Автор: Nickell Duane S. Название: Guidebook for the Scientific Traveler: Visiting Physics and Chemistry Sites Across America ISBN: 081354730X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813547305 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 26930.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Imagine visiting a top-secret government lab, one that was a key site for the development of nuclear weapons and nuclear fusion technology in the twentieth century. Well, even in todayas world of color-coded security levels, the doors of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California are open to you. And itas just one of the many surprising stops along the way in Duane S. Nickellas captivating new edition of the Scientific Traveler series, "Guidebook for the Scientific Traveler: Visiting Physics and Chemistry Sites across America."
Are you in the mood for a trip to the Titan Missile Museum in Tucson? Want to spend some time at the Fermi National Accelerator Center near Chicago? Perhaps quench your thirst for knowledge and discovery at the Anheuser-Busch Brewery in St. Louis, where brewers are chemists at heart? Set your own pace. As an active participant or living room traveler, youall be mesmerized as Nickell leads you on a tour of physics and chemistry sites.
Written in an easy-to-read and accessible style, this comprehensive guide is a practical and fun way to promote scientific literacy. Youall meet some of the worldas great physicists, engineers, and chemists as you turn pages filled with more than fifty photographs. Organized into chapters on individuals, places, and sites--from universities of science to national laboratories, particle accelerators to energy labs and beyond--Nickell illuminates the history of each topic and paints a panorama of stunning achievements in physics and chemistry.
Whether youare traveling in California or Maine, or taking to the road in Texas or Illinois, Nickell helps complete your trip with a state-by-state list of monumental sites and resources. From the east coast to the west, north by northwest, or south in search of the Florida Solar Power Energy Center, youall enjoy all your scientific travels with Visiting Physics and Chemistry Sites across America.
Автор: Nickell William Название: The Death of Tolstoy: Russia on the Eve, Astapovo Station, 1910 ISBN: 0801448344 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780801448348 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 29730.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
In the middle of the night of October 28, 1910, Leo Tolstoy, the most famous man in Russia, vanished. A secular saint revered for his literary genius, pacificism, and dedication to the earth and the poor, Tolstoy had left his home in secret to embark on a final journey. His disappearance immediately became a national sensation. Two days later he was located at a monastery, but was soon gone again. When he turned up next at Astapovo, a small, remote railway station, all of Russia was following the story. As he lay dying of pneumonia, he became the hero of a national narrative of immense significance.
In The Death of Tolstoy, William Nickell describes a Russia engaged in a war of words over how this story should be told. The Orthodox Church, which had excommunicated Tolstoy in 1901, first argued that he had returned to the fold and then came out against his beliefs more vehemently than ever. Police spies sent by the state tracked his every move, fearing that his death would embolden his millions of supporters among the young, the peasantry, and the intelligentsia. Representatives of the press converged on the stationhouse at Astapovo where Tolstoy lay ill, turning his death into a feverish media event that strikingly anticipated today's no-limits coverage of celebrity lives—and deaths. Drawing on newspaper accounts, personal correspondence, police reports, secret circulars, telegrams, letters, and memoirs, Nickell shows the public spectacle of Tolstoy's last days to be a vivid reflection of a fragile, anxious empire on the eve of war and revolution.
For more on Tolstoy's death, see the companion website created by the author at http://humweb.ucsc.edu/bnickell/tolstoy/.
Автор: Bartholomew Robert E., Nickell Joe Название: American Hauntings: The True Stories Behind Hollywood`s Scariest Movies--From the Exorcist to the Conjuring ISBN: 1440839689 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781440839689 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 42570.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This work provides an accurate, in-depth examination and scientific evaluation of the most famous hauntings in American history as depicted in popular films and television programs.
