Download or read book An Astronaut s Guide to Life on Earth written by Chris Hadfield and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel to space and back with astronaut Chris Hadfield's "enthralling" bestseller as your eye-opening guide (Slate). Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4000 hours in space. During this time he has broken into a Space Station with a Swiss army knife, disposed of a live snake while piloting a plane, and been temporarily blinded while clinging to the exterior of an orbiting spacecraft. The secret to Col. Hadfield's success-and survival-is an unconventional philosophy he learned at NASA: prepare for the worst- and enjoy every moment of it. In An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth, Col. Hadfield takes readers deep into his years of training and space exploration to show how to make the impossible possible. Through eye-opening, entertaining stories filled with the adrenaline of launch, the mesmerizing wonder of spacewalks, and the measured, calm responses mandated by crises, he explains how conventional wisdom can get in the way of achievement — and happiness. His own extraordinary education in space has taught him some counterintuitive lessons: don't visualize success, do care what others think, and always sweat the small stuff. You might never be able to build a robot, pilot a spacecraft, make a music video or perform basic surgery in zero gravity like Col. Hadfield. But his vivid and refreshing insights will teach you how to think like an astronaut, and will change, completely, the way you view life on Earth — especially your own. "Hadfield proves himself to be not only a fierce explorer of the universe, but also a deeply thoughtful explorer of the human condition." —Maria Popova, Brain Pickings

Download or read book Zero Time written by Raymond Yeh and published by . This book was released on 2000-08-07 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for Zero Time(TM) "Zero Time provides valuable insight into the critical success factors of the digital age: total customer experience, velocity, and operational efficiency-all components of Dell's direct model." -Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO, Dell Computer Corporation "Zero Time will become a secular 'bible' for the twenty-first century-speed in 'closing the gaps' is essential, not only for success but for survival."-Herbert D. Kelleher, Chairman, President, and CEO, Southwest Airlines Co. "With this publication, the authors continue to make significant contributions to the world of business, and we are deeply grateful for their remarkable insight and vision."-William H. Cunningham, Chancellor, The University of Texas System "Zero Time contains some of the most powerful and creative ways of thinking about learning systems, customer focus and delight, trusting corporate cultures, and organizational agility that I have ever seen."-David M. Darst, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter "Zero Time boldly identifies the point at which the much-noticed innovations of companies as different as FedEx, Dell Computer, General Electric, and Cisco will converge as a dramatic new model for American business . . . From the pile of new volumes on corporate change, this is the one to select for your strongest essential insight." -Barry Munitz, President and CEO The J. Paul Getty Trust "The business issues associated in moving at Internet speed to serve a customer base that desires instant gratification are clearly stated [in Zero Time] . . . The corporations that put these recommendations in place will be the winners in the electronic business age."-Ralph J. Szygenda, Group Vice President and CIO, General Motors Corporation "Zero Time is the executive's guide to the new millennium! Yeh, Pearlson, and Kozmetsky have distilled the essence of the chaotic dynamics of today's paradigm-busting business world into a coherent set of principles and guidelines for success."-Alan B. Salisbury, PhD, Past President Learning Tree International

Download or read book Zero Space written by Frank Lekanne Deprez and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2002-06-02 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'Zero Space' defines a business model in which an organization achieves success without owning assets or needing management. Through eight new organizational principles the authors illustrate how 'zero-mindedness' is essential for the new economy"--Resource description page.

Download or read book Walking Zero written by Chet Raymo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-05-02 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A noted science writer and author of The Path offers an illuminating study of the interconnections among science, faith, psychology, and the arts in terms of the evolution of the human understanding of space and time as he walks along the Prime Meridian, the line of zero longitude and the standard for world maps and clocks, from Brighton to the North Sea. 20,000 first printing.

Download or read book Zero Time Space written by Günter Nimtz and published by Wiley-VCH. This book was released on 2008-03-03 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This English edition of a successful, proven title provides a sound scientific background, while allowing a popular presentation of the physics behind the strange and mysterious tunneling process. Based on his groundbreaking experiments, Prof Nimtz places the topic in a broader context by showing connections with other branches of physics. He and the team of authors begin by introducing such fundamental concepts as space and time and continue with tunneling phenomena from optics, nuclear and solid state physics. Avoiding mathematical equations and definitions altogether, they explain step-by-step the prerequisites for the tunnel effect to function, from classical mechanics to quantum mechanics, right up to modern topics, such as wormholes and space travel ? la Star Trek. With a foreword by astronaut Ulrich Walter, science team member of the D-2 Space Shuttle Mission.

