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Electronic Properties of Engineering Materials
Häftad, 1998
3627 kr
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James Livingston has written a highly readable undergraduate text introducing the physics and chemistry underlying the electronic properties of engineering solids. The first half of the text uses a semi-classical approach, while the second half introduces quantum mechanics and applies quantum …
Rising Force
The Magic of Magnetic Levitation
Inbunden, 2011
417 kr
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From Peter Pan to Harry Potter, from David Copperfield to levitating toys, there is magic in conquering gravity. In this first-ever popular introduction to “maglev”— the use of magnetic forces to overcome gravity and friction—James D. Livingston takes lay readers on a journey of discovery, from …
Driving Force
The Natural Magic of Magnets
Häftad, 1997
314 kr
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Driving Force unfolds the long and colorful history of magnets: how they guided (or misguided) Columbus; mesmerized eighteenth-century Paris but failed to fool Benjamin Franklin; lifted AC power over its rival, DC, despite all the animals, one human among them, executed along the way; led Einstein …
Arsenic and Clam Chowder
Murder in Gilded Age New York
Inbunden, 2010
240 kr
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Recounts the sensational 1896 murder trial of Mary Alice Livingston, who was accused of murdering her mother with an arsenic-laced pail of clam chowder and faced the possibility of becoming the first woman to be executed in New York's new-fangled electric chair.Arsenic and Clam Chowder recounts the …
Very Dangerous Woman
Martha Wright and Women's Rights
Av Sherry H. Penney, James D. Livingston
Häftad, 2004
423 kr
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The first biography of a pioneering women's rights activist; ""A very dangerous woman"" is what Martha Coffin Wright's conservative neighbors considered her, because of her work in the women's rights and abolition movements. In 1848, Wright and her older sister Lucretia Mott were among the five …
