Ever since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. Looks at the discovery of the true nature and immense size of the universe, tracing the decades of work done by a select group of scientists to make it possible. . This is an important book that all who are interested in the emergence of quantum mechanics will want to read."—William Evenson, History of Physics Newsletter Winner of the Morris D. Forkosch Prize of the Journal of the History of Ideas ... Hiroshima is the story of six people--a clerk, a widowed seamstress, a physician, a Methodist minister, a young surgeon, and a German Catholic priest--who lived through the greatest single manmade disaster in history. Found insideAbout the origin and future of the universe. 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This report is part of WHO's response to the 49th World Health Assembly held in 1996 which adopted a resolution declaring violence a major and growing public health problem across the world. Found inside – Page 300The Steady State theory, proposed by Fred Hoyle, Hermann Bondi, ... Wilson in 1965,” the community had largely abandoned the Steady State theory in favor of ... Some implications and consequences of the expansion of the universe are examined. The conclusion is reached that galaxies cannot be formed as a result of the growth of perturbations that were initially small. Provocative, challenging, and delightfully readable, this is a game-changing look at the most basic underpinning of existence and a powerful antidote to outmoded philosophical, religious, and scientific thinking. This is a different kind of book about cosmology, a field of major interest to professional astronomers, physicists, and the general public. Found insideThe Oxford Handbook of the History of Modern Cosmology offers a comprehensive and authoritative account of the history of cosmology from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century. Mario Livio shows how even geniuses made major mistakes and how their errors were an essential aspect to achieving scientific breakthroughs The Road to Serfdom was to be the popular edition of the second volume of Hayek's treatise entitled "The Abuse and Decline of Reason", and the title was inspired by the writings of the 19th century French classical liberal thinker Alexis de ... Thoroughly revised and updated, this second edition extends the much acclaimed first edition taking into account the many developments that have occurred. This volume focuses on understanding the causes of the Great Inflation of the 1970s and ’80s, which saw rising inflation in many nations, and which propelled interest rates across the developing world into the double digits.
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