The fully updated 2nd edition of this critically acclaimed book covers the exciting developments in light science of the past five years. Light Years is an engaging survey of everything we know of the universe's most enigmatic phenomenon and the remarkable people who have been captivated by it.

Light Years: An Exploration of Mankind's Enduring Fascination with Light (Macmillan Science)

Clegg, Brian

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PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Chaos and complexity explained, with illuminating examples ranging from unpredictable pendulums to London's wobbly Millennium Bridge.The math we are taught in school is precise and only deals with simple situations. Reality is far more complex. Trying to understand a system with multiple interacting components-the weather, for example, or the human body, or the stock market-means dealing with two factors- chaos and complexity. If we don't understand these two essential subjects, we can't understand the real world. In Everyday Chaos, Brian Clegg explains chaos and complexity for the general reader, with an accessible, engaging text and striking full-color illustrations. By chaos, Clegg means a system where complex interactions make predicting long-term outcomes nearly impossible; complexity means complex interacting systems that have new emergent properties that make them more than the sum of their parts. Clegg illustrates these phenomena with discussions of predictable randomness, the power of probability, and the behavior of pendulums. He describes what Newton got wrong about gravity; how feedback kept steam engines from exploding; and why weather produces chaos. He considers the stock market, politics, bestseller lists, big data, and London's wobbling Millennium Bridge as examples of chaotic systems, and he explains how a better understanding of chaos helps scientists predict more accurately the risk of catastrophic Earth-asteroid collisions. We learn that our brains are complex, self-organizing systems; that the structure of snowflakes exemplifies emergence; and that life itself has been shown to be an emergent property of a complex system.

Everyday Chaos: The Mathematics of Unpredictability, from the Weather to the Stock Market

Science & Math

Evolution

The MIT Press

How patterns--from diagrams of spacetime to particle trails revealed by supercolliders--offer clues to the fundamental workings of the physical world. Our universe might appear chaotic, but deep down it's simply a myriad of rules working independently to create patterns of action, force, and consequence. In Ten Patterns That Explain the Universe, Brian Clegg explores the phenomena that make up the very fabric of our world by examining ten essential sequenced systems. From diagrams that show the deep relationships between space and time to the quantum behaviors that rule the way that matter and light interact, Clegg shows how these patterns provide a unique view of the physical world and its fundamental workings.

Ten Patterns That Explain the Universe

Astronomy & Space Science

Provides a tool kit of creative techniques that cover all stages of the creative problem-solving process.

Imagination Engineering: A Toolkit for Business Creativity (Future Skills Series)

Business & Money

Birch, Paul

Management & Leadership

Ft Pr

Businesses employing traditional management techniques are facing increasingly tough challenges in a world which daily demands innovation, flexibility and constant change as well as excellent customer care, inspirational leadership and superb communication. Faced with this, is your business having to opt for a compromise?DisOrganization offers you an original alternative. Constructed around five practical sections, which reflect the paradigms of strategic management; each section ends with an implementable DisOrganization chapter. Including case studies and exercises, this book provides you with the ideas and the know-how to act on them.

Disorganization: The Handbook of Creative Organizational Reformation

An enjoyable guide to the world of creativity for those with both feet on the ground, offering techniques for generating and implementing creative business ideas and solutions for all stages of the creative process. Includes many margin notes and tips, stories, and jokes, and sections on making work fun, computer-supported creativity, and group creativity. The authors are creative consultants. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Imagination Engineering: Your Toolkit for Business Creativity

Financial Times Management

(Pearson Education) A guide to building a good relationship with customers by focusing on endearing them to the company. Uses examples of best and worst practice to point out how sincerity can win a customer's affection and loyalty every time.

Capturing Customers Hearts: Leave the Competition To Chase Their Pockets

Marketing & Sales

A more sustainable business is a more profitable one. Financial Times Briefing on Sustainable Business is your practical and accessible guide to transforming the way you do business, to the gain of both the environment and your bottom line. It will show you what youneed to do to develop a sound, authentic and most of all profitable approach to environmental sustainability.The unique structure of the book will ensure that you get the targeted advice you need. Financial Times Briefings are designed to give busy decision-makers the answers to pressing issues that require hard measurable results

Clegg: FT Briefing Sustainable_p (Financial Times)

Economics

Ft Press

The photographs of Eadweard Muybridge are immediately familiar to us. Less familiar is the dramatic personal story of this seminal and wonderfully eccentric Victorian pioneer, now brought to life for the first time in this engaging and thoroughly entertaining biography. His work is iconic: the first icons of the modern visual age. Men, women, boxers, wrestlers, racehorses, elephants and camels frozen in time, captured in the act of moving, fighting, galloping, living. Scarcely a day goes by without their derivate use somewhere in today's media. And if most of us have seen Muybridge's distinctive stop-motion photographs, all of us have seen the fruit of his extraordinary technological innovation: today's cinema and television. But it is his personal life that possesses all the ingredients of a classic non-fiction best-seller: a passionately driven man struggling against the odds; dire treachery and shocking betrayal; a cast of larger-than-life characters set against a backdrop of San Francisco and the Far West in its most turbulent and dangerous era; a profusion of scientific and artistic advances and discoveries, one hotly following on another; the nervous intensity of two spectacular courtroom dramas (one pitting Muybridge against the richest man in the land and staring ruin in the face, the other sees him fighting for his life). And for the opening act, a foul murder on a dark and stormy night. Skillfully articulating the fascinating history of a now ubiquitous technology, author Brian Clegg combines ingredients from science and biography to create an eminently readable, fast-paced, and surprising story. Table of Contents <ul>
<li>Front Matter</li>
<li>PART ONE Shadow of the Noose, 1 Death at Yellow Jacket</li>
<li>2 A Blow to the Head</li>
<li>3 Assembling Images</li>
<li>4 Stanford, Stone, and Larkyns</li>
<li>5 Trial</li>
<li>PART TWO The Dissection of Time, 6 The Great Panorama</li>
<li>7 Moving Pictures</li>
<li>8 Taking Europe by Storm</li>
<li>9 Condemned Once More</li>
<li>10 Technology Triumphant</li>
<li>11 Magician of the Silver Screen</li>
<li>12 Time Lord or Patent Fraud?</li>
<li>Selected Bibliography</li>
<li>Acknowledgments</li>
<li>Index</li>
</ul>

The Man Who Stopped Time: The Illuminating Story of Eadweard Muybridge ― Pioneer Photographer, Father of the Motion Picture, Murderer

Joseph Henry Press

The God Effect: Quantum Entanglement, Science's Strangest Phenomenon

The phenomenon that Einstein thought too spooky and strange to be true What is entanglement? It's a connection between quantum particles, the building blocks of the universe. Once two particles are entangled, a change to one of them is reflected---instantly---in the other, be they in the same lab or light-years apart. So counterintuitive is this phenomenon and its implications that Einstein himself called it "spooky" and thought that it would lead to the downfall of quantum theory. Yet scientists have since discovered that quantum entanglement, the "God Effect," was one of Einstein's few---and perhaps one of his greatest---mistakes. What does it mean? The possibilities offered by a fuller understanding of the nature of entanglement read like something out of science fiction: communications devices that could span the stars, codes that cannot be broken, computers that dwarf today's machines in speed and power, teleportation, and more. In The God Effect, veteran science writer Brian Clegg has written an exceptionally readable and fascinating (and equation-free) account of entanglement, its history, and its application. Fans of Brian Greene and Amir Aczel and those interested in the marvelous possibilities coming down the quantum road will find much to marvel, illuminate, and delight.

Physics

St.Martin's Press

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