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Published by Lulu.com, 2005
ISBN 10: 1411643976ISBN 13: 9781411643970
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Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013
ISBN 10: 1479318728ISBN 13: 9781479318728
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Published by Anamnesis Foundation, 2011
ISBN 10: 1517188628ISBN 13: 9781517188627
Seller: BookMarx Bookstore, Steubenville, OH, U.S.A.
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Collectible Very Good. First Edition. Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio: BookMarx Bookstore. Books shipped within 24 hours. Volume 1, Number 1 (2011) - No marks noted in text. Binding is tight and square. Gently read. . . . . . TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1.) Retelling The Story of Reason by James Matthew Wilson -- 2.) Sticking To the Old Ways by Montaigne and Sacred Tradition by Ann Hartle -- 3.) The Tocqueville Problem and The Nature of American Conservatism by Ted V. McAllister -- 4.) A Bright and Shining Cave - Bloomâ s Closing of The American Mind Twenty-Five Years Later by Bruce P. Frohnen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EDITORIAL STATEMENT: Anamnesis is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, academic journal dedicated to the study of Tradition, Place, and 'Things Divine'. The journal will strive to avoid ideological commitments and, instead, be open to diverse scholarship relating to our major themes. Tradition signals the importance of custom and our relation to the past. In this sense, it can be a guide to human conduct and a constituent of rationality. Place is an existential category, like the human body, that connotes focus on the limits of human scale, the value of human attachment to historical community and locality, and the value of human connection to nature and the land. Issues of agrarian values, decentralization, localism, and other such concerns are themes that the journal hopes to explore. *Things Divine* is Cicerâ s phrase and it is part of his famous claim that *wisdom* entails *knowledge of things divine and human.* The expression is intended to encompass a broad swath of meanings. On the one hand, it connotes openness a broad swath of meanings. On the one hand, it connotes openness to theological and philosophical inquiry into what is thought to be ultimate and unconditioned; and so we welcome exploration of topics related to Logos, natural law theory, and other such themes. On the other hand, we are also open to the mythos view of culture â " i.e., that many basic truths about reality, which people experience, are often expressed in myths.
Published by Pearson (edition ), 2002
ISBN 10: 0805386629ISBN 13: 9780805386622
Seller: BooksRun, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
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Published by Pearson, New York, 2003
ISBN 10: 813170050XISBN 13: 9788131700501
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Softcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Green softcover Interational Edition in Good+ condition. The covers show some edge wear and creased corners. The binding is square and tight. An organization stamp is neatly marked out on the first page. The interior pages contain sparse erased pencil. The book will be carefully packaged for shipment for protection from the elements. USPS electronic tracking number issued free of charge. Hartle has authored this book with the motive of bringing the endless subject: The General Theory of Relativity, into a concise book in Gravity: An Introduction to Einstein's General Relativity in order to help the students of undergraduate level. Adopting a 'physics first' method to his area of study, Hartle presents this book with a brief, easy to understand English. The author emphasises on the interesting phenomena of gravitational physics and the developing link between the theory and the observation in this book. The book also depicts examples before every derivation for easy understanding of the subject. The various chapters in this book deals with concepts like Special Relativity and Space and Time in Newtonian Physics, Black Holes, Gravitational Physics, Newtonian Physics, Cosmological Models, The Curved Spacetimes of General Relativity, Gravity as Geometry, Solar System Tests, The Einstein Equation, Curvature, and Gravitational Wave Emission. Topics like GPS and X-Ray sources are applied to explain the boundless relevancy to the subject of Theory of General Relativity in day to day life. This book is based on the magnum opus The General Theory of Relativity, a geometric theory of gravitation authored by Albert Einstein in the year 1916.
Published by Cambridge University Press (edition 1), 2021
ISBN 10: 1316517543ISBN 13: 9781316517543
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Published by Dorling Kindersley (India) licensees of Pearson Education, 2007
Seller: Chiemgauer Internet Antiquariat GbR, Altenmarkt, BAY, Germany
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Originalbroschur. 25 cm. Condition: Sehr gut. First impression. 599 Seiten. Mit zahlreichen Schwarz-Weiß- Abbildungen. Index. An der Seitenvorderkante auf zahlreichen Seiten praktische, leicht entfernbare kleine Einmerk-Post-Its eines Statik-Professors,sonst SEHR gutes Exemplar Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1005.
Published by Pearson; 1 edition (1 Nov. 2013), 2013
ISBN 10: 1292039140ISBN 13: 9781292039145
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Published by World Scientific Publishing Company, 1991
ISBN 10: 9810203462ISBN 13: 9789810203467
Seller: Zubal-Books, Since 1961, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
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Published by World Scientific Publishing Company, 2021
ISBN 10: 9811216398ISBN 13: 9789811216398
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Published by American Institute of Physics (for the American Physical Society), Lancaster, PA and New York, 1964
Seller: Singularity Rare & Fine, Baldwinsville, NY, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good Plus. 1st Edition. Lancaster, PA and New York: American Institute of Physics (for the American Physical Society), 1964. First Edition thus. 11 May 1964 issue. Quarto, light blue printed adhered wraps, pp B 481 through B 704 for the series are in this volume. Very Good plus. Original owner's name penned at top. No interior markings. See rear cover scan for the rich contents of this issue, but some include: James B. Hartle - 2 scattering papers; Daniel Z. Freedman (Nucleon and Baryon Regge Trajectories); Sidney Coleman and S.L. Glashow (Theory of Strong Interaction Symmetry Breakdown); Bose, S.K. (Determination of Pion-Nucleon S-Wave Scattering Lengths by the N/D Method) L67.
