Authors: Jeff Hughes.
Hardcover, 200 pages
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication Date: 2003-09-17


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The Manhattan Project, the allies' project during the Second World War to build the atomic bomb, did not represent a radical break in the development of twentieth-century science but rather an acceleration of developments already underway, according to Jeff Huges. Drawing on recent scholarship, Hughes offers a lively reinterpretation of these epic events and considers the dramatic role the military and industry played in shaping not just the Manhattan Project, but the whole of twentieth-century science.

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Authors: Steve Farrar.
Paperback, 252 pages
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc
Publication Date: 1999-01


Reviews :

    Are you prepared for Millennium Meltdown? Best selling author Steve Farrar attacks the issue with candor and reason. And most important, he examines Y2K through the lens of Biblical truth. Without God's perspective and the practical answers of Scripture, you will be ill-equipped to handle the pressing questions of the coming crisis. If you want to avoid the fear, confusion, and panic surrounding Y2K, Steve Farrar will help you discover a biblical and practical plan for your family....

Authors: Kathleen Broome Williams.
Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Publication Date: 2004-11-15

Authors: William Langland.
CD-ROM, 400 pages
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication Date: 2000-03-06


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Authors: Paul Virilio.
Paperback, 168 pages
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication Date: 1995-10

Authors: Gregory J. Chaitin.
Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Publication Date: 2007-08-06


Reviews :

    Dr Gregory Chaitin, one of the world s leading mathematicians, is best known for his discovery of the remarkable number, a concrete example of irreducible complexity in pure mathematics which shows that mathematics is infinitely complex. In this volume, Chaitin discusses the evolution of these ideas, tracing them back to Leibniz and Borel as well as Gödel and Turing. This book contains 23 non-technical papers by Chaitin, his favorite tutorial and survey papers, including Chaitin's three Scientific American articles. These essays summarize a lifetime effort to use the notion of program-size complexity or algorithmic information content in order to shed further light on the fundamental work of Gödel and Turing on the limits of mathematical methods, both in logic and in computation. Chaitin argues here that his information-theoretic approach to metamathematics suggests a quasi-empirical view of mathematics that emphasizes the similarities rather than the differences between mathematics and physics. He also develops his own brand of digital philosophy, which views the entire universe as a giant computation, and speculates that perhaps everything is discrete software, everything is 0's and 1's. Chaitin's fundamental mathematical work will be of interest to philosophers concerned with the limits of knowledge and to physicists interested in the nature of complexity....

Authors:
Paperback, 392 pages
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Publication Date: 2003-10-24


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    This Guide provides an ambitious state-of-the-art survey of the fundamental themes, problems, arguments and theories constituting the philosophy of computing.

• A complete guide to the philosophy of computing and information.
  
• Comprises 26 newly-written chapters by leading international experts.
  
• Provides a complete, critical introduction to the field.
  
• Each chapter combines careful scholarship with an engaging writing style.
  
• Includes an exhaustive glossary of technical terms.
  
• Ideal as a course text, but also of interest to researchers and general readers.

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Authors: D. Antonio Cantu. Wilson J. Warren.
Hardcover, 384 pages
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Publication Date: 2003-02


Reviews :

    While many methods texts have an add-on chapter on technology, this book integrates the use of technology into every phase of the teaching profession. Filled with decision-making scenarios and reflective questions that help bring the material to life, it covers the development of teaching technologies, developing lesson plans, and actual instructional models in history and social studies. An appendix provides sample lessons, sample tests, a list of resources, and other practical materials....

Authors: Gilly Salmon. Palitha Edirisingha.
Paperback, 248 pages
Publisher: Open University Press
Publication Date: 2008-07-01
Edition: 1

Reviews :

    Podcasting for Learning in Universities details several examples of research to practice for the successful use of podcasts in Higher Education, drawing from studies in the UK, Australia and South Africa. The book offers a practical transferable model and guidelines for integrating podcasts in higher education contexts. There is a dedicated website at www.podcastingforlearning.com with further links and examples.

"The sheer range of ideas for using podcasts shown by the case studies, will hopefully spark off a number of ideas for ways in which practice in one subject can be re-used in another. Case studies covering reflective learning, active learning, students voices, fieldwork, distance learning and learning transferable skills, show that podcasts are flexible enough as a medium to deliver effective learning outcomes regardless of the subject."
ESCalate, 2nd October 2008. To read more of the ESCalate review click here.

"This book is exactly what is required for a wide range of potential readers - it is practical, yet derived from research; it is focused on student learning, yet has a technical component; it is leading-edge, yet it draws on many case studies."
Professor Robin Mason, The Open University, UK

"I recommend this book to all academics in higher education."
Peter Bullen, Ford Professor of Automotive Engineering, University of Hertfordshire, UK

"This book shows how podcasts can help transform the teaching and learning experience in Higher Education...a blueprint for podcast use."
Professor David Nicol, University of Strathclyde, Scotland

"The students' views are represented strongly throughout the book, which helps to make it a compelling and extremely worthwhile read."
Dr Linda Creanor, Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland

"Finally, a Podcasting Bible for education!"
Mazlan Hasan, Senior Instructional Designer, National Institute of Education, Singapore

"The 10-step pedagogic model for developing podcasting provides an essential step-by-step guide for anyone venturing into this area for the first time."
Richard Wallis, TwoFour Learning

"After reading this book, I am attracted to offering another flexible learning choice. Podcasting affords active learning whether individual, cooperative or collaborative contributions, either formal or informal."
Denise Nelson, Course Designer, SIAST Virtual Campus, Canada

Contributors: Marialuisa Aliotta, Simon Bates, David Bell, Keith Brunton, Chris Cane, Annette Cashmore, Claire Chambers, Brian Cox, Chris Dennett, Stuart Downward, Palitha Edirisingha, John Fothergill, Derek France, Martin Jenkins, Mark J. W. Lee, David Livingstone, Jo Lonsdale, Kenny Lynch, Raymond Macharia, Matthew Mobbs, Richard Mobbs, Nick Mount, Dick Ng'ambi, Ming Nie, Chris Ribchester, Libby Rothwell, Gilly Salmon, Nick Short, Adam Stevens, John Traxler, Belinda Tynan and Kim Whittlestone....

Authors: David J. Staley.
Paperback, 174 pages
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Publication Date: 2002-12
Edition: 1. / /Special E

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    For hundreds of years historians have used prose and narrative to convey history. This is about to change, thanks to new technology, digital scholarship, and computerized "visualization." Text itself has inherent limitations: The very use of words - their meaning and the connections among them - shapes and restricts how historians think and communicate ideas. The rise of the computer is radically altering how human beings receive and process information. Digital environments and virtual reality are adding a third dimension to communication and creating a new visual language. This visionary and thoroughly accessible book examines this entire revolutionary phenomenon and how historians will utilize the new medium of computers and the new language of visualization to transform our understanding of history. Drawing on familiar graphic models - maps, flow charts, museum displays, and films - the author shows how images can often convey ideas and information more efficiently and accurately than words. With emerging digital technology, these images will become more sophisticated, manipulable, and multidimensional, and provide historians with new tools and environments to construct historical narratives. Just as the transition from prehistoric cave paintings to the spread of literacy changed how people think and process information, so has - and will - the computer. Moving beyond the traditional book based on linear narrative, digital scholarship based on visualization and hypertext will offer multiple perspectives, dimensions, and experiences that will transform how historians work and how people imagine and learn about history....