Download or read book The Science of Harry Potter written by Roger Highfield and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-05-27 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind the magic of Harry Potter—a witty and illuminating look at the scientific principles, theories, and assumptions of the boy wizard's world, newly come to life again in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and the upcoming film Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Can Fluffy the three-headed dog be explained by advances in molecular biology? Could the discovery of cosmic "gravity-shielding effects" unlock the secret to the Nimbus 2000 broomstick's ability to fly? Is the griffin really none other than the dinosaur Protoceratops? Roger Highfield, author of the critically acclaimed The Physics of Christmas, explores the fascinating links between magic and science to reveal that much of what strikes us as supremely strange in the Potter books can actually be explained by the conjurings of the scientific mind. This is the perfect guide for parents who want to teach their children science through their favorite adventures as well as for the millions of adult fans of the series intrigued by its marvels and mysteries. • An ALA Booklist Editors' Choice •
Download or read book Mr Wizard s 400 Experiments in Science written by Don Herbert and published by Book-Lab. This book was released on 1968 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 400 experiments with background information in the areas of plants, senses, water, surface tension, air pressure, carbon dioxide, bicycles, flying earth satellites, gravity, magnetism, static electricity, electric current, light and sight, mirrors, heat, and sound.
Download or read book The Science Teacher written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SCC Library has 1964-cur.
Download or read book Bulletin written by Louisiana. Department of Education and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Junior Libraries written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Defenses Against the Dark Arts written by John S. Nelson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-01-11 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the publishing sensation of the last half-century, Harry Potter dominates early education in politics. Children, tweens, teens, and adults love it; and most students come to college knowing at least some of it. This dark fantasy analyzes politics in strikingly practical and institutional ways. Like ancient Sophists, modern Machiavellians, and postmodern Nietzscheans, the Potter books treat politics as dark arts and our defenses against them. The Potter saga overflows with drama, humor, and insight into ours as dark times of terrible troubles. These reach from racism, sexism, and specism to fascism, terrorism, autocracy, and worse. Harry and his friends respond with detailed, entertaining takes on many ideologies, movements, and styles of current politics.Defenses Against the Dark Arts argues that Potter performances of magic show us how and why to leap into political action. This includes the high politics of governments and elections, and especially the everyday politics of families, schools, businesses, media, and popular cultures. It explores Potter versions of idealism, realism, feminism, and environmentalism. It clarifies Potter accounts of bureaucracy, nationalism, and patronage. And it analyzes Potter resistance through existentialism and anarchism. The emphasis is on learning to face and defend against dark arts in dark times.
Download or read book Flight Instructions written by Kathleen P. Perkins and published by Hillcrest Publishing Group. This book was released on 2015-01-14 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flight Instructions: A Journey through Guilt to Forgiveness is a touchingly honest memoir - the story of a decades-long journey that began when author Kathleen P. Perkins answered an inner call. This call was a summons ferocious enough to wrench her from her husband of fourteen years and their three young children. Loosed from her family, severed from the life she had known for over thirty years, she uncovered a powerful spiritual dimension which eventually forced her to take her hands from her eyes - and the shield from her heart.
Download or read book Language Vision and Music written by Paul Mc Kevitt and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language, vision and music: what common cognitive patterns underlie our competence in these disparate modes of thought? Language (natural & formal), vision and music seem to share at least the following attributes: a hierarchical organisation of constituents, recursivity, metaphor, the possibility of self-reference, ambiguity, and systematicity. Can we propose the existence of a general symbol system with instantiations in these three modes or is the only commonality to be found at the level of such entities as cerebral columnar automata? Answers are to be found in this international collection of work which recognises that one of the basic features of consciousness is its MultiModality, that there are possibilities to model this with contemporary technology, and that cross-cultural commonalities in the experience of, and creativity within, the various modalities are significant. With the advent of Intelligent MultiMedia this aspect of consciousness implementation in mind/brain acquires new significance. (Series B)
Download or read book A KNOWLEDGE ODYSSEY written by David Halsey and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book depicts a knowledge odyssey guided by engineering and physics concepts that are honed into pathways that help define certain parts of the natural world as we believe it to be. Stark differences are drawn from our interface with this virtual world that societies have concocted throughout the eons of time. This odyssey travels from the microcosm to the macrocosm; from infinity to infinity.
Download or read book Medical Toxicology Antidotes and Anecdotes written by Steven M. Marcus and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of challenging and unusual cases from the author's extensive experience as a Medical Toxicologist, these cases demonstrate medical problem solving and differential diagnosis in action from the perspective of an experienced clinician. Written in an engaging style and giving a fascinating account of some complex cases from real practice, this book will provide a good supplementary learning text for graduate students or those at an early stage in their professional career.
Download or read book Library Journal written by Melvil Dewey and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 1458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Issued also separately.
Download or read book Boys Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1953-04 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.
Download or read book How to Fly a Horse written by Kevin Ashton and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential reading for would-be creators and innovators: “If you want to tap your creative potential, buy this book. It’s the last one you’ll ever need to read” (Toronto Star). To create is human. Technology pioneer Kevin Ashton has experienced firsthand the all-consuming challenge of creating something new. Now, in a tour-de-force narrative twenty years in the making, Ashton demystifies the sacred act, leading us on a journey through humanity’s greatest creations to uncover the surprising truth behind who creates and how they do it. From the crystallographer’s laboratory where the secrets of DNA were first revealed by a long forgotten woman, to the Ohio bicycle shop where the Wright brothers set out to “fly a horse,” Ashton showcases the seemingly unremarkable individuals, gradual steps, multiple failures, and countless ordinary and usually uncredited acts that lead to our most astounding breakthroughs. Drawing on examples from Mozart to the Muppets, Archimedes to Apple, Kandinsky to a can of Coke, How to Fly a Horse is essential reading for would-be creators and innovators, and also a passionate and immensely rewarding exploration of how “new” comes to be.
Download or read book 1950s Rocketman TV Series and Their Fans written by C. Miller and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourteen essays featured here focus on series such as Space Patrol, Tom Corbett, and Captain Z-Ro, exploring their roles in the day-to-day lives of their fans through topics such as mentoring, promotion of the real-world space program, merchandising, gender issues, and ranger clubs - all the while promoting the fledgling medium of television.
