This book is about my own personal favourite puzzles & conundrums in science all of which have famously been referred to as paradoxes but which turn out not to be paradoxes at all when considered carefully & viewed from the right angle A true paradox is a statement that leads to a circular & self-contradictory argument or one that describes a logically impossible situation Our subject is 'perceived paradoxes'
- questions or thought-experiments that on first encounter seem impossible to answer but which science has been able to solve Our tour of these mind-expanding puzzles will take us through some of the greatest hits of science
- from Einstein's theories about space & time to the latest ideas of how the quantum world works Some of our paradoxes may be familiar such as Schroedinger's famous cat which is seemingly alive & dead at the same time; or the Grandfather Paradox
- if you travelled back in time & killed your grandfather you would not have been born & would not therefore have killed your grandfather Other paradoxes will be new to you but no less bizarre & fascinating We will ask such questions as how does the fact that it gets dark at night prove the Universe must have started with a big bang? Where are all the aliens? & why does the length of a piece of string vary depending on how fast it is moving? In resolving our paradoxes we will have to travel to the furthest reaches of the Universe & explore the very essence of space & time Hold on tight


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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Hong Kong martial arts action thriller in which a hardened police officer must work alongside Thai police when his daughter is abducted in Thailand On his quest to track down & save his daughter he uncovers a series of conspiracies which lead him down dark paths The cast

Includes:: Jacky Cai Louis Koo & Yue Wu

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Tracklist A1 Controlled Demolition A2 Reborn A3 Abbattoir A4 Mean Machine A5 Deathlines B1 Musangwe (BKF) B2 Timeless Souls B3 Blackbell B4 The Enemy within B5 Black Widow ...

If you have a working knowledge of Haskell this hands-on book shows you how to use the language's many APIs & frameworks for writing both parallel & concurrent programs You'll learn how parallelism exploits multicore processors to speed up computation-heavy programs & how concurrency enables you to write programs with threads for multiple interactions Author Simon Marlow walks you through the process with lots of code examples that you can run experiment with & extend Divided into separate sections on Parallel & Concurrent Haskell this book also

Includes:: exercises to help you become familiar with the concepts presented Express parallelism in Haskell with the Eval monad & Evaluation Strategies Parallelize ordinary Haskell code with the Par monad Build parallel array-based computations using the Repa library Use the Accelerate library to run computations directly on the GPU Work with basic interfaces for writing concurrent code Build trees of threads for larger & more complex programs Learn how to build high-speed concurrent network servers Write distributed programs that run on multiple machines in a network

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What developments in government & society food & farming exploration & discovery science & technology art & literature religion education & entertainment were there in the early modern world of Europe between the years 1500 & 1789 & how did these compare with those made during the same time period in the Islamic world & elsewhere in Africa & Asia? What was happening at the same time in the Americas? Packed with beautiful illustrations this book in the Parallel History series for readers upwards of age nine will help you to explore the early modern world chronologically with timelines to show you when major events & achievements took place ...

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Originally written to entertain move or chill the eight short stories in this collection accompanied by parallel English translations now also help students gain deeper insights into French literature & life Arranged in approximate order of difficulty the range of stories is wide from the stylized wit of Raymond Queneau to the beautifully written ambiguities of Philippe Sollers from Pierre Gascar's exploration of childhood as a background to a tale of infidelity to Henri Thomas's gentle ironic look at war All make wonderful reads in either language ...

Much maligned in pre-war Germany the short story enjoyed a creative rebirth in 1945 Initially imported by the Allies the form also matched perfectly the prevailing mood of irony objectivity & mistrust of the didactic With the original German text running alongside English translations this collection features stories from eight outstanding post-war authors including Heinrich Boell Ilse Aichinger & Reinhard Lettau which students will find both educational & engrossing Boell's opening story ' Pale Anna' follows a soldier returning home his situation comparable to that of the writer in the first months of peace he knows no-one & has few words not linked to painful memories This poignant narrative is followed by a variety of tales representing the diversity of the time & including satires explorations of private obsessions & experiments in form & language ...

From the bestselling author of Physics of the Impossible Michio Kaku's Parallel Worlds takes us to the frontiers of scientific knowledge to explain the extraordinary nature
- & future
- of our universe Imagine a future where we are not alone
- where our universe is just one of countless parallel worlds some strangely familiar some almost unimaginable & that when planet earth finally runs down to a cold dark wasteland we will be able to escape into these new worlds & start again Michio Kaku's thrilling guide to the galaxy shows us how it could happen sooner than we think
- & the future for intelligent life is one of endless possibilities ' This book is absolutely impossible to put down if & when we do find out what the universe is & how it was created it's going to be absolutely mind-blowing' Independent on Sunday ' One of the gurus of modern physics' Financial Times ' An exhilarating read nobody who reads this book can be anything less than amazed by the possibilities it presents' Scotland on Sunday ' The journey he takes the reader on is so picturesque & the conclusions so startling that you are gripped' Sunday Telegraph Michio Kaku is a leading theoretical physicist & one of the founders of string theory widely regarded as the strongest candidate for the 'theory of everything' He is also one of the most gifted popularizers of science of his generation His books published by Penguin include Parallel Worlds The Physics of the Future & The Physics of the Impossible He holds the Henry Semat Professorship in Theoretical Physics at the City University of New York where he has taught for over twenty-five years



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