Women in Prehistory: North America and Mesoamerica (Regendering the Past)

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During the 1960s, in such works as Man the Hunter, scholars constructed a model of cultural evolution in which men were characterized as "cooperative hunters of big game." Women fit neatly into this model, such books as Woman the Gatherer explained

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California Penal Code 2003

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Deering's California Desktop Code Series: Penal Code 2003 Edition

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Penal Code, including Penal Provisions of other California Codes. Including enactments through the end of the 2002 regular sessions of the 2001-2002 Legislature.

California Penal Code 2003 Desktop Edition

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California Penal Code 2003 Desktop Edition
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For twelve months beginning in January 2000, celebrated essayist and research physician Gerald Weissmann carefully documented the modern age of enlightenment, charting its scientific marvels and new plagues. Now, this illuminating diary takes us on a literary exploration of laboratories and beyond to see the impact on human life and culture of headliners such as RU 486, AIDS drugs, and other current developments, including the controversial use of stem cells. Whether calling on Ralph Waldo Emerson to explain Craig Venters drive to unravel the genome or tracing the effect of Rachel Carsons legacy on the spread of malaria around the world, Weissmanns lively chronicle captures the greatest genetic revolution of all time.

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Medical essays.......2007-06-23

The reader needs a real medical essayist such as Dr. LEwis Thomas and not a five cent one, imitating Dr. Thomas and filled with a collection of platitudes and leaves the reader empty due to the author's condescending narcissism.

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The 14th Conference of the European Colloid and Interface Society (ECIS 2000) was held in September 2000, in Patras, GREECE. Researchers from the academia and the industrial sector met and presented research work divided in nine thematic sections: molecular interactions in thin films, polymer-surfactant interactions, structure and dynamics at interfaces, biocolloids, colloids in pharmaceutical and biological applications, new trends in colloid and interface science techniques, rheology, self assembly of amphiphiles and measurements in concentrated suspensions. Selected contributions from these thematic areas are presented in the present volume and show the up today achievements of the Colloid and Interface Science.

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For Feynman Fans

great insights even for a Phd theoretical physics student!!

a great sense of how physics is done

Some great points, but doesn't alleviate Fear of Physics

Good Introduction.

Fear of Physics: A Guide for the Perplexed
Lawrence M. Krauss
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The Physics of Star Trek

Beyond Star Trek : From Alien Invasions to the End of Time

ASIN: 0465002188

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A cult classic--one of the first books to make the way physicists think about the world accessible to the general reader--now fully updated to keep pace with modern science.

Fear of Physics is a lively, irreverent, and informative look at everything from the physics of boiling water to cutting-edge research at the observable limits of the universe. Rich with anecdotes and accessible examples, it nimbly ranges over the tools and thought behind the world of modern physics, taking the mystery out of what is essentially a very human intellectual endeavor.

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For Feynman Fans.......2007-09-30

Dr. Krauss uses analogies like Feynman does to create lucid explanations for those who are interested in physics but don't have a degree in math or physics. It is aptly described as "A Guide for the Perplexed". Having an avid interest in physics I found it ideal. I have a degree in engineering science but am weak in the kind of math required for theoretical physics. If you want to know more about physics but can't seem to find a book that you can understand, you should read this book!

great insights even for a Phd theoretical physics student!!.......2006-10-15

I totally loved the book.Its full of insightful points and connections that will put you in a state of awe. I got totally exctatic while reading some of the chapters, made me remember why I loved physics in the first place. Even if you are very well trained in physics, I am sure you will find this book very enlightning and it will allow you to see things from a new and very beautiful perspective.
Only one thing.. non physicists might become lost after the few fist chapters. I think the book is more suited for physics students than for laymen.

a great sense of how physics is done.......2003-12-15

This is a classic, and I know many high school teachers who recommend this for their good students. It is the only book I know written by a well known research physicist that gives a modern sense of how physics is done, and what wonderful things continue to be uncovered every day.

Some great points, but doesn't alleviate Fear of Physics.......2002-10-07

Krauss provides some great points about physics to the layman that you may not find in other layman-level physics books, but the rest of it is better suited to those who are already familiar with fundamental principles and the meaning of their equations.

Beginners and laymen will appreciate the exceptional explanation for the utility of scientific notation in physics in chapter two. He also points out how the three fundamental dimensional qualities (length, time and mass) can all be reduced to a single quantity via two linking constants (speed of light and Planck's constant) but don't expect to really understand this much

Chapter three (Creative Plagiarism) does a great job explaining the process of how new ideas are tested and accepted.

