This innovative text for first-semester college and university physics students presents the principal elements of physics needed to answer the question: "Why do we believe in atoms and their properties?" Pursuing the theme of the nature of the atom, the book offers a sound introduction to basic physics of the nineteenth and twentieth century, including discussion of important ideas of quantum mechanics. The revised and improved second edition includes two new chapters about the nature of photons and quantum entanglement
Taste of Home special interest publications Halloween Party Favorites over 200 ideas for Kids & Grown-Ups - food - crafts - costumes jack-o-lanterns & more
Chess Training Pocket Book: 300 Most Important Positions and Ideas
This newly revised volume in the successful Comprehensive Chess Course sharpens and tightens your game through examination and study of the 300 most important chess game positions. The most important and instructive positions over the last 100 years arranged as challenges, with illuminating explanations and solutions. Lev Alburt, Grandmaster of Chess and renowned three-time US chess champion, presents and analyzes the 300 most important game positions an average player should understand and remember to become a chess expert.
Beautiful Embroidery with Judith & Kathryn: over 70 inspirational ideas and projects
Judith and Kathryn invite you to dream of the past. As children, the shapes and shadows, sounds, spaces and smells of our surroundings were invitations to explore. These things now have an influence on the creativity of our needlework. With 23 beautiful projects and countless inspirational ideas, this book will excite and inspire you.
This volume provides an up-to-date and comprehensive reference guide to the key concepts, ideas, movements, and trends of applied linguistics for language teaching. With over 300 hundred entries of varying length, the volume includes essential coverage of language, language learning, and language teaching. Written in an accessible style, the entries draw attention to the practical teaching implications of the ideas under discussion, and contain selected bibliographical information for further guided reading.
