This title offers more than 10,000 years of history in the palm of your hand. From the early beginnings of human civilization in prehistoric times, to the first manned space flight and beyond, discover all about the things that have influenced our past and shaped our world today. You'll meet great rulers and politicians, philosophers and revolutionaries who have changed world history. Travel to mighty civilisations to explore the progress of humanity. Follow earth-shattering wars and revolutions, major achievements in the fields of science and technology and milestones in the arts.
Here is a fascinating and nontechnical introduction to the ubiquitous effects of symmetry. Starting with geometrical elements of symmetry, the author reveals the beauty of symmetry in the laws of physics, biology, astronomy, and chemistry. He shows that symmetryand asymmetry form the founda tion of relativity, quantum mechanics, solid-state physics, and .ato mic, subatomic, and elementary particle physics, and so on.
China invented paper, printing, the compass and the seismograph. China was among the first to harness fossil fuels and map the stars. And then, about 500 years ago, it lost its innovative edge. Now China hopes once again to lead the world in creativity. In this five-part series, The World’s Asia Correspondent Mary Kay Magistad examines the history of Chinese innovation. Winner of a 2009 Sigma Delta Chi Award for Journalism.
Ellen Brown did some serious homework on how the global monetary system works and how it grew to be the ravenous monster it is today. The best book I have ever read on the subject. A whole hidden history guaranteed to shake your world and an excellent primer for what to expect in the coming US/Global economic collapse -- and how to avoid/survive it.
Added by: arcadius | Karma: 2802.10 | Fiction literature | 19 August 2010
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The World Set Free
The World Set Free was first published in 1914. The novel foretells atomic weapons.The World Set Free is a novel published in 1914 by H. G. Wells. The book is considered to foretell nuclear weapons. A constant theme of Wells's work, such as his 1901 nonfiction book Anticipations, was the effect of energy and technological advance as a determinant of human progress. The novel begins: "The history of mankind is the history of the attainment of external power. Man is the tool-using, fire-making animal."
