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- Advice for a young investigator / by RamoÌn y Cajal, Santiago,1852-1934.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. x-xi).- Subjects: Research.; Scientists.; Research.; Scientists.;
- © c1999., MIT Press,
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- Broad band : the untold story of the women who made the Internet / by Evans, Claire Lisa.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-268) and index.Introduction : The Dell -- Part one. The kilogirls. A computer wanted ; Amazing Grace ; The salad days ; Tower of Babel ; The computer girls -- Part two. Connection trip. The longest cave ; Resource one ; Networks ; Communities ; Hypertext -- Part three. The early true believers. Miss Outer Boro ; Women.com ; The girl gamers -- Epilogue : The cyberfeminists."The history of technology you probably know is one of men and machines, garages and riches, alpha nerds and brogrammers. But the little-known fact is that female visionaries have always been at the vanguard of technology and innovation--they've just been erased from the story. Until now. Women are not ancillary to the history of technology; they turn up at the very beginning of every important wave. But they've often been hidden in plain sight, their inventions and contributions touching our lives in ways we don't even realize. VICE reporter and YACHT lead singer Claire L. Evans finally gives these unsung female heroes their due with her insightful social history of the Broad Band, the women who made the internet what it is today. Learn from Ada Lovelace, the tortured, imaginative daughter of Lord Byron, who wove numbers into the first program for a mechanical computer in 1842. Seek inspiration from Grace Hopper, the tenacious mathematician who democratized computing by leading the charge for machine-independent programming languages after World War II. Meet Elizabeth "Jake" Feinler, the one-woman Google who kept the earliest version of the Internet online, and Stacy Horn, who ran one of the first-ever social networks on a shoestring out of her New York City apartment in the 1980s. Evans shows us how these women built and colored the technologies we can't imagine life without. Join the ranks of the pioneers who defied social convention and the longest odds to become database poets, information-wranglers, hypertext dreamers, and glass ceiling-shattering dot com-era entrepreneurs. This inspiring call to action is a revelation: women have embraced technology from the start. It shines a light on the bright minds whom history forgot, and shows us how they will continue to shape our world in ways we can no longer ignore. Welcome to the Broad Band. You're next"--- Subjects: Biographies.; Women computer scientists; Internet;
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- Natural computing : DNA, quantum bits, and the future of smart machines / by Shasha, Dennis Elliott.; Lazere, Cathy A.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-250) and index.Adaptive computing. Rodney Brooks : animals rule ; Glenn Reeves and Adrian Stoica : design for a faraway planet ; Louis Qualls : putting evolution on the design team ; Jake Loveless and Amrut Bharambe : riding the Big One ; Nancy Leveson : "It's the system, stupid" -- Harnessing lifestuff. Ned Seeman : at the edge of life ; Paul Rothemund : lifestuff imitates art ; Steve Skiena : programming bugs ; Gerald Sussman : building a billion biocomputers ; Radhika Nagpal : from local to global -- Physics and speed. Monty Denneau : the architect of speed ; David Shaw : Anton and the giant Femtoscope ; Jonathan Mills : doing what comes naturally ; Scott Aaronson : finding a new law of physics -- Natural computing time line.- Subjects: Natural computation.; Artificial intelligence.; Computer scientists.;
- © c2010., W.W. Norton,
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- Machiavelli : a very short introduction / by Skinner, Quentin.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 101-106) and index.Introduction -- 1. The diplomat -- 2. The adviser to princes -- 3. The theorist of liberty -- 4. The historian of Florence -- Works by Machiavelli quoted in the text.Niccolo Machiavelli taught that political leaders must be prepared to do evil that good may come of it, and his name has been a byword ever since for duplicity and immorality. Is his sinister reputation deserved? In answering this question Quentin Skinner focuses on three major works, The Prince, the Discourses, and The History of Florence, and distills from them an introduction to Machiavelli of exemplary clarity.-publisher description.- Subjects: Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527.; Political scientists;
- © 2000., Oxford University Press,
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- The last time I saw her : a novel / by Robards, Karen.; Lee, Ann Marie.;
Read by Ann Marie Lee.In the breathtaking new thriller of paranormal romance from New York Times bestselling author Karen Robards, serial killer expert Dr. Charlotte Stone comes way too close to losing the one thing she never thought she'd miss: the dangerously sexy ghost who follows wherever she goes.Executive producer, Dan Musselman.- Subjects: Audiobooks.; Romantic suspense fiction.; Paranormal fiction.; Women forensic scientists; Serial murder investigation;
