Britain is to host the most bizarre TV game show ever, as hopeful submissive males enter a lottery to appear on ' Prize of Pain'. Public humiliation awaits, & attempts to cheat will be cruelly punished. Four men are unworthy & will fail in the ordeals that cruel mistress the Domina de Fouetta sets them: only one will win through to the ultimate prize. Who wants to enter the Mistress's Lair? ...

Problem Solving 101 started out as a simple guide to teach Japanese schoolchildren critical thinking skills. But it quickly ...

Problem Solving 101 started out as a simple guide to teach Japanese schoolchildren critical thinking skills. But it quickly ...

Growing up in Venice in the 1930's, Niles O' Hara, the son of an expatriate writer, befriends a Venetian boy, Giangiacomo Gallieni. After the war, Niles & his family return, & he becomes involved in a kind of semi-affair with his childhood friend, who is now an adolescent with a wartime history of sexual trespass. Searching, comic, romantic, & ironic, Profane Friendship is a remarkable study of a strange, provocative, powerful relationship conducted in the matchlessly human-scaled, triumphantly beautiful setting of the world's most alluring city. ...

The universe is made from bits. The way in which the universe registers & processes information determines what it is & how it behaves. It has been known for more than a century that every piece of the universe
- every electron, atom, & molecule
- registers bits of information. It is only in the last ten years, however, with the discovery & development of quantum computers, that scientists have gained a fundamental understanding of just how that information is registered & processed.

Seth Lloyd calls this fundamental understanding of the universe in terms of information processing 'the computational universe', & the purpose of this book is to show how the programmed, computational universe works. Starting from basic concepts of physics, Programming the Universe shows how all physical systems register information. It gives an accessible account of how information is stored & processed at the level of electrons, atoms, & molecules.

It shows how the information processing power of the universe can be harnessed to build quantum computers & explains how the universe itself behaves like a gigantic computer, transforming & processing information. It traces the history of information processing from the big bang to the present day, & reveals how the computational ability of the universe promotes the evolution of complex structures such as life. Programming the Universe is the story of the universe & the bits it is made from.





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The universe is made from bits. The way in which the universe registers & processes information determines what it is & how it behaves. It has been known for more than a century that every piece of the universe
- every electron, atom, & molecule
- registers bits of information. It is only in the last ten years, however, with the discovery & development of quantum computers, that scientists have gained a fundamental understanding of just how that information is registered & processed.


Seth Lloyd calls this fundamental understanding of the universe in terms of information processing 'the computational universe', & the purpose of this book is to show how the programmed, computational universe works. Starting from basic concepts of physics, Programming the Universe shows how all physical systems register information. It gives an accessible account of how information is stored & processed at the level of electrons, atoms, & molecules.


It shows how the information processing power of the universe can be harnessed to build quantum computers & explains how the universe itself behaves like a gigantic computer, transforming & processing information. It traces the history of information processing from the big bang to the present day, & reveals how the computational ability of the universe promotes the evolution of complex structures such as life. Programming the Universe is the story of the universe & the bits it is made from.







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How has the world changed in the last century? As we look bacl across a hundred years of turbulence, Clive Ponting provides a major reassessment of what the twentieth century has meant to people throughout the world. Progress & Barbarism analyses the fundamental forces of population, industry & their consequences for the enviro-ment. It traces the rise & fall of empires, the impact of nationalism examines domestic politics from all political perspectives, & con-siders the darker side of history in the growing repressive power of states across the world & the most terrible of twentieth-century crimes-genocide. Progress & Barbarism is a provocative & challenging interpretation of twentieth-century history, combining a global sweep & an eye for detail & individual experiences. ...

In this dynamic new book Naomi Wolf explores & celebrates the phenomenon of female sexuality
- empirically, imaginatively, anatomically
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