Download or read book Ztad written by C.D. Smith and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-27 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The possibility of travel forward and backward through space-time intrigues a vast number of people. I find it curious that many believe that Back to the Future is really possible and eventually someone will implement a process/machine to do exactly that. I, on the other hand, believe that time travel through space-time is impossible and in this book, I put forward, what I consider to be, a valid proof. The expansion of the universe and ultimately the Heat Death of the Universe means that energy is continuously lost and is not recoverable. To travel through space-time it is necessary to remove energy from the universe to move forward in time or add energy to the universe to move backward in time and that is, therefore, impossible. My purpose in writing this book is to put forward a paradigm where travel in time-space, not through space-time, is possible. Where movement about in three-dimensional space does not require energy to be either removed from or added to, the universe. Professor Da-veed’s accidental discovery of this paradigm forces him to take measures to avoid being taken into custody by the FBI, DHS, and NSA because he fears that the government would weaponize ZTAD and use it to dominate other countries.

Download or read book From Fossils to Astrobiology written by Joseph Seckbach and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-11-07 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Fossils to Astrobiology reviews developments in paleontology and geobiology that relate to the rapidly-developing field of Astrobiology, the study of life in the Universe. Many traditional areas of scientific study, including astronomy, chemistry and planetary science, contribute to Astrobiology, but the study of the record of life on planet Earth is critical in guiding investigations in the rest of the cosmos. In this varied book, expert scientists from 15 countries present peer-reviewed, stimulating reviews of paleontological and astrobiological studies. The overviews of established and emerging techniques for studying modern and ancient microorganisms on Earth and beyond, will be valuable guides to evaluating biosignatures which could be found in the extraterrestrial surface or subsurface within the Solar System and beyond. This volume also provides discussion on the controversial reports of "nanobacteria" in the Martian meteorite ALH84001. It is a unique volume among Astrobiology monographs in focusing on fossil evidence from the geological record and will be valuable to students and researchers alike.

Download or read book The Time Travel Handbook written by David Hatcher Childress and published by Adventures Unlimited Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative chronicling of real-life time travel experiments, teleportation devices and more.

Download or read book The Hamlock World written by Arne P. Thomassen and published by Author House. This book was released on 2012-09-17 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE HAMLOCK WORLD The fi nal darkness may never come Roger falls unprepared into a strange world where everything is possible. There he observes the direct reason for his fall; Brainwashers building a worldwide empire led by a stray war robot from a distant sun. Realizing the need for countermeasures, Roger faces his ulti mate choice. I have accepted the warning from my future ego. To fulfi ll the Sky-Drive project in 2020 would have been like giving a nuclear bomb to a bunch of crazy cannibals, letti ng a blind fool (thats me) fumble with the trigger device. Instead, I have been called upon to advocate a spiritual refi ning to people that sti ll keep on slaughtering each other without really knowing why. Actually, I do not exist so they cant kill me. I somehow died but was given a second chance. This is a wake-up call. You see? I was Roger Hamlock.

Download or read book Architecture written by Martin van der Linden and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of what architecture is answered in this book with one sentence: Architecture is space created for human activities. The basic need to find food and water places these activities within a larger spatial field. Humans have learned and found ways to adjust to the various contextual difficulties that they faced as they roamed the earth. Thus rather than adapting, humans have always tried to change the context to their activities. Humanity has looked at the context not merely as a limitation, but rather as a spatial situation filled with opportunities that allows, through intellectual interaction, to change these limitations. Thus humanity has created within the world their own contextual bubble that firmly stands against the larger context it is set in. The key notion of the book is that architecture is space carved out of and against the context and that this process is deterministic.

Download or read book The Large Scale Structure of Space Time written by S. W. Hawking and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1975-02-27 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Einstein's General Theory of Relativity leads to two remarkable predictions: first, that the ultimate destiny of many massive stars is to undergo gravitational collapse and to disappear from view, leaving behind a 'black hole' in space; and secondly, that there will exist singularities in space-time itself. These singularities are places where space-time begins or ends, and the presently known laws of physics break down. They will occur inside black holes, and in the past are what might be construed as the beginning of the universe. To show how these predictions arise, the authors discuss the General Theory of Relativity in the large. Starting with a precise formulation of the theory and an account of the necessary background of differential geometry, the significance of space-time curvature is discussed and the global properties of a number of exact solutions of Einstein's field equations are examined. The theory of the causal structure of a general space-time is developed, and is used to study black holes and to prove a number of theorems establishing the inevitability of singualarities under certain conditions. A discussion of the Cauchy problem for General Relativity is also included in this 1973 book.

