Buku ini mengusulkan dua model mekanika kuantum sederhana untuk deskripsi analitis permukaan logam dan nanopartikel. Buku ini memberikan gambaran nyata tentang gaya yang bekerja pada permukaan logam dan menyimpulkan rumus analitis untuk deskripsi sifat fisiknya. Buku ini menjelaskan hubungan antara tegangan dekat permukaan dan parameter permukaan yang umum. Konsep pemisahan benda tiga dimensi m…
An account of the different ways in which things have become cognitive extensions of the human body, from prehistory to the present.An increasingly influential school of thought in cognitive science views the mind as embodied, extended, and distributed rather than brain-bound or "all in the head." This shift in perspective raises important questions about the relationship between cognition and …
The first book on active matter, an emerging field focused on programming physical materials to assemble themselves, transform autonomously, and react to information. The past few decades brought a revolution in computer software and hardware; today we are on the cusp of a materials revolution. If yesterday we programmed computers and other machines, today we program matter itself. This has cre…
A study of how materialism and consumerism undermine our quality of life. In The High Price of Materialism, Tim Kasser offers a scientific explanation of how our contemporary culture of consumerism and materialism affects our everyday happiness and psychological health. Other writers have shown that once we have sufficient food, shelter, and clothing, further material gains do little to impr…
Keberhasilan proyek bangunan perumahan bertingkat tinggi swasta terkait erat dengan penilaian yang cermat dan pemilihan bahan dan desain selubung bangunan yang memenuhi persyaratan berbagai pemangku kepentingan. Persyaratan ini biasanya berfokus pada pencapaian keberlanjutan dan kemampuan membangun dalam desain selubung bangunan. Meskipun keberlanjutan dan kemampuan membangun semakin penting da…
"In this book, Clapperton Mavhunga views technology in Africa from an African perspective. Technology in his account is not something always brought in from outside, but is also something that ordinary people understand, make, and practice through their everyday innovations or creativities -- including things that few would even consider technological. Technology does not always originate in th…
"A Bradford book.""In Mental reality, Galen Strawson argues that much contemporary philosophy of mind gives undue primacy of place to publicly observable phenomena, nonmental phenomena, and behavioral phenomena (understood as publicly observable phenomena) in its account of the nature of mind. It does so at the expense of the phenomena of conscious experience. Strawson describes an alternative …
A noted philosopher proposes a naturalistic (rather than supernaturalistic) way to solve the "really hard problem": how to live a life that really matters-even as a finite material being living in a material world.
This is a collection of theoretical and practical perspectives from a range of disciplines on the challenges of using digital media in research, preservation, management, interpretation, and representation of cultural heritage.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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