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- Great feuds in science : ten of the liveliest disputes ever / by Hellman, Hal,1927-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-228) and index.Urban VIII versus Galileo: an unequal contest -- Wallis versus Hobbes: squaring the circle -- Newton versus Leibniz: a clash of titans -- Voltaire versus Needham: the generation controversy -- Darwin's bulldog versus Soapy Sam: evolution wars -- Lord Kelvin versus geologists and biologists: the age of the Earth -- Cope versus Marsh: the fossil feud -- Wegener versus everybody: continental drift -- Johanson versus the Leakeys: the missing link -- Derek Freeman versus Margaret Mead: nature versus nurture.- Subjects: Science; Scientists; Vendetta; Science; Vendetta; Scientists;
- © c1998., Wiley,
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- Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519 : artist and scientist / by Zöllner, Frank.; Leonardo,da Vinci,1452-1519.;
Includes bibliographical references (page 95)."Filling notebook after notebook with sketches, inventions, and theories, Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519) not only stands as one of the most exceptional draftsmen of art history, but also as a mastermind and innovator who anticipated some of the greatest discoveries of human progress, sometimes centuries before their material realization. From the smallest arteries in the human heart to the far-flung constellations of the universe, Leonardo saw nature and science as being unequivocally connected. His points of inquiry and invention spanned philosophy, anatomy, geology, and mathematics, from the laws of optics, gravitation, heat and light to the building of a flying machine. In his painting, Leonardo steered art out of the Middle Ages with works such as The Last Supper and the world-famous La Gioconda or Mona Lisa depicting not only physical appearances, but a compelling psychological intrigue and depth which continues to draw crowds of mesmerized visitors to masterpieces in Paris, Milan, Washington, London, and Rome. This book collates some of Leonardo's most outstanding work to introduce a figure of infinite curiosity, feverish imagination and sublime artistic ability, often described as having "not enough worlds for to conquer, and not enough lives for to live" (Alan Woods)"--Page 2 of cover.Apprenticeship and youth in Florence -- Beginnings without ends -- New artistic departures in Milan -- the artist as natural scientist -- Leonardo: Court artist in Milan -- Restless interlude -- The battle of the giants: Leonardo and Michelangelo -- The last years -- Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519, life and work.- Subjects: Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519.; Artists;
- © 2015., Taschen,
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- Ice station / by Reilly, Matthew.;
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- Subjects: Scientists;
- © 2000., St. Martin's Paperbacks,
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- How James Watt invented the copier : forgotten inventions of our great scientists / by Schils, René.;
Includes bibliographical references.Johannes Kepler -- Robert Hooke -- Edmond Halley -- Daniel Bernoulli -- Benjamin Franklin -- Joseph Priestly -- James Watt -- Edward Jenner -- John Dalton -- Thomas Young -- Justus von Liebig -- Charles Darwin -- William Thompson (Lord Kelvin) -- James Clerk Maxwell -- Alexander Graham Bell -- Hendrik Antoon Lorentz -- Svante Arrhenius -- Pierre Curie -- Walther Nernst -- Albert Einstein -- Harlow Shapley -- Erwin Schrödinger -- Enrico Fermi -- Rosalind Franklin -- George Gamow.- Subjects: Inventions; Science; Inventors; Scientists;
- © c2012., Springer,
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- The Invisible Man : [electronic resource] : A Grotesque Romance. by Wells, H. G.(Herbert George),1866-1946.;
H.G. Wells' 1897 science fiction novella The Invisible Man tells the story of a scientist named Griffin who theory is this: if the refractive index of a person's body is adjusted to exactly that of air, then his body will not absorb or reflect light and he will become invisible. Griffin subjects himself to a procedure to do this, becoming an invisible man. But he cannot manage to reverse it and become visible once more, resulting in his mental unhinging.Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1056 KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 301 KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1055 KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 297 KB).- Subjects: Science Fiction; Science fiction.; Electronic books.; Science; Scientists; Fiction.; Science; Scientists; Classic Literature.; Horror.; Science Fiction.;
- © 2012., Duke Classics,
- On-line resources: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=784985 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive.;
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