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  • Every Day France - Health

    Everyday france, #1

    by Mike Goldsmith ...
    Series Book 1 - Everyday france
    every day france - healthno one told me my first heart attack had destroyed half my heart. if I'd known I'd have gone to bed and stayed there. if I'd known what was coming after that, it would have been a hospital bed. but knowing is the end of dreams.the dream I shared with my wife was getting our kids settled after they'd finished university then re-launching our senses in a different language, ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Last Voyage of Captain S**t

    by Mike Goldsmith ...
    It was a passion that never should have been. It started with one of Wernher von Brauns little toys that landed not far from my home in East London during the latter stages of WWII, with tragic consequences.A decade or so later I had to do a presentation to the other kids in my class and I couldn't come up with anything else, it got me top marks. Most of my contemporaries wanted to be train ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sound

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Mike Goldsmith ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Sound is integral to how we experience the world, in the form of noise as well as music. But what is sound? What is the physical basis of pitch and harmony? And how are sound waves exploited in musical instruments? In this Very Short Introduction Mike Goldsmith looks at the science of sound and explores sound in different contexts, covering the audible and inaudible, sound underground and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Sound

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Mike Goldsmith ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Sound is integral to how we experience the world, in the form of noise as well as music. But what is sound? What is the physical basis of pitch and harmony? And how are sound waves exploited in musical instruments? In this Very Short Introduction Mike Goldsmith looks at the science of sound and explores sound in different contexts, covering the audible and inaudible, sound underground and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Waves

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Mike Goldsmith ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    We live in a world of waves. The Earth shakes to its foundations, the seas and oceans tremble incessantly, sounds reverberate through land, sea, and air. Beneath the skin, our brains and bodies are awash with waves of their own, and the Universe is filled by a vast spectrum of electromagnetic radiation, of which visible light is the narrowest sliver. Casting the net even wider, there are ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • From Zero To Infinity (And Beyond)

    by Dr Mike Goldsmith ...
    With this book, children can unlock the mysteries of maths and discover the wonder of numbers. Readers will discover incredible information, such as why zero is so useful; what a googol really is; why music, maths and space are connected; why bees prefer hexagons; how to tell the time on other planets; and much much more. From marvellous measurements and startling shapes, to terrific theories and ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Discord:The Story of Noise

    The Story of Noise

    by Mike Goldsmith ...
    Noise is a widely recognized problem and health concern in the modern world. Given the importance of managing noise levels and developing suitable 'soundscapes' in contexts such as industry, schools, or public spaces, this is an area of active research for acousticians. But noise, in the sense of dissonance, can also be used positively; composers have employed it from Baroque music to Rock ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Why You Hear What You Hear

    An Experiential Approach to Sound, Music, and Psychoacoustics

    by Eric J. Heller ...
    A groundbreaking textbook that explores the phenomena and physics of music and soundWhy You Hear What You Hear is the first book on the physics of sound for the nonspecialist to empower readers with a hands-on, ears-open approach that includes production, analysis, and perception of sound. The book makes possible a deep intuitive understanding of many aspects of sound, as opposed to the usual ... Read more

    $86.39 USD

  • Tank Farm Dynamo

    by David Brin ...
    Can a sci fi story alter the course of something ponderous, like the space program? Perhaps. "Tank Farm Dynamo" sure tried! What if we found the nerve, the spirit and daring to use every resource - including those that NASA simply threw away? An unabashedly old-fashioned hard SF story with science and technology as central, problem-solving players... plus a real twist. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Black Holes

    by Stephen Hawking ...
    The legendary physicist explores his favorite subject in a pair of enlightening, accessible, and cleverly illustrated essays for curious readers, originally delivered as BBC lectures.“It is said that fact is sometimes stranger than fiction, and nowhere is that more true than in the case of black holes. Black holes are stranger than anything dreamed up by science-fiction writers, but they are ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Furnace

    by Timothy S. Johnston ...
    Series Book 1 - The Tanner Sequence
    Dead Space, 2401 ADKyle Tanner is about to die. Alone, floating in a vacsuit only a few million kilometers from a massive, uncaring sun, he has barely enough time or juice to get out a distress signal before either his oxygen runs out or he succumbs to the radiation.When the CCF sent investigator Kyle Tanner to SOLEX One, a solar energy harvester past Mercury, he thought it would be an open-and ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • At The Speed of Light

    NewCon Press Novellas (Set 1)

    by Simon Morden ...
    Series series NewCon Press Novellas (Set 1)
    A breathless drama set in the depths of space. Aboard a ship that has travelled beyond the reach of human knowledge, Corbyn discovers he is not as alone as he ought to be.An intense hard SF novella from Simon Morden (B.Sc. Hons., Sheffield, Ph.D, Newcastle), a bona fide rocket scientist with degrees in geology and planetary geophysics who also writes science fiction.The author of a dozen novels ... Read more

    $3.49 USD