Beyond that, I strongly recommend layman and beginners switch to other books such as:
1. Basic Physics: A Self Teaching Guide by Karl Kuhn (includes easy formulas that really convey the basic idea)
2. There Are No Electrons by Ken Amdahl (to assist the basic book on electricity and magnetism)
3. Six Easy Pieces by the legendary Richard Feynman (the basics explained again to a physics educated audience, no formulas)
4. Why Things Are The Way They Are by B.S. Chanrasekhar (physics of condensed matter, a few equations and great pictures for laymen to get it).

Krauss is a smart and personable guy. Search for newspaper articles with his name and you'll get some great info on the possible fate of the universe and scientific viewpoints re: sci-fi (Physics of Star Trek, and Beyond Physics of Star Trek) that are much better appreciated after you've read these other basic books.

Good Introduction........2001-07-16

This is a short work, it doesn't take more than three days to read. Its light-hearted, and it isn't merely another overview of things that are too simplistic to bother with. Krauss (a theoretical physicist) crams a lot of info into the book. He attempts to tie all of the information together as best he can, though. He sometimes goes on tangents, but he always explains the tangents and connects them to what he is discussing. The chapter early in the book on Mathematics is useful to someone who isn't interested in grappling with modern physics mathematical workings.

I have one complaint about the book, however. I think Krauss is very ignorant of philosophy. I was somewhat offended by one of his comments, though I am sure (in light of the rest of the book) he meant the comment in a light-hearted manner. Something to the effect that philosophy is useless.

Nevertheless, Krauss tosses a lot of names into the book and gives the reader some good quotes from those men. The bibliography is small, but the book is not a research paper for a physics journal, either. I would suggest this book and also Gordon Kane's "The Particle Garden" as solid introductions to modern physics. Both are manageable reads for the non-physicist.

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Fear of Physics, A Guide for the Perplexed
Lawrence M. Krauss
Manufacturer: New York: Basic Books, Inc. 1993
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FEAR OF PHYSICS A GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED

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Fear of Physics, A Guide for the Perplexed.
L. M. Krauss
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Aristotle: On Sophistical Refutations. On Coming-to-be and Passing Away. On the Cosmos. (Loeb Classical Library No. 400)
Aristotle
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Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BCE, was the son of Nicomachus, a physician, and Phaestis. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-347); subsequently he spent three years at the court of a former pupil, Hermeias, in Asia Minor and at this time married Pythias, one of Hermeias's relations. After some time at Mitylene, in 343-2 he was appointed by King Philip of Macedon to be tutor of his teen-aged son Alexander. After Philip's death in 336, Aristotle became head of his own school (of 'Peripatetics'), the Lyceum at Athens. Because of anti-Macedonian feeling there after Alexander's death in 323, he withdrew to Chalcis in Euboea, where he died in 322.

Nearly all the works Aristotle prepared for publication are lost; the priceless ones extant are lecture-materials, notes, and memoranda (some are spurious). They can be categorized as follows: I Practical: Nicomachean Ethics; Great Ethics (Magna Moralia); Eudemian Ethics; Politics; Economics (on the good of the family); On Virtues and Vices. II Logical: Categories; Analytics (Prior and Posterior); Interpretation; Refutations used by Sophists; Topica. III Physical: Twenty-six works (some suspect) including astronomy, generation and destruction, the senses, memory, sleep, dreams, life, facts about animals, etc. IV Metaphysics: on being as being. V Art: Rhetoric and Poetics. VI Other works including the Constitution of Athens; more works also of doubtful authorship. VII Fragments of various works such as dialogues on philosophy and literature; and of treatises on rhetoric, politics and metaphysics.

The Loeb Classical Library edition of Aristotle is in twenty-three volumes.

Aristotle III on Sophistical Refutations on Coming-to-be and Passing Away, on the Cosmos, Loeb Classical Library

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Aristotle III on Sophistical Refutations on Coming-to-be and Passing Away, on the Cosmos, Loeb Classical Library

Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
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The island nation of Sri Lanka possesses a rich and sometimes troubled history that stretches back over 2,500 years. According to the nation's "origin myth," it was first settled by a band of 700 young men led by a Bengal prince who was banished from his homeland by his father, the king in 483 B.C. The civilization grew upon the economic prosperity of rice and tea cultivation that inspired the creation of one of the most sophisticated hydraulic systems in the ancient world. Sri Lanka's history has not been entirely idyllic, however. The cultural and technological advances enriched lives, but also created a weakness that outside invaders could exploit. As a result, the Singhalese have been ruled by Southern Indian invaders, as well as the Portuguese, the Dutch, and the British. "The Historical Dictionary of Sri Lanka" provides a one-stop resource for the history of this intriguing country. Dictionary entries cover the people, places, and events that have shaped this country and are further supplemented by a detailed chronology, statistical tables, graphs and appendices. Includes bibliography.

