Author: Paul Harcourt Davies
Publisher: Lark Books
Keywords: photography, top, pro, book, hints, lark, tips, amp, revised, updated, digital
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2009-06-02
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1600594832
ISBN-13: 9781600594830

Digital users: are you puzzled by white balance settings? Unsure which ISO is appropriate? Baffled about how to transfer, file, and edit images? Finally, here’s a manual that clears up the confusion! This updated reprint of Digital Photography Q&A has a unique question-and-answer format that provides quickly accessible, cut-to-the chase advice on topics ranging from image capture to computer processing to printing. Photographers who have this guide by their side will be in the know, feeling confident, and ready to take great pictures with their digital cameras.  

Author: Paul Davies
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Keywords: global, services, revolution, outsourcing, offshoring, india, business, what’s
Number of Pages: 238
Published: 2004-03
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1904838006
ISBN-13: 9781904838005

A global services revolution is taking the business world by storm, as India becomes the world s back office provider. From call centers and claims processing to human resources, accounting and even legal operations, service jobs are migrating from the West to India by the thousand each year. While cost reduction is often the initial goal of "offshoring," What s This India Business? clearly demonstrates its real value: increased quality and greater effectiveness. Rich in examples and expert advice, this nuts-and-bolts guide shows what it takes to surge ahead of market trends, build a sustainab

Author: Paul Davies
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Keywords: alien, intelligence, search, renewing, silence, eerie
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2010-04-13
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 0547133243
ISBN-13: 9780547133249

A provocative and mind-expanding look at the search for alien intelligence by a leading physicist and astrobiologist.

Author: Paul Davies
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Keywords: life, right, universe, jackpot, cosmic
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2007-04-11
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0618592261
ISBN-13: 9780618592265

Cosmic Jackpot is Paul Davies’s eagerly awaited return to cosmology, the successor to his critically acclaimed bestseller The Mind of God. Here he tackles all the "big questions," including the biggest of them all: Why does the universe seem so well adapted for life?In his characteristically clear and elegant style, Davies shows how recent scientific discoveries point to a perplexing fact: many different aspects of the cosmos, from the properties of the humble carbon atom to the speed of light, seem tailor-made to produce life. A radical new theory says it’s because our universe is just on

Author: Paul Davies
Publisher: Basic Books
Keywords: life, extraterrestrial, discovery, implications, philosophical
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1996-06-28
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0465004199
ISBN-13: 9780465004195

Is life on earth a "cosmic joke"-- a unique, one-time occurrence? Or is life a "cosmic imperative"? Scientists and governments are vigorously searching for signs of life in the universe, but what would (and should) we do if they meet with success? Celebrate ? Panic? Paul Davies ponders the many ramifications of contact with extraterrestrial life, giving the general reader the latest and most scientifically sound thinking on this hot topic in the field of astronomy. As fascinating and readable as any science fiction novel, Are We Alone? delves deep into profound ideas in mathematics and philo

Author: Paul Davies
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: physics, new
Number of Pages: 526
Published: 1992-08-28
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0521438314
ISBN-13: 9780521438315

The New Physics is the first book to give a complete and comprehensive account of everything that is new and most exciting in modern physics. What does the concept of chaos mean? What occurred in the first billionth of a second after the Universe came into existence? What is at the edge of space? How are stars born and how do they die? How does a laser work? What are the philosophical foundations of quantum mechanics? What are quarks and what does gauge theory mean? What happens to matter at very low temperatures? These and many more questions are answered in this book by some of the wor

Author: Paul Davies
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: life, right, universe, enigma, goldilocks
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2008-04-29
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0547053584
ISBN-13: 9780547053585

Cosmic Jackpot is Paul Davies’s eagerly awaited return to cosmology, the successor to his critically acclaimed bestseller The Mind of God. Here he tackles all the "big questions," including the biggest of them all: Why does the universe seem so well adapted for life?In his characteristically clear and elegant style, Davies shows how recent scientific discoveries point to a perplexing fact: many different aspects of the cosmos, from the properties of the humble carbon atom to the speed of light, seem tailor-made to produce life. A radical new theory says it’s because our universe is just on