Author: Susan Hough
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: measure, man, earthquake, richter, scale
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2007-01-02
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0691128073
ISBN-13: 9780691128078
By developing the scale that bears his name, Charles Richter not only invented the concept of magnitude as a measure of earthquake size, he turned himself into nothing less than a household word. He remains the only seismologist whose name anyone outside of narrow scientific circles would likely recognize. Yet few understand the Richter scale itself, and even fewer have ever understood the man. Drawing on the wealth of papers Richter left behind, as well as dozens of interviews with his family and colleagues, Susan Hough takes the reader deep into Richter’s complex life story, setting it
Author: Thomas Levenso
Publisher: Touchstone
Keywords: measure, science, musical, history
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1995-12-05
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0684804344
ISBN-13: 9780684804347
In Measure for Measure, Thomas Levenson offers a compelling account of how scientific thinking development from the day 2,500 years ago when Pythagoras discovered the musical scale to the present day. The story unfolds through the tales of instruments scientific and musical: the organ, the microscope, the still, the scales, Stradivari’s miraculous violins and cellos, computers, and synthesizers. What emerges is a unique portrait of science itself as an instrument, our single most powerful way of understanding the world. Yet perhaps the most important invention of modern science has been
Authors:Thomas J. Glover, Richard Allen Young,
Publisher: Sequoia Pub
Keywords: measure
Number of Pages: 864
Published: 1996-11
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 188979600X
ISBN-13: 9781889796000
The Most Comprehensive Conversion Factor Book in the World! This book sets a new standard for accurate, user-friendly conversion factor references. Specifically designed for engineers, scientists, teachers, students, maintenance, construction and industrial workers.
Author: R Pawson
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: measure, sociology, library, international, manifesto
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1989-07-26
List price: $57.95
ISBN-10: 0415026598
ISBN-13: 9780415026598
The methods which sociologists use to acquire knowledge about the social world have always been subject to disputes. How far are their methods value free? How far do they reproduce bias? In this major textbook Ray Pawson gives the student a comprehensive introduction to the methods debate in empirical sociology. He also provides the scholar with a challenging manifesto for the development of methods in the future.
Author: R. W Chambers
Publisher: Books for Libraries Press
Keywords: measure, biography, criticism, shakespearean, library, shakespeare, jacobean
Number of Pages: 58
Published: 1970
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0836952502
ISBN-13: 9780836952506
Authors:William Shakespeare, N. W. Bawcutt,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: measure, classics, oxford, world
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1998-06-11
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 0192834223
ISBN-13: 9780192834225
Shakespeare’s vivid dramatic projection of moral and ethical issues in Measure for Measure has given the play great appeal to both readers and theatergoers. Exploring the play’s qualities as a complex work of art written specifically for the theater, the introduction to this new edition sets the play in its historical context, discussing the originality of Shakespeare’s treatment of a well-known story. Bawcutt explains the obsolete marriage customs, and also offers a comprehensive account of the text’s theatrical afterlife from Restoration adaptations to recent producti
Author: D.H.Fremlin
Publisher: Torres Fremlin
Keywords: measure, spaces, theory, topological
Number of Pages: 967
Published: 2003-11-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0953812944
ISBN-13: 9780953812943