Published by The American Physical Society], [Brookhaven, NY, 1983
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First edition. HAWKING'S NO-BOUNDARY PROPOSAL: HOW THE UNIVERSE COULD HAVE ARISEN FROM NOTHING. First edition, very rare offprint, and Hawking's own file copy, of this famous paper describing the 'no-boundary proposal' for the origin of the universe. "Stephen sought to understand the whole universe in scientific terms. As he said famously, 'My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe' . From 1982 onwards, Stephen concentrated his efforts on the deeper puzzle of the boundary conditions required to bring about inflation and the probability of them coming about . The singularity theorems proved by Stephen, Penrose and others showed conclusively that the classical Einstein equation implied that the universe began in a hot Big Bang. But the singularity theorems also showed that the beginning could not be described by a classical space-time geometry obeying the Einstein equation with three space directions and one time direction at each point. Rather, they showed something more sweeping: the classical Einstein equation breaks down at the Big Bang and, along with that, the notion that it could be described by a classical space-time . [it was therefore necessary to try] to describe the quantum birth of the universe. Stephen first put forward a proposal along these lines at a conference in the Vatican in 1981, where he suggested that the universe began with a regular Euclidean geometry having four space dimensions which made a quantum transition to a Lorentzian geometry with three space dimensions and one time dimension that we have today. To put this idea on a solid footing required a quantum state-a wave function of the universe" (Carr et al.). "'Murray Gell-Mann used to ask me,' Hartle said, referring to the late Nobel Prize-winning physicist, 'if you know the wave function of the universe, why aren't you rich?'" (Wachover). "Because one is using Euclidean space-times, in which the time direction is on the same footing as directions in space, it is possible for space-time to be finite in extent and yet to have no singularities that formed a boundary or edge. Space-time would be like the surface of the earth, only with two more dimensions . the quantum theory of gravity has opened up a new possibility, in which there would be no boundary to space-time and so there would be no need to specify the behavior at the boundary. There would be no singularities at which the laws of science broke down, and no edge of space-time at which one would have to appeal to God or some new law to set the boundary conditions for space-time. One could say: 'The boundary condition of the universe is that it has no boundary.' The universe would be completely self-contained and not affected by anything outside itself. It would neither be created nor destroyed, it would just BE" (Hawking). "The scientific importance of the no-boundary proposal is not just as a successful theory of the origin of the basic structure of the universe-it has also had a significant effect on how we think about the universe and our place in it" (Carr et al.). We are not aware of any other copy of this offprint having appeared on the market. Provenance: the estate of Professor Stephen Hawking (1942-2018). "In 1981, many of the world's leading cosmologists gathered at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, a vestige of the coupled lineages of science and theology located in an elegant villa in the gardens of the Vatican. Stephen Hawking chose the august setting to present what he would later regard as his most important idea: a proposal about how the universe could have arisen from nothing" (Wachover). At that time the standard theory of the origin of the universe was the 'Big Bang' model. This had apparently been confirmed by the discovery of the cosmic microwave background by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson in 1965. But the Big Bang theory had some problems. Not only was there the question of what happened before the Big Bang, but the theory predicted a universe that was not nearly as smooth and uniform as ours. In 1980, the cosmologist Alan Guth realized that the Big Bang's problems could be fixed with an add-on: an initial, exponentially fast expansion known as cosmic inflation lasting some 10-33 seconds, which would have rendered the universe smooth and flat before expansion resumed at a slower rate allowing gravity to create the relatively few inhomogeneities we see in the current universe. Inflation quickly became the leading theory of our cosmic origins. Yet problems remained: inflation requires extremely specific initial conditions, and the question becomes, why were the initial conditions just those required to make the expansion theory work? In his Vatican lecture, "Hawking proposed a solution to the problem of initial conditions: there is no beginning at all. According to the record of the Vatican conference, the Cambridge physicist, then 39 and still able to speak with his own voice, told the crowd, "There ought to be something very special about the boundary conditions of the universe, and what can be more special than the condition that there is no boundary?" "The 'no-boundary proposal,' which Hawking and his frequent collaborator, James Hartle, fully formulated in a 1983 paper [offered here], envisions the cosmos having the shape of a shuttlecock. Just as a shuttlecock has a diameter of zero at its bottommost point and gradually widens on the way up, the universe, according to the no-boundary proposal, smoothly expanded from a point of zero size. Hartle and Hawking derived a formula describing the whole shuttlecock - the so-called 'wave function of the universe' that encompasses the entire past, present and future at once - making moot all contemplation of seeds of creation, a creator, or any transition from a time before. 'Asking what came before the Big Bang is meaningless, according to the no-boundary proposal, because there is no notion of time available to refer to,' Hawking said in another lecture at the Pontifical Acade.