Resultados para "Sand" en Ciencia e ingeniería

How can software engineers manage a living codebase that evolves and responds to changing requirements and demands over the length of its life? Based on their experience at Google, software engineers Titus Winters and Hyrum Wright, along with technical writer Tom Manshreck, present a candid and insightful look at how some of the world’s leading practitioners construct and maintain software. This book covers Google’s unique engineering culture, processes, and tools and how these aspects contribute to the effectiveness of an engineering organization.

We spend a third of our lives in bed, but how much do we really understand about what happens when we go to sleep? What's the right amount? Why do we experience jet lag? Is snoring normal? Enter Dr. Meir Kryger, a world authority on the science of sleep, with a comprehensive guide to the science of slumber that combines detailed case studies and pragmatic advice.

De 35 mooiste treinreizen van Europa, beschreven door dé treinreisjournalist van de Lage Landen. Met een voorwoord van Paul Haenen. De internationale trein beleeft een glorieuze comeback. En terecht, want reizen per spoor is avontuurlijk, relaxed en klimaatvriendelijk. Er is alle ruimte om rond te lopen, een boek te lezen of te lunchen terwijl de mooiste landschappen langs je raam voorbijglijden. De trein is een microkosmos waarin tijd er even niet toe doet – een betere reden om te ontspannen bestaat niet.

In the nineteenth century, Manhattan's streets were so choked with pedestrians, horses, vehicles, and vendors that a trip from City Hall to Central Park could take hours. Alfred Beach had the perfect solution: build a giant pneumatic tube underneath Broadway from the Battery to Harlem. Air pressure would shoot passengers up and down the island in clean, quiet carriages. But Beach was up against the operators of the horse-drawn streetcars and the politicians in their pay, most conspicuously William M. Tweed, the notorious "Boss" of Tammany Hall.

Analogy is the core of all thinking. This is the simple but unorthodox premise that Pulitzer Prize-winning author Douglas Hofstadter and French psychologist Emmanuel Sander defend in their new work. Hofstadter has been grappling with the mysteries of human thought for over 30 years. Now, with his trademark wit and special talent for making complex ideas vivid, he has partnered with Sander to put forth a highly novel perspective on cognition.

Possessing no supernatural powers, Batman is the most realistic of all the superheroes. His feats are achieved through rigorous training and mental discipline, and with the aid of fantastic gadgets. Drawing on his training as a neuroscientist, kinesiologist, and martial artist, E. Paul Zehr explores the question: Could a mortal ever become Batman? Zehr discusses the physical training necessary to maintain bad-guy-fighting readiness while relating the science underlying this process, from strength conditioning to the cognitive changes a person would endure in undertaking such a regimen.

Thoreau's classic account of the solitary life, describing his attempts to simplify his life and sort out his priorities by living alone in a cabin beside Walden Pond for nearly two years, is one of the most influential books ever written. The bible of the environmental movement, Walden vividly portrays Thoreau's reverence for nature, and his understanding of the idea that nature is made up of crucially interrelated parts.

Leopold's essays on conservation will open the mind of any listener who gives them a chance. The first part uses essays for each of the 12 months to share the rhythm of life on his restored Wisconsin farmland, and uses the stories to branch into eye opening lessons on the history of man's use and abuse of it. The second part continues using stories from Leopold's experiences in wild places across North America to expand the lessons to a much wider view. The final part of the work seeks to lay out a better path for humanity, using solid logic and deep philosophical questioning.

Sand is the hidden foundation of our society. In Sand Stories, Kiran Pereira maps out why it is the most consumed commodity on the planet after water. The book examines the impacts of our seemingly insatiable demand for sand on people, wildlife, and our ecosystems.

