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. ...

He's madly sane & cleverly dotty. Professor Branestawm is the craziest genius you'll ever meet & he's back with this bumper collection of hilarious adventures, zany inventions & mind-boggling experiments. So open up for a wacky collection of stories, riddles, puzzles, tricks & tips...

You'll never get the better of Professor Branestawn but now you can at least get the best!

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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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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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In this dynamic new book Naomi Wolf explores & celebrates the phenomenon of female sexuality
- empirically, imaginatively, anatomically
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Inheritance changes everything, as Ella Kennedy soon discovers when her father dies & the hundred-acre farm she has grown up on & run for years in the Wexford countryside is no longer hers. Hurt & angry following a fight with her brother, Ella leaves her home & people she cares for & joins her wild cousin Kitty in Dublin.

Exiled in the city, Ella is forced to make a new life for herself like the other country girls. She tries to forget the farm, pushing all thoughts of Sean Flanagan, the neighbour she had loved, from her mind. In time she hopes to return to the home she left & find true happiness with a man who wants her for herself, & not what she will bring him.

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