Author: Stanislaw Lem
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: magnitude, imaginary
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1985-10-28
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0156441802
ISBN-13: 9780156441803

These wickedly authentic introductions to twenty-first-century books preface tomes on teaching English to bacteria, using animated X-rays to create "pornograms," and analyzing computer-generated literature through the science of "bitistics." "Lem, a science fiction Bach, plays in this book a googleplex of variations on his basic themes" (New York Times Book Review). Translated by Marc E. Heine. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Author: Philip L. Fradkin
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: andreas, fault, san, life, earthquakes, magnitude
Number of Pages: 348
Published: 1999-10-29
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0520221192
ISBN-13: 9780520221192

Environmental historian Philip L. Fradkin offers a vivid history of earthquakes and an eloquent guide to the San Andreas Fault, the seismic scar that bisects the Golden State’s spectacular scenery. The author includes dramatic stories of legendary earthquakes elsewhere: in New York, New England, the central Mississippi River Valley, Europe, and the Far East. Combining human and natural dramas, he places the reader at the epicenter of the most invisible, unpredictable, and feared of the earth’s violent phenomena. On the eve of the millennium, as cyberspace crackles with apocalyptic

Author: Augustus De Morgan
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Keywords: book, euclid, fifth, explain, number, magnitude, connection
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2004-04-05
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0766190250
ISBN-13: 9780766190252

1836. Augustus De Morgan was an important innovator in the field of logic. In addition, he made many contributions to the field of mathematics and the chronicling of the history of mathematics. This is his treatise on Trigonometry and meant to be used as a student text. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

Author: Milton Lodge
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Keywords: quantitative, social, sciences, applications, measurement, scaling, magnitude, opinions
Number of Pages: 88
Published: 1981-09-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0803917473
ISBN-13: 9780803917477

’The book is a good introduction, with practical examples and suggestions as to log-log plotting. There is even a footnote reminding one of the basic arithmetic of logarithms! There are examples, validity studies and several suggestions as to the value of line marking as a questionnaire response mode. In all a valuable informative addition to an important series.’ -- Quantitative Sociology Newsletter

Authors:Stanley J. Bolanowski, Stanley J. Bolanowski Jr., G
Publisher: Psychology Press
Keywords: memory, stevens, honor, magnitude, scaling, psychological, ratio
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1990-10-01
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0805807101
ISBN-13: 9780805807103

Presenting the proceedings of a conference held at Syracuse University in honor of S.S. Stevens, a pioneer in the scaling of sensory magnitudes and the originator of the method of magnitude estimation, this volume brings together the work of 20 authorities on the procedures of ratio scaling. These experts--psychophysicists, physiologists, and theoreticians--offer their views on whether or not psychological magnitudes can be measured and whether the judgments of psychological magnitudes constitute the basis for the construction of a ratio scale. Also discussed is the question of whether any sin