A paradigm-shifting book in the vein of Sapiens that brings a crucial Indigenous perspective to historical and cultural issues of history, education, money, power, and sustainability—and offers a new template for living. As an indigenous person, Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from a...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Old Man and the Sand Eel, written and read by Will Millard. Growing up on the Cambridgeshire Fens, Will Millard never felt more at home than when he was out with his granddad on the riverbank whiling away the day catching fish. As he grew older his...

My sand life, my pebble life. My life measured out in tides, coming in and going out. My life measured out in games of trying to spot the sea first. My life measured out in the delicious and indulgent sadness that comes from leaving a holiday cottage for the last time and for the first time in several days it isn’t raining, but at least the kids have had a great time and, let’s face it, so have you.

Der aus Schlesien stammende Philosoph Gotthard Günther gilt als Begründer einer transklassischen, mehrwertigen Logik...

Are you a beginner bladesmith who is constantly faced with problems that you can't seem get solved? Do you want to know why your latest knife didn't turn out like it was supposed to? Have you consulted many knife makers and searched across forums, but still have questions that are unanswered? Your solution is here. I, Wes Sander, have compiled answers to 101 of the most frequently asked questions that knife makers have. These questions solve a wide range of problems, from choosing the correct knife-making steel to how much you should pay for an anvil.

Scrap steel is perfect for practicing grinding and heat treatment techniques. So, you can get better at bladesmithing without spending excess money on buying steel. But do you need power tools to forge scrap steel? No. Most of the steels inside this book have forging/stock removal instructions with minimal use of power tools. And they can also be forged with no power tools. But to be honest, without them the work would be tedious, trust me. Learn scrap forging before you decide to make bad steel into a knife, only to have it shatter into pieces the first time you use it.

If you want to forge Damascus swords and Japanese blades, without going through the pain of breaking them during heat treatment, then listen to find out more. The number of ideas you can realize for your creations is directly related to your understanding of various bladesmithing techniques and the characteristics of different materials. Every day that you delay is another day that you stagnate in your growth as a bladesmith.

Das Wattenmeer zwischen Deich und Dünen bleibt sich niemals gleich. Alte Weisheiten trägt die Ebbe fort und mit jeder Flut strömt neues Leben in diese Wechselwelt aus Wasser, Sand und Schlick. Karsten Reise erforscht die Nordseeküste seit nunmehr 50 Jahren. Er kennt jede Wattwurmhöhle und Muschelbank zwischen den nordfriesischen Inseln, die Sandkörner und Strömungen, weiß vom unaufhaltsamen Steigen des Meeres bei aufgeheiztem Klima. Deiche erhöhen allein reicht da nicht mehr aus. Ändert sich das Meer, sollten auch wir uns ändern und amphibischer werden in unserer Lebensweise.

Max Delbrück, geboren am 4. September 1906 in Berlin, gestorben am 10. März 1981 in Pasadena. Physiker und Biologe, Begründer der Molekulargenetik, 1969 ausgezeichnet mit dem Nobelpreis für Medizin und Physiologie, ist hier in Originaltonaufnahmen als Vortragender, Interviewpartner und Sänger zu hören.

Der Physiker Max Planck (1858-1947) hat mit seinen epochemachenden Spectralvorträgen zur Quantentheorie im Jahre 1900 das physikalische Weltbild neu begründet. Für seine Entdeckung der Naturkonstanten h und die Entwicklung der Quantenformel E = h · v wurde er 1918 mit dem Nobelpreis geehrt. Planck setzte sich auch immer wieder mit weltanschaulichen Problemen der modernen Naturwissenschaft auseinander, die er einer breiten Öffentlichkeit in Wort und Schrift zu vermitteln suchte.

Der Wiener Physiker Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961) leistete bahnbrechende Arbeiten zur Wellenmechanik und Quantentheorie, für die er unter anderem mit dem Nobelpreis ausgezeichnet wurde. Untrennbar mit seinem Namen verbunden sind die von ihm entdeckte "Schrödinger-Gleichung" sowie sein berühmtes Gedankenexperiment "Schrödinger's Katze".