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This publication examines how opening sequences in films, classic and contemporary, act as hooks to draw the viewer into the film, showing frame by frame how graphics, type and animation are used to create atmosphere, set tone, and lend impact to movies. From Hitchcock and Godard to Tarantino, Luc Besson, and Tim Burton, this large format coffee table book finally illuminates this critical role designers play in filmmaking and gives credit to those that often go uncredited.
This book provides an integrated perspective on the recent advances in the development of effective biological systems using molecular biological techniques for biochemical production and analysis. This book includes metabolic engineering approaches in microbial systems, anti-apoptosis engineering in animal cell systems, and cell surface engineering in microbial and mammalian cell systems. Biological Systems Engineering contains advances in new technologies in the development of effective biological systems using molecular biological techniques for the biochemical production and analysis.
Science: A Four Thousand Year History rewrites science's past. Instead of focussing on difficult experiments and abstract theories, Patricia Fara shows how science has always belonged to the practical world of war, politics, and business. Rather than glorifying scientists as idealized heroes, she tells true stories about real people - men (and some women) who needed to earn their living, who made mistakes, and who trampled down their rivals in their quest for success. Fara sweeps through the centuries, from ancient Babylon right up to the latest hi-tech experiments in genetics and particle physics, illuminating the financial interests, imperial ambitions, and publishing enterprises that have...
''Interesting with many useful ideas and references. It covers a broad range and it is a good introduction to this field.'' ---Analyst
'Had God intended Women merely as a finer sort of cattle, he would not have made them reasonable.' Writing in 1673, Bathsua Makin was one of the first women to insist that girls should receive a scientific education. Despite the efforts of Makin and her successors, women were excluded from universities until the end of the nineteenth century, yet they found other ways to participate in scientific projects. Taking a fresh look at history, Pandora's Breeches investigates how women contributed to scientific progress. As well as collaborating in home-based research, women corresponded with internationally-renowned scholars, hired tutors, published their own books and translated and simplified important texts, such as Newton's book on gravity. They played essential roles in work frequently attributed solely to their husbands, fathers or friends.
'Fatal Attraction' tells the stories of three men who were lured by nature's strangest power, magnetism. Edmond Halley set out to map the Earth's magnetic patterns & improve navigation. Gowin Knight hoped to make a fortune from his inventions and Franz Mesmer claimed that his medical therapy was the revolutionary science of the future.
Isaac Newton is now universally celebrated as a genius of science, renowned for his innovatory work on gravity and optics. Yet the term 'scientist' was not coined until the 1830s, a hundred years after his death. And Newton did not always enjoy such legendary status. A reclusive scholar who wrote more about alchemy and theology than natural philosophy, he has been heroised by many, but vilified as a madman by others. His posthumous reputation has constantly changed and is riddled with contradictions. Newton investigates the different ways in which Newton's life and works have been interpreted at different times. It charts his transformation into a scientific genius, explaining the changing attitude of the scientific community towards Newton's ideas, from Berkeley to Einstein. It also explores the making of Newton the national hero, through the myths that surround him and the many artistic and literary descriptions of him. NEWTON is a fascinating story of Newton's reputation, shedding light on the growth of science generally and on our changing attitude towards our intellectual heritage.
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Wenn der Ermittler in einem erstmals 1937/38 erschienenen Schweizer Krimi kiffen darf und diese neue Erfahrung begeistert mit einem "cheibe suber isch es gsy" kommentiert -- dann kann nur Friedrich Glauser der Autor sein...In der "Fieberkurve" geht es nicht nur die Aufkl�rung zweier aktueller und eines lange vergangenen ungekl�rten Todesfalles -- es geht auch um Studers Jugendtr�ume, die er nun, gerade eben Gro�vater geworden, von einer anderen Seite sieht: Ein Teil der Handlung spielt im Maghreb, bei der Fremdenlegion. Und es geht um arme Teufel, die das Schicksal �ber Geb�hr gebeutelt hat.Zun�chst aber beginnt alles in Paris, wo Studer ein eigenartiger Geistlicher, ein "p�r...
Optoelectronic sensors combine optical and electronic systems for numerous applications including pressure sensors, security systems, atmospheric particle measurement, close tolerance measurement, quality control, and more. This title provides an examination of the latest research in photonics and electronics in the areas of sensors.