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Optics and Lasers (Optical Sciences Series ; Vol 5)

Science & Math

Matt Young

Experiments, Instruments & Measurement

Springer, Verlag

Is Darwinian evolution established fact, or a dogma ready to be overtaken by "intelligent design"? This is the debate raging in courtrooms and classrooms across the country.
Why Intelligent Design Fails assembles a team of physicists, biologists, computer scientists, mathematicians, and archaeologists to examine intelligent design from a scientific perspective. They consistently find grandiose claims without merit.
Contributors take intelligent design's two most famous claims--irreducible complexity and information-based arguments--and show that neither challenges Darwinian evolution. They also discuss thermodynamics and self-organization; the ways human design is actually identified in fields such as forensic archaeology; how research in machine intelligence indicates that intelligence itself is the product of chance and necessity; and cosmological fine-tuning arguments.
Intelligent design turns out to be a scientific mistake, but a mistake whose details highlight the amazing power of Darwinian thinking and the wonders of a complex world without design.

Why Intelligent Design Fails: A Scientific Critique of the New Creationism

Religion & Spirituality

Taner Edis

Christian Books & Bibles

Rutgers University Press

This book explains how people can improve their writing style by following a few simple rules. The author, a practising scientist who screens manuscripts regularly, advises that technical writing, is no different from any other writing. The first part is an introduction, which provides simple guidelines for writing and organizing reports of all kinds. The second part is presented in dictionary format and covers a wide variety of themes. Many entries in this section are specific to technical writing, including topics such as metric units, equations, figures and tables, abstracts, conference proceedings and slides. Others provide more general advice on grammar, usage, style and organization, which concern writers in all fields. All have been carefully cross-referenced to reveal related information quickly and easily. Aimed primarily at scientists and engineers, it will also be of use to lawyers, administrators, journalists and editors of technical journals.

Technical Writer's Handbook: Writing With Style and Clarity

Literature & Fiction

Univ Science Books

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Eat the Apple

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Bloomsbury Publishing

A gut-wrenching, beautiful memoir which explores toxic masculinity and the devastating consequences of war on one impressionable young soldier Matt Young joined the Marine Corps aged 18, after a drunken night that culminated in him crashing his car into a fire hydrant. The teenage wasteland he fled followed him to the training bases of California. Young survived training and then three deployments to Iraq as an infantryman. Eat the Apple is the searing and honest response to those years. Visceral, ironic, self-lacerating and ultimately redemptive, Young's story drops us unarmed into Marine Corps culture and lays bare the vulnerability of those on the front lines and the true, if often misguided, motivations that drove a young man to a life at war. Tender and brilliantly written, Eat the Apple is a powerful coming-of-age story that explores toxic masculinity and maps the insane geography of our times.

Leaders & Notable People

Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio

Written by a practicing scientist, this book is directed to scientists, engineers, and others who want to improve their writing and communication.

Reference

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

University Science Books

My challenge was the limited amount of information that existed for me in my quest to become a great employee. Sure, there were rows upon rows of how-to and effective-practice books aimed at middle and upper management. A million different strategies and concepts screamed their catchphrases from the bookshelves, but there was not one book written that showcased how to become a great employee. This didn’t make sense. Why use all that shelf space to educate 5% of the business population on how to maximize their returns, yet devote zero shelves to educating 95% of the workforce on their side of the equation?

Hire Me!

Willie Cromack

Wizard Academy Press

Optics and Lasers is an introduction to engineering and applied optics, including not only elementary ray and wave optics, but also lasers, holography, coherence, fibers, and optical waveguides. It stresses physical principles, applications, and instrumentation. The textbook will be most useful to the practicing engineer or experimental scientist, graduate student, or advanced undergraduate. It contains more than enough material from which to select the core of an introductory optics course and sufficient to form the bulk of a more advanced course.

Optics and Lasers: Including Fibers and Optical Waveguides

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Springer

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Optics and Lasers (Optical Sciences Series ; Vol 5)

Why Intelligent Design Fails: A Scientific Critique of the New Creationism

Technical Writer's Handbook: Writing With Style and Clarity

Eat the Apple

Eat the Apple

Technical Writer's Handbook: Writing With Style and Clarity

Hire Me!

Optics and Lasers: Including Fibers and Optical Waveguides