Space Exploration 2008 (Springer Praxis Books)

David M. Harland

Brian Harvey

Praxis

It was time for Alexei Leonov to climb back in after his first spacewalk. . . 'First of all, the movie camera which had been recording all his movements snagged. It would not go back in the airlock and instead got wedged in the entrance. By the time he had forced it in, Alexei Leonov was sweating profusely and producing more perspiration than the suit could absorb. Then, much worse, he could not get back in himself. His suit ballooned to the point where he just would not fit. He pushed and pushed, all to no avail. Sweat had covered his eyes; wearing a helmet he could not clear it. He was using up air fast. His heart was pounding madly. He reduced his suit pressure from 0.4 atmospheres to 0.3. No good. Down to 0.27, the permissible limit. Still would not fit. He faced disaster. . .'And did he get back in? How little we know of that half of the history of space exploration that belongs to the Russians. This book recounts the thrilling and dramatic events of the Soviet space programme, from its earliest beginnings with the theoreticians of the nineteenth century to the establishment of the Mir orbital space station in 1986. Because information about the projects was only released cautiously, and sometimes misleadingly at the time, Brian Harvey's detailed account comes as a revelation. He tells an enthralling story of high political drama, massive scientific effort, brilliant technological inventiveness and sheer human courage and resourcefulness. Race Into Space will appeal to everybody fascinated by tales from the frontiers of human experience; it reawakens the wonder felt when the first Sputnik circled the Earth; and it has the power to inspire the next generation of scientists and technologists. -- Brian Harvey has undertaken a tremendous amount of research, and in this book he presents his findings in a way which is both authoritative and readable. Even if you consider yourself an expert, you will find here facts that you did not previously know.

Race Into Space: The Soviet Space Programme (Library of Space Science and Space Technology)

Business & Money

Real Estate

Ellis Horwood, Ltd.

This series is for people--adults and teenagers--who are interested incomputer programming because it's fun. The three volumes use the Logo programminglanguage as the vehicle for an exploration of computer science from the perspectiveof symbolic computation and artificial intelligence. Logo is a dialect of Lisp, alanguage used in the most advanced research projects in computer science, especiallyin artificial intelligence. Throughout the series, functional programming techniques(including higher order functions and recursion) are emphasized, but traditionalsequential programming is also used when appropriate.In the second edition, thefirst two volumes have been rearranged so that illustrative case studies appear withthe techniques they demonstrate. Volume 1 includes a new chapter about higher orderfunctions, and the recursion chapters have been reorganized for greater clarity.Volume 2 includes a new tutorial chapter about macros, an exclusive capability ofBerkeley Logo, and two new projects. Throughout the series, the larger programexamples have been rewritten for greater readability by more extensive use of dataabstraction.In Volume 3 Beyond Programming, the reader learns that computer scienceincludes not just programming computers, but also more formal ways to think aboutcomputing, such as automata theory and discrete mathematics. In contrast to mostbooks on those subjects, this volume presents the ideas in the form of concrete, usable computer programs rather than as abstract proofs. Examples include a programto translate from the declarative Regular Expression formalism into the executableFinite State Machine notation, and a Pascal compiler written in Logo.The Logoprograms in these books and the author's free Berkeley Logo interpreter areavailable via the Internet or on diskette.

Computer Science LOGO Style: Beyond Programming

MIT Press (MA)

This series is for people--adults and teenagers--who are interested incomputer programming because it's fun. The three volumes use the Logo programminglanguage as the vehicle for an exploration of computer science from the perspectiveof symbolic computation and artificial intelligence. Logo is a dialect of Lisp, alanguage used in the most advanced research projects in computer science, especiallyin artificial intelligence. Throughout the series, functional programming techniques(including higher order functions and recursion) are emphasized, but traditionalsequential programming is also used when appropriate.In the second edition, thefirst two volumes have been rearranged so that illustrative case studies appear withthe techniques they demonstrate. Volume 1 includes a new chapter about higher orderfunctions, and the recursion chapters have been reorganized for greater clarity.Volume 2 includes a new tutorial chapter about macros, an exclusive capability ofBerkeley Logo, and two new projects. Throughout the series, the larger programexamples have been rewritten for greater readability by more extensive use of dataabstraction.Volume 1 Symbolic Computing, is addressed to a reader who has usedcomputers and wants to learn the ideas behind them. Symbolic computing is themanipulation of words and sentences, in contrast both to the graphics most peopleassociate with Logo and to the numerical computation with which more traditionallanguages such as Pascal and C++ are most comfortable. This volume is well known forits clear and thorough presentation of recursion, a key idea in computer sciencethat other texts treat as arcane and difficult.The Logo programs in these books andthe author's free Berkeley Logo interpreter are available via the Internet or ondiskette.

Computer Science LOGO Style, 2nd Edition, Vol. 1: Symbolic Computing

This series is for people--adults and teenagers--who are interested incomputer programming because it's fun. The three volumes use the Logo programminglanguage as the vehicle for an exploration of computer science from the perspectiveof symbolic computation and artificial intelligence. Logo is a dialect of Lisp, alanguage used in the most advanced research projects in computer science, especiallyin artificial intelligence. Throughout the series, functional programming techniques(including higher order functions and recursion) are emphasized, but traditionalsequential programming is also used when appropriate.In the second edition, thefirst two volumes have been rearranged so that illustrative case studies appear withthe techniques they demonstrate. Volume 1 includes a new chapter about higher orderfunctions, and the recursion chapters have been reorganized for greater clarity.Volume 2 includes a new tutorial chapter about macros, an exclusive capability ofBerkeley Logo, and two new projects. Throughout the series, the larger programexamples have been rewritten for greater readability by more extensive use of dataabstraction.Volume 2 Advanced Techniques, is addressed to the reader with someexperience with symbolic Logo programming. It combines additional tutorial chaptersabout advanced Logo features with case studies in which those techniques are used inprogramming projects. The projects range from games (a solitaire program) throughutilities (finding the differences between two versions of a file) to a computerthat translates BASIC programs into Logo. This volume also includes the BerkeleyLogo Reference Manual as an appendix.The Logo programs in these books and theauthor's free Berkeley Logo interpreter are available via the Internet or ondiskette.

Computer Science LOGO Style: Advanced Techniques

Simply Scheme: A Methods Handbook

Matthew Wright

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Sean Mcgearty

Kelly Assumpta

Europe

Triskele Community Training and Development

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Golf In The Region

Blue Genes

David Greer

Taylor&Francis

China in Space: The Great Leap Forward (Springer Praxis Books)

Springer

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