Download or read book A Complete Story of Time written by Deva Prakash Kalita and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first three part of this book is to establish a unified theory of creation that will be possible to establish by human knowledge in this century. That is from god to the creation of human. The human being was developed with a large brain and intelligence and developing now very fast with the use of science. But still there exists a huge discrepancy and difference among the people of earth. In this book the fourth part is written to feel that all the human being is same at least in the sense of time. Because, everything in the universe is moving with the time, like the breathing of us. All these are written on the basis of ancient Indian philosophy. There are still a huge scope of study and research about Indian philosophy to reveal some truth for the mankind. The complete story of time is a little approach to reveal the nature of time of this creation.

Download or read book Offices at Work written by Franklin Becker and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-04-18 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most Fortune 500 companies still struggle with workplace planning and design issues. Millions of dollars are invested each year by companies with the expectation that new buildings and major renovations will help transform their culture, spark innovation, and herald new work patterns that strengthen performance while reducing costs. But, as Franklin Becker points out, popular trends do not always make good sense. Offices at Work addresses the fundamental design issues that organizational leaders confront such as: How do we create a low-cost flexible environment that motivates employees and stimulates learning? Is it worth our spending the time, money, and effort to consolidate our disparate buildings into a new corporate campus? How else can we address status concerns besides giving people offices? Order your copy today!

Download or read book Spacetime and Geometry written by Sean M. Carroll and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible introductory textbook on general relativity, covering the theory's foundations, mathematical formalism and major applications.

Download or read book Zero Degrees written by Charles W. J. Withers and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-13 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Space and time on earth are regulated by the prime meridian, 0°, which is, by convention, based at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. But the meridian’s location in southeast London is not a simple legacy of Britain’s imperial past. Before the nineteenth century, more than twenty-five different prime meridians were in use around the world, including Paris, Beijing, Greenwich, Washington, and the location traditional in Europe since Ptolemy, the Canary Islands. Charles Withers explains how the choice of Greenwich to mark 0° longitude solved complex problems of global measurement that had engaged geographers, astronomers, and mariners since ancient times. Withers guides readers through the navigation and astronomy associated with diverse meridians and explains the problems that these cartographic lines both solved and created. He shows that as science and commerce became more global and as railway and telegraph networks tied the world closer together, the multiplicity of prime meridians led to ever greater confusion in the coordination of time and the geographical division of space. After a series of international scientific meetings, notably the 1884 International Meridian Conference in Washington, DC, Greenwich emerged as the most pragmatic choice for a global prime meridian, though not unanimously or without acrimony. Even after 1884, other prime meridians remained in use for decades. As Zero Degrees shows, geographies of the prime meridian are a testament to the power of maps, the challenges of accurate measurement on a global scale, and the role of scientific authority in creating the modern world.

Download or read book Science Consciousness written by M. Cazenave and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the concept of consciousness when defined in the terms mind, spirit, soul and awareness. It consists of the edited proceedings of a colloquium held in Cordoba, at which experts in physics, neuro- and psycho-physiology, analytical psychology, philosophy and religious knowledge discussed aspects of their work related to this main theme. The following areas are covered: quantum mechanics and the role of consciousness, neurophysiology and states of consciousness, the manifestation of the psyche in consciousness, the odyssey of consciousness, and science and consciousness. The discussions which follow give a multi-disciplinary perspective on the questions involved.

Download or read book Approaching Zero Time written by Gregg Kanon and published by Virtual Bookworm.Com Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are space and time an illusion? Are parallel universes an indisputable fact? Does the "new physics" suggest that our sense of "reality" is seriously flawed, existing only in our mind? Are we, in fact, "Approaching Zero Time,"a point at which the "past," "present" and "future" will cease to exist, or exist all at once? "Approaching Zero Time" explores the emerging pattern of activity in human affairs that curiously mimics observations being made by physicists in controlled experiments carried out in laboratories and particle accelerators. "Spooky action," as described by Einstein, takes the form of spontaneous invisibility/appearances, "shadow people," anomalistic plasma displays and other bizarre events being observed worldwide by sane, sober individuals from all walks of life. "Approaching Zero Time" contains interviews with physicists from around the world and firsthand accounts of "spooky action" from the heartland. Interviews include comments and observations that provide the final proof of our approach to Zero Time.