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  Silurian Period The: The History...

  Editors Charles River

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  The early history of Earth covers such vast stretches of time that years, centuries, and even millennia become virtually meaningless. Instead, paleontologists and scientists who study geochronology divide time into periods and eras.  
  The Silurian Age occurred during the mid-Paleozoic, and despite its relative brevity, the era developed some interesting features that promulgated life on Earth. Roderick J. Murchison, a British geologist, named a sequence of rocks after a group of indigenous people called the Silures living in Wales during the mid-19th century. Despite their absence in the Silurian Age, the name was bestowed to honor the tribe. 
  Murchison was inspired by close friend Adam Sedgwick, who named the Cambrian Age, employing the Latin word for Wales. In 1835, the two presented a paper together entitled On the Silurian and Cambrian Systems. Their separate categorizing systems caused a serious enough disagreement over chronology that the friendship ended bitterly. The alternative name for Siluria was Gotlandia after the Baltica island of Gotland. 
  What ultimately precipitated these subdivisions in the chronology was a “famous unconformity” on the River Onny in Shropshire. It indicated a natural break within “classic Silurian on its own home territory.” The timeline for beginning and end dates has remained imprecise, but the order of fossilized discoveries has proven correct. Joachim Barrande, a French paleontologist, geologist, and botanist, pursued the same issue in the Prague Basin of Bohemia. Studying the Paleozoic trilobite for a period of 10 years, his extensive work was published in his Silurian System of Central Bohemia. Altogether, he identified and analyzed over 4,000 new fossil species, producing the enormous Encyclopedia of Fossils, numbering over 6,000 pages.

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  Epilepsy Awareness

  Centre of Excellence

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  Epilepsy is a condition that most of us are aware of but unless we’ve had close contact with it, don’t understand much about. The Epilepsy Awareness Audiobook not only fills in the blanks but provides extensive information about the condition that will prove useful to those with epilepsy, their family and caregivers, and anyone else who would like to understand the condition and how to manage it.

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  The Physics of Superheroes -...

  James Kakalios

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  A complete update to the hit book on the real physics at work in comic books, featuring more heroes, more villains, and more science. 
   
    
   
  Since 2001, James Kakalios has taught "Everything I Needed to Know About Physics I Learned from Reading Comic Books," a hugely popular university course that generated coast-to-coast media attention for its unique method of explaining complex physics concepts through comics. With The Physics of Superheroes, named one of the best science books of 2005 by Discover, he introduced his colorful approach to an even wider audience. Now Kakalios presents a totally updated, expanded edition that features even more superheroes and findings from the cutting edge of science. With three new chapters and completely revised throughout, the book that explains why Spider-Man's webbing failed his girlfriend, the probable cause of Krypton's explosion, and the Newtonian physics at work in Gotham City is electrifying from beginning to end.

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  The Bickersteth Diaries - 1914-1918

  John Bickersteth, Donald Coggan

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  This book is a studiously edited version of the eleven volumes and more than three thousand pages of the diarist's original work. Ella Bickersteth began to put it together for her six sons, because one of them was in Australia at the outbreak of the 1914–18 war.The book reflects upon church and politics, theological musings and matter-of-fact details of how an anxious mother, who was also a busy vicar's wife, kept going through the huge upheaval of war.

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  Arduino Programming - The...

  Ryan Turner

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  Are you ready to take your programming to the next level? Are you already using Arduino and like the way it works? Do you want to be able to build more powerful projects and applications? Arduino is one of those programming languages that offers you much more than you expected at every stage you reach. It provides effective tools that really work and can have you doing complex tasks quickly with its hands-on approach.Now, with Arduino Programming: The Ultimate Intermediate Guide to Learn Arduino Programming Step by Step, you can take the next step on your Arduino journey and increase your knowledge and skills further. The chapters in the audiobook provide information on:Getting the most from ArduinoFunctions, calculations, and tablesLinking the physical to the virtualCoupling and multiplexingWays to digitize soundAdvanced techniquesNetworkingAnd much, much more...With its combination of theory and practical advice, Arduino Programming is the stand-out book when it comes to building on your basic understanding of this fantastic programming resource.Buy the audiobook today and enhance your knowledge while building ever more complex applications for your computer!

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  The Elements We Live By - How...

  PhD Anja Røyne

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  An around-the-world journey to discover where in the wild we can find the elements of life and the surprising ways they're essential to our survival 
   
   
   
  We all know that we depend on elements for survival—from the oxygen in the air we breathe to the carbon in the molecular structures of all living things. But we don't often stop to appreciate how, say, phosphorous holds our DNA together or how potassium powers our optic nerves so that we can see. 
   
   
   
  In The Elements We Live By, physicist and award-winning author Anja Røyne takes us on an astonishing journey through chemistry and physics, introducing the building blocks from which we humans—and the world—are made. Not only does Røyne explain why our bodies need iron, phosphorus, silicon, potassium, and many more elements in just the right amounts in order to function, she also leads us around the world to where these precious elements are found (some of them in ever-shrinking quantities). 
   
   
   
  You'll understand how precariously balanced our lives—and ways of life—really are, and you'll see these unsung heroes of the periodic table in an entirely new light.

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