Heath -- Friction -- With an excerpt from Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the artists : volume 1 -- Paul Gauguin's Vairumati -- Suggested readings by Bertrand Russell, David Lind & Scott Sanders, Sandor Nagyszalanczy, Robert Ehrlich -- Gravity -- With an excerpt from Ernest Becker's The denial of death -- Giotto's The lamentation -- Suggested readings by Steven Weinberg, Alan Lightman, John Archibald Wheeler -- Heat -- With an excerpt from Henry David Thoreau's Walden and other writings -- Georges de la Tour's The repentant Magdalen - Suggested readings by Ross Gelbspan, Gino Segrè, Hans Christian Von Baeyer -- Image -- With excerpts from Trinh T. Minh-Ha's Woman, native, other and Edward O. Wilson's On human nature -- falling cow panel by Unknown -- Suggested readings by Faye Ginsburg, Lila Abu-Lughod, & Brian Larkin, Michel Foucault, John Berger -- Light -- With an excerpt from The letters of Abelard and Heloise -- Marc Chagall's An angel -- Suggested readings by James Burke, Richard Feynman -- Mass -- With an excerpt from Albert Einstein & Leopold Infeld's The evolution of physics -- Michaelangelo Buonarroti's Pieta -- Suggested readings by Lewis Mumford, Max Jammer -- Suggested film by MacGillivray Freeman films --

Measurement -- With an excerpt from Mircea Eliade's "Time and eternity in Indian thought" -- Canaletto's The grand canal from Carità to Bacino di S. Marco -- Suggested readings by Alex Hebra, David Bourg, Lee Smolin, Barry Zimmerman & David Zimmerman -- Momentum -- With excerpts from Lewis Hyde's The gift and Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America -- Panel with striding lion by Unknown -- Suggested readings by Noam Chomsky, Fritjof Capra -- Motion -- With an excerpt from Ayn Rand's Atlas shrugged -- Ludwig Van Beethoven's Ninth symphony -- Suggested readings by John Gribbin, Lewis Thomas, Howard Zinn, Sir James Jeans -- Orbit -- With excerpts from Bruno Bettelheim's The uses of enchantment and Fritjof Capra's The web of life -- Mary Cassatt's The bath -- Suggested readings by Leïla Haddad & Alan Cirou, Andrew Mishkin, Adrian Malone -- Particle -- With an excerpt from Marcel Proust's Swann's way -- Georges Seurat's A Sunday on la Grande Jatte -- Suggested readings by John Gribbin, Isaac Asimov, Toby E. Huff -- Position -- With excerpts from Pearl S. Buck's The good Earth and Mary Wollstonecraft's A vindication of the rights of woman -- Alberto Giacometti's Walking man II -- Suggested readings by Dava Sobel, David Rumsey & Edith M. Punt --

Power -- With excerpts from John Berger's Ways of seeing and Niccolò Machiavelli's The prince -- Rogier Van Der Weyden's Portrait of a lady -- Suggested readings by Rodney Brooks, Richard Rhodes, Frank Barron, Alfonso Montuori, & Anthea Barron -- Pressure -- With an excerpt from Lewis Mumford's The city in history -- Katsushika Hokusai's The great wave at Kanagawa -- Suggested readings by Craig Hogan, Rachel Carson, Jacques-Yves Cousteau & Frédéric Dumas -- Radiation -- With an excerpt from Albert Camus' The stranger -- Georgia O'Keeffe's Evening star no. VI -- Suggested readings by Nevil Shute, Erik Barnouw -- Suggested film by Daniel Goldberg -- Reflection -- With excerpts from Alice Miller's The drama of the gifted child and Sir James Jeans' Science & music -- Diego Velázquez's Las meninas -- Suggested readings by Walter Benjamin, Gary Waldman -- Refraction -- With an excerpt from Dylan Thomas' Under milk wood -- Annie Mae Young's Blocks and strips -- Suggested readings by Harald Falck-Yttr, Joseph Kasper & Steven Feller, John Alton -- Relativity -- With an excerpt from Pablo Picasso's "Picasso speaks" -- René Magritte's Two mysteries -- Suggested readings by Albert Einstein, George Gamow --

Space-time -- With an excerpt from Kahlil Gibran's The prophet and Pablo Picasso's Les demoiselles d'Avignon -- Suggested readings by Janna Levin, Michio Kaku -- Suggested film by Harold Ramis -- Spin -- With an excerpt from Antonio Carlo Jobim's Waters of March -- Vincent Van Gogh's Wheatfield with crows -- Suggested readings by Stephen Hawking, Richard Feynman, Murray Gell-Mann -- Torque -- With excerpts from W.E.B. Du Bois' The souls of black folk and Ernest Hemingway's The sun also rises -- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's Jane Avril -- Suggested readings by Henry Petroski, Thomas Kuhn, K.C. Cole -- Uncertainty -- With an excerpt from William Shakespeare's Hamlet -- Maurice Denis' The green trees or Beech trees in Kerduel -- Suggested readings by F. David Peat, Douglas Hofstadter -- Vector -- With an excerpt from Homer's The odyssey -- Jacques-Louis David's The death of Marat -- Suggested reading by Julian Barbour, Henry Petroski, Steven Pinker -- Velocity -- With an excerpt from Clause Brown's Manchild in the promised land -- Robert Motherwell's No. 7 (from the Basque suit) -- Suggested readings by Edwin Abbott, Peter Hoffman -- Suggested film by Stacy Peralta --

Wave -- With an excerpt from Dziga Vertov's Kino eye -- Jacob Lawrence's The migration of the Negro, Panel 3 -- Suggested readings by Sir James Jeans, George Gamow -- Suggested film by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott, & Joel Bakan -- Wave/particle duality -- With an excerpt from Gary Zukav's The dancing Wu Li masters -- Joan Miró's Une étoile caresse le sein d'une négresse (peinture-poème) -- Suggested readings by Roland Barthes, Ambrose Bierce, Lao Tzu -- Work -- With excerpts from John Ruskin's The lamp of beauty and Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the artists : volume 1 -- Emile Bernard's The buckwheat harvest -- Suggested readings by Studs Terkel, Charles Panati -- Appendices -- Index.

Judgment day [videorecording] : intelligent design on trial

Intelligent design on trial

Evolution vs. intelligent design

Nova (Television program)

Building big

Building big (Television program)

Wave that shook the world

Tsunami : the wave that shook the world

Nova (Television program)

The elegant universe [DVD]

Nova

Elegant universe.

Nova (Television program)

NOVA (WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.))

Space, time, and the universe [videorecording].

Elegant universe.

Fabric of the cosmos.

Nova (Television program)

Newton's dark secrets [videorecording]

Nova (Television program)

Impunity : Countering Illicit Power in War and Transition

Countering illicit power in war and transition

Introduction / Case Studies from Conflict. Criminal Patronage Networks and the Struggle to Rebuild the Afghan State / Jaish al-Mahdi in Iraq / Haiti: The Gangs of Cité Soleil / Liberia: Durable Illicit Power Structures / Traffickers and Truckers: Illicit Afghan and Pakistani Power Structures with a Shadowy but Influential Role / Colombia and the FARC: From Military Victory to Ambivalent Political Reintegration? / The Philippines: The Moro Islamic Liberation Front--A Pragmatic Power Structure? / Sierra Leone: The Revolutionary United Front / Sri Lanka: State Response to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam as an Illicit Power Structure / Confronting Illicit Power: Understanding Enablers, Ours and Theirs. It Takes a Thief to Catch a Thief: Illicit Power and the Intelligence Challenge / Weapons Trafficking and the Odessa Network: How One Small Think Tank was Able to Unpack One Very Big Problem, and the Lessons It Teaches Us / Financial Tools and Sanctions: Following the Money and the Joumaa Web / Recruitment and Radicalization: The Role of Social Media and New Technology / Licit Transitions: Building Institutions and Strengthening Capacity for Success. Make It Matter: Ten Rules for Institutional Development that Works / The Hitchhiker's Guide to Intelligence-Led Policing / Security Sector Reconstruction in Post-Conflict: The Lessons from Timor-Leste / A Granular Approach to Combating Corruption and Illicit Power Structures / What Should We Have Learned by Now? Enduring Lessons from Thirty years of conflict and transition

The fabric of the cosmos [DVD]

Fabric of the cosmos.

Nova (Television program)

What is space? / The illusion of time / Quantum leap / Universe or multiverse?

Federations

Federations (Anthology)

Federations : vast, epic, interstellar

Vast, epic, interstellar federations

Mazer in prison (Novelette)

Carthago delenda est.

Life-suspension.

Terra-exulta.

Aftermaths.

Someone is stealing the great throne rooms of the galaxy.

Prisons.

Different day.

Twilight of the gods.

Warship.

Swanwatch.

Spirey and the queen.

Pardon our conquest.

Symbiont.

Ship that returned.

My she.

Shoulders of giants.

Culture archivist.

Other side of Jordan.

Like they always been free (Short story)

Eskhara.

One with the interstellar group consciousnesses.

Golubash.

Introduction / Mazer in prison / Carthago delenda est / Life-suspension / Terra-exulta / Aftermaths / Someone is stealing the great throne rooms of the galaxy / Prisons / Different day / Twilight of the gods / Warship / Swanwatch / Spirey and the queen / Pardon our conquest / Symbiont / Ship who returned / My she / The shoulders of giants / The culture archivist / The other side of Jordan / Like they always been free / Eskhara / The one with the interstellar group consciousnesses / Golubash, or wine-blood-war-elegy