Spacecraft missions to nearby Planets The Library of ancient Alexandria The human brain Egyptian Hieroglyphics The origin of life The death of the Sun The evolution of galaxies The origins of matter‚ suns and worlds COSMOS The story of fifteen billion years of cosmic evolution transforming matter and life into consciousness‚ of how science and civilization grew up together‚ and of the forces and individuals who helped shape modern science. A story told with Carl Sagan’s remarkable ability
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Thinking It Through: An Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy Kwame Anthony Appiah OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Thinking It Through Thinking It Through AN I NTRODUCTION TO CONTE M PO RARY PH I LOSOPHY Kwame Anthony Appiah Oxford New York Auckland Bangkok Buenos Aires Cape Town Chennai Dar es Salaam Delhi Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi Kolkata Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Mumbai Nairobi São Paulo Shanghai Taipei Tokyo Toronto Copyright © 2003 by Oxford University
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~ T HE O TTOMAN E MPIRE ~ AND THE W ORLD A ROUND I T ~ For Virginia Aksan in friendship ~ ~ The Ottoman Empire and the World Around It ~ S URAIYA F AROQHI ~ Published in 2004 by I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd 6 Salem Road‚ London W2 4BU 175 Fifth Avenue‚ New York NY 10010 www.ibtauris.com In the United States of America and Canada distributed by Palgrave Macmillan a division of St Martin’s Press 175 Fifth Avenue‚ New York NY 10010 Copyright © Suraiya Faroqhi 2004 The right of Suraiya Faroqhi
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Prelims.qxd 1/31/07 8:22 PM Page i In Praise of Digital Design and Computer Architecture Harris and Harris have taken the popular pedagogy from Computer Organization and Design to the next level of refinement‚ showing in detail how to build a MIPS microprocessor in both Verilog and VHDL. Given the exciting opportunity that students have to run large digital designs on modern FGPAs‚ the approach the authors take in this book is both informative and enlightening. David A. Patterson
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Encyclopedia of Gothic Literature Encyclopedia of Gothic Literature MARY ELLEN SNODGRASS Encyclopedia of Gothic Literature Copyright © 2005 by Mary Ellen Snodgrass All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means‚ electronic or mechanical‚ including photocopying‚ recording‚ or by any information storage or retrieval systems‚ without permission in writing from the publisher. For information contact: Facts On File‚ Inc. 132 West
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1 CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XIII CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XV CHAPTER XVI PART II OF COMMON-WEALTH CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XVIII CHAPTER XIX CHAPTER XX CHAPTER XXI CHAPTER XXII CHAPTER XXIII CHAPTER XXIV CHAPTER XXV CHAPTER XXVI CHAPTER XXVII CHAPTER XXVIII CHAPTER XXIX CHAPTER XXX Leviathan‚ by Thomas Hobbes 2 CHAPTER XXXI PART III OF A CHRISTIAN
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fendpaper.qxd 11/4/10 12:05 PM Page 2 Systems of Units. Some Important Conversion Factors The most important systems of units are shown in the table below. The mks system is also known as the International System of Units (abbreviated SI )‚ and the abbreviations sec (instead of s)‚ gm (instead of g)‚ and nt (instead of N) are also used. System of units Length Mass Time Force cgs system centimeter (cm) gram (g) second (s) dyne mks system meter (m) kilogram (kg) second (s) newton
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