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This digital document is an article from Canadian Journal of History, published by University of Saskatchewan on December 1, 2000. The length of the article is 651 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Orientalism Transposed: The Impact of the Colonies on British Culture.(Review) (book review)
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Date: December 1, 2000
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It is a widely known but insufficiently appreciated fact that Albert Einstein and Kurt Goedel were best friends for the last decade and a half of Einstein's life. They walked home together from Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study every day; they shared ideas about physics, philosophy, politics, and the lost world of German-Austrian science in which they had grown up. What is not widely known is that in 1949 Goedel made a remarkable discovery: there exist possible worlds described by the theory of relativity in which time, as we ordinarily understand it, does not exist. He added a philosophical argument that demonstrates, by Goedel's lights, that as a consequence, time does not exist in our world either. If Goedel is right, Einstein has not just explained time; he has explained it away.

Without committing himself to Goedel's philosophical interpretation of his discovery, Einstein acknowledged that his friend had made an important contribution to the theory of relativity, a contribution that he admitted raised new and disturbing questions about what remains of time in his own theory. Physicists since Einstein have tried without success to find an error in Goedel's physics or a missing element in relativity itself that would rule out the applicability of Goedel's results. Philosophers, for the most part, have been silent.

_A World Without Time_, addressed to experts and non experts alike, brings to life the sheer intellectual drama of the companionship of Goedel and Einstein, and places their discoveries -- which can only be measured on a millennial scale -- in the context of the great and disturbing intellectual movements of the twentieth century -- in physics, mathematics, logic, philosophy, and the arts. It contains, as well, a poignant and intimate account of the friendship between these two thinkers, each put on the shelf by the scientific fashions of their day -- and ours -- and attempts to rescue from undeserved obscurity the work Goedel did, inspired by Einstein, which made clear for the first time the truly revolutionary nature of the theory of relativity, which to this day is hardly recognized.

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more about philosophy than about physics or math.......2007-02-27

A World Without Time is a book about the friendship between Einstein and Godel that occurred toward the end of their lives. The friendship was fruitful in that Godel used Einstein's General Theory of Relativity to prove the existence of what are now called Godel Universes. Godel Universes are universes where time loops back on itself so, if you go sufficiently fast, you would end up back where you started in time. This is interesting but perhaps the most interesting aspect of the book for me was it's philosophical aspect. The author mentions the Vienna Circle and some concepts of philosophy such as positivism and ontology and epistemology which I found very interesting. I found the explanations of Godel's theories hard to follow but got the basic idea. I recommend this book for it's philosophical content. If you want to learn about Godel's Incompleteness theorem I recommend reading Godel, Escher Bach, An Eternal Golden Braid.

Should we dispense with clocks ?.......2007-02-12

The title of the book suggests time does not exist. The justification is a certain solution to Einstein cosmological equation, where the universe is rotating and time travel is possible. A path could reach into the past going around the universe.It is the Godel solution.

Modern cosmology is based on the Robertson Walker metric , or model,where there is a universal time. It fits the obseved universal expansion.The universe was born in a big bang fifteen billions years ago.

Goodel gave too much importance to his solution. After all any equation can allow many mathematical solutions which bear no relation to physical reality or fact.

The book is good reading with old and rare photos.It compelled me to reread "The Godel Solution" in Adler ,Bazin and Schiffer General Relativity.
Early in the century,Kurt Godel had laid a golden egg with his incompleteness theorem, pertaining to pure mathematics, causing some stir among Hilbert and Russell.But his attempt to abolish time, much later in 1949, felt in deaf ears among physicists and cosmologists.This is not about to change any time soon.

Yourgrau does an elegant work in rescuing an old story.It takes us through Europe and the beginnings of the Princeton Advanced Study Institute.

A World Without Time.......2007-01-23

Great book about Godel & Einstein. It tells much about their human side & their friendship. Does good job explaining some of their work.

Very bad book: a waste of your money.......2007-01-17

It is a heap op philosophy, not science. No formula, math, explanation, working examples whatsoever. Just small-talk to fill up the pages. This is NOT a physics book. I was lured into buying it thinking to get a complete textbook on Gödel's explanation of time. Forget it, this book is not worth your money. Go check the internet for PDF's or webpages containing the original publications of Gödel, they are there allright.

A World Without Time.......2007-01-04

I bought this book because I loved the cover. Everyone knows Einstein but it is amazing how few know the equally revolutionary Godel and still fewer know of their freindship. This is an invaluable book for those that (somehow) don't know about Godel's work. I didn't expect much from this book because I know of Godel's revolving universe time paradox. However, I found this book to be extremely interesting. The author's minimalist definition of Godel's theorm (syntax does not equal semantics) was worth the price alone. Unfortunatley the last chapter of the book is muddled in philosophic musings, since I am a Physicist I am less appreciative of pure philosophy.

The incomplete Godel.(Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Godel)(A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of Godel and Einstein)(Book Review) : An article from: American